Web Designer Blog
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Day 3: #WP20 Favourite WordPress Block
I would say the one WordPress block that I use that doesn’t have anything to do with writing is, well actually two blocks that do similar things, the Image Block and the Gallery Block. The Image Block It’s with the Image Block that you can access the media browser and the library of Openverse, or…
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Day 2: #WP20 First Website on WordPress
Yet again I’m taken back to a couple years after graduating high school in 2005. It was around 2010 or so, if memory serves me right, that I first came across WordPress. This was a whole new world to me as I was used to building from scratch. This new world I discovered made it…
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Day 1: #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks
As WordPress comes upon it’s 20th birthday on May 27th, their marketing team have come up with an idea to get people writing about WordPress for the 20 days leading upto the big day. From Blogs to Blocks From Blogs to Blocks creates intentional moments for the WordPress community to reflect on the journey we’ve…
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Enhancing WordPress Development: Exploring Gutenberg Native AI Block and Content Assistants
Introduction As the world’s most popular content management system, WordPress continually evolves to meet the growing demands of its users. One of the most significant recent developments is Gutenberg, the block editor introduced in WordPress 5.0. Now, the WordPress community is taking innovation a step further by experimenting with Gutenberg Native AI Block and Content…
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT: Could it Disrupt 19% of US Jobs? Is Yours on the List?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been transforming various industries, and its potential to disrupt the job market has been a subject of intense discussion. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is a powerful language model, has recently garnered attention for its ability to perform a wide range of tasks, from answering questions to generating human-like text. An article I…
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WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Updated to Upload Inserted Images
WordPress 6.2’s Openverse integration is getting some last minute changes after some contributors expressed concerns about it hotlinking images by default. The new feature, which allows users to quickly insert free, openly-licensed media into their content, and also allows users to upload external images through a button in the block toolbar, but the problem with this…
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Museum of Block Art Calls for Submissions Celebrating WordPress’ 20th Anniversary
You can find the original article seen below here. The new Museum of Block Art (MOBA), a project that was launched in 2022 featuring art created using the block editor’s design tools, are calling for submissions celebrating WordPress’ upcoming 20th anniversary in May. In such a short amount of time, the museum has collected more than three dozen…
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New Proposal Seeks to Update WordPress Release Process for Merging Gutenberg Features After Beta 1 Feature Freeze
I read an article which can be found in full here. Below is an edited version of that article. WordPress lead developer Andrew Ozz recently published a proposal for the addition of a new “gutenberg-merge” ticket type that would formalize the latitude Gutenberg contributors have been given for committing code after the Feature Freeze during the release…
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Industry-Wide Tech Layoffs Impacting WordPress Professionals
The following article discussed here can be found in it’s original form here. Most of us WordPress professionals and some others in the tech industry managed to escape the 2022 tech layoffs, which mostly affected venture capital-funded startups and larger companies that had over-hired during the economic upswing that came with the pandemic precautions being…
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The Ownership Dilemma: Exploring the Ethical Dimensions of AI Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been rapidly advancing in recent years, revolutionizing various industries and transforming the way we live and work. One prominent example of this progress is ChatGPT, a powerful language model developed by OpenAI. However, with the advent of AI technologies like ChatGPT, questions surrounding the ownership and responsibility for these intelligent systems…