GitHub
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Write and Publish E-Books with the WordPress Block Editor
The WordPress Block Editor has evolved beyond website creation—now, it’s a powerful tool for writing and publishing e-books. With new enhancements, authors and content creators can draft, format, and export books in the EPUB format directly from WordPress, making it easier than ever to create digital publications. A Seamless Writing Experience The Block Editor’s familiar…
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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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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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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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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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GitHub
I’m now on GitHub, where you can see all the different things i can do for you on the internet.
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Now on WordPress
I have now joined the world of WordPress in version 4.0.1. My Journey on a new platform begins and so ends my old site that I coded by hand using HTML and CSS and then Bootstrap. About WordPress WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS). It’s used by approx. 25% of websites. It was originally created…