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WordPress Reaches 1,000 Block Themes: A Milestone in Website Customization
The WordPress Themes Repository has reached a significant milestone, now hosting over 1,000 block themes. This achievement underscores the growing adoption of block-based design within the WordPress community. Introduced in WordPress 5.9, block themes allow users to design and customize every aspect of their sites using the block editor. This innovation marked a shift towards…
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New Business
Today is the big day… I have officially started my business Wheelz Web Design. From humble beginnings that started in grade 10 communications class back in highschool, to online learning through multiple resources over the years. It slowly grew from just my own website (this website before WordPress, it was vary crude and hand coded…
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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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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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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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Is It Time To Give Up GitHub?
I was pointed to an interesting article from WP Tavern called Give Up GitHub: The Time Has Come! on the Software Freedom Conservancy website. The Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Their mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software at your choosing. They promote and…
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CodePen
I can now be found on CodePen where you can find some of the work that I have done. You will find both the code itself and it in action in a link provided.
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GitHub
I’m now on GitHub, where you can see all the different things i can do for you on the internet.