Web Designer Blog
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WP Community Collective Names Alex Stine as First Accessibility Fellow
The newly formed nonprofit organization WP Community Collective (WPCC), is dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and various community-led initiatives and now has announced its first Accessibility Fellow. The first Accessibility Fellow is Alex Stine, he is a fully blind individual contributor who has been working with the WordPress Accessibility team since 2016, and is…
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Yoast SEO 20.1: Mastodon and inclusive language improvements
After successfully introducing a new settings interface in Yoast SEO 20.0, the team at Yoast have more exciting news for users! They have built an integration with Mastodon, the decentralized and open-source social network that’s similar to the more mainstream Twitter. Yoast SEO’s Premium users can now verify the link in their Mastodon profile with…
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Unleashing the Power of OpenAI: Exploring ChatGPT and Its Transformative Potential
In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced at an unprecedented pace, revolutionizing various industries and reshaping the way we interact with technology. OpenAI, a leading research organization, has been at the forefront of this AI revolution, with one of its groundbreaking creations being ChatGPT. In this blog post, I will delve into the world…
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WordPress Project to Evaluate Replacing Slack with Matrix Open Source Chat
I read an article today at WPTavern about replacing Slack with a new opensource chat system. Both WordPress and Matrix contributors are proposing a new Meta team subproject that would explore replacing Slack communication using Matrix, an open source federated chat system. Matrix already powers a variety of communication tools, including Element, the most mature…
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WordPress Community Team Proposes Adopting GitHub to Improve Collaboration
Although GitHub is primarily used for code collaboration, which is how I use it to show you both the behind the scenes and client side of what I can do for you as a developer, WordPress’ Community team is considering adopting the platform to standardize their project management tools. Contributing to open source already is…
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New Video Explores Site Building Progress from WordPress 5.9 to 6.2
I came across an article by wptavern discussing a video on youtube about the progress that has been made with the site building features of WordPress. this video and article documents the advancements made from WordPress 5.9 to the upcoming WordPress 6.2. WordPress 5.9 (AKA “Josephine”) was released in January 2022, but that seems like…
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Commercial and Community Categorization Is Live on WordPress.org Theme and Plugin Directories
One of Matt Mullenweg’s announcements at the 2022 State of the Word was the addition of new taxonomies for the theme and plugin directories that will help users more quickly understand the purpose of the extensions they are considering. With nearly 60,000 free plugins and more than 10,000 free themes available, it’s not always immediately evident which…
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State of the Word 2022: A Celebration of the Four Freedoms of Open Source
WordPress belongs to all of us, but really we’re taking care of it for the next generation.” Matt Mullenweg A small audience of WordPress contributors, developers, and extenders gathered on December 15 for the annual State of the Word keynote from WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Those who could not join in person joined via livestream, of…
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Blessings and curses of turning your hobby into a career
The following is an essay written by Anders Norén. This essay can be found both in english below and at the link in the caption in the above image and in the writer’s native language of Swedish. My Similar Story This essay caught my eye from the similarities of my journey in discovering web development.…
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The WP Community Collective Launches Nonprofit to Fund Individual Contributors and Community-Based Initiatives
I have to give credit to the WP Community Collective (WPCC) who officially launched December 2nd, 2022 as a new nonprofit organization dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and community-led initiatives. It was founded by Sé Reed, Katie Adams Farrell, and Courtney Robertson. As a person that has been using WordPress for a while now I have…