Web Designer Blog
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Embracing the Spirit of Giving: Join Pono’s Appeal this Giving Tuesday
Introduction In a world filled with complexities and challenges, it is often the simple acts of kindness and generosity that bring about the most profound change. Giving Tuesday, a global movement celebrated on the Tuesday following the American Thanksgiving, encourages individuals and organizations to come together and make a positive impact in their communities. Today,…
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Dig into the Open Web
As the American Thanksgiving holiday is coming up Thursday, I am so grateful for people who make WordPress – 800 of them in the most recent 6.1 release with 35 percent of them being new contributors to the project. This community has made remarkable progress this year, while navigating changes and uncertain times. Committed contributors continue to…
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WordPress Launches Developer Blog in Beta
WordPress.org will soon launch their blog for developers. The blog went into beta at the end of last week and resides on a subdomain of the main site curently. It is sporting a design similar to what WordPress is using in their general News blog. One of the big picture goals that WordPress’ Executive Director Josepha Haden-Chomphosy identified…
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Plug-in Recommendations
Now that I’ve been working with WordPress for 8 years I figured it was time I talked about the plugins that I use. I will be reviewing and talking about the plugins that I have found useful in my journey. I will continue to update this post as I discover and use new plugins with…
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WordPress to Explore Using GitHub Codespaces for Improving Contributor Experience
WordPress lead developer Helen Hou-Sandí has in the past proposed using GitHub Codespaces to improve the contributor experience especially for new developers just getting into contributing. GitHub, a few days ago, announced the availability of GitHub Codespaces, its a quick launch cloud-based developer environment, for all users, with 60 hours free per month for Free users and 90 hours…
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Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot
Back in July, I wrote an article about whether or not it was time to leave GitHub. Well, There has been some developments since then and now Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are getting sued by a programmer an lawyer named Matthew Butterick, with allegations that GitHub’s Copilot violate terms of open-source license and infringe on…
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2022 Web Almanac Performance Data Shows WordPress Sites May Be Overusing Lazy-Loading
The last two chapters of the 2022 Web Almanac were released this week, they were Structured Data and Performance, completing the 729-page ebook of the report. The WordPress-specific chapter was published earlier this month with metrics that indicate adoption is continuing it’s trend of growing year over year. The Performance chapter was written by Etsy performance engineer Melissa…
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Openverse Audio Catalog Passes 800,000 Files, Audio Support Now Out of Beta
Openverse, which was formerly known as Creative Commons Search before it joined the WordPress project, has passed an important milestone with its newly added support for audio files. The catalog has now indexed more than 800,000 audio files from across the internet and its development team has now taken audio support out of the beta phase. Visitors to…
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Twenty Twenty-Two theme is the first of the block theme era to be tagged accessibility-ready
After an amazing seven-month long effort across multiple contributor teams at WordPress, the Twenty Twenty-Two (also known as TT2) default theme will be tagged as “Accessibility-Ready” when WordPress 6.1 ships this coming November. It is the first block theme to meet the requirements for gaining this wonderful distinction for accessibility. During its development the theme was also…
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WebP by Default Pulled from Upcoming WordPress 6.1 Release
Last month, the plan was for WordPress to generate WebP images by default for new JPEG image uploads and that was put on hold for the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release after objections from lead developers. The original proposal had been merged into core at the end of July, despite significant feedback and concerns from WordPress’ developer community objecting…