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I do MongoDB for a living. I help others do the same. Often, I\'m there from the beginning with the first training. I started this blog as a way to share the interesting, the timely, the \"Oh, I wish I\'d known that\", and the accompanying \"Oh, I wish I\'d known not to do that\".
\n\n\n\nAll that and more.
\n\n\n\nGorillas? Silverbacks? Primates? Yeah, about that. I\'ve been around awhile. As in \"saw the 90s\" awhile. In some circles, that\'s known as being a \"Silverback\". A bit of silver in the fur, a bit of experience behind me, a bit of knowledge to share.
\n\n\n\nAnd sometimes an attitude.
\n\n\n\nCheck back from time to time. It might help you as you make your way into and through the world of MongoDB.
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As a new WordPress user, you should go to your dashboard to delete this page and create new pages for your content. Have fun!
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Ops Manager 4.0.11 is now available.
\n\n\n\nThis version includes fixes for CVSS Medium security vulnerabilities.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll of the released versions are downloadable from the MongoDB Download Center
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\n\n\n\nAll that and more.
\n\n\n\nGorillas? Silverbacks? Primates? Yeah, about that. I\'ve been around awhile. As in \"saw the 90s\" awhile. In some circles, that\'s known as being a \"Silverback\". A bit of silver in the fur, a bit of experience behind me, a bit of knowledge to share.
\n\n\n\nAnd sometimes an attitude.
\n\n\n\nCheck back from time to time. It might help you as you make your way into and through the world of MongoDB.
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAll of the released versions are downloadable from the MongoDB Download Center
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis version includes fixes for CVSS Medium security vulnerabilities.
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\n\n\n\nhttps://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodbs-official-brew-tap-now-open-and-flowing
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\n\n\n\nMongoDB Chart’s latest feature is \'embeddable charts\' and MongoDB Atlas users are the first to get a preview of it. Now you can present your users with live charts from your data and you can do it without writing stacks of code.
\n\n\n\nFor more information see today\'s blog post at https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-charts-gets-embeddable
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\n\n\n\nMongoDB Atlas\'s new Full-Text Search service is set to bring the power of Lucene 8 to MongoDB. The new service is designed to end the reign of complex, application level integrations with external search engines. Instead, using MongoDB Atlas Full-Text Search, users and developers will get the productivity benefits of a transparent, full integrated search capability.
\n\n\n\nMongoDB Atlas Full-Text Search can be used without managing the exporting of your data or configuring a separate search platform. Just activate the Full-Text Search option to your MongoDB Atlas cluster, and create your indexes. By default, it indexes all string fields in your collection but can be focussed down to index only particular fields. The configuration options for search include the ability to set up one or more analyzers for each index.
\n\n\n\nQueries for Full-Text Search leverage the MongoDB Query Language, allowing them to be used as with other MongoDB operators in powerful data processing pipelines. The $searchBeta aggregation stage allows for detailed control of the search process too.
The new Full-Text Search option requires MongoDB 4.2 or later and an M30 or above cluster and is currently in open beta. It will support replica sets and sharded clusters and is set to become generally available in the coming months.
\n\n\n\nIf you want to check it out now, use the code MONGODB4DOT2 to get $200 of Atlas credit, spin up an M30 and discover for yourself the power and convenience of MongoDB Atlas Full Text Search. You\'ll also find more information in the documentation.
Just released, fresh off the DBaaS! Atlas now:
\n\n\n\nBut it\'s much more about Silverbacked-ness than MongoDB and Tech. Might be an interesting read for fellow male Silverbacks...
\n\n\n\nhttps://mongosilverback.medium.com/first-post-not-a-tech-post-2aa9aa3dc345
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\n\n\n\nCustomers have been clamoring for it, and it\'s here!
\n\n\n\nWEBSITE-7429 has added a new RSS feed of all CVE vulnerabilities, which allows customers to subscribe and receive new CVEs alerts as they are published. Several MongoDB customers have been asking for this feature for some time, and it finally dropped today!
\n\n\n\nAll Security alerts in one place. I just subscribed, and so should you!
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\n\n\n\nWEBSITE-7429 has added a new RSS feed of all CVE vulnerabilities, which allows customers to subscribe and receive new CVEs alerts as they are published. Several MongoDB customers have been asking for this feature for some time, and it finally dropped today!
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If you or any of your colleagues are interested in taking any of these training classes but are unable to pay for training via a credit card, I would be happy to connect you with someone who can discuss pricing and options such as customized training programs or large-volume discounts. You may also register interest via our website.
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\n\n\n\nPlus space is running out. No pressure. Really.
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Greetings. I\'m Eric, and I\'m a Silverback. Specifically a Mongo Silverback.
\n\n\n\nI started at MongoDB in November of 2017, fresh from long-term stints at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. And I knew next to nothing about MongoDB. At age 59.
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\n\n\n\nI started at MongoDB in November of 2017, fresh from long-term stints at Sun Microsystems and Oracle. And I knew next to nothing about MongoDB. At age 59.
\n\n\n\nThat, my friends, is about all your need to know about this place.
\n\n\n\nIf I can Mongo, you can Mongo. Join me in the non-Relational jungle.
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\n\n\n\nPlus space is running out. No pressure. Really.
\n\n\n\nIf you can\'t attend, the talk will likely be recorded for posterity.
\n\n\n\nAm looking forward to meeting Silverbacks, Noobs, Hobbiests, Aficionados, Old Acquaintances and New Friends at the talk and throughout the week!
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Welcome to the result of an idea. The idea that even something as powerful and sophisticated as MongoDB doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
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\n\n\n\nBut, more importantly, If I can do MongoDB, you can do MongoDB.
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b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
MongoDB (def):
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b) The best data management system for modern applications. Period.
Welcome to the result of an idea. That even something as powerful and sophisticated as non-Tabular databases in general and MongoDB in particular doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
\n\n\n\nThis is neither a Training site nor a Consulting site. Nor is it officially supported or recognized by my employer, MongoDB, Inc.
\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
\n\n\n\nIf I can do MongoDB, you can do MongoDB.
\n\n\n\nSilverback:
a) A mature male of the several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
b) An older member of the workforce recognized for their unique and valuable skillset.
Hitchhiker:
a) A traveller, working to find their way the best they can
b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
Welcome to the result of an idea. That even something as powerful and sophisticated as non-Tabular databases in general and MongoDB in particular doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
\n\n\n\nThis is neither a Training site nor a Consulting site. Nor is it officially supported or recognized by my employer, MongoDB, Inc.
\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
\n\n\n\nBut, more importantly, If I can do MongoDB, you can do MongoDB.
\n\n\n\nSilverback:
a) A mature male of the several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
b) An older member of the workforce recognized for their unique and valuable skillset.
Hitchhiker:
a) A traveller, working to find their way the best they can
b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
Welcome to the result of an idea. That even something as powerful and sophisticated as non-Tabular databases in general and MongoDB in particular doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
\n\n\n\nThis is neither a Training site nor a Consulting site. Nor is it officially supported or recognized by my employer, MongoDB, Inc.
\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
\n\n\n\nBut, more importantly, If I can do MongoDB, you can do MongoDB.
\n\n\n\nSilverback:
a) A mature male of several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
b) An older member of the workforce recognized for their unique and valuable skillset.
Hitchhiker:
a) A traveller, working to find their way the best they can
b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
Welcome to the result of an idea. The idea that even something as powerful and sophisticated as non-Tabular databases in general and MongoDB in particular doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
\n\n\n\nThis is neither a Training site nor a Consulting site. Nor is it officially supported or recognized by my employer, MongoDB, Inc.
\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
\n\n\n\nBut, more importantly, If I can do MongoDB, you can do MongoDB.
\n\n\n\nSilverback (def):
a) A mature male of several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
b) An older member of the workforce recognized for their unique and valuable skillset.
Hitchhiker (def):
a) A traveller, working to find their way the best they can
b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
MongoDB (def):
a) A general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. Available in freely-available Community and fully-supported Enterprise versions
b) The best data management system for modern applications. Period.
Welcome to the result of an idea. The idea that even something as powerful and sophisticated as non-Tabular databases in general and MongoDB in particular doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
\n\n\n\nThis is neither a Training site nor a Consulting site. Nor is it officially supported or recognized by my employer, MongoDB, Inc.
\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
\n\n\n\nBut, more importantly, If I can do MongoDB, you can do MongoDB.
\n\n\n\nSilverback:
a) A mature male of several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
b) An older member of the workforce recognized for their unique and valuable skillset.
Hitchhiker:
a) A traveller, working to find their way the best they can
b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
Welcome to the result of an idea. The idea that even something as powerful and sophisticated as MongoDB in particular doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
\n\n\n\nThis is neither a Training site nor a Consulting site. Nor is it officially supported or recognized by my employer, MongoDB, Inc. It doesn\'t sell or shill a thing.
\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
\n\n\n\nBut, more importantly, If I can do MongoDB, you can do MongoDB.
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a) A mature male of several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
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Hitchhiker (def):
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b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
MongoDB (def):
a) A general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. Available in freely-available Community and fully-supported Enterprise versions
b) The best data management system for modern applications. Period.
Welcome to the result of an idea. The idea that even something as powerful and sophisticated as non-Tabular databases in general and MongoDB in particular doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
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\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
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b) An older member of the workforce recognized for their unique and valuable skillset.
Hitchhiker (def):
a) A traveller, working to find their way the best they can
b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
MongoDB (def):
a) A general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. Available in freely-available Community and fully-supported Enterprise versions
b) The best data management system for modern applications. Period.
Welcome to the result of an idea. The idea that even something as powerful and sophisticated as MongoDB in particular doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
\n\n\n\nThis is neither a Training site nor a Consulting site. Nor is it officially supported or recognized by my employer, MongoDB, Inc. It doesn\'t sell or shill a thing.
\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
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a) A mature male of several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
b) An older member of the workforce recognized for their unique and valuable skillset.
Hitchhiker (def):
a) A traveller, working to find their way the best they can
b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
MongoDB (def):
a) A general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. Available in freely-available Community and fully-supported Enterprise versions
b) The best data management system for modern applications. Period.
Welcome to the result of an idea. The idea that even something as powerful and sophisticated as MongoDB doesn\'t have to be Rocket Science. It can be, but it doesn\'t have to be.
\n\n\n\nThis is neither a Training site nor a Consulting site. Nor is it officially supported or recognized by my employer, MongoDB, Inc. It doesn\'t sell or shill a thing.
\n\n\n\nIt\'s just Here to Help.
\n\n\n\nBut, more importantly, If I can do MongoDB, you can do MongoDB.
\n\n\n\nSilverback (def):
a) A mature male of several species of gorilla, so named from the silver streaking on its back.
b) An older member of the workforce recognized for their unique and valuable skillset.
Hitchhiker (def):
a) A traveller, working to find their way the best they can
b) Some of the lead characters in the seminal five-book trilogy \"The Hitchhiker\'s Guide to the Galaxy\" by Douglas Adams.
MongoDB (def):
a) A general purpose, document-based, distributed database built for modern application developers and for the cloud era. Available in freely-available Community and fully-supported Enterprise versions
b) The best data management system for modern applications. Period.
MongoDB, Inc. is not just a source for cutting-edge data management technology that meets today\'s most stringent requirements, it\'s also a group of very amazing people. Of all stripes. Of all persuasions. And all very, very human.
\n\n\n\nAs this latest Blog Post shows, we humans at MongoDB can make a very real and positive impact on others by talking about and shedding light on heretofore \'less talked about\' subject. Like mental health. In doing so, we raise the visibility of the issues themselves, the stigmas surrounding them, and the types of help available to those of us who are afflicted.
\n\n\n\nYulia not only Kills It in her job as a Curriculum Engineer at MongoDB, she gave a wonderful session and MongoDB.live last month on Data Modeling. She\'s a Mongo Star.
\n\n\n\nhttps://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/breaking-stigma-around-mental-health-meet-yulia-genkina
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https://www.practical-mongodb-aggregations.com/
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3.5 years at MongoDB, and I\'m still learning. All consultants do. Every day. That\'s part of the allure.
\n\n\n\nSometimes, however, we learn something that counters what we thought was solid, bedrock knowledge. And it shakes us. And we can either learn from it, celebrate it, and move on -- or not. I choose the former.
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\n\n\n\nWe just concluded an amazing two days of .live. Online. Free. And with more and better content than any MongoDB World ever!
\n\n\n\nYes, really. Registration is easy and free! http://mongodb.live/
\n\n\n\nA very few highlights to lead with:
\n\n\n\nIf you are a MongoDB, Inc. customer and using Ops Manager 4.0 as part of your MongoDB Enterprise subscription, remember that Ops Manager 4.0 goes out of support at the end of this month.
\n\n\n\nThat\'s one week from today.
\n\n\n\nUpgrading to a more recent version of Ops Manager is quite straightforward, but read and make sure you understand the documentation first.
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\n\n\n\nThat\'s one week from today.
\n\n\n\nUpgrading to a more recent version of Ops Manager is quite straightforward, but read and make sure you understand the documentation first.
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\n\n\n\nThis powerful new capability is important to businesses and developers, as mobility has profoundly changed the way companies interact with their customers and empower their workforces.
\n\n\n\nWhen connectivity isn’t guaranteed, it’s time-consuming and complex for mobile developers to build edge-to-cloud data synchronization. MongoDB Realm Sync saves them from writing (and maintaining) complex and custom code. This allows developers to build features faster, improve quality, and easily serve users globally. For businesses, this unlocks innovation and delivers an important competitive edge in a market increasingly disrupted by world class mobile customer experiences.
\n\n\n\nFor more information see today\'s blog post.
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https://www.practical-mongodb-aggregations.com/
Did you know that MongoDB Inc. has an official podcast? Well, we do, and it\'s pretty darned good. While away those hours on the treadmill, on your run, etc., learning about the latest and coolest stuff from MongoDB.
\n\n\n\nYou can find the MongoDB Podcast in a bunch of the usual places:
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\n\n\n\nYou can find the MongoDB Podcast in a bunch of the usual places:
\n\n\n\nDid you know that MongoDB Inc. has an official podcast? Well, we do, and it\'s pretty darned good. While away those hours on the treadmill, on your run, etc., learning about the latest and coolest stuff from MongoDB.
\n\n\n\nYou can find the MongoDB Podcast in a bunch of the usual places:
\n\n\n\nThe MongoDB Charts team is rolling out a new release of Charts this week with a great new feature: Import and Export for dashboards.This long-awaited feature lets you do all this:
\n\n\n\nThis also provides a migration path for Charts on-prem customers looking to move to Charts cloud. If you have any customers in this situation, please reach out as we have an \"off menu\" export tool which can generate files that can be imported using this feature.
\n\n\n\nA little COVID side project for the benefit of my extended family, based on MongoDB Atlas/Charts.
\n\n\n\nUpdated: New charts, new location, new data source. Based on data from covidactnow.org.
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\n\n\n\nhttps://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/charts-embedding-sdk-ready
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\n\n\n\nhttps://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/charts-embedding-sdk-ready
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\n\n\n\n ![\"\"](\"http://mongosilverback.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Screen-Shot-2019-11-26-at-9.40.30-AM.png\")
https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/beginning-a-new-career-in-engineering-at-age-59
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\n\n\n\nWe strongly recommend that any MongoDB Enterprise customer running v3.4 or earlier upgrade to v3.6, v4.0 or v4.2 as soon as practical to continue receiving uninterrupted Technical Support.
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\n\n\n\nWe strongly recommend that any MongoDB Enterprise customer running v3.4 or earlier upgrade to v3.6, v4.0 or v4.2 as soon as practical to continue receiving uninterrupted Technical Support.
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\n\n\n\nAlso, I\'ll be working four \'Ask the Experts\' sessions - bring your MongoDB questions and let the Best in the Industry provides answers and insights.
\n\n\n\nRegister for .live at http://mongodb.live/
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\n\n\n\nAlso, I\'ll be working four \'Ask the Experts\' sessions - bring your MongoDB questions and let the Best in the Industry provides answers and insights.
\n\n\n\nRegister for .live at http://mongodb.live/
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\n\n\n\nWe strongly recommend that any MongoDB Enterprise customer running v3.4 or earlier upgrade to v3.6, v4.0 or v4.2 as soon as practical to continue receiving uninterrupted Technical Support.
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\n\n\n\nTake a look at today\'s MongoDB Blog Post for the details.
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\n\n\n\nTake a look at today\'s MongoDB Blog Post for the details.
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\n\n\n\nThis morning MongoDB released v4.2 to the world!
\n\n\n\nKey highlights of MongoDB 4.2 include:
\n\n\n\n$merge operator. Caching the output of a large aggregation in a collection is a common pattern, and the $merge operator lets you update those results efficiently instead of completely recalculating them. Take a look at this blog to get started.update and findAndModify commands can now reference existing fields, and incorporate aggregation pipelines for even more expressivity. Check out this blog to see examples of how all of this helps you write more powerful queries with less code.https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/mongodb-42-is-now-ga-ready-for-your-production-apps
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https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/beginning-a-new-career-in-engineering-at-age-59
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\n\n\n\nRead more here in this MongoDB blog post.
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MongoDB moves to a quarterly release cycle with MongoDB 5.0 next year. More goodness, more frequently. And note this does (as always) include MongoDB Community!
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\n\n\n\nOof, I need a more recent head shot...
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\n\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:32:\"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/\";a:1:{s:7:\"creator\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:13:\"Wayne Mullins\";s:7:\"attribs\";a:0:{}s:8:\"xml_base\";s:0:\"\";s:17:\"xml_base_explicit\";b:0;s:8:\"xml_lang\";s:0:\"\";}}}s:40:\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/\";a:1:{s:7:\"encoded\";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:\"data\";s:17246:\"\nHaving engaging, clear and fast loading images on your WordPress site is one of the most effective ways to draw a user/customer in. There is a reason that car dealerships spend so much time making sure that the new models are spotless and sparkling. The visual impact of a product can often be the make or break decision between success and failure. Online showrooms are no different, plus there is the added complication of how an image can impact your loading speed. It is a well used and famous metric, that a user will leave a website if it takes more than 3 seconds to load. If a website does take more than 3 seconds to load, then there is a good chance that the images you have on your site are part of that reason.
\nSo as a WordPress site owner, what can you do to ensure that the images you have on your site are both appealing to users and allow your site to load quickly. Your initial instinct might just be to shrink the image down from a 1800×1400 size image to 300×200 size image. This would be the wrong course of action to take, as while your image file size might now be a lot smaller, the quality of the image and user experience has suffered as a result. If you have a car showroom sales website for example, customers will want to get a really good look at the car and be able to see all the features and detail. By making the image so much smaller, any detailed inspection of the car is now impossible – leaving the potential customer frustrated and looking elsewhere.
\nSo what are your options? Thankfully, there are dozens of different image file options you can choose from, ranging from the high quality, but large file size BMP, the tried and tested JPEG, to the new and widely unknown WebP format. Along with choosing the right format, it is important to remember that regardless of what format you choose, you can additionally reduce the image file size by employing a process via WP-Optimize known as “compression”.
\nSite speed is one of the top 10 most important factors Google bots crawling your website observe when they are ranking your site in the search results. Having poor loading speed can badly impact on the ranking of your site and can easily take your site from the first page, to failing to be indexed by Google. Google is very strict on how they rank sites in their search algorithm and if they find that the site offers a poor user experience due to slow loading times, they might not even go through the trouble of even crawling it and making it discoverable via Google search.
\nWhich image format should you choose?
\nAs high quality images are so important for any modern WordPress website, you need to know which format to use, how they affect the performance of your site and how to get the best out of your file selection.
\nThe two most popular image file formats for websites are PNG and JPEG/JPG. According to w3techs, more than 70% of all websites use these file types. Around 30% of sites use SVG and 22% use GIF.
\nThis is where image file types would come into play as the type of file you use to upload your images play an important role. As there are so many different file types, we will go through the most popular ones and their pros and cons down below:
\nBefore we jump into the type of file we need to understand some concepts before, like what a raster and a bitmap image are? What is compression? What is the difference between a lossy and lossless compression?
\nBoth of the compression types are aimed at reducing the file size, but it’s what they remove that really matters. In Lossy compression; important data that is relevant to the quality of the image is removed. This can be reflected in the image being pixelated in some cases as your computer can have trouble reconstructing the image.
\nIn lossless compression, irrelevant data that is present in the image (such as metadata) is reduced, which helps reduce the file size. The image quality is not affected at all in this process.
\nThe most commonly used image file types are typically raster-based. This means that they have a fixed RGB color value associated with every pixel and all of those pixels are combined and used to create a whole image.
\nExamples of such file formats include jpg, png, and gif.
\nAlternatively, a vector image is created using shapes and lines that can be scaled infinitely without them ever being pixelated. The vectors are created using mathematical formulas that allow users to change the values, while not affecting the quality of the image.
\nNow that we have gone over the basics of the images, we can now look at the details of the different file types.
\nThis is a digital image format that contains compressed image data. With a 10:1 compression ratio, JPEG images are used as they are very compact. JPEG format contains important image details and is the most popular image format for sharing photos and other images on the internet. The small file size of JPEG images can also let users store thousands of images (for example on an art site) without the need for extra storage space on your site.
\nJPEG is a lossy compression file type that works well for photos, but it is recommended that you use another format when working graphics, such as PNG.
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A JPEG image file example. You can see that the detail and quality has been maintained when uploading.
PNG is a popular bitmap image format and is short for “Portable Graphics Format”. This format was created as an alternative to Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). PNG has some great features like containing 24-bit RGB color palettes, greyscale images and displaying transparent backgrounds. A lossless data compression method is also used in PNG images when working on high quality images or graphics. PNG images are also frequently used in Image editing as they can give the user more control and options on the image over traditional JPEG format.
\nPNG also uses a lossless compression algorithm, which means this format can retain more data than JPG. When using a PNG image file, users can also save these images with a transparent background. By using this format, users have the option of working with layered images that can show a clear background (for example – just the flowers in the image below and not the background wall), enabling users to add the image to other images without the need to cut it out and remove the existing background – as you would have to with a JPEG image. This is one of the main reasons why it is the preferred choice for graphics like diagrams and illustrations. PNGs are known to be more popular for users working with graphics, rather than uploading standard photos.
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A PNG image maintains high quality, while also allowing you to have more control over the image
GIF:
\nYou probably know the term “GIF” best from the countless short clips you are sent on messaging apps. GIF stands for “Graphics Interchange Format” and is mostly used to support animation without audio
\nUnlike JPEG and PNG, GIFs are used in a more niche case and are not typically used for static images (although this is possible). If you use a GIF on your WordPress site, it is most likely in order to show you visitors a simple animation or process. GIFs have a limited color range and are best used for simple graphics. They use lossless compression and tend to be smaller than JPGs. It is generally recommended that you only use GIFs sparingly in your site, as they can increase loading times (given the file size) and are limited to 256 colours.
\n![\"\"](\"https://updraftplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/25ec2f1ccda14617fca4c84862ccbafd.gif\")
An example of a GIF image. The quality of the original image has been greatly reduced in order to produce the animation.
SVG:
\nScalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a web-friendly vector file format. As opposed to pixel-based raster image files like JPEGs, vector files store images via mathematical formulas based on points and lines on a grid. This means that vector files like SVG can be significantly resized without losing any of their quality, which makes them ideal for logos and complex online graphics.
\nVectors are best only for simple graphics, shapes, and illustrations. SVGs are a good choice for logos, especially if you need your logo to be responsive and are supported by most browsers including Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera.
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An example of the sunflowers in a SVG format that you would use for a logo.
BITMAP is now considered an outdated image format. BMP loads the images in a lossless image format which can result in huge file sizes due to the lack of compression. Considering the importance of loading speed and how site creators want to keep the image sizes to a minimum (not to mention the popularity of SVG and JPEG formats), this format has become largely unused for online images.
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The original quality of the image is maintained when uploading in the BMP format, but the file size will badly slow down your site and is not recommended.
This image format was created by Google in 2010 and is starting to prove popular with people who upload lots of images to their site as it has several advantages over JPEG and PNG, such as having better lossy and lossless compression performance.
\nWebP also typically uploads in smaller file sizes than JPEG or PNG formats given its improved compression performance and will take up less space on your site – allowing it to load faster. While it isn’t supported by all browsers, it is supported by all the most popular browsers – including Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera.
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Though not as well known as JPEG and PNG, WebP could prove to be the image format of choice in the future.
Conclusion:
\nThere are many types of image formats that can be used on your WordPress site, but it is important to evaluate the purpose of the image. If your site is for a wedding photographer for example, you will want to maintain high quality images that still load quickly and are user friendly (JPEG). However, if you are selling images in an online poster store, then you will want to maintain as much detail and image information as possible (PNG).
\nAs a general rule of thumb, if you are just uploading standard images for your online store, blog, portfolio, social media or social media site – then it is recommended that you upload you images in a standard JPEG format and then use WP-Optimize to further compress your images
\nHowever, should you wish to future-proof your images and improve your loading speed as much as possible, then WebP can offer superior lossy and lossless compression, while still maintaining high levels of details. Whatever you decide, remember to always compress your images using WP-Optimize for the market leading compression.
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\nToday’s tech-literate consumers have high expectations, which is why a website that feels clunky and awkward, just isn’t good enough. Providing the best user experience for your WordPress site should be paramount. No matter how professional or high quality your products or services are, if your site showcase doesn’t give a high standard of customer user experience, you will be doomed to failure.
\nIn this blog, we have put together a guide on how to greatly improve user experience in your WordPress site with 7 strategies to succeed.
\nIn a world filled with so many digital options and distractions, providing a good user experience can be one of the main keys to success. Take Uber for example. Uber revolutionized the taxi industry with a new way to order and track cabs by using an intuitive and simple-to-use app on your mobile phone. Uber is now a world-wide multibillion-dollar company with services in most cities – largely thanks to its innovation and consideration of the end-user.
\nThe same theory applies when creating your WordPress site. Whether it’s a blog, an online store, a marketing hub, or a portfolio for your services; your chances of success are intrinsically tied to the positive level of user experience you provide.
\nHere are some of the most obvious and measurable benefits of a good user experience:
\nSetting a good first impression is important for showing potential customers you’re the real deal. It doesn’t matter how good your products, services, or content are, if your WordPress website isn’t aesthetically coherent and functional, no one will want to use it. Users must be able to navigate your pages with ease so that they get an immediate sense of direction and understanding on how your site operates.
\nAny website that makes the purchasing process straightforward and easy to follow iis more likely to see an increase in sales and revenue. To put it simply, the easier it is to browse and take action, the quicker users will be able to act on impulse and purchase products and services from you. Simple features like search filters and recommendations can enhance the user experience by giving them multiple options to begin the buying journey.
\nIt’s a win-win. A positive experience for the customer and more sales for your business.
\nOffering the best user experience keeps customers coming back for more. Satisfied customers will not feel the need to look elsewhere if you’re meeting their expectations. Existing customers are also likely to recommend your site to others and become brand advocates if you offer a professional and friendly UX.
\nTake a look at the top-ranked sites on a search engine like Google and you’ll find they all have a professional high end user experience design. The days of cramming as many keywords as possible into your content to rank via SEO are long gone. Google has expanded how it ranks websites and how it views SEO requirements by including such elements as UX design. It is important to remember this when it comes to setting and designing your site using WordPress.
\nCreating a popular and (potentially) profitable website means putting the user experience first. Try putting yourself in the shoes of a new customer, and design your site around their experience, rather than how ‘amazing’ your product is. The user experience goes hand-in-hand with usability and functionality.
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Let’s now look at 7 actionable strategies to help improve the user experience of your WordPress site.
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It is important to remember that sometimes less, really is more. Don’t sacrifice functionality for an overly pretty and complex design. Ask yourself, ‘Would I find this website easy to follow if I came here for the first time?’ Users value usability and useful features over crowded visuals. For example, always put buttons where you would expect to find a button. Make your potential customers’ life as easy as possible, as they will quickly abandon your site if they struggle to perform a simple task or have to go looking for the ‘buy button’.
\nA conventional blog format is suitable in many instances, that is, a header, followed by the main body and a sidebar, completed with a footer. From here, you can make subtle tweaks to enhance the overall design. Be sure to give it a quick mobile friendly test to ensure it’s appearing correctly on mobile devices.
\nIt’s all about getting that balance between form and function.
\nNavigating through your WordPress website should feel natural and effortless for the user. Try to build your site to incorporate the following features:
\nUtilizing these common design features on your WordPress page is a great way to create a familiar experience for users.
\nYour homepage is almost certainly going to be the most viewed page on your website. Think of it as your personal shop window for what goods and services you have to offer. Feature boxes can be a useful addition to the homepage. A feature box pops up on the homepage and can include content of your choice. A popular strategy is to use an ‘Opt-in’ box to introduce yourselves and encourage users to sign up for deals, information and discounts.
\nFor example, your feature box could say:
\n‘Want to know the best magicjack competitors?
\nSign-up now to receive advice on:
\nA well-placed feature box involves the visitor right away and tells them what to expect and how to get more from your site. This can add to a better user experience. However, it is important to make sure your feature box contains legitimate and valuable information and doesn’t just present as an ad attempting to get the visitors email address.
\nContent that looks visually appealing is more likely to attract visitors and keep them engaged. Remember to take inspiration and design cues from other popular websites in your niche area to get an idea of how their visual layout enhances the user experience.
\nWhen designing your site, also be sure to pay attention to design elements, typography choices and formatting. Have a look at other popular websites to see what they look like and what choices they made. Once you’ve found inspiration, you can use a pre-existing layout template to start from, or design your own layout from scratch.
\nCreating a good user experience means nailing a design that’s easy-on-the-eye, while also being practical.
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Today’s website users expect fast page speeds and sites that load in a second or two at most. In fact, having a slow loading site is the top reason visitors will leave.
\nWays to increase page speed include:
\nAlso known as white space, negative space refers to the parts of your page that have no content.
\nSomewhat ironically, negative space usually leads to a positive experience. Utilizing negative space lets users focus on the important aspects of your content without being distracted. 84.6% of web designers believe crowded web design is the most common mistake by small businesses.
\nToday’s consumers visit dozens of web pages a day. It’s likely they’re going to scan through your website anyway. A clever use of negative space lets them do this at their leisure without becoming bored.
\nWhat use is your website if you don’t tell users what to do next? Far too often, visitors will leave a website without taking action simply because there was no clear CTA. A well-placed and well-worded CTA is key for boosting your WordPress conversion rates. Modern users want fast results, so placing your call-to-action button immediately after or halfway through your written content is a good way to go.
\nEffectively, you want to make it easy for the user to take the desired action without them having to search around for what’s next. WordPress has some useful plugins for managing CTA’s, have a look and see what works for you.
\nNow that you have reviewed all the potential ways you can help improve the user experience for your WordPress site, these tips have got you thinking about the ways you can employ them to help boost your performance and SEO score.
\nThe strategies above are commonly used across successful business websites all over the world on both WordPress and non-WordPress sites. Failing to have your own strategy could see you fall behind the rest and struggle to gain a foothold in your particular niche.
\nStart building your next WordPress website today, and remember to keep the user experience in mind in everything that you do.
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\nIf you’re looking for one of the easiest and fastest ways to build a business website, WordPress is definitely an option to consider. While in the past, the platform required third-party page builders to create elegant designs, with the advent of the new Gutenberg block editor, WordPress now allows you to quickly build almost any type of website out of the box. With the new Gutenberg building options, you can use ‘blocks’ to put together a professional and stunning looking business site in just a few hours. In this blog, we’ll walk you through the entire process of building a small WordPress business site from scratch using Gutenberg. We will also endeavor to answer some of the most important questions you might have about the default WordPress editor.
\nLet’s get to it!
\nA good website can significantly impact the success of your business. While your business may already be performing well without a website, offering your customers products and services online can help you achieve even more sales, improve customer engagement and increase brand awareness.
\nLet’s look at some of the numbers that show the power and importance of owning a business site:
\nConsidering these numbers, establishing an online presence and conducting your business through a website is definitely a step in the right direction. Here are some of the biggest ways your small business can benefit from a dedicated WordPress site:
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As WordPress continues to grow from its humble blog beginnings, third-party developers have added plugins that made it possible to add more dynamic content. Gutenberg was added to keep WordPress relevant and to deliver on user expectations.
\nGutenberg relies on content blocks and allows users to add almost any type of content to their site. It has a clean interface and that allows users to add new content to a site by selecting a corresponding block.
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Gutenberg isn’t just a text editor with limited formatting buttons however. With this block-based system, you can easily add buttons, videos, shortcodes or contact form anywhere on your site.
\nSince December 2018, when Automattic made Gutenberg the default editor in WordPress 5.0, the platform has continually improved the features of the block editor. Other WordPress developers have also integrated some of their plugin features into Gutenberg, making it possible for you to add other custom content types to your site directly within the block editor.
\nDepending on the nature of your business, websites often vary in terms of design and features. Your small business site may be focused on brand awareness, eCommerce or content publishing. Regardless of what industry you are in, any business site built with WordPress requires these common resources:
\nChoosing WordPress hosting means you can easily install the software in one click. Your server resources are also optimized for website performance. You can buy WordPress hosting from many different sources, with shared hosting plans starting from as low as $2.95/month.
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\nOnce you’ve selected your plan, you can either register a new domain name or enter an existing one you have already setup. If you want to register a new domain name, you need to first confirm that it’s available. Next, fill in your account information and all the required payment information. Once your purchase is complete, you can now install WordPress in just one click.
You’ll immediately be redirected to your WordPress admin dashboard after setting up your account login details.
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Your WordPress site is now ready for use. It’s time to set it up and design it specifically for your business.
\nWhen working on how to build a WordPress business website using Gutenberg, the next step is to customize your site’s design. The fastest way to do this is to use a WordPress theme that includes professional design templates. We recommend using the Astra theme as it is the fastest WordPress theme and includes a number of templates tailored for Gutenberg. To get Astra, navigate to Appearance > Themes > Add New in your WordPress dashboard and search for ‘Astra’.
\nSelect the theme, then click Install followed by Activate.
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\nTo setup and use the ready made design templates, go to Astra Options under the Appearance tab.
Next, click Install Importer Plugin.
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After installing the importer plugin, select Gutenberg as your page builder.
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\nYou can streamline the template options you’ll see by selecting the type of site you want to build.
As we are showing you how to build a business website, we will select Business.
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With Guttenberg, you can even preview each template in a new tab to make sure it suits your needs and that you like the style before you commit.
\nClick Import Complete Site when you find the design you like.
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WordPress will then apply this template and change your site’s design. To further tweak your design, you can use the default WordPress Customizer. Navigate to Appearance > Customize to do this.
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\nPages are, of course, one of the major components of any business website’s design. Let’s see how to design important web pages using Gutenberg.
For maximum SEO score, customer confidence and professionalism, some of the most important pages every business website needs must include the following: Home, About, Contact and Privacy Policy pages.The starter template we added should have already created these pages by default.
\nIf you wish to create a new page that will show different information, such as a page dedicated to your opening times, you can create a new page by going to Pages > Add New.
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\nTo edit any of your existing pages, go to Pages. Then click Edit after hovering over the page you want to edit.
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\nYou can add any type of content like paragraphs, shortcodes and media such as images, documents, and videos to your web pages using Gutenberg blocks. To do this, click the + icon on the page editor.
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\nTo help build pages faster, it can help if you install a WordPress block plugin. We recommend Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg. Apart from adding creative blocks to your site, the plugin also comes with lots more starter templates. Some of the interesting blocks to check out that could be of particular benefit to you include the Price List, Team and Testimonial blocks.
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\nWith these ready-made blocks ready to go, you’ll find that you will be able to build as many pages as you need in very little time.
You can improve the speed, performance, functionality and features on your site by using WordPress plugins. Below are some popular options that you may want to incorporate to your site.
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WPForms is an excellent forms plugin that enables you to build attractive forms and implement them anywhere on your website. While most websites use forms that only allow visitors to get in touch, a business website should make extra use of the features available by offering a customer the opportunity to reach out, ask questions or engage with your business.
\nAlternatives plugins include Contact Form 7, and Formidable Forms
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UpdraftPlus is the world’s leading and highest rated WordPress backup plugin that helps keep your website safe by backing it up. After spending all this time and effort setting up your WordPress site, protecting it and creating a secure backup is one of the most important tasks you can carry out. So, should the worst happen, you can rest easy knowing that you will always have a recent backup copy of your site to restore from.
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Speed is a hugely important factor for a business site, both in terms of SEO score and customer retention. WP-Optimize is a WordPress optimization plugin that can be used to calibrate and format your site, so it loads as quickly as possible. The importance of how quickly your site loads cannot be overstated. Faster loading websites perform significantly better than sites that take longer to load. So remember, anything you can do to boost performance is a good thing.
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As well as backing up and optimizing your site, you should also remember to protect your site with a security plugin, such as All in One WP Security and Firewall. You use a firewall on a website for the same reason you use anti-virus software on your computer and browser – To keep bad guys out. All in One WP Security and Firewall provides a wide ranging and comprehensive list of security tools to help keep your site safe and is simple to set up and use.
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Video is a hugely important communication and marketing tool that every business should use on their site to help promote their products and services. Presto Player can help with that. This plugin helps you control how video looks, how it plays and even lets you monetize videos or add calls to action. Ideal if you use video in your business in any way.
\nAlternatives to Presto Player include Videopack, and YouTube Embed.
\nA well put together and professional business website is an integral part of any successful marketing strategy. The great thing is, that when trying to figure out how to build a WordPress business website using Gutenbergwith, you don’t need to be a coding expert or break the bank to build one for your small business. We hope the tips and processes outlined in this blog go a long way in setting up your business for success. If you have any questions, please let us know in the comments section below.
\nAuthor’s Name : Sujay Pawar
\nSujay is the CEO and Co-Founder of Brainstorm Force, the company behind Astra. You can connect with him on Twitter @sujaypawar
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\nWorld Backup day is a yearly reminder that everything you’ve worked for and built can be lost in just a few seconds. As well as hacking threats, site owners have to also be wary of crashes, viruses, malicious actors and issues with plugins and themes.
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\nInstalled by over 3 million users all over the world, our easy-to-use interface allows you to backup and restore your website with a single click. You can also set the schedule to backup automatically as often as you like, so you don’t have to worry about forgetting to backup your site manually and will always have a recent upload of your site ready to go.
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\nAs it is World Backup Day, get 20% off UpdraftPlus Premium for today only using the discount code: WBUD22 at the checkout.
Happy World Backup Day from all at UpdraftPlus
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With so many online options to choose from, it can be hugely difficult to compete for people’s already fleeting attention. To have a successful site these days, you have to do a lot more than just the bare minimum if you hope to increase the traffic on your page. While colourful designs, well-made content and excellent marketing may bring visitors to your WordPress site initially, it is the efficiency, speed and quality that will get them to stay.
\nGiven how important speed is to a user that visits your site, one of the most important questions you need to ask is, how long does your website take to load a page? Studies show that more than half of the people who visit a site will leave if it takes over three seconds to load a page. Ideally you should aim to have your site load in around two seconds or less.
\nAbandonment of your site is not the only damage slow loading speeds can cause. Google confirmed that the speed of your website can even affect a percentage of search queries – and by extension, your SEO ranking. A very large part of your website’s success reflects on how fast it responds to visitor interaction.
\nWith this knowledge, it is important that you do everything you can to make sure your WordPress site loads as quickly as possible. A great way to help achieve this is by installing the WP-Optimize WordPress plugin. In this blog, we will take a look at the many features and advantages of WP-Optimize, why it should be your WordPress optimization plugin of choice, and why you should upgrade to the premium version.
\nNo matter how well you may think your site is set-up, you should always have a dedicated tool that will help with your site’s performance. Performance-boosting plugins like
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\nAs an all-in-one performance-boosting plugin, WP-Optimize consists of everything you need to keep your website fast and thoroughly optimized. With thousands of 5-star reviews and more than one million active installations, WP-Optimize ranks at the very top of the list of the best performance-boosting plugins in the world.
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As mentioned earlier, both the free and Premium versions of WP-Optimize expertly optimizes your WordPress site in the following ways:
\nYour database stores all the data you require for your website to function properly. Some things you don’t need are also stored in the process. The clean database feature removes all the useless data and even reclaims the space lost due to data fragmentation. Database cleaning is the number one, most basic function of a performance-boosting plugin.
\nThe database feature is easy to use and especially comes in handy for cleaning out the following:
\nIn addition to cleaning databases, WP-Optimize features a tool for image optimization and compression. Large images that would have otherwise reduced your site’s load speed are compressed and saved to your image library, where they are uploaded instantly. WP-Optimize covers a wide range of image formats including PNG, GIF, JPG, BM, and TIF. This feature frees up space, saves server resources for more important tasks, and helps your website load faster.
\nEvery website has a reserved storage space, which is referred to as the cache system.
\nThe purpose of this cache system is to store temporary data like the static versions of your website. This way, your WordPress site won’t have to run heavy PHP scripts whenever someone loads your site. Instead, your cache will collect texts, images, and other required data from first-time visitors. This improves the load speed and general efficiency of the site during subsequent visits.
\nEvery cache system requires adequate RAM and CPU performance. With time, growing page traffic will overwhelm your RAM and CPU causing your site to render slowly. But that won’t happen with performance-boosting plugins like WP-Optimize. With the WP-Optimize cache
\nAs mentioned at the beginning of this blog, WP-Optimize has both a free and a premium version. The basic features of WP-Optimize are free and can be downloaded here. The Premium version comes with the following additional features:
\nThe premium version is available in three packages at competitive prices:
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| 1. | \nStarter | \n1 to 2 websites | \n
| 2. | \nBusiness | \n5 websites | \n
| 3. | \nUnlimited | \nNo limit | \n
While the free version can cater to ONLY one site at a time, the Premium version offers multisite functions. Optimize all your sites on your WordPress network.
\nWP-Optimize Premium offers flexibility and a range of advanced options. For instance, you can optimize individual database tables should you wish to do so.
\nThis newly-added Premium optimization process helps to eliminate orphaned images from your WordPress sites. Images that exceed specific size limits are also removed to minimize server footprint – and by extension cost.
\nNot all components are needed to load your page. The lazy load feature helps to prioritize the necessary components while delaying the rest until they are required. This optimization process significantly improves website performance for large sites.
\nOptimization might be automatic, but with Premium you can schedule when it occurs. This Premium scheduling feature allows you to set up routine optimizations.
\nEvery process can now be documented. Log messages are sent to three additional destinations – including Simple History, Syslog, and Slack.
\nWP-Optimize Premium is available in multiple languages and subscriptions can also be paid for with multiple currencies.
\nYour international WooCommerce store requires an effective geolocation feature to offer country-specific content, determine appropriate VAT and pricing. WP-Optimize Premium can even help with this.
\nYou can run optimization commands straight on the command line and receive detailed results on screen.
\nThis is an advanced option for experienced users. Power tweaks improve your site’s performance by aiming at certain weak points in your website or other plugins.
\nThis lets you delete HTML copies of your page(s). With the Premium version, you can purge pages when needed – For example, when you update a media file or create a new post.
\nYou can use Premium to prevent selected pages on your website from being cached. An example of such a page is the admin page. This feature can also help improve security.
\nUpgrading to Premium automatically gives you Premium support. Your queries will be promptly addressed by WP-Optimize experts.
\nIf you are serious about getting the best performance out of your site and giving your visitors the best user experience possible, then the short and simple answer is yes – upgrading to WP-Premium is totally worth it. With so many extra Premium features available, the added benefits will remove all doubts once you realize how important factors such as removing unwanted images, lazy loading, power tweaks and premium support are to the success and speed of your site.
\nDownload WP-Optimize Premium today and see the difference for yourself.
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\nUpdraftPlus Premium also gives you free upgrades and support for a year and plus 1 Gigabyte of UpdraftVault storage, which means you can back up the site without needing to pay for space with a separate remote storage location like Dropbox.
\nNo platform offers you the kind of tools to make a highly functional website quite like WordPress. As the platform currently hosts over 40% of the world’s websites, it is a natural target for malicious attacks by bad actors looking to exploit any vulnerabilities.
\nAs well as the threat of hacks, your website could also fall victim to other issues, such as a server crash due to simple use errors, or the installation of badly coded plugins or themes. In just a few seconds, everything you’ve worked so hard to build could be taken away – leaving you to start again from scratch.
\nTo avoid such a catastrophic loss happening to you, your first task when setting up a WordPress site should be installing the WordPress backup plugin UpdraftPlus – The world’s number 1, most trusted backup and restore plugin.
\nYou might think you have every security box checked and have your website running perfectly, with no indication that there are any problems on the horizon. While that may be the case, it doesn’t mean a problem isn’t waiting just around the corner. Think of UpdraftPlus premium as website insurance. If your website never suffers a problem, then great. If it does however, you can rest easy knowing you are in safe hands and UpdraftPlus will be there to help you get all your hard work back.
\nAs the world’s most popular and highest rated WordPress backup plugin, UpdraftPlus Premium comes loaded with features and tools:
\nBackup
\nUpdraftPlus can perform total manual or/and scheduled backups of all your site’s databases, files, themes, and plugins.
Restore
\nJust having a backup can be pretty useless if it doesn’t you are not able to perform a prompt and secure restoration. With UpdraftPlus Premium, you can restore your backup file directly from the control panel of your site.
Schedule
\nWith most backup plugins, you are left to manually backup your website whenever you remember. With UpdraftPlus Premium, you can set your site up to automatically backup every 2, 4, 8, or 12 hours, daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly.
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Trusted
\nUpdraftPlus Premium has earned the trust of its considerable user base as it has provided a trusted service to the WordPress community for around a decade. Little wonder why it is the most installed and highest rated backup plugin on the market.
Easy to use
\nUpdraftPlus Premium comes with an engaging, easy-to-use interface that lets you backup and restore data with just a click of a button.
What additional benefits does UpdraftPlus Premium have?
\nIf you use the free version of the UpdraftPlus plugin, you will be familiar with many of the basic features available. If you upgrade to the Premium version, you get the following features in addition to those being available on the free version:
Incremental backups
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Incremental backups (as the name implies) only backups changes that have occurred in your WordPress website since your last full backup. If your last backup was 12 hours ago, the new incremental backup will backup only what has changed in those last twelve hours (e.g. a new photo was uploaded) and add it to the main backup file. By making incremental backups, you use less resources and have quicker backup times.
\nOther backup plugins will typically backup the whole website every time you make a backup. As you can imagine, this is a huge waste of your time and resources which UpdraftPlus Premium prevents by employing the incremental backup process.
\nCloning and migration
\nUpdraftPlus Premium has features that can clone your whole website and/or migrate it to a new domain of your choice in minutes. With UpdraftPlus Premium, you are also given free UpdraftClone tokens, so you are no longer required to buy tokens when you want to clone your site.
The UpdraftClone and Updraft Migrator features are a way for you to effectively and seamlessly “copy and paste” your website to any URL with no hosting difficulties.
\nPrompt customer support
\nUpdraftPlus Premium also comes with quick access to expert help and support from our product developers whenever you require it. You can reach us through a web forum and ticket.
Pre-update backups
\nOther backup plugins typically stand idle when you update a plugin, theme or core updates, putting your site at considerable risk. But UpdraftPlus Premium will ask you if you would like to first back up your site before any update begins. This way, you will have the most recent version of your WordPress site before you make any changes.
Non-WP files and databases
\nBesides the obvious WordPress website core data that will be secured, an UpdraftPlus Premium backup will also cover non-WordPress files and databases such as third party themes. Total security is guaranteed.
Network/multisite
\nUpdraftPlus Premium works with WordPress Network and Multisite to back them up securely. The backup and restore control panel can be found in the dashboard of the network. You can even restore individual websites within the network.
Advanced scheduling
\nThe premium version also allows you to set a specific time for your website’s backup to be created, retained, or deleted.
More database options
\nA typical backup plugin saves all your data somewhere safe for when a problem hits your site. Should this happen, you are left with your backup copy to restore your website to its previous state.
But there are times when the hacker doesn’t just attack your site, but also attempts to steal or delete your backup files. With UpdraftPlus Premium and its enhanced security and industry-standard AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryptor, your WordPress site’s database (including files, passwords, and list of users) is encrypted and secured in the backup location of your choice.
\nThorough logging and reporting
\nUpdraftPlus Premium keeps you updated on what’s going on with your website in real time. All backup activities are carefully recorded and the backup status is displayed in the WordPress admin panel – together with warnings and error messages. You will also receive a report for when a backup completes, as well as file checksums for backup integrity verification. UpdraftPlus Premium also allows users to send reports to Slack if desired.
Importer feature
\nThis is easily one of the coolest features of UpdraftPlus Premium. Some backup plugins are just that – they backup your website without any capacity to restore it at a later point. Besides restoring its own backup files, UpdraftPlus Premium also allows you to restore backups from other WordPress backup plugins with our importer feature.
Lock settings
\nMuch like your smartphones, the Premium version locks access to UpdraftPlus using a password. This gives you the ability to control which site users can access the backup dashboard and files.
WP-CLI
\nWP-CLI stands for WordPress Command Line Interface. CLI functions by relaying commands to a program using a line of text. So, instead of the cumbersome drag-and-drop plugins, you simply backup files using typed lines of text.
While it may require some technical know-how, this can be a very handy feature for those that require it.
\nZero ads
\nNo one enjoys random ads popping up, disrupting your workflow and taking up your valuable time. The Premium version of UpdraftPlus removes all adverts and lets you get to work away without any distractions
UpdraftPlus Premium packages
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\nIf you decide to upgrade to UpdraftPlus Premium, you can choose between five packages with an annual subscription. Automatic renewal gives you 40% off on renewal. What’s more? You can cancel at any time.
Personal
\nSupports up to 2 websites.
\nAll UpdraftPlus add-ons. Free updates. Free support. Free storage of 1GB UpdraftVault. UpdraftClone tokens.
Business
\nSupports up to 10 websites.
\nAll UpdraftPlus add-ons. Free updates. Free support. Free storage of 1GB UpdraftVault. UpdraftClone tokens.
Agency
\nSupports up to 35 websites.
\nAll UpdraftPlus add-ons. Free updates. Free support. Free storage of 1GB UpdraftVault. UpdraftClone tokens.
Enterprise
\nSupports an unlimited number of websites.
\nAll UpdraftPlus add-ons. Free updates. Free support. Free storage of 1GB UpdraftVault. UpdraftClone tokens.
Gold
\nAll of the same features as Enterprise, but with unlimited annual UpdraftCentral Cloud subscription and an additional 50GB UpdraftVault storage
Premium can be particularly useful if you run a bigger or more complex website (or multiple websites), have a history of being targeted by malicious hackers, make a lot of changes daily to your site, or feel the limited “backup and restore” options of the UpdraftPlus free plugin no longer meet your needs.
\nIf you fall within the above categories, then UpdraftPlus Premium is for you.
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This is a built-in storage option for your UpdraftPlus backups that gives you 1GB – 50GB of free storage tailored specifically for the UpdraftPlus platform. This can save you the headache of setting up and calibrating third-party storage systems like Google Drive.
\nWith the free version of UpdraftPlus, you can backup your website directly to UpdraftVault, Dropbox, Google Drive, Amazon S3 (or compatible), Rackspace Cloud, FTP, DreamObjects, Openstack Swift and email.
\nThe Premium version expands your options and allows you to backup directly to Microsoft OneDrive, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Storage, Backblaze B2, SFTP, SCP, and WebDAV.
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| Translated into over 16 languages | \n | \n | \n
| Restore from backup | \n | \n | \n
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| Incremental Backups | \n![\"\"](\"https://updraftplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/updraft_cross.png\") | \n | \n
| Free 1Gb for UpdraftVault | \n | \n | \n
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| Backup extra files and databases | \n | \n | \n
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| Basic email reporting | \n | \n | \n
| Advanced reporting features | \n | \n | \n
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| Send backups to multiple remote destinations | \n | \n | \n
| Database encryption | \n | \n | \n
| Restore backups from other plugins | \n | \n | \n
| No advertising links on UpdraftPlus settings page | \n | \n | \n
| Scheduled backups | \n | \n | \n
| Fix backup time | \n | \n | \n
| Network/Multisite support | \n | \n | \n
| Lock settings access | \n | \n | \n
| Browse backup contents in WordPress | \n | \n | \n
| Download individual files from backup in WordPress | \n | \n | \n
| Personal support | \n | \n | \n
| Run from WP-CLI | \n | \n | \n
| Restore a backup from other plugins | \n | \n | \n
For all the additional benefits and perks that it brings, we feel that UpdraftPlus Premium is more than worth it if you truly value the safety and security of your WordPress site. With Premium you can exercise full control over your backups by unlocking enhanced security features and free updates. From accessing the latest UpdraftPlus Add-Ons for a year, to free support via our forum and email for a year, extra remote storage options, incremental backups and free tokens for UpdraftClone.
\nUpdraftPlus Premium is what total security and peace of mind looks like!
\nThe post Why you should upgrade to UpdraftPlus Premium appeared first on UpdraftPlus. UpdraftPlus - Backup, restore and migration plugin for WordPress.
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\nWe understand that most people might not be adept at coding or do not have the resources to create a full-fledged website by themselves. That is where WordPress comes in. Little needs to be said about the popularity of WordPress, as it is one of the most popular CMS platforms in the world. WordPress lets users have a large number of nifty plugins and themes and can assist in setting up a site by simply dragging and dropping elements, without much need for coding.
\nFor this blog, we are going to go through a comprehensive view of tools that will let us set up an LMS site with ease.
\neLearning has seen a huge increase in popularity recently due to Covid and the rise of remote working/teaching. Business analytics forums state that 1.2 billion students were affected by the closure of educational institutions worldwide during the pandemic. Filling the gap with a fast and well-designed solution for students is the right way to make an impact in this massive market.
\nWhat do you need to start off? We are going to talk about two main elements in this article:
\nThis may seem like a small list of tools to start with, but trust us they will be more than enough.
\nTo build our LMS site on WordPress we need to be careful about the plugins that we use. While some plugins are paid versions only, they also usually offer free counterparts under the “freemium” model. We are only going to focus on an LMS plugin that offers us enough functionality without having to spend any money. But how do you determine if a plugin is right for you? An LMS plugin should offer some basic features that we need to start with:
\nTaking into consideration these features, we suggest using Tutor LMS. Tutor LMS offers these features on its free version for users. Although there are more features on the paid version, we will only look at the free features of plugins in this blog.
\nNow that you have decided on the choice of plugin, lets go ahead and start setting it up. To install Tutor LMS navigate first to your WordPress admin panel. From the admin panel go to Plugins > Add new, search for Tutor LMS then install and activate the plugin. In a few seconds, it should be ready to be used.
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Before heading on to configure our LMS plugin, you must first decide on a theme for your site. The Tutor Starter theme not only is free, but it also was made to be integrated with the LMS plugin – Tutor LMS. This makes life a whole lot easier. To install Tutor Starter from the WordPress admin panel we find the Appearance tab. From there we click on Add new and search for “Tutor Starter”. Go ahead and hit install and activate.
\nYou need to add one more plugin before you can start utilizing Tutor Starter properly. In the same way you installed the other plugins, you need to navigate to ‘Add a new plugin’ and search for TutorMate. TutorMate is a companion demo importer plugin for the Tutor Starter theme. After finding it from Plugins > Add new, click to install and activate it.
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You are now geared up and ready to go. Next, ass a starter pack from Tutor Starter to your WordPress site. From the WordPress admin panel, go to Tutor Starter > Starter sites. Here you can find 4 unique demo starter sites for different types of sites according to what you want to create.
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You can preview the site before you choose to import it. When you have decided which site to import simply click the Import button. This will bring up the following popup.
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From here you can choose to launch with either the Elementor or Gutenberg page builder. For this blog, we are going to go ahead and run it with Gutenberg. Tutor Starter shows us if we are missing any plugin/add-ons when we try to make this installation. So if you are missing Qubely and WooCommerce, they will be automatically installed and activated.
\nOnce the import is complete you can see the site by clicking “View your site”.
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To edit the page, go to the WordPress admin dashboard and select Customize your site. This takes us to the customization page where you can access all the background changes, widgets, and much more.
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Next you need to add some content to the site. Here starts your main journey to create content for your LMS site. To set up our courses, navigate to WpAdmin > Tutor LMS > Courses. From the courses menu, we select Add new to add a new course to the site. You are then taken to the main course menu. Here input the course name, add a course description, add a video if needed and any other information. There is also a featured image section that can utilized to let students know what the course is about.
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Now comes the most important task to setting up your course – adding topics and quizzes. To add a quiz first you need to create a topic. Scroll down on the course menu to the course builder section where you can find a button that adds a new topic. Once you have added a new topic, you can now add a lesson and/or a quiz to that topic.
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Clicking the lesson button brings up the pop up that lets you configure the lesson. Add the lesson title, the actual lesson text and the lesson video, should it be required. We can even add attachments to the lesson.
\nAfter you have created a lesson, for evaluation you will also need to add a quiz. Right beside the lesson button, click the Quiz button to show the quiz pop up menu.
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First, add a quiz name and hit Save & Next. The next tab gives the quiz question option where you can configure what type of questions you want to set for students. Next, select the name of the question and access the drop-down Question Type menu that shows all the different types of questions that can be set.
\nThe options on this pop up are easy to navigate and self-explanatory, so setting it up is a breeze regardless of what type of question selected.
\nOnce you are done with the basic setup of the course, what then comes next? The basic setup is followed by adding payments options to the course in order to generate revenue. To achieve that, you will need to integrate WooCommerce as it is one of the most popular eCommerce solutions. It is very easy to use and integrate and also FREE.
\nFor selling your courses as a product on your LMS site, you need to have a payment system such as WooCommerce added. As previously stated, WooCommerce is automatically installed, so you do not need to separately go through the installation process. To activate WooCommerce on Tutor LMS head to Dashboard > Tutor LMS > Settings > Monetization (Tab) > WooCommerce (Enable).
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You have now activated WooCommerce for your LMS site. But how do you link the course to WooCommerce so that it can be paid for? You need to first create a Product to sell through WooCommerce. Go to the WordPress admin panel where you will see a new Product tab. From there, you can add a new product. You can set the name, price and even sale price of the said product.
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To finalize the monetization process, you must link this product to the course we want to sell. In order to do this, you need to edit the course and scroll down to the Add Product section, where you can find a drop-down menu of the product you created and link it to your course. Make sure to select the paid option and you are all set!
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For any other course you want to monetize, just follow these steps and you should have no problems..
\nThe next task is to market your course to potential students, making sure that your product reaches its desired customer.
\nWhile this is definitely not a comprehensive list, these tips could help you get on track with marketing your course.
\nNow you have set up your eLearning site, it is important to remember to back it up using UpdraftPlus. As the world’s leading and most trusted backup plugin, UpdraftPlus can be trusted to keep your site and all the hard work you put into creating it, safe and secure.
\nJust download the free plugin, or upgrade to UpdraftPlus Premium, for total peace of mind.
\nBest of luck with your site and if you have any queries, feel free to comment below.
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\nWhile WordPress may have its own security issues, it isn’t the only platform that is targeted by cyber-criminals, with the theft of data becoming a highly lucrative business. From personal blogs to large business websites, no one has been safe from the potential threats posed by malicious actors. Regardless of if your site is a small blog or a large business, you need to know how to secure your website regardless of its purpose. Top of any list should be installing the UpdraftPlus backup plugin – The world’s most popular and highest rated backup plugin. In the event that you should ever find yourself a victim of an attack, you can at least rest easy in the knowledge that you have a secure backup in order to restore your site.
\nHere are some WordPress Security issues you should know about and how to address them;
\nPart of what makes WordPress so popular is its modularity. You can quickly and easily expand base features thanks to the plugin system. Unfortunately, not all plugins are created to the high standard of UpdraftPlus, and some can introduce new vulnerabilities to your WordPress website.
\nThe ‘PWA for WP & AMP’ Plugin for example exposed over 20,000 WordPress websites to an access control vulnerability. Due to allowing arbitrary file uploads, attackers could remotely execute code and take over websites running this plugin. Users should be aware of two things from this example. The first is to limit the number of plugins used on your WordPress site where possible. The second is to ensure that all your applications – including plugins and WordPress version – are regularly updated. Updates sometimes add new features, but their main purpose is to address newly discovered vulnerabilities.
\nData is a new and highly valuable commodity, and one reason attackers target websites is to steal information held in the database. SQL Injections are a popular way of doing this, with attackers embedding SQL commands on websites that may compromise sensitive information.
\nIf you’re wondering how this happens, think about the average form you’ll find on many WordPress websites. It allows users to provide information such as usernames and passwords for login. If an attacker inserts SQL code in these fields, the underlying database may process that code and perform unexpected actions. There are several ways you can work to prevent SQL injection attacks, but the most common is to implement strict input validation. For example, you can add the following code to your .htaccess file to ensure that all input is excluded from SQL queries;
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How the XSS attack works (Source: Imperva)
Like SQL Injection attacks, Cross-site scripting (XSS) attempts to inject malicious code into vulnerable websites. One example is posting information that leads website users to another website that then attempts to steal personal data. This scenario can be potentially dangerous as the other website may not even need input from the user. It can simply scan user identification data such as cookies, session tokens, and more.
\nYou can generally prevent XSS attacks using a Web Application Firewall (WAF). This useful tool allows you to block specific traffic on websites. Most top WordPress security plugins like All In One WP Security & Firewall will have this feature available. If you’d rather focus on running your WordPress website and want to leave the security to the experts, One WP Security & Firewall is a great way of doing so. It not only helps you block most types of attacks but can also scan your WordPress website for vulnerabilities you may not be aware of.
\nWordPress makes use of a credential system that allows administrators and other authorized users to access its control features. Unfortunately, many users tend to employ weak and obvious passwords. Brute force passwords make use of scripts that make continued and multiple login attempts to a WordPress site until successful. The script works with a database that holds a dictionary of commonly used usernames and passwords (such as Admin and Password1), hoping that you would have chosen one of these combinations without putting any thought into the risks.
\nYou can however do several things to limit the effectiveness of brute force attacks;
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DDoS attacks try to overcome a website with a flood of requests mimicking visitor traffic. (Source: dnsstuff)
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks consist of a massive flood of requests that target a website. This flood is intended to cripple a website, making it inaccessible to regular visitors as it is unable to cope with the volume of requests. While DDoS isn’t unique to WordPress, websites based on this CMS can be especially vulnerable since it requires more resources to serve a request than regular static websites. It can be impossible to guard against a determined DDoS flood however, but even the most prominent organisations have succumbed to these attacks. One example of this was the GitHub attack in 2018, in which their website came under a 20-minute DDoS flood attack.
\nGenerally smaller websites aren’t the target of such a massive volume. To mitigate against smaller DDoS waves however, make sure you use a Content Distribution Network (CDN). These server networks can help balance incoming loads and help in serving content faster.
\nCross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks are another way attackers force web applications like WordPress to recognize fake authentications. WordPress is especially vulnerable since these sites generally hold many user credentials. The CSRF attack is similar to the XSS attack discussed earlier in many ways. The main difference is that CSRF needs an authentication session, while XSS does not. Regardless, the ultimate aim is to divert a visitor towards an alternative location to steal data.
\nCSRF prevention needs implementation at the plugin level in most cases. Developers typically use anti-CSRF tokens to link sessions with specific users. WordPress website owners can only rely on plugin updates and general website hardening techniques to help prevent CSRF attacks.
\nSome hardening actions that may work include;
\nThere is sometimes a misconception that WordPress is a highly vulnerable web application. However, this isn’t an entirely fair claim. Part of it stems from the widespread use of WordPress, but a more significant reason is the failure of website owners to take the necessary proper precautions.
\nWe often take security for granted without thinking of the consequences of choosing a simple password. Website owners however have to take responsibility not just for the integrity of their websites, but also for the safety of their users’ data.
\nAuthor Profile
\nPui Mun Beh is a digital marketer of WebRevenue.
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Why is this? Well, it’s effective, easy to use and largely free (although users do of course have to pay for a domain name, hosting and any premium plugins or themes). The average internet user may want to start blog posts or create a simple website, but have little in the way of tech savvy and even less disposable funds. Step forward, WordPress.
\nItt wasn’t necessarily an easy ride to the top. The history of WordPress is a story of remarkable ascendancy. It is an interesting tale of rapid improvements and refusing to sit on its laurels and success.
\nThe history of WordPress starts when the blogging tool b2/cafelog was parked by its developers, who had elected not to take it any further. Two programmers who had been working on the project decided to start something themselves by building a platform on top of b2/cafelog.
\nThese two individuals, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, managed to get the first instance of their product (version 0.7) released in May 2003. Upon its official launch, users responded favorably to the admin interface, user interface, text filter and templates (which were XHTML 1.1 compliant)
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Version 1.0 followed, which was known as the Davis Version (named after the American musician Miles Dewey Davis III). As Matt Mullenweg is a jazz enthusiast, every version comes with a plugin called “Hello Dolly,” (in reference to Louis Armstrong) automatically installed. The Davis release included multiple post categories and an easy installation process.
\nWordPress 1.2 (Mingus – named after Charlie Mingus) was released in May 2004. This release incorporated plugin architecture, a key and defining part of WordPress. This meant that users could create their own plugins and share them with other users.
\nIt was this openness that set WordPress apart right from the beginning. It’s this openness that has resulted in there being a total of 56,000 free plugins and 2500 themes available on WordPress.org – the official WordPress repository.
\nAt the same time of WordPress’ latest developments, the dominant force in blogging software (Moveable Type) was declaring a tightening up in its licensing arrangements and a pricing restructure, which left many bloggers aggrieved and looking for an alternative content management system. The result was a massive popularity boost for WordPress.
\nOne of the positives of this mass adoption was a consequent stream of improvements that were generated and applied due to the open nature of the program and its plugin approach. The product thus improved at a rate that was truly impressive.
\n2005 saw the introduction of version 1.5 (Strayhorn – after pianist Billy Strayhorn), which incorporated Pages and seriously upgraded the themes facility, which allowed for a different theme for each weblog category.
\nThis was followed in the same year by version 2.0 (Duke – after Duke Ellington), which introduced a radically redesigned admin dashboard. This dashboard didn’t just look different, it gave much better usability and allowed bloggers to avail themselves of the facility to add categories or tags without having to leave the post editor.
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\nVersion 3.0 (Thelonious – after Thelonious Monk) was released in summer 2010. This featured customization for post types, backgrounds, headers and menus, as well as admin screens with contextual help. With the addition of the Twenty Ten theme, the concept of a ‘default theme’ for each year was introduced.
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From MySpace to Atari, the enemy of continued success is complacency. This is not something that you could accuse the WordPress Foundation of, as in 2013 they introduced another improved UI (called MP6). In version 3.8 (Parker – after Charlie Parker), the platform was designed to work with any screen size. WordPress began to take notice and address the growing use and popularity of smartphone usage – particularly in the online shopping sector.
\nVersion 3.9 (Smith – after US jazz pianist Jimmy Smith) followed in April 2014. This gave users the ability to edit and preview images inside the post editor, which greatly enhanced convenience. Other improvements included audio and video playlists and widget previews.
\nThere was a significant milestone in 2014: this was the first year in which non-English WordPress downloads outnumbered English downloads. The impact of WordPress had now become truly global.
\nThe various incarnations of version 4 that emerged in 2015 produced greater refinements, as well as seeing the first infrastructure being put in place for REST API (an application programming interface using a particular software architectural style).
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\nVersion 4 continued to be improved during 2016 and 2017, with developments such as plugin and theme previews and updates, content recovery and customization and included the beginnings of the WordPress block editor.
\n2018 witnessed the debut of version 5.0, with a major innovation in the shape of the completion of the block editor, which was now named Gutenberg.
\nAnother big step forward came in 2019 when the ‘Site Health’ facility was launched in version 5.1 (Betty – vocalist Betty Carter). This gave users the ability to see for themselves how secure and up-to-date their software was. Those who struggled previously to define zero-party data were now becoming au fait with such concepts.
\nThree more releases followed in 2020, with 5.4, 5.5, and 5.6 (respectively, Adderley, Eckstine, and Simone), including the launch of the ‘Full Site Editing’ feature, which was improved further in 5.7 (Esperanza) and 5.8 (Tatum). The key benefit of this feature was the ability it conferred on users to create site-wide templates and to complete post revisions with ease.
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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg says that the future of WordPress will continue to focus on Gutenberg and will be about the four main priorities that its developers have held since the beginning. These four are easier editing, customization, collaboration and multilingual support.
\nMullenweg also thinks that more and more people will use WordPress with self-hosted sites. New possibilities regarding hosting and domains are always coming up. For instance, users can now acquire a free io domain should they wish.
\nUp until recently, relatively few large-scale organizations used WordPress as their content management system. This is changing though due to security updates combined with the other security features that have been introduced and the extensive range of features that are being constantly added.
\nWordPress is continuing to work on full site editing service techniques with Version 5.9, in 2022, promising to deliver an improved editing experience provided by the block editor.
\nIt is also a reasonably safe bet that the jazz greats will continue to be honoured!
\nWhat this history lesson teaches us is the importance of small to major continuous improvements. Through active development, WordPress has become the go-to option for a wide range of content types. As a result, WordPress has been hugely responsible for the massive rise in blogging and online stores worldwide.
\nIts role in putting e-commerce in the hands of businesses around the globe has resulted in significant growth and wealth creation. Many, many jobs are now reliant on the brainchild of Mullenweg and Little. The history of WordPress is one of empowering bloggers and supporting business growth.
\nGrace is responsible for leading branded and editorial content strategies, partnering with SEO and Ops teams to build and nurture content. She has written for VMBlog and Brightpearl. Here is her LinkedIn.
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\n\n\n\nDee’s story with computers started at school in New Zealand where discovering how a mouse worked and learning BASIC and Pascal was a catalyst for what later became a programming career.
\n\n\n\nAt a time when computers were just becoming mainstream, there were no opportunities for girls in her school to consider this as a further option. She recalls: “No one thought to say, ‘Dee, you look like you’re good at this, you should pursue it…’. I mean, I was a girl (and I was told girls didn’t ‘do’ computers). No one in the circles I moved in really had any idea where this technology revolution would take us.”
\n\n\n\nWith no particular career path into technology, Dee was encouraged in her final year of school to apply for a job in a bank where she worked and became a teller three years later. She gained financial independence, which enabled her to travel as a 20-year-old and spend the next three years exploring the US and Europe.
\n\n\n\nLooking back, she noted how the world had changed: the first computer mouse she had seen had come out in 1983, and 20 years later WordPress was founded.
\n\n\n\nDuring those 20 years, Dee worked as a nanny, working in child care centers, in customer support, and as a temp.
\n\n\n\nIn 1999, she packed up her bags once again, and moved from New Zealand to Australia. She took a place at a performing arts school where she honed her singing and performance skills and volunteered her time to the music director who was starting to experiment with sending out HTML newsletters and updates via email.
\n\n\n\n“And so my personal revolution began. On the day after I graduated from that course, I walked into a full-time role as that music director’s assistant and began my journey back to code.”
\n\n\n\nAs part of that job, Dee edited and sent HTML newsletters on a weekly basis. This ignited her interest in programming, and she bought books about coding for the web and experimented on her home-built PC making web pages.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I’m sure, like a lot of us, I remember the thrill of creating that first HTML file and seeing a ‘Hello World’ or similar heading rendered in the browser. From there, I was completely hooked.”
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Later she moved to the IT department and took on maintenance of all the websites. By 2004, she was working full-time as a webmaster. A year later, she was running a small business creating sites on the side. Four years after that, her business became her full-time job as she left employment to pursue her Masters Degree in Digital Communication and Culture.
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Dee and other volunteers setting up for a local WordCamp\n\n\n\nDee found the theory and sociology behind the web, and its facilitation of human and machine communication fascinating.
\n\n\n\nShe said: “I love the fact that the tech industry involves a constant constant curve of growth and discovery, which results in a perpetual exercise in finding creative elegant solutions for sticky problems.”
\n\n\n\nFor Dee, being able to use her innate curiosity to leverage processes, people, and tools, fuelled by a focus on communicating a message, has been a defining inspiration in her work.
\n\n\n\nThis combined fascination coincided with her meeting WordPress in 2009 and subsequently its community. She moved her existing blog to the software and it became the CMS of choice for all her client work.
\n\n\n\nIn 2011, she stumbled across WordCamps and by extension the WordPress community. Dee has reflected publicly that WordPress didn’t change her life, its community changed her world!
\n\n\n\nShe flew on a whim from her then home in Sydney to attend a WordCamp in Melbourne she had found after a search for ‘WordPress Conferences’.
\n\n\n\nShe said: “I met welcoming people, made friends, connected, and came back home excited and hopeful about continuing this connection with the wider WordPress community.”
\n\n\n\nBuilding a community locally around WordPress got off to a slow start in Sydney. From an inauspicious early WordPress Sydney meetup in the function room of a pub, her connection and involvement took off. Before long she was helping organize that meetup, and by the time she moved away from that great city it had branched into two meetups, and soon after, into three.
\n\n\n\nShe was so inspired by the community that at the end of that first year and her second WordCamp, she raised her hand to help organize a WordCamp Sydney in 2012, and after moving interstate, WordCamp Melbourne in 2013.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“WordPress and any other software package exist to serve people.”
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Dee said: “WordPress, software, technology, the Internet will come and go, morph, and change, evolve. Maybe WordPress will last forever, maybe it will morph into something else, maybe one day it will look completely different than it did when I first started (actually, that’s true now). The thing that doesn’t change is the humanity around it. WordPress and any other software package exist to serve people.”
\n\n\n\nShe added: “The thing that I have learned, not only through WordPress but in life, is that if we too serve the people around what we’re doing, we ourselves will grow, develop and change alongside the people we serve, and the tools we use to serve them.”
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\n\n\n\nDee has been an advocate for cross-cultural collaboration and understanding in both WordPress and her work for a large distributed agency which has people from more than 24 countries and operates across 16 timezones. She has also written about closing the gap between diverse distributed teams and how to meet the challenges of cross cultural remote work.
\n\n\n\nDee has given talks at WordCamps, including at WordCamp Europe in 2019, on developing ourselves, our relationships, and our communities in increasingly diverse environments.
\n\n\n\nWith a strong desire to share her professional knowledge and experience, Dee hopes her involvement in the WordPress community from being part of a Release Squad in the Core Team, and volunteering in the community through organizing and speaking at WordCamp events, will inspire others to get involved.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“It’s the connections, it’s the friendships. It’s the network of work, referrals, support, help and encouragement.”
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Dee shared her experience with attendees at WordCamp Europe 2019\n\n\n\nIn contributing to WordPress and organizing community events around it, Dee found that for her: “At the end of the day it isn’t actually WordPress that matters. It’s those connections, it’s the friendships. It’s the network of work, referrals, support, help, encouragement that has kept me wired into this community and committed to helping other people find that connection and growth for themselves.”
\n\n\n\nDee’s career in WordPress has moved through coding, into project management of large scale WordPress projects, and now into delivery leadership. Her connections to community have helped ‘fuel the transitions’ through these chapters of her life.
\n\n\n\nShe said: “I believe that the place I’ve found and the opportunities I have had owe as much to my own desire and ambition as they do to the help, support and belief of the community around me; sometimes even more than I’ve felt in myself.”
\n\n\n\nShe feels that she is ‘living proof’ that by helping, connecting, and resourcing other people, you can be helped, resourced and connected into places you had never thought possible.
\n\n\n\nThis has enabled her to reach and have a career in technology that she did not know existed as a teenager playing with that first computer mouse and experimenting with code. Dee hopes her story will inspire others in their journey.
\n\n\n\nHelp share these stories of open source contributors and continue to grow the community. Meet more WordPressers in the People of WordPress series.
\n\n\n\nThanks to Abha Thakor (@webcommsat), Meher Bala (@meher), Mary Baum (@marybaum), Chloe Bringmann (@cbringmann), Nalini Thakor (@nalininonstopnewsuk), and Larissa Murillo (@lmurillom) for work on this feature. Thank you to Josepha Haden (@chanthaboune) and Topher DeRosia (@topher1kenobe) for support of the series. Thank you too to @thewebprincess for sharing her experiences.
\n\n\n\nThis article is inspired by an article originally published on HeroPress.com, a community initiative created by Topher DeRosia. It highlights people in the WordPress community who have overcome barriers and whose stories would otherwise go unheard.
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\n\n\n\nHello everyone. And welcome to the WordPress Briefing. The podcast where you can catch quick explanations of some of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project and the community around it. As well as get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I’m your host Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go!
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\n\n\n\nWith the approach of various mid-year breaks and the prospect of wandering off for some safe, restorative travel, I’ve been updating my to-read and re-read list. As I was looking at the queued books for my Northern hemisphere summer, there were some common threads, mostly around leadership, but there’s also like a chunk that’s about cross-cultural group theory and economics, and then like some beach reads, but there’s one group in particular that you all might find interesting.
\n\n\n\nAnd that’s a group that’s sort of like a back-to-FOSS basics list. So I’ll share my top few with you in case you want to pack a copy for your next getaway.
\n\n\n\nThe first one on our list is called Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogel. I think everyone who contributes to FOSS projects has received this as one of their first recommendations. Like, y’all are building open software? Excellent, you need to read Producing Open Source Software. Like, that is just a sentence that comes out of everyone’s mouths. So this was one of the first open source books that was recommended to me when I joined the WordPress community. It was freshly revised in 2020, and I haven’t given it a read since then, which is why it is on my reread list this year.
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\n\n\n\nHowever, it shaped the early days of the WordPress project’s leadership, and their lead developers, and some of WordPress’s basic philosophies. It’s all available online, under a creative commons, ShareAlike license. And so it’s worth the read. I’ll put a link to it in the show notes so it’s easy for everyone to find in the event that is your preferred beach read.
\n\n\n\nThe second one on this list is a book from Nadia Eghbal. She wrote the excellent Roads and Bridges report that also is probably not light beach reading, but you know, this one is on my list to read this summer because Eghbal always delivers truths about the reality of maintaining popular software, popular, open source software, in a way that’s easy for me to access and process rather than getting paralyzed by the enormity of it all.
\n\n\n\nFor what it’s worth your mileage may vary on that. I realized that, like, I live and breathe open source stuff. And so just because I am not paralyzed by the enormity of her explanations of things doesn’t necessarily mean that you will have a similar experience. And so I’m just going to claim that elephant in the room for all of us.
\n\n\n\nHowever, if you only read one book on this list this year, I think that this should be the one that you read.
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\n\n\n\nThe third one is called Code: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy. It was edited by Rishab Aiyer Ghosh. I am certain that I butchered that name. And so I apologize on my own behalf to everyone that knows whether or not I said it correctly.
\n\n\n\nThis book focuses on intellectual property rights and the original purpose of having anything like copyright in the world. So, right up my alley! The writers who contributed to this work promise exploration of the plight of creativity in the commons, the role of sharing in creative advancement, and a concept of what it would look like if intellectual property were to mean the second closing of an ecosystem versus a triumph of the commons.
\n\n\n\nI mean, obviously, this one is very light reading. You can take this topic to high tea and everyone will not know what you’re talking about. However, this one looks like a really interesting book to me and I am just super ready to read it.
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\n\n\n\nThe second to last one on the list is a book called Humble Inquiry.
\n\n\n\nThis is a new-to-me book that seems right in line with one of my favorite books to recommend to leaders in the open source space. From reviews of it, I have gathered that it takes a hard look at the value of listening and asking for clarification in a world that puts a high value on an unsolicited hot take.
\n\n\n\nIt puts the importance of high trust relationship building, which is at the heart of any cross-culturally aware organization. And for folks who’ve been working with me for a while, you know, that relationship building is an important part of my leadership expectations for myself. So it puts relationship building at the front and center with a promise of practical applications for everyday life.
\n\n\n\nAnd if you ever have tried to tackle a complicated topic like this, you know that practical applications are really hard to come by and it’s often hard to understand it if you don’t have those practical applications. And so that is why this one is on my read and reread list this year.
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\n\n\n\nAnd then finally the WordPress Milestones book.
\n\n\n\nSo this sounds like a shameless plug for WordPress. And on the one hand, this whole podcast is about WordPress. And so, yes! But on the other hand, I actually am reading this for two specific reasons. I’m rereading this actually. I read it when I first joined Automattic. And so the first of the two reasons that I’m rereading it this year is that volume two of this is, like the second decade of WordPress currently, being researched and written in preparation for WordPress’s 20th birthday next year.
\n\n\n\nSo I am rereading this to kind of get that all back in my mind as that work is getting done. And the second reason is that I honestly like to remind myself of how far we’ve come sometimes. I talk about our work frequently. And I talk about what we’re working on right now, all the time.
\n\n\n\nI talk about what we’re looking at three years from now, five years from now. The biggest concerns of today, tomorrow, and the future-future. And it’s very easy to forget how much success WordPress has had and how much growth the contributors that support us have had over the course of our long and storied history.
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\n\n\n\nAnd so I like to go back to that just to kind of give myself some grounding in our progress, as well as get some concept for how we can move forward together. So that one is also available online. Also under a creative commons ShareAlike license and it is also worth the read. I will share a link to that with the other one in the show notes as well.
\n\n\n\nThat brings us now to our small list of big things. Let’s see what we got in the old lineup today.
\n\n\n\nSo, firstly WordCamp Europe is happening this week and it’s possible to watch the live stream from the comfort of your own home. There are some smart and talented speakers at the event. So I encourage you to catch a few if you have the time. I’ll include a link to the live stream information in the show notes below, and then also you can always keep an eye out on Twitter.
\n\n\n\nThere will be a lot of discussions, a lot of conversation there. And so you can engage with folks that are there at the time and catch up on those conversations, catch up on those presentations in your own time, as it fits into your day.
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\n\n\n\nThe second thing is that WordPress’s community team is preparing the annual meetup survey right now. So if you participate in meetup events, keep an eye out for that because your feedback helps us to make plans to improve that program so that it works better for you. And it helps you to learn WordPress better and feel more confident with what you are taking out into the world that way.
\n\n\n\nBut, if you are wanting to use this as a chance to contribute, we actually will need folks who are able to translate the surveys as well. So I’ll leave a link to some information about that in the show notes. If all of that stuff about contribution didn’t make any sense, then just like keep an eye out from your meetup organizer and they will make sure that you have that survey so that you can have your voice heard.
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\n\n\n\nAnd then item three is less of an item. I mean, it’s an item cause it’s in this list, but it’s less of, like, a thing to know and more of a general thing to be aware of. It’s a general awareness item. There’s a lot going on in WordPress right now. I can see how hard it is to keep track of some of these things these days.
\n\n\n\nAnd I know as someone who’s looking at this all day every day that, yeah, it’s a lot. And it’s hard to get your bearings. So if you have a team that you contribute to already, don’t forget to reach out to each other, just to check-in. Sometimes we don’t think to ask for help. Sometimes we don’t think to offer help and you know, if no one needs any help from you at that moment, a little hello also can brighten someone’s day.
\n\n\n\nAnd that, my friends, is your smallest of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress Briefing. I’m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. And I’ll see you again in a couple of weeks.
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\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Hello, and welcome to our 67th episode of the Gutenberg Fran Podcast. In today’s episode, we will talk about Gutenberg 13.2 and free WordPress 6.0 and discussions that are taking place and would need your opinion. I’m Birgit Pauli-Haack, curator at the Gutenberg Times and WordPress developer advocate.
\n\n\n\nAnd I’m here today with my special guest and former co-host Grzegorz Ziolkowski, JavaScript developer at Automattic and virtual school contributor. For WordPress 6.0 release co-lead for editor responsible for the merge of the Gutenberg bits and bites into core. Mary Job sends her regards and is taking a break this week. Good evening, Greg. Thank you so much for joining me again tonight. How are you?
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: I’m great. I’m so happy that the release went out. Everything works, the work didn’t collapse, so that’s great. Also, want to thank you also for being part of the release team and also, I need to mention that I was also a co-lead for the editor with Adam Hevinski, his help was so important to making that happen, because that was a lot of work to bring all the changes from the editor to WordPress core and making sure that everything works.
\n\n\n\nThe group that helped was so huge. There was, I don’t know, 20 people, at least helping all the time with different type of tasks, which was an amazing experience to see how everyone cooperates.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: And also the release team was much bigger. You and the documentation team also having a core lead like Milana, right?
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, yeah.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Oh yeah. So it’s really interesting to be part of the team and see how it works. Also, the team was bigger than ever, as far as I know, and I think that it still could be bigger. In my opinion. We have so many tasks that are necessary to make all that happen.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: I was on the release course now as a rookie and of course I needed co-leads because as a rookie, you don’t know what to get yourself into. But there are so many pieces that go into this release and it all has been a mystery and most still are mystery to me. Yeah. But I learned a lot. I learned a lot from all of the people on the release squad. But it’s also the more I know, the more I know what I don’t know.
\n\n\n\nAnd so it’s kind of that really overwhelming feeling that, okay, I have watched so many times, but I still had no idea what is really behind it in all the different pieces that are there. So, and as you said, I’m in awe of all the brilliant people that make these run smoothly and are always there to help each other out. It’s an amazing experience.
\n\n\n\nYeah, absolutely. I’m glad I did it. It was a lot of work and, but wrangling dev notes, it’s a unique experience anyway. But yeah, congratulations that you helped bring it over the finish line.
\n\n\n\nSo yes, WordPress 6.0, Arturo was released this week named after the contemporary Latino jazz musician, Arturo O’Farrill with a good Irish name. And there are many features and enhancements that are rolled out with a new version. We talk probably about all of them during the months, leading up to the release on this podcast, we will share again, of course, the release post, and then the field guide with the dev notes. And we will also share two videos with you. One is the release video by the design team. If you haven’t seen it yet on the about page or in the release post, watch it.
\n\n\n\nIt’s a great design and cutting from screen to screen, to highlight all the features that are in there. It’s a great piece of art, so definitely watch it. And then the second video is by Anne McCarthy and she covered the site building process between WordPress 5.0 and WordPress 6.0. 5.0 was released just to repeat that December 6th, 2018. So it’s three and a half years ago. And in that video, you’ll see how it changed from the early versions to how you build sites now. It’s a great, interesting video to watch. If you haven’t tried out the block editor yet, if you’re one who hasn’t started using it yet, I think you will be surprised, or it’s eye opening to see how it really changed and maybe it intrigues you to start using it again.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. It’s a huge change. How it all has evolved from starting small to edit only the content that’s post and pages. And throughout all that time, how data change itself, by bringing more tools that are supported and allow you to do more and more things with the content to add some styling and create beautiful designs without using a single line of code. And now even you can create the whole experience. And there’s many block themes that empower users to edit everything without ever opening and edit or code the detail where you need to deal with PHP files, CSS, and all that big stuff that are becoming more and more complex every year.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And I think the biggest piece that helps a user to one part be in control, but on the other hand, not have to think about too much about design or the block patterns. And I think they have come really a long way from the first idea of a reusable block that people used this kind of templates or block patterns, but then they were changing it and then they changed it over the whole page site. But now combining just core blocks into this amazing designs and design system, it’s really remarkable. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nSo that’s definitely part of that show notes today is that video. And we also shared the article that the WP Tavern posted about that. And then just today I found that Pantheon published an article by yours truly like what to expect from WordPress 6.0. And it goes a little bit more on the developer side. And apart from the enhancements, talk about the enhancements for the writing experience. It’s more about develop oriented, how to code, with code examples for the new pattern features on pulling in patterns from the directory wire theme, JSON Slug, or also create page layouts on the create page action, and then some block locking examples, and also how to establish those style variations in the theme, JSON. So it’s a little bit different than the release post on WordPress.org. So, Greg, what are the most intriguing features that you found for WordPress 6.0?
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: So you already mentioned them, from the coding perspective, you covered how to integrate them on, on the owners of the site. And I think for the user, very exciting possibility is to use style variation when they are provided with theme because everyone have different taste and style variation allow you to quickly change colors, fonts have presets that you can quickly pick one and another, and another until it’s something that clicks with you and you don’t have to go and change every setting on the website yourself is just, you have bigger chance to… The other thing block locking. I think it’s great and it has a lot of value, but it’s still missing much more detailed control because everyone can lock and unlock now, which is nice, but you can change that.
\n\n\n\nYeah. But the idea is that in the future, you could have permission-based rules. So, as a site admin, you could just block everything you want for everyone else or whatever else you would like. So this still needs some development, but it’s the step in the right direction. And also all the work on patterns that how it evolves. You mentioned that how it was limiting and the beginning, and it was introducing with classic themes in WordPress 5.5. And it didn’t have so much power because for the content of the post, you don’t use design so often, but with templates, it’s just so powerful having a way to insert a footer, a header. And now this is even integrated more contextual. If you use this in line inserter and you are on the bottom of the page, it’ll propose you some footer patterns in other places, it will propose other patterns.
\n\n\n\nSo it tries to be smart and help you to do the right choice. So it’s no longer, only core blocks in those inline researcher, but also patterns. And yeah, in general, I really like how all the concepts that we already know, they build on top of each other that you mentioned reusable block. So you can now do sort of magic things. You find the block pattern you like, you convert that to reusable block and suddenly you have something you like, and it syncs with all other places the same applies with template parts.
\n\n\n\nYou can pick from the block directory pattern of footer and just magically it’s there and synced suddenly with all other places. So I’m looking forward to seeing more and more things like that, so people no longer have to worry that they open a new template or new post and they see blank canvas and they don’t know what to do. Now they open an inserter. There is so much inspiration in there and that you… it’s just a different experience. It’s so much easier to create the same website that you see on the themes demo side than it was before.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, well said, Greg. That said, I also like the writing experience. So the favorite feature that I have, it’s not a big deal, but it’s actually helping, when you are doing a lot of in-line linking you have the two square brackets, and then you get a list of all the latest posts or pages that you’ve had. And then you can do in in-line linking for your site. And before you had to kind of look for that and search for it, and what’s the name of it? And you had to go out and then you had this. Yeah, so this is really nice. And I liked all those keyboard shortcuts that make it, I don’t have to change from keyboard to mouse and have a very smooth experience yeah. So 6.0 is out.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: It’s definitely for experienced users because there are lot more gems like that. Once you discover you never want to go back and you use all the methods. But it takes time, but…
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And then the same, what trips me up. So the WordPress had this for a long time that when you have a highlighted text, and if you have a see a link on the browser and you copy the link and you highlight text, and then you can just Ctrl V you can actually, it uses the URL as a link on that highlighted text. That trips me up everywhere else.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Especially, so I know that GitHub took it over. Yeah, now when you want to highlight, or have a link there, you highlight the text on that. You have to URL Ctrl V works. Yeah. That’s really cool. And I use a user note taking app called LogSync. They have taken that on too, but the Google docs, every link I put in Google logs, I have to do twice because it just over click. I can’t do it anymore. It’s just so interesting. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Another experience.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Google docs get on it. We need that there too. Yeah. So another experience that I had during the WordPress 6.0 release cycle, during the beta and release candidates, I used a great plugin that I want to do a shout out for. And it’s called the Core Rollback Plugin. And it was created by Andy Fragen, who is a long time contributor to WordPress and also part of the beta tester plugin crew. And it allows me to select all the WordPress versions back to 4.0 and install it on a test site. So I was able to test the upgrade from 4.0.23, to 6.0, and does it work or does it bomb?
\n\n\n\nAnd then at first I was a bit disappointed because when I started it, I had a block theme enabled. And of course, then I can only have a WordPress version that actually can handle block theme. So I was only rolling back to 5.9, which didn’t help me much, but then I realized that, okay, I needed to change the theme. So I changed it to Twenty Ten theme. And then the other part was, how do I get to 4.0? I also needed to change the PHP version to 5.6 and I lose local WP. So that was really interesting. And then it took me maybe a minute or two to install the old version and then upgrade was WCLI to the next version. And that was so fast to test. And then I just went into the site again and did a comment or something like that, just to make sure it works. But that is really, it was very helpful.
\n\n\n\nSo I’m sad that I didn’t know about it before, because sometimes when you had a WordPress install and the new version came out and you were way on the cutting edge, you had a plugin conflict or something like that. And then how do you roll it back to the previous version? And this plugin will save you so much time and headaches. So just make it sure that’s in your toolbox when you manage other people’s websites, because it can really help you with that, go back to the safe version within five minutes or so. And wait, the next two weeks till the next version comes out from workers. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. It’s also fascinating that warper still supports some old version that to get it working, you need to use PHP version that is no longer even developed like 5.6. But still, if people have that, they can use WordPress, which is mind blowing.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. It totally is. And I think Serge is watching that percentage of users that still use PHP 5.0 very closely, because I think it’s going to be real soon that WordPress is going to skip it and say, “okay, yeah, from now on, we are not supporting 5.6 anymore. You got to have to be on 7.4” or something like that, but it’s that promise of backwards compatibility and not kicking users out just because they don’t know they are hosting environment that still uses these old PHP variations.
\n\n\n\nAll right, but this were two interesting weeks. So we had not only WordPress 6.0 come out, but in the last two weeks, we also had two plugin releases. One was 3.2 and the other one was 3.3 and we will cover them both today. So let’s get started. So Gutenberg 3.2 was released on May 11th and it had a few new features in there.
\n\n\n\nOne was the new preference, persistence API, and we are also happy that it’s there. Now. It saves now the editor preference in user meta, not in local storage anymore for that the preference handling needed to be revamped before. So we talked about it a little bit in the last episode, but now it’s here in Gutenberg 13.2. So you won’t see the welcome guide. You dismiss the welcome guide and it will remember on the site. If you prefer the top toolbar, it will remember. And if you don’t like the full screen anymore, it will remember, but only on a site basis. So you can access the same site over and over again. And the user settings will be there for you.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. It might be also per editor screen. I mean, if you are on the edit site page might be different and on edit post page or widget page could be different. I don’t know, because I didn’t play with that, but I would expect that to happen this way, because in the past, those changes were independent, but it’s a huge change. We waited for so long to make it happen. It wasn’t a trivial task, but we finally have that. And it’s a huge improvement for all users.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, definitely for new users and long time users. Yes. I probably will miss the welcome guide popping up once in a while…
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: And you can always enable it. There is a setting.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. So in that version also received a visualizer for the panning and margin of all blocks. So when you use the dimension settings of your block, blue outline appears on the screen around the block and expands and contracts, depending on the width of your padding and your margins. And that is really helpful for people that don’t know what padding and margins are, but they know they want the distance and they want the distance inside or outside. Yes.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: The other change was for the comment query loop. So there is a new block, which is post comments form. And the idea was to reach the alt experience. When on the post page you would have comments section, which usually is a list of comments and there is also the form. So the form was missing. And now inside the editor, you have something that isn’t interactive, but just presents a preview of what you will see on the front end. So it’s on the front end, of course, there will be interactive form that you can use to comment on the website, which is a great change. And that brings the feature priority with the old approach that we had in WordPress 5.9 with the post comments block that is now hidden from the insert it’s still there.
\n\n\n\nBut the idea is just to combine those blocks together in the future. So depending on what you use, what the team prefers, whether the new version of the comments log which allows you to move all the pieces around the rapid with group blocks, with all the blocks you can imagine within its template. And the old one is still based on PHP functions that all team authors know from the past, you can provide your own template with template PHP file. There is a lot of hooks, all the things. So I’m looking forward to see that combined to have a full experience for all the use cases we have for the classic blocks and for the new blocks.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: No, it’s wonderful. And I, there were about 10 new blocks coming to 6.0, with a common section. And this one, unfortunately it didn’t make it, but it’s coming then in 6.1.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: No we made it, it was so important to bring the same experience that we added that, that was still during beta phase because, the release happens, but that change was already one or two weeks ago so that there was still time to include that.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Oh, okay. Excellent. So there’s a full common suite. Suite of blocks for, for the common settings for themes and templates.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. It also came from user testing during beta phase that people were complaining that they cannot replicate, their old designs without this block.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. So makes sense to backboard it to 6.0 yes. So we talked about the next version of the quote block and the next version of the list blocks are in experimental stage and you have to switch them on through the experience menu item on the Gutenberg plugin. And now with this release, the quote block version one now has the feature that you can exit the block just by hitting enter we know this from other blocks that works here with the list you have to hit enter twice, out of the block and then a paragraph block and the code block has now too, before you actually had to physically get out of the block by using the mouse or hitting tab or something like that. Yeah. So that’s really good. So explain to me, Greg, I’m glad you’re here. Explain to me, so I’m at the block API section where now it’s allowing the custom domain path for the view scripts, assuming that’s through register that’s for blocks and that you can have a different path than before.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. So that’s coming, if you ever build the theme or plugin, there is this domain pet metadata field that you can provide. It’s just when you are using translations, there is a default folder for that inside every WordPress, but as an author of the theme, you can generate all the translations yourself and put it in every folder you want. So because plugin, authors and team authors use that, we added a change that allows to provide the same type of functionality when you are registering view script, it’s mostly for plugin and team authors. And when they, if they want to have some special JavaScript code that is for many blocks, they add additional functionality, then it’s going to be useful.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Excellent. So I know there was something important, but I couldn’t explain it. Thank you. What’s also in 13.2, is that the style engine now added typography and color to the back end for the editor so you can, can add it to the block styles and is it for the blocks, Jason, right?
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. As far as I know the study in gen, at least at this stage of development, it’s mostly about extracting existing code to something that in the future could evolve into something more sophisticated. So it’s more on the refactor side for now, but it’s a preparation for bigger things that we have planned for the future with having unified of way of the handing styles for blocks on the PHP and JavaScript side to ensure that it’s the same on both sides and in the future, we can do interesting things, we will cover that probably with the next release, it might be going in the next release. So one of the changes that recently landed in the Gutenburg is that because of the style in gen, you can only serve CSS styles for blocks that are actually displayed on the page, which is mind blowing that you can can think about all the savings you have because of that, because you exactly know, not only the blocks you used, but also what type of styles were enabled for those blocks.
\n\n\n\nAnd I think that’s the biggest win for this whole refactoring.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. There’s a whole discussion about, is of one of the implementation about standardizing, how themes interact with the styling of the blocks and as well as plugins. And I think that’s also necessary to standardize that in terms of when, when plugins want to introduce new blocks, they need to be able to use the variables that are introduced with the theme JSON file to just seamlessly integrate with, with an existing theme. Yeah. So what’s, I’m really sad to see that go. But what was removed was the experimental PWA support for the WP admin, which pretty much was playing around with the idea that you might get an offline and still would be able to write your post and manage your site. There was an experiment by Ella Van Durpe I think. And I think it was a good experiment, but it wasn’t pursued any further because of course, had other priorities.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: But there is PWA plugin from Google and you can also check it out and it has a lot of similar functionality but for the front end, which is also a nice thing.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Excellent. Yeah. And I will dig that up and show it in the show notes link in the show notes, the Google PWA plugin.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yes. And one interesting, I think from the release and being on the team, so together with Adam Janinski, we work on several improvements to the workflow of bringing code from the Google plugin to WordPress core. And we are using NPM packages as a way to share code from Gutenberg and use that directing core. And we introduce a change in workflow that is automated with GitHub actions. So if someone is using GitHub and actions that they know how powerful those tools are. And now we are tagging for the WordPress major release those packages and we can easily update all of them, by using only the distribution tax, little change in the code, but it simplifies so much things inside WordPress core and how the code is shared between those two code bases, which is quite interesting. Someone wants digging into strategies for managing deep projects. I recommend that reference.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. you should write about those little tools or little ideas that make such a difference on the release of WordPress, because I can see.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Oh yes.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: That other people can really benefit from that. But I think it takes a little bit more strategic approach than just a PR that it has been in the release. Yeah. And the Gutenberg release. So that would be really great.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah, it’s interesting because usually the code you need to write is the easiest part because all the tools are so advanced these days, Github has APIs tools for that. And so it’s not an issue to code something. The issue is to come up with all the steps, what needs to happen after what, so it works together. So we definitely will be updating documentation for the release team for future releases, how we use the tools we improved and yeah, also for NPM packages, that’s also something I plan to write to describe how the process has changed with this release and to benefit everyone.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, definitely. So I found with the release that quite a few things have been done by the same people over and over again. Yeah. So the documentation is kind of the shortcuts for them, but if a new person would step in, then it kind of needs a little bit more flesh and strategy kind of yeah. High level information in there. Yeah. So what’s again, is there anything else in Gutenberg 13.2, we wanted to talk about? I guess that’s it for 13.2 and we are going right into Gutenberg release 13.3, that was released yesterday. Ryan Welcher wrangled the release over the finish line and posted the release notes. There are comments from 55 contributors among them with their first time contribution. Yay.
\n\n\n\nThat’s really good. I was really amazed at the 6.0, sorry. Just digress again. Those WordPress 6.0 release was interesting that there were also 25% of the 500 plus contributors when new contributors, they had never done this before. So it was very interesting. It wasn’t, as I think previous releases 5.8 and nine were a little bit higher, but still, that’s a very high number of new contributors and…
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah, the number of contributors is really interesting thing we know for Gutenberg about people who contributed with scope. It’s now over 900 people and, it’s only code and there’s so many more people that help with testing with finding issues, trying to, provide designs, documentation. That’s a lot. And for core, we don’t know the exact number for all releases because we have core commuters. So which is a smaller group, like 60 or 70 people only. But I would love to do to get the exact number of people who ever got props for WordPress core, that would be a huge number.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, must have been in the tens of thousands of people there.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, and you said it right. It’s not only those people that commit code, but it’s also those who, who argue about the best features, how to approach it. Yeah. and comment on things or review PRs or patches. So yeah. It must be a huge number and it’s still a huge number if you also consider the people that write documentation, the people that organized meetups, the people, they alone, 780 meetups in the world. Of course, the last two years, they were a little bit crippled because of the pandemic situation, but they will come up again and organizing months over months of meet up Wordcamp meet up, Wordcamp organizers that it’s just really amazing, people that test things. There are 20 different themes on make.wordpress.org that people could join and see what they can do.
\n\n\n\nSo if you want to do something, just a little pitch here, it’s the end user documentation team still needs writers. They triage a lot of things and all in GitHub now where you can look for the first night issues, good first issues that you could start writing and help beef up the documentation. And if you are interested in doing just that, feel free to write to me or ping me on slack or on Twitter. And I’ll have you get onboarded on that.
\n\n\n\nWell, let’s dive into 13.3 release. So the first thing is you can now transform a cover block into a media text block and keep most of the design too. And that’s fantastic. Because sometimes you want to do that and you couldn’t. So you had to delete the cover block and start all over again.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. It’s really intriguing how far you can go with transform these days and also how block adjust, because now it’s not only content, but also a lot of styles and those styles are also, taken from one place from version to another, which is quite a complex thing to do.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. I tested it in WordPress 6.0 there is this feature where you can transform from a paragraph into a quote block or a list block. And it also keeps background color and text color. And it is really amazing. Yeah. And this transformation from cover to media text did not make it, but it’s now in the Gutenberg plugin,
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: I’m a little bit surprised to see that, but also it’s a great news that table of contents block is back in the Gutenberg plugin. I mean, it was disabled at some point because it’s hard to sell. I mean, it wasn’t ready for pride time for some reasons, but now it’s back and it’s still experimental. So that means it still needs some testing, but it’s really nice, especially for posts where you have a lot of headings because it automatically generates tables of contents, how the name says. And because of that, you will have a nice overview of what’s inside the post. And it’s also super handy to be able to go to the section when the post is very long. So that should have a lot of usage on some websites.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And it automatically detects your headings and creates if they’re not already in there anchor links for them. That’s how it works. So you could also use the same anchor links if you want to link from outside of the post, into the post to a certain section. So that’s definitely a nice side effect for that. And it also does it, if you have on page breaks, it detects the heading over all the pages. And it also can jump from two headings that are on subsequent pages for that post. So it’s quite sophisticated in the feature set. One feature set that I’m actually missing is that it automatically creates the table of content as a numbered list. And I have never used a number table of content on a website. So it was always in a bullet list, but I cannot change it back into a bullet list.
\n\n\n\nWhat you have to do is to kind of create a static block out of that. And then it does a bullet list. But it does not update anymore when you add a heading. So then you have to delete it and start all over again. So that’s a little bit cumbersome, but I think I will file a feature request for that to have it as a real feature I advocated for it, but it didn’t make it in the first version. So what’s also interesting actually in this release is that the post terms, you can now add dynamic variations for custom taxonomies. So when you have the post term block, it kind of also lists every taxonomies that are registered with your site. And then the other part, what I really like is that query loop block now has a parents filter.
\n\n\n\nSo when you’re working with, with a page, you can now use the parent filter to display content from the children of a particular parent page, which eliminates the need for a plugin again. Yeah. I think I need to count all the plugins that I have that I won’t use anymore because work has it built in, and the place on a list of the sub pages, or you can, even if you have featured images with it, you can even make some nice cards with that on the parent page and show up the next subsequent pages. At the agency. We had quite a few requests for that because some people couldn’t rock the post kind of post page thing and they always want the pages that’s so static. They never change, but you want them a different path of discovery and not just through the navigation menu, but also through imagery on the page where it can say, “okay, now you go here, then here and here and here,” it’s really interesting.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. It’s also, the way query loop evolves and how many new features gets with every plugin. It’s really interesting to follow.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: So let me ask you this, are teams working, or is a team working on the idea that you have a developer ahead who wants to kind of modify the query a little bit more granular than just what you offer through the interface, kind of handled SQL statements or something like that.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: So to also support SQL, I don’t think that it’s on the roadmap mostly because it’s way too complex and you still can go and code yourself something very custom if you want to right? So it wouldn’t be that hard to replicate, maybe let me put it this way, replace the server implementation of the query loop, the wrapping block and provide your custom query from that. That’ll be much easier in my opinion than allowing users to start filling with as well and all the square injection, vulnerabilities and stuff like that.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. I hear you. It’s a small thing, but in the new version, you now have tool tips on the split border radios control. So when you’re in the sidebar work on the border radios, you actually get tool tips where you are actually working on it. Is it the top part of the border or is it the left or the right part or the bottom part? And that’s really some quality interface and you can actually have a radio separate. And I didn’t know that, it’s kind of here now. You can have a radius control just for the left border. Yeah. It’s a little round, but the other three, they don’t have a radius at all. And it makes for nice, interesting forms. Now you can do this with Gutenberg in there.
\n\n\n\nAnd I also like the color controls are now merged with a dropdown component that is a little bit more helpful. It shows when you change the background color to a gradient, it now also shows you in the sidebar when you just open it, what is the current color? And it also shows the gradient instead of just the breakdown color. And you surprised that’s not the background color that I had. It’s a gradient. And now you see it all. But the color panel has gotten quite complicated as well. With the same with you click on it and then it comes out and then you have two tabs on there, one the solid color, then the gradient color. And then in the gradient, you can then change the radius and it’s gotten quite complicated. And I can see that certain things take a little longer or need to be tested first with one block before it’s rolled out to the other blocks yeah. But that makes also for sometimes it’s not consistent over all the blocks.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. But it also makes a lot of sense to combine all those related tools into one. So the sidebar is not so overwhelming for users. So before we had many colors, if you would open that, a year ago, that would be all those things that you see now in this tool table dropdown, they were inside the sidebar, it’s just the necessary step to organize all that better.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. I like that curation of settings, then there is for each section heading for the color there’s on the right end side, sometimes a little too subtle, the three dot menu where you can also switch on and off some features. Yeah. By default, you only see the color for the text for the background, but when you click on the three dot menu, you also see that you could actually manage the link color, but it’s not offered for every block, but you can switch it on if you need it, for instance, for a quote block or for a list block. But sometimes you need to kind of really go beyond the obvious and click on that three dot menu to find additional features that you knew were there before, but now are a little bit hidden. Yeah, that is…
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yes, but if you are a new WordPress user, I’m curious how it works, because it might take some time for people to discover that the three dots actually allows you to enable more controls or remove the controls that are there, but they don’t like.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. So the same…
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Feeling of similar changes, there is one, I would say big change because the block list, the thing you see on the sidebar, but the other side, the one we were talking was on the right side. But on the left side, you can see all the list of all the blocks that are on a given page or template. And that’s very important for the editing experience, especially for templates where there’s a lot of nesting involved. And now there is an option in your settings to show openly view as default. So before you have to click a button to open that list, but you can just dock it and it’ll be there all the time.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. I really like that, especially. Yeah, you’re right. The list view is such an integral part working with templates with all the nested blocks. Yeah. So having that open all the time really cuts down on the load time of the editor and your work workflow when you work quite a few templates or even in, on a normal post. Yeah. But I don’t think that setting is available for the post editor. I think it’s only for the site editor.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. I don’t know about that.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. It’s only for the site editor it’s post editor. Well, has that too always open list view. Yeah. So I looked at the preference tables that were in the screenshots. It’s for both the post editor and for the site editor. Yeah. A lot of people ask me about that when I demoed some of the new features. So what else do we have?
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: There’s there is still no official post with all the change lock files. So we are using something that was prepared earlier. And so we might need to jump a little bit.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: To find other items that we have highlighted today. And one of the change is for the heading block. And now we have font family support there. So it was available in other places now it’s been enabled there for future party.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And a lot of people have been waiting for that our user can now change the font family for the heading block and not just the theme developer. And there’s also a enhancement for the gallery block, but especially for converting a classic block gallery into a gallery block to also include the image caption up until now it didn’t come over with it. So that’s definitely a plus for those who converting galleries to gallery blocks. Yeah. And the other two things that are highlighted here are actually part of the table of contents block. And we already talked about that. So I think we are through with that. Was there anything in the three 13.3 that you wanted to point out
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: There is a lot of items as you rule in the change logs from two releases. And also we discussed work 6.0. So I think we covered a lot today.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. But we didn’t cover all and we never cover all. So dear listeners, definitely check out the change log that will be on the make.Wordpress.org blog when it comes out as a what’s new in Gutenberg 13.3. Yeah.
\n\n\n\nAnd we are at the section, what’s discussed and what’s in the works that hasn’t been released yet? But it’s definitely top of mind and or discussed quite a bit. So there were some discussions on what keeps theme developers or agency developers who build themes for on taking, for instance, block themes or other features of the site editor.
\n\n\n\nSo those issues come up quite a bit, not quite a bit, but once in a while, and to have some ideas on what would be good for an agency. So one of them was that made it into WordPress 6.0 was for instance, that themes could register blocks. And I think Grzegorz, you were quite instrumental in that to get it fixed or get it implemented that although the recommendation says that blocks are the territory of plugins. But we heard from agencies that we are building custom themes just for that one site implementation that had additional cost also to deploy a theme as well as blocks in plugins to make it available for them. So that was one of the discussions that came out of…
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah, also the use case was that sometimes themes require some very custom design and this is a way for them to bundle a block that just is targeting that specific theme. And it wouldn’t make sense in all, all other places. And, but yeah, it’s not the recommendation blocks belong to plugins.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, but just because it’s technically possible, doesn’t have to be, you have to use it, but it’s available for those who really, really need it. Now, before they had each agency or each freelancer who needed it, came up with their own hacks to make that. And now it’s just the standard way of using register block type on the theme PHP theme.
\n\n\n\nSo to alleviate some of the adoption hurdles or blockers for adoption there’s now a new label on the Gutenberg rebuild called focus blocks adoption. And it’s used on the Gutenberg repo to identify those specific issues that if they would be solved, they could remove the blockers from adopting blocks or block themes. And I think it’s an interesting concept now to highlight those one of them is one issue. He got that label is by Fabien who has issues C7943 titled allow the usage of block based template parts without using block based templates. And that’s an interesting idea for classic themes that want to gradually adopt what’s possible now with the site editor also for their themes and how to implement that.
\n\n\n\nAnd part of it is already Grzegorz told me, and Ari has it in the issue is already available since 5.9. But what this particular issue is talking about that it also activate the site editor to edit those template parts without editing any other templates or sections.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. So idea was that if you have a classic theme, you can also provide a template part HTML file that will contain this template particular template part, and that worked, but you wouldn’t be able to edit that. But the proposal is to open the UI for the same, that is inside in block themes for classic themes, which is an interesting way might be a challenge. But the more we open those solutions for classic themes, the better everything becomes.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And it follows the narrative that Matias actually had when he joined us here at the show, after he published the preliminary roadmap of 6.0, when he said that all the things that come with the block theme are not there necessarily to replace how themes work. It’s more to expand the reach that classic themes can offer to their users or the site owners. And I really like that narrative because it kind of, has that new can come in, but in piece and bits and you don’t have to adopt it completely, it’s a gradual adoption. And even in two or three years, you still have a need for classic themes, but there might be a need to open that up for some of the user controls or for the site owners controls. So yeah. Block themes are not replacing or making themes totally redundant. It’s actually opening up the whole place for new things.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: It also opens an interesting world where you have a block theme, but you’ll like it, you could switch to the classic block and still retain template parts that you build in your previous theme, it’s WordPress, everyone can do whatever they like.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And now you can do even more and you didn’t know that you liked it. Yeah. Like gradients.
\n\n\n\nSo then another discussion that came up now that 6.0 is out Matias Ventura, the lead architect also updated already some of the tracking issues. And I’m sure there is a new blog post in the making in outlining the roadmap for 6.1. But he already has a site editor and template roadmap tracking issue about 19 tasks. And that’s about the site editor and how to create template and template parts changes to the interface or updates to the interface to make it for impossible, to edit a template part properties and focus mode. What is a focus mode? It’s another way of seeing the editor. There’s also a browse mode coming to the site editor that you look at it from, you just browse the designs, but you’re not editing.
\n\n\n\nSo yeah. And other things like restricting block editing capabilities, we talked about the block locking at the beginning of the show that comes in 6.0, and that is now that needs to be expanded on. You mentioned that it needs to be role based of course, but also you probably want to lock down the editing part of a footer or header that people can edit it. Not just remove it or move it, but also not edited that is still missing.
\n\n\n\nSo there are quite a few in this tracking issue, hints of what’s to come. And if you’re curious, we of course share the link in the show notes and what he did for template for the site, edit 10 templates, roadmaps Matias Ventura also published a global style, ongoing roadmap that he updated. And that covers some of the style engine that we talked about. If you want to learn more about it, also the main interface for making changes to the global styles, browsing styles, without having to edit things, web fonts that would just have the web fonts for the style variations right now. But the big part of the web funds API didn’t make it into 6.0, but it will hopefully make it into 6.1.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: Yeah. Also interesting discussion on Twitter where Matias were involved about the future of web phones that maybe openverse could host some web phones and having those open source version of phones, integrated with the WordPress for everyone. That’s also interesting perspective and general openverse opens so many new ways of reusing content created by other people, which is images, videos, music, and whatever… Phones. That would be another way.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, and color palettes would actually be also quite interesting. Yeah. So you can swap out the color palette of your theme and just by bringing it in from the openverse. Yeah. Oh, did you see that there’s a new contributor batch if you added photos to the openverse, to the WordPress photo directory, you can now see that on your profile. Open verse open so many different things for WordPress. It’s amazing, yeah.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: I already have this batch. I just checked.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah me, too
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: I Uploaded two photos.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. I think I uploaded four or so but yeah, it doesn’t matter. It’s a contribution and it will be honored. Yeah. So you have the site editor, the template, the global styles tracking issue. And then the last one is pattern as the section elements. That’s kind of the next phase for patterns and interesting proof of concept there’s first a tracking issue. And then James Costa has quite a few little videos and what he kind of considers as a browse mechanism for where you can browse through certain block patterns for the header, for instance, but you see the full page and that will make working on their site so much easier when you’re actually not only just looking at that section, that’s visible in your screen, but you can see the full page. And that’s also available for posts, for instance, or for pages that you create. So there are quite a few things in the works that hopefully make it.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: It, the idea for those sectioning element is really interesting. You mentioned that you can just have the recent exploration is to have zoom out mode. So, you focus on the header and then you get ways to quickly switch the versions of this header by using block patterns or maybe pre-existing template parts, and you just use arrows or something else depending, or how you use that. And how’s going to maybe implement, and it just quickly switch to another version. Another, until you find something that clicks for you, but it’s inside the page. It’s not that you open a model, then you see only just some preview of these things, but you exactly see how it fits to your website.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah, and so we will share the links to those comments and PRs in the show notes. And if you’re interested in where things are going, definitely look at those and see what it does for you. And if you have ideas, how it’s made better or what does not look right or how it can be augmented. Yeah. Chime in now is the time because now people are working on it. And the last discussion that I wanted to point out is that during the FSE program Anne McCarthy did a hallway hangout to talk about the FSE programs and how it works and all that. And then there’s an issue created or it’s not an issue, it’s a discussion post on the developer experience category on the GitHub discussions. And what the full site editing for agency use case is what are the existing features that work that are available and then what are missing features.
\n\n\n\nAnd then as well as the features that can be improved, for instance, as a missing features, it identifies the robust permission system for the template editing, as Grzegorz mentioned earlier, or another one is allow editing for only template parts or only specific template parts, but not other parts or other templates that is much more granular. Another interesting thought was that WordPress inland CSS does not always respect the editor font sizes. That might be a bug, but it could also be that some of the mechanics don’t work as well.
\n\n\n\nBut that comes all out of a hangout meeting, which is a hallway hangout meeting is kind of an informal meeting of brains, people that discuss certain things. And this came out of it. I shared the hangout notes, hangout recap, post by Anne McCarthy, as well as this discussion at the GitHub repo. So for all you interested people. All right. So Gregorz, we are at the end of our show. I’m so glad that you were able to jump in for Mary Job this week and walk us through some of the things. Thank you so much.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: That was a pleasure to meet with you again and talk about Gutenberg.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yeah. And as always the listeners, the show notes will be published on Gutenbergtimes.com/podcast. And if you have questions and suggestions or news, you want us to include sent them to changelog@gutenbergtimes.com that’s changelog@gutenbergtimes.com. So this was it from me. Thank you for listening. Thank you for stopping by. I’m glad you were here and I will talk to you in two weeks. I say goodbye and goodbye, Greg, to you until I see you again.
\n\n\n\nGrzegorz Ziolkowski: You for having me, Birgit. It’s always a pleasure. See you goodbye.
\n\n\n\nBirgit Pauli-Haack: Yes. And come see us all at Wordcamp Europe. Bye bye.
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\n\n\n\nMullenweg had the vision for what WordPress should be, even before it had a name. It centered on extensibility, a hallmark feature that has made the platform as popular as it is today:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat should it do? Well, it would be nice to have the flexibility of MovableType, the parsing of TextPattern, the hackability of b2, and the ease of setup of Blogger.
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Although Textpattern, the interesting new publishing tool at the time, had everything Mullenweg might want in a blogging tool, he wasn’t sure about its licensing at the time. He decided to fork b2/cafelog, which lives on today in a different form as WordPress, thanks to its GPL licensing. Mike Little joined the effort and the rest is history.
\n\n\n\nThe highlight of this year’s anniversary celebrations is the wp19.day website created by David Bisset and his daughter Olivia Bisset, who also managed the project. WordPress users and contributors from all over the world left their heartfelt greetings to celebrate the occasion. Reading through, it’s easy to get a sense of the tremendous good WordPress has done for the world, giving so many a voice, a livelihood, and a chance to live their dreams.
\n\n\n\nThe wp19.day website also featured video submissions from WordPress enthusiasts. Although many first came for the software, the common thread among those who have stayed is the value of the community that has grown up around the project and the leadership it has cultivated. WordCamp and meetup organizer Joe Simpson said WordPress empowered him to take a leadership role in his local community.
\n\n\n\n“Our community here is nurturing – it’s a family,” Simpson said. “I’m excited to see where we go from here. Happy birthday, WordPress.”
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt Mullenweg also joined in the fun of celebrating the milestone by contributing his own greeting to the wp19.day project. In his video submission, he said it’s very rare for a 19-year-old software project and its community to not just still be surviving but actually thriving and “doing better than ever.” He thanked contributors of all kinds who have helped people find their way with WordPress.
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By Dan Knauss and David Bisset ![\"🗓\"](\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/72x72/1f5d3.png\")
May 27, 2022
It\'s the 500th issue of Post Status Notes and the Post Status newsletter coinciding with WordPress\'s 6.0 release and its 19th anniversary! ![\"🎂\"](\"https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/13.1.0/72x72/1f382.png\")
WordPress 6.0 “Arturo” was released on schedule (May 24th) with many new features and enhancements related to full site editing.
\n\n\n\nJean-Baptiste Audras offers some interesting stats for the 6.0 release as he\'s done with six previous releases — 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, not 5.8, and 5.9) so we can see compare them. Some highlights:
\n\n\n\nIt\'s interesting to see how national populations, the number of their contributors, and their total contributions are independent variables that can vary widely. Automattic‘s Jorge Filipe Costa from Portugal is in the top 20 by contributions, and Portugal ranks high despite having only three contributors in all.
\n\n\n\nSome standout individuals, like Sergey, George, Jean-Baptiste, and Jorge do an enormous amount for the project, and there are quite a few of them! It is ultimately a community effort.
\n\n\n\nNyasha Green interviewed Olivia Bisset about her work on wp19.day. Olivia is also an intern here at Post Status. (An enthusiastic WordPresser, coder, WordCamp speaker and volunteer, Olivia is slightly younger than WordPress itself.)
\n\n\n\nNewly posted to WP19.day: brief video greetings from Matt Mullenweg, Lindsey and Cory Miller, Syed Balkhi, Vito Peleg, much of the team at Yoast, and many others.
\n\n\n\nHari Shanker R passed along the news that regional WordCamps will not need to go through a proposal process anymore — they can directly apply to organize a camp for their region using the WordCamp application form. From now on, “WordCamp Central will evaluate the health of local communities when assessing a regional WordCamp application.”
\n\n\n\nBob Dunn has some nice, bite-sized tips on building WordPress sites from some of the speakers at the upcoming WordCamp Europe 2022.
\n\n\n\nThomas Fanchin at Weglot has a great post about his company enthusiastically embracing Five for the Future and becoming a WordPress Global Sponsor. He notes how much there is to look forward to in events, worldwide, in 2022.
\n\n\n\nWeglot has been sponsoring Juan Hernando, a WCEU organizer (among other things) and now Pedro Mendonça on the core Polyglot team.
\n\n\n\nJosepha Haden Chomphosy has taken a stab at defining activities that can be considered contributions to Five For the Future, and she is looking for feedback.
\n\n\n\nJosepha says valid 5ftF contributions should clearly benefit the WordPress project and not an individual person or company. Contributions related to creating or supporting (third-party) WordPress themes, plugins, or blocks “are critical to extending the reach and utility of the WordPress project,” but they are also in a “grey area.” Generally they shouldn\'t be associated with the Five For the Future mission or count toward corporate commitments to the program.
\n\n\n\nIn the comments, Adam Warner asked if completely free code like Contact Form 7 might be worth counting, and Brian Gardner asked about contributions to the Pattern Directory with Courtney Robertson chiming in about CC0 images contributed to Openverse.
\n\n\n\nWordPress.com has launched a new plan called “WordPress Starter“ for $5/month. It seems to be a the “in-between” option some were looking for earlier when the “Pro” level was first announced. The “Starter” level includes custom domains, additional storage, simple payment processing, and Google Analytics to the free option.
\n\n\n\nNotably, WordPress.com is increasingly being marketed as a web host for “managed WordPress hosting,” and it can claim to be the fastest on the planet.
\n\n\n\nJoost De Valk explains how optimizing search engine crawling can help save energy — and therefore the environment. Remember that search engines will crawl almost any URL they can find in your page source.
\n\n\n\nTom Greenwood shares some tips on reducing waste in web design. Even if you just stop autoplaying videos, that\'s a start.
Over at the Matt Report, Hanna Smith asks, “Can WordPress save the planet?”
It\'s good to see these economic and ecological concerns emerging more in the WordPress space. If you\'d like to take a hard look at the situation, try starting with the Stockholm Resilience Centre‘s Planetary Boundaries Framework (CC BY 4.0).
\n\n\n\nOne of Bill Gates‘ favorite authors, Vaclav Smil, is also worth a weekend deep dive. Smil is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst on the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba. His new book, How The World Really Works, was summarized nicely in the latest issue of Sentiers by Patrick Tanguay.
\n\n\n\nRob Howard asks what growth opportunities WooCommerce might see ahead as Shopify suffers a post-pandemic decline in its stock price and market share. Shopify will likely stabilize as pressure from Wix, Squarespace, and WooCommerce increases. Some would say — unfavorably — this is an “Apple-like” tactic. But Rob\'s right — there\'s an opportunity here for WordPress and Woo:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“Let Shopify, Squarespace and Wix duke it out for the low-end market, and do everything you can to help WooCommerce corner the market for higher-end, highly custom e-commerce solutions.”
There\'s also a good opportunity for a “build a store on a mobile device quickly” experience now.
\n\n\n\nCheck out the new Fruits platform — it seems to do just that.
\n\n\n\nWhat if something similar existed based on a trimmed-down WordPress install? Want a full store with custom features? Click a button, and it becomes the full WordPress + Woo experience ready for customization.
\n\n\n\nChristina Warren and Dan Knauss have similar thoughts about a Substack or Ghost-like distribution of WordPress.
\n\n\n\nThis recent Woo DevChat, with Zach Stepek, Till Krüss, and Carl Alexander is a deep, funny, and much more thoughtful (and generously, even inclusive) take on the age-old question “What is a WordPress Developer?”
\n\n\n\nTen years ago this topic was reliable clickbait for much wp-drama because it was often expressed as “who counts” or “who deserves to be called a Developer?” Will the real developers please stand up? Perspectives have changed and matured a lot.
\n\n\n\nMaybe today there is such a thing as a “No-Code Developer…”
\n\n\n\nZach, Till, and Carl\'s conversation is reminiscent of this 2015 post by Mario Peshev and the comment discussion it provoked. It\'s worth a read still, and so are the comments.
\n\n\n\nMaybe that\'s where Bob locked onto Site/WordPress/Woo “Builder.” I knew “Integrator” and “Customizer” would never be widely used.
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WordPress turns 19 today. And as I did my first draft of this podcast, I found myself redoing it. I have it all wrong.
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After a lengthy discussion, the Community Team has decided to make it easier for organizers to apply for regional in-person WordCamps. These are events that pull in a community from a geographical area larger than one city or metro area.
\n\n\n\nIn past years, WordPress Community Support (WCS) saddled regional events with numerous additional requirements beyond regular WordCamps, such as preparing a proposal and a minimum of three cities in the region hosting local events, with at least one having hosted a WordCamp.
\n\n\n\n“The Community Team has decided to simplify the guidelines for regional in-person WordCamps,” Automattic-sponsored WordPress.org community manager Hari Shanker said.
\n\n\n\n“Moving forward, regional WordCamps will not need to go through additional steps (such as writing a proposal), and can directly apply to organize a camp for their region using the regular WordCamp application form.”
\n\n\n\nShanker asummarized community feedback that influenced the decision to ease up on the requirements and move towards using common sense as guide for hosting regional WordCamps:
\n\n\n\nShanker emphasized that while guidelines are being simplified, it’s imperative that local meetups are presesrved when regional WordCamps are organized.
\n\n\n\n“Local communities offer more accessible ways to connect over WordPress, and more supportive pathways to participation in larger, more complex events,” he said.
\n\n\n\nOrganizers who are interested in starting up regional WordCamps are encouraged to continue developing local leadership and will be required to impose a strict, two-year term limit on lead organizers.
\n\n\n\nMore simplified guidelines for these events is particularly beneficial in Europe where many smaller countries find that regional WordCamps have a strong unifying effect for their WordPress communities.
\n\n\n\n“There is a reason that a ‘small country’ like The Netherlands is now in the top of WordPress contributors and companies,” WordCamp organizer Dave Loodts commented on the previous discussion. “It all started in the lap of all the previous WordCamp The Netherlands. Never underestimate the power of these kinds of events.”
\n\n\n\nShanker is requesting feedback on the proposal, particularly on what metrics should be in place to determine the health of regional communities. The proposed change has already started receciving positive feedback.
\n\n\n\n“Switzerland is like the Atlanta metropolitan area in term of population (8 millions vs 6 millions = ‘similar’) and about 10 meetup groups,” Geneva meetup organizer and WordCamp Switzerland co-organizer Patricia BT commented.
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Zach Stepek, Till Kruss and Carl Alexander have a conversation on how and if you can define a WordPress developer.
\n>> The post Woo DevChat, What is a WordPress Developer with Zach, Till and Carl appeared first on Do the Woo - a WooCommerce Builder Community .
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WordPress.com announced a new “Starter” plan today for customers that bridges the pricing gap between the free plan and its $15/month Pro plan. The Starter plan is $5/month and includes a custom domain name, along with 6GB storage, and the ability to use payment collection blocks (Donations Form, Premium Content, and Payment Button).
\n\n\n\nWhen WordPress.com rolled out major, unannounced pricing changes on April 1, slashing free storage limits, users took to the forums to express their profound disappointment in the controversial update and the company’s lack of communication around it. After receving overwhelmingly negative feedback, WordPress.com increased traffic and storage limits on the free plan before officially announcing it.
\n\n\n\nSeven weeks after WordPress.com began testing the waters with pricing changes, the company has responded to feedback about the wide gap between the free and Pro plans. Many customers were diappointed to learn that they would have to pay $15/month to have access to custom domain names, even though they do not need the commercial themes and plugins included in the Pro plan. Some users expressed that they felt “trapped in the net” with the pricing updates and planned to shift their sites to new platforms.
\n\n\n\nThe new Starter plan solves some of these customer issues but it is still partially subsidized by advertising. Customers on this plan and the free plan will have ads displayed on their sites. This is different than the legacy Personal plan, which was $4/month for no ads, a custom domain, and the ability to collect payments. The fact that the new Starter plan costs more but doesn’t remove ads is a point of contention customers mentioned in the comments on the announcement. It does, however, include Google Analytics integration, which was previously limited to customers on the legacy Premium plan and higher.
\n\n\n\n“The Starter plan is not meant to be a replacement for the old legacy Personal plan,” WordPress.com CEO Dave Martin told the Tavern. “Our goal with every additional pricing iteration that we launch will be to learn something new. The Pro plan and the Starter plan are two of many future iterations that we plan to experiment with.”
\n\n\n\nMartin also reiterated that customers on the legacy Free, Personal, Premium, Business, or eCommerce plans are able to continue on them.
\n\n\n\n“[If] you are happy with your current plan, we have no plans to force you to change,” Martin said. “You can stay on your current plan.
\n\n\n\n“Finding the right balance between the value that we deliver to our customers and the price that we charge in exchange for that value is something that generally has to be iterated towards. We plan to do just that.”
\n\n\n\nMoving forward, Martin said WordPress.com is aiming to do a better job at communicating important updates to customers.
\n\n\n\n“I made a mistake with how we communicated the pricing changes with WordPress Pro,” Martin said. “We listened to feedback from our customers, I took responsibility for it, and then we worked to correct that with this next phase of our pricing change. We’re constantly working to be better at communicating updates.”
\n\n\n\nIt’s interesting to see how WordPress.com is evolving its pricing in response the market and WordPress’ changing capabilities. Whereas the legacy plans leaned heavily on selling access to commercial themes, full-site editing has changed the game, giving users more customization power than before.
\n\n\n\nThe company is still planning to introduce a range of add-ons for the Starter plan to give customers more flexibility. It’s possible there will be add-ons for removing ads and adding more storage, but the company still hasn’t announced what they will offer.
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\n\n\n\nTranscript[00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox has a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, creating standards for WordPress’s CSS.
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\n\n\n\nBefore we start, I thought that I’d let you know that there won’t be an episode of the podcast next week. This is because I’m hoping to be going to WordCamp Europe. I’ll be there with my microphone, recording episodes for the coming weeks. If you’re going to be there too, it would be lovely to meet up.
\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today we have Mark Root-Wiley. Mark builds WordPress websites for nonprofits in Seattle, Washington with a focus on accessibility and usability. He’s a long time WordPress community member in Seattle and has previously helped organize WordPress Seattle meetups and WordCamp Seattle speakers.
\n\n\n\nHe maintains NonprofitWP. A free guide for people building WordPress websites for their nonprofits. And has a few free plugins available on wordpress.org.
\n\n\n\nHe’s on the podcast today to talk about why he thinks that it would be useful for WordPress to adopt some CSS standards. Over the years as WordPress’s evolved, the way that you implemented CSS was very much left to the individual user, themer or developer. You can do what you like, and that worked very well. After all, we all have preferred ways of doing things.
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\n\n\n\nMark thinks that it’s time for WordPress to lay out some simple standards, which are easy to understand, and if they became universal would save us a lot of time and head scratching.
\n\n\n\nHe’s not proposing anything radical. Just some basic advice for the most commonly used CSS. And it’s quite a compelling idea, which would need a lot of community buy-in, and possibly some top-down approval if it were to move forwards. It’s very much the kernel of an idea at present, but thought provoking, nonetheless.
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\n\n\n\nAnd so without further delay, I bring you Mark Root-Wiley.
\n\n\n\nI am joined on the podcast today by Mark Root-Wiley. Hello Mark.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:02] Mark Root-Wiley: Hello. Thanks for having me.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:04] Nathan Wrigley: You are really, really welcome. I always like to begin the podcast with a bit of orientation. I think it’s very important that the audience gets to know a little bit about our guests. Who they are, what their journey with WordPress is and so on.
\n\n\n\nSo although the question is a little bit generic, I’m going to ask it anyway. Please, just give us a little bit of a history about yourself specifically in relation to your WordPress journey.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:28] Mark Root-Wiley: Awesome. Yes, let’s see. It’s been a pretty long one at this point. I am a child of the web almost. So, even back in the middle grades, I was learning to make websites. And so, it’s always been my hobby and my passion. And so when I, when I went off to college and got a degree in sociology, of course, that was much less employable than web work.
\n\n\n\nSo, I looked around at all the systems and I had some jobs and internships where I was working with Joomla and Drupal. And so of course I ended up landing on WordPress. So since 2010, I’ve been here in Seattle, Washington where I build WordPress websites specifically for nonprofits most of the time, and so, my journey has really been that about serving clients, building custom themes doing some custom plugin work, but really like, deep in the world of WordPress for well over a decade now. And, I got to say, I love it and I’m not considering going anywhere anytime soon.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:19] Nathan Wrigley: Oh, that’s excellent news. Now the topic under discussion today is going to be CSS and in particular, we’re going to reference right at the beginning, an article, which was published by Justin Tadlock on February 22nd on the WP Tavern website. And it was called the case for a shared CSS toolkit in WordPress.
\n\n\n\nAnd we’re going to get into the nuts and the bolts of that in a moment because Mark, I think it’s fair to say, would like to see some kind of overhaul in the way that WordPress handles CSS. And as I say, we’ll get into what that means in a moment. But Mark, I know that you may not be able to lay out the history of CSS in WordPress perfectly for us, but clearly you believe there’s a problem.
\n\n\n\nI’m just wondering if you could give us any insight that you’ve got into the way that the legacy of CSS in WordPress has meant that we’ve got a problem where we are right now. What has been going on and where are we at now?
\n\n\n\n[00:06:15] Mark Root-Wiley: It’s such an interesting question, and I think if I had to boil it down to just one sentence answer, you know, it’d probably be there used to not be very much CSS in WordPress and now there’s a whole lot more. To really expand upon that, I think what has happened is, you know, it used to be that WordPress really only had a little bit of front-end markup that it would put out. There were things, HTML for menus, HTML for the search form, HTML for widgets and themers just sort of applied their own CSS to that.
\n\n\n\nMaybe in some limited cases, WordPress had a little bit of CSS that they were adding to the front, but really very little. And with the block editor, we saw the project looking to really empower users to be able to control much more design of the sites they build, through the WordPress editor interface.
\n\n\n\nAnd if you want to give people more control over the design, you’re going to be, at the end of the day, you have to do that with CSS. CSS is the language we use to make design on the web. And so it has just become much, much more complicated. And I think all software, you know, to some extent, right, it’s always evolving, but I think in our world of open source, that development process can be much messier and much more organic. And I think that that can be a benefit sometimes. But I think that maybe this is one of those instances where, right now there’s a lot of different ways for accomplishing, you know, similar types of CSS on the front end. Certain blocks handle their CSS in different ways.
\n\n\n\nAnd I think we’re just seeing that, you know, it’s been what, three or four years now of the block editor and there still isn’t really a strong opinion of sort of, this is the way that the block editor handles CSS and that has made it really hard for, people in my chair. I’m trying to make themes that are going to work every time I hit the update button on WordPress.
\n\n\n\nThere’s just more complex CSS. There’s more of it. It’s done in varied ways. With more code comes more complexity and, it’s time to try to bring some order to that complexity.
\n\n\n\n[00:08:20] Nathan Wrigley: So it’s a case of the project being older than it was 15 years ago. There’s more that’s been added on top. It’s like a layer cake. We’ve had update after update, after update and things have been added in and fiddled with. We’ve had complete turnarounds in the way the interface has been put together and so on Gutenberg and all of those kinds of things.
\n\n\n\nAnd, essentially we’ve now got something which you, I think it’s fair to say, you would like to have a bit of a reset. You’d like us to rethink the way that the CSS is handled. And you’ve got some ideas around that.
\n\n\n\nCould you give me, before we get into the weeds of it, could you give me examples of pain points that you believe need solving? And you can be as specific as you like, you could describe a particular website that you built and a particular moment where you realized, ah, there’s things that I wish were different. So pain points that illustrate well what the problem is.
\n\n\n\n[00:09:12] Mark Root-Wiley: Yeah, that is such a, such a good question. I think that in some ways, the WordPress 5.9 release gave us a brief set of examples that I think made things hard for a lot of us themers. What probably looked like fairly small changes to for instance, the HTML and CSS of the cover block.
\n\n\n\nThere was I think one class that was removed from buttons that told you about the orientation of the buttons, how they were vertically aligned. But when that was removed, suddenly all these themes that had written CSS styles where they needed to know the alignment of buttons on their site, they just stopped working because that class had been removed.
\n\n\n\nSo rather than even really an overhaul, I think it’s a lot more about refining the practices and making a public commitment to, in the future, we are going to include classes in all of these circumstances, so that you can rely on them.
\n\n\n\nWe are going to output all of our CSS rules with a certain specificity. It’s time for the CSS to sort of be better, organized, more consistent, and just communicated better. Which is not really an issue of code, it’s more matter of having standards for the project. If anything that’s really what I am hoping to see.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:24] Nathan Wrigley: You’re not the first person to suggest that this would be a good idea. It feels in the article, at least anyway, you, you make the point that you are standing on the shoulders of giants, really. And do you just want to give a shout out to some of the people who in the past have elucidated what it is that you’re trying to do? There’s several of them, but I think it might be nice to give them some credit along the way.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:46] Mark Root-Wiley: Absolutely. Yes. I completely agree. I hoped that when I wrote my big blog post, this proposal that I know we’re going to talk about. What I see as one of the strengths is that there’s very little original thought in it. It’s really trying to bring together all these other great ideas from other people.
\n\n\n\nI think it goes back to, and I think you can still find it, the theme user experience standards, or TUX that came from Automattic’s theme team. And I think they have an example we should talk about in a little while. So, I owe a lot to them. Rich Tabor, I think about two years ago had some really awesome posts about what it would mean if we could standardize how we named font sizes, how we named colors and how we handle spacing and WordPress.
\n\n\n\nI think that’s a critical thing that we really do want to make happen. That’s something that I would love to see. And then, I think if you’re just tooling around on GitHub and following, you know, people who are filing issues and the Gutenberg repository, or writing about it. I certainly think Matias, one of the lead developers of the Gutenberg project has written really, really smart stuff about CSS.
\n\n\n\nAnd there were also I think, a couple of like small folks I want to give shout outs to. Louis herons on Github, talked about having a theme block contract. Things that themers can count on for blocks, making that contract. I love that phrase. I think that is super important. And I think also, uh, Andrew on ocean has written about needing different layers of CSS. And I really liked that idea too.
\n\n\n\n[00:12:11] Nathan Wrigley: Well, thank you. Hopefully, they’ll be listening in and they’ll acknowledge your acknowledgement, which is nice. So the idea really is you want there to be some sort of overarching structure. You want there to be some sort of consistency in the way that things are handled, and that WordPress Core would make moves towards that.
\n\n\n\nNow this is probably something that you’re going to have an opinion on, but there are out there already, all sorts of different ways of handling CSS. Frameworks, and what have you, you know. Just off the top of my head written a couple of down here, you know, you’ve got CSS Grid and Bootstrap and so on, but I’m pretty sure that that’s possibly not the approach you want us to go down. You don’t want to bolt those into WordPress Core?
\n\n\n\n[00:12:52] Mark Root-Wiley: Definitely not. Yeah. I think that WordPress has never taken a really strong position on like, this is how your theme code has to be written, and if you’re going to pull in an entire CSS framework like Bootstrap or Tailwind, that’s way more opinionated. That would be very limiting to anyone who didn’t want to do things that way.
\n\n\n\nSo, I think, when I sat down and really thought about like, what is it that I as a themer want. What it was is really baseline standardization more about just making sure that all block HTML and block CSS are done in a similar way. So that they’re, they’re sharing styles, they’re sharing CSS classes.
\n\n\n\nI think that there is also a ton of power if we can just standardize key styles that every site is going to need. So colors and font sizes. The amount of space between elements, things like that. But certainly not going as far as something like Bootstrap where there’s, gosh, sliders and drop down menus and modal dialogues and all those things.
\n\n\n\nIt’s not at all about that. It’s really, I think the word I really settled on is it’s, it’s a toolkit. It’s providing more tools that all theme developers, all plug in developers, we can all use and share, but we still get to choose how we use them and how much we use them. So that, if we want to play nicely together, you know, those tools are available, but we can still choose to do things in our own way where it makes sense.
\n\n\n\n[00:14:18] Nathan Wrigley: We mentioned at the start that there was a WP Tavern article, which in turn was written because of something that you wrote and I’m going to include everything that we talk about today as far as possible in the show notes. But if you wish to pause this podcast and go and read Mark’s piece, it’s called standardized design tokens and CSS for a consistent, customizable and interoperable WordPress future.
\n\n\n\nYou’re going to find that over at There’s no, no hyphens or anything like that. It’s just M R W web.com. That outlines everything that Mark is talking about. And so that really frames the conversation that we’re going to have from this moment on.
\n\n\n\nNow you mentioned that you wanted some sort of standardization. Presumably if that’s the case, you believe that the standardization at the moment is lacking. It’s messed up. It’s a muddle for people to create things. Everybody’s using their own different ways of doing things. Just kind of outline the specific problems about fragmentation versus standardization. What is it that you’re trying to overcome? What are the problems in Core that we’ve got at the moment? Things that need amending. Things that possibly need creating or uncreating?
\n\n\n\n[00:15:35] Mark Root-Wiley: Yeah. I’m going to answer your question and I think I want to like start us maybe five years in the future and then walk backwards to get there. in five years, I think we’re going to see a lot of sites that were built with the early years of the block editor.
\n\n\n\nLike now suddenly they’re needing to move to new themes. And so what does that look like? And, right now what we have are a lot of what I think of as kind of in the moment decisions that have been made. Both by the themer and the editor. Let’s take the theme or example first.
\n\n\n\nSo, the block editor from day one has always allowed themers to define named font sizes, right? So, they can call them whatever they want. A lot of themers have something like small, medium, large, extra large, I know. Justin Tadlock on the Tavern posted his extensively researched list of font size names that he likes. Definitely worth a read for anyone who hasn’t seen that.
\n\n\n\nBut I think the critical thing is that you can call them whatever you want. You can call them broccoli, apple, bicycle. You can call them seven forty, two ninety six, even if that has nothing to do with their sizes. And so what this means is that if we’re going to switch to a new theme in the future, if we switched to a theme that uses different names, all those font size settings that were set on the last version of the site are just gone. There is no bridge.
\n\n\n\nAnd so if we could agree to some like naming schemes, whether it is small through large, or even just 0 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Now, when you move from one theme to another, you’re going to inherit, the choices that were made by the editors of the site, and be able to keep content as intact as possible. And right now I think the systems that the block editor is giving us are not really encouraging that consistency.
\n\n\n\nAnd it hasn’t really bitten us yet. The problems I think are coming. And so when I talk about portability of content. That’s what I’m talking about is how, what happens when we move from one theme to another. And I think that when you make that process smoother, it’s because you have good standards and that’s going to benefit everybody, working all the time.
\n\n\n\n[00:17:41] Nathan Wrigley: So the idea then is that things would become more standard and hopefully the community as a whole would adopt some standards.
\n\n\n\nNow, although we haven’t discussed this in our conversation prior to clicking record, I’m curious about your thoughts about this. Do you have any expectation that this would be something that would be, if you like, top down, in other words, would this be something which you would like to just be reflected in documentation?
\n\n\n\nAnd it’s a thing that you could use, or are you looking for a framework for CSS where really there are standards, which must be adhered to. In other words, you don’t really get to choose. If you want to be a WordPress theme in the repository, then you must do it in such and such a way. And over time, you mentioned five years in the future, we slowly encourage people to become the writers of CSS in that way.
\n\n\n\n[00:18:38] Mark Root-Wiley: That is such a tough question. I think that I guess I’ll say a few different things. I mean, I think that whenever possible, it’s better to use carrots than sticks. And I think that, right now in fact, I think the theme dot json standard is a great one where, if you’re building, what we’re now starting to think of is like classic themes.
\n\n\n\nLike you can use the theme dot json it’s on, it’s up to you and you also get like a ton of benefits by doing it. So I think that if we had standards like this, there would just be tremendous benefits to anyone who uses them, because themes would sort of work more similarly and even, there would be ways where plugins could suddenly sort of start referencing theme styles.
\n\n\n\nI would like to think that maybe this could bubble up, and be, you know, a community standard that people want to buy in, but aren’t forced to buy into. At the same time, I don’t know what it’s going to take to get this moving. Standardizing semantic names is something, we could talk about it forever.
\n\n\n\nAnd so I know that I personally, like I put out, in my blog post, a bunch of suggestions for the names. I thought really long and hard about them. I have my reasons. And honestly, like if someone said, nope, we’re going to use this really weird naming scheme that I don’t really care for anyway, I would use it in a heartbeat. I think having standards is more important than the specific names of them are. And so I do think that, there could be some room for some top-down decision-making here. As long as it’s a fairly simple thing, and we’re not going to punish people for not using it.
\n\n\n\nIn WordPress land, you know, maybe that means we’re going to maybe throw some errors on occasion if you’re not using, some warnings, excuse me, not errors warnings. But no errors, nothing’s going to actually quit working.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:21] Nathan Wrigley: You mentioned in the piece that there are some recent issues They were obviously some kind of catalysts for you, where you thought, okay, these kinds of things are happening and it makes it pretty obvious that we need to rethink this. I’m just going to read them out, and maybe this will give some context to somebody listening to this.
\n\n\n\nYou say to quote, recent issues make the need for a consistent, transparent approach, clear. Classes that were previously present and used by theme authors have been removed in favor of inline styles. Okay, we’ll get onto why that’s bad. Inline styles are redundant, hard to override and remove valuable selectors for theme authors. New instances of important, let’s just say that, CSS rules catch theme authors by surprise. Markup changes to Core blocks were only announced after the fact.
\n\n\n\nNow, I don’t know if you want to take all four of those or just riff on generally why you think these are the core things which need to be addressed, but yeah, there’s obviously something in there that sparked your interest and made you want to create this framework, if you like. Let’s just talk about that for a minute. Have you got something to say around that? What is it that you’ve found problematic?
\n\n\n\n[00:21:27] Mark Root-Wiley: I certainly have things to say. I suspect that honestly, maybe it was just random, how many, how many issues in 5.9 there were that sort of just got my goat as it were. I think that this is maybe one of the areas where there has already been a little bit of movement actually, which is wonderful. So yesterday, was this day when sort of all the dev notes for WordPress 6.0 showed up on the make.wordpress.org/core blog, and it included a lot of announcements about some changes to things, that are coming in WordPress 6.0. And I think that that advanced notice, already feels like, maybe some of what I’ve been saying has been heard and, and that, that is really great to see.
\n\n\n\nSo, you know, there’s going to be some changes to like how images get aligned, the quote blocks CSS, some changes around the group block in the block editor. And, I’m really happy to see that communication. So I do think that some of these smaller things were addressed, but I also think that the fact that some classes disappeared and some markup changed and nobody knew about it, and like important CSS got added. If you ever want to like really get a bunch of people worked up about CSS, just start talking about important.
\n\n\n\nI think the fact that those all happened at once, I think more than any one specific issue, it just felt like, okay, there’s a lot of people changing a lot of things all at the same time and there’s no cohesive vision for we’re trying to take CSS in WordPress.
\n\n\n\n[00:22:47] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. So essentially you want there to be far less surprises in the way that things are released and also to have some cohesive framework that everybody can dip into and everybody understands because it’s been well-documented and everybody can buy into it. As you said, carrot, not stick, because it just makes sense.
\n\n\n\nThe article on the WP Tavern website had a very large amount of commentary on it. More so than anything I’ve seen in quite a while, to be honest, a lot of praise for the idea of what you’re doing. A lot of people saying, yes, we need this, we need this right now. And to develop it a little bit further, you are, you’re keen to get involved in a semantic approach.
\n\n\n\nNow that might not be obvious to everybody. So what does that mean? What is it you hope would come out of this? We may have a different vocabulary, in use in the end, but the idea is that we’re going to be substituting words or not as the case may be. So talk to us a little bit about that.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:43] Mark Root-Wiley: Yeah. I when I’m talking about semantics here, it’s really about can we establish shared meanings for some naming conventions within our CSS? So, back to the font size example earlier, if we can all agree that every time we name our font sizes, we’re going to call them small, medium, and large.
\n\n\n\nAnd every time we create our color palettes, we’re going to start with a primary color and a secondary color and maybe an accent color. Having that shared meaning, that’s what semantics are, is going to just provide so many benefits, and it’s also going to speed things up.
\n\n\n\nThere’s going to be less mental overhead, fewer decisions that themers have to make. There’s just tons of value there. Thinking back I had mentioned that the theme user experience standards were maybe the best spiritual forbearer to this kind of point of the proposal. One of the things they recommended is when you’re naming your menu positions to call them menu one, menu two, menu three, menu four. Maybe that’s not what I would have chosen, but I started doing it and I’ve done it ever since.
\n\n\n\nAnd what it means is that any time I switched one of my themes to another themes that uses that same menu naming convention, like, the same main menu just popped up in the header, right where I would want it to be without me having to update any settings at all, just because, our themes knew how to talk to each other.
\n\n\n\nSo it’s really about, can we make our themes and plugins talk to each other better and, ironically or, or appropriately, I think that just means we all need to do a bit more communication together in the project.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:10] Nathan Wrigley: Let’s get into weeds of the areas you think ought to be covered off, with some kind of framework. I keep using the word framework. I hope that’s okay. So for example, you mentioned fonts and you mentioned that the fonts might have things like small, medium, large, and that could probably extend up and down.
\n\n\n\nBut also there’s obviously other things in CSS that we would like to cover. So before we get into nomenclature of what those things might be, let’s just talk about the things that you want to cover aside from fonts. What other things do you think are so essential that we need to have a standard that everybody just understands?
\n\n\n\n[00:25:47] Mark Root-Wiley: Great question. So in terms of those kinds of like standard things that we should name, I think beyond font sizes, including font weights, because if you’ve ever used a font, you know, that some have nine or now in infinite number of weights. So we need a way to sort of have a standardized font scale. Colors and gradients I had mentioned.
\n\n\n\nAnd again, that’s something where WordPress already lets us name our colors and gradients. So let’s just agree to always call them the same things. I think font families. So what are you using for your copy versus what you’re using for your heading? And then I would love to also see maybe some border widths, and probably the biggest one that I am most excited about is let’s agree on one or a few named scales for spacing.
\n\n\n\nSo the space between blocks in a post, also the space between columns. The space between a gallery. If we can all agree on those names, then we can have a gallery with small space, a gallery with large space. And that’s just always going to look good from theme to theme, even though those values are going to be different and up to the themer.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:53] Nathan Wrigley: So aside from the fact that you would like to take into account things like font sizes and weights, colors, gradients, font, families, borders, spacing gaps, and so on columns and what have you. There would obviously need to be things that are associated with those, and you, you mentioned font sizes, small, medium, and large. Do you have some sort of insight into how far each of these go? Let’s for example take font sizes or weights? Well, let’s go for font sizes just for illustrative purposes.
\n\n\n\nHow far would you like to take that, and do you have a system for making it so that it can be extendable indefinitely? So an example might be, one dash large or something like that, or XL large or something like that. Just give us a flavor of how far that scale would go down as well as up.
\n\n\n\n[00:27:39] Mark Root-Wiley: Yeah, that’s a good question. So I think, if it were up to me, if I were making a top-down decision, I think I would just pick a scale of numbers. Either, you know, starting at zero or going up, or maybe even centered around zero with positive and negative numbers. I like the fact that you don’t need to know English to use a scale like that, and it is infinitely scalable.
\n\n\n\nI think the other scaling systems that a lot of people really like is what’s often called a t-shirt sizing. So instead of small, medium and large, we would just have S M and L. And the nice thing about that one is you can infinitely go in either direction.
\n\n\n\nSo XL, XXL, XXXL. It gets a little silly after a while, but you can do it. Some people like to say like three XL instead of XXXL. And you can do the same with XS, extra small. I will say that I think that when it comes to what WordPress should be standardizing, I don’t think it makes sense for us to say that every theme needs to have a 15 point scale for font sizes.
\n\n\n\nSome themes are gonna want three or five and that will be fine. I like to think of, of the 80 20 rule. 80% of needs out in the world can be satisfied by only 20% of the possible names in this case, that we could come up with.
\n\n\n\nSo I think that for something like font sizes, a seven point scale, maybe would probably meet everybody’s needs in terms of switching from site to site, and keeping things looking pretty good. Again, to go back to sort of like why I like to think of this as a tool kit. I wouldn’t want to ever say that themes can only have seven font sizes. Right. It would just be that if they want more than that, they’re on their own to go figure that out.
\n\n\n\nI will say that I did, I did a lot of thinking about this even after my blog post. And there’s, there’s a demo I put together that was showing how maybe we could even have a way of having really big scales that could kind of shift down to only a three point scale, or maybe you want to have a five point scale, but it skipped 0.4. I think there’s some clever things you can do with CSS custom properties that could allow that to happen. So you can find that demo in the blog blog post.
\n\n\n\n[00:29:38] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. I ran that demo. That was really useful to look at that. But let’s move on to colors and much, much more constrained there. You just want a handful really unlike font sizes, which there’s definitely more scope with colors. You just want a few basic standards that will satisfy most websites I guess?
\n\n\n\n[00:29:56] Mark Root-Wiley: I think that’s right. And I think that the more colors that we defined, probably the more disagreement there would be. What purpose does the fifth most important color in your palette have versus what purpose does the primary or secondary colors have in your palette?
\n\n\n\nAnd so I think that, especially for colors, I think it’s the best example where if you had a bunch of standards, they probably wouldn’t actually be that useful. So let’s just, let’s keep it simple, right? Let’s not, over-complicate this. Let’s make as few things we all need to agree on as possible. So hopefully we can actually agree on them and move forward.
\n\n\n\n[00:30:28] Nathan Wrigley: The font weights and the font size is obviously really dramatically changed the way a website looks. And if you switch from theme to theme and those get messed up, it really can look remarkably different. And you mentioned spacing, so gaps and columns and padding and margin and all that.
\n\n\n\nAgain, it can really catastrophic effect things. What was a very small space can become a gigantic gulf, given a change in theme and so on, and so I was just wondered let’s ask the basic question again. What kind of constraints are you placing on that? How many different things do you think you need regarding spacing and gaps and all of that? Are we looking at dozens of different options or just three or four?
\n\n\n\n[00:31:06] Mark Root-Wiley: My first thought was, we probably only need maybe five, and I think that that probably would be about enough. If someone wants to do a few more than that, that would be fine. I think that spacing is maybe a really good example of the other key reason why I would love to see themes like shifting to these scales, because right now, for the most part, when an editor wants to change the spacing, of something in their posts, they can, you know, set a specific margin value or a specific padding value.
\n\n\n\nThey can say, I want the top margin of this image to be 24 pixels. And they’re making that decision based on how their content looks in that moment, on their screen with that specific theme. Let’s say design trends again in five years are like really into white space. Maybe that 24 pixels is going to look super tiny all of a sudden. So if we can allow editors instead of having to pick a number and on the next page, they forget that they entered 24. And so they entered 20. And like now there’s just chaotic numbers all over the place. If we just say like, well, at the top of this image, I want to have a large margin.
\n\n\n\nNow, when they move to their next theme, it’s going to be not 24 pixels, it’s going to be whatever that is in the next theme. It’s always going to look cohesive. And so I think it’s really important to point out that it’s not just about standardizing the scales for theme developers, but I think if we provide these scales as options for customizing post content, we’re going to see editors just having to like not think so specifically, and that’s actually going to enable them to be more consistent, both in the moment and in the future, when they need to sort of switch their design.
\n\n\n\n[00:32:43] Nathan Wrigley: In a sense, you’ve read my mind because my next question was really about that because obviously your doing this for a living, you can probably come up with some naming system, some framework that works for you, and just keep executing that over and over again. But, that’s not the world. We live in the world where you’ll probably take over a website in a few years’ time that somebody else built, and it will be littered with CSS classes and CSS styling, specific to that exact one little thing on that one page and how on earth did that happen?
\n\n\n\nBut it did. And so you need to go back and unpick all of the problems. So there’s that. The developers amongst us have probably figured out a system for themselves over the years, and they’ve got something which works. But when you swap a website, when you go and take on somebody else’s work, the fact that there’s consistency and stability in the naming of things would really help.
\n\n\n\nBut then you mentioned the bit, which I thought was really interesting, about the non-technical users and having things in easy to understand, non-technical language that somebody can just get a hold on and okay. All right. It would appear that that thing, okay, might not be the most obvious name in the world, but right, it does that. And it seems to do that consistently over the site. That just makes sense for end users.
\n\n\n\nYou described them as editors, but it could be anybody touching the website who has the capability to edit things. They, they really don’t want to get involved with CSS. In fact, that’s probably their worst nightmare that they need to think about CSS. They just want a handful of things, easy to understand. A minimal array of choices. The styling decisions were made months ago, and I’m just happy to stick with them.
\n\n\n\n[00:34:17] Mark Root-Wiley: You probably described that bit better I ever could. And, I think it really gets to this, there are lots of strong feelings about, is WordPress maybe becoming more like a site builder? Is it forgetting about being a content management system?
\n\n\n\nI truly believe that I think it can be both. And I also think that a lot of the work, especially around full site editing right now, like it has that more site builder mindset. And so I do think it’s important to remember that not every person with a WordPress site wants that super, super, super fine-grained control.
\n\n\n\nYou’re right. I work with folks that just, they are busy professionals in nonprofits in particular. A lot of the organizations I have, you know, whoever is updating the website that is a teeny tiny part of their job. It’s probably not even in their job description at all sometimes.
\n\n\n\nThey don’t want to be thinking about pixels or ems or if they don’t even know what MSR right. Can’t I just have some large space. That’s all I want, right. And so I think that not only are there these like huge technical advantages behind the scenes, but I really do want to just call out that I think this could actually like, just bring some simplicity to the editor and like help people make good decisions without constraining them.
\n\n\n\n[00:35:25] Nathan Wrigley: It also provides some kind of muscle memory options as well, in that if you have been working with a WordPress website, let’s say you’re working for company A over here, and you’ve been working with a WordPress website, and you go to interview for another job and they say, have you any experience with WordPress website?
\n\n\n\nYeah, that’s fine. I can do that. Then you don’t need to relearn it over on this site though. That thing does. Okay, that wasn’t quite expecting that. That’s a lot bigger than I thought. It makes the whole process of editors moving from one website to another easier as well. So it just seems like a bit of a win-win.
\n\n\n\nNow having said all of that, we’re 15 years plus into the project. Everybody in the comments on the Tavern article seemed to think this was a cracking idea. You seem to think it’s a cracking idea, the likes of Rich Tabor, they think it’s a cracking idea. And yet here we are talking about it as an idea.
\n\n\n\nWhat’s holding us back? What is stopping this gaining momentum if it’s such a sensible idea? Are we, is the project too limited in time? Are we concentrating on other things? You may not have the answers, but you may have some intuitions.
\n\n\n\n[00:36:33] Mark Root-Wiley: I guess I would start with, this is, you know, a little off the cuff, just a theory, but I do think that the block editor is written in JavaScript. And so the amount of JavaScript in the WordPress project in the last few years has just exploded.
\n\n\n\nTo be really clear, that’s fine. You couldn’t build the block editor without that level of JavaScript. But I do think it means that a ton of the development is done. When people are thinking in terms of JavaScript, and I will say that, one thing that I’ve looked for and I don’t really feel like I’ve seen a lot of, is people sort of starting with, like, what do we want the output to look like? What is the ideal HTML and CSS to allow a user to select the margins of their images, you know, how do we want to handle that? And then build the interface that’s going to enable that.
\n\n\n\nIt feels like it’s sort of working the opposite way. If we’re worried about what is the settings interface going to look like? And then like, we’ll figure out what the code, to make it actually work on the front end is going to be last. I do think that maybe working backwards a little bit more frequent. What CSS do we want, and now how are we going to make sure that it can be created in a sensible way? I wonder if that would help, because at least to me looking, somewhat from the outside, it doesn’t seem like folks are working that way.
\n\n\n\nAnd now having said all of that, I think it’s mostly a people and a communication problem. And I think that’s just harder than tech problems, right? Give someone an infinite amount of time and by themselves they could build the block editor on their own, but they certainly could not organize an entire community to agree on what to call font sizes.
\n\n\n\nThat just requires folks coming together. And honestly like making compromises and, and trying to think about what’s best for the community and not just best for themselves. I think that’s really hard. I think we can do it. I think things like that have happened in the past. I do think that’s the fundamental issue and so I don’t, I don’t know exactly what’s needed though.
\n\n\n\nAgain, that’s why I do wonder, could someone maybe make a, a bit of an executive decision on this one and, and just try to say this is happening and we’re going to be taking comments for this long, and then we’re going to make a decision and roll with it because we think the advantages to having a system are bigger than the disadvantages to any sort of, in the weeds decision that might make it through.
\n\n\n\n[00:38:47] Nathan Wrigley: I wonder if it’s because CSS, of all of the different parts of WordPress. The HTML and the CSS bits, they’re the easy building blocks, aren’t they? They’re the bits that a lot of people can get hold of really quickly. And with a quick flick through some kind of 1 0 1 tutorial, you can get yourself up and running with the basics of font sizing and padding and margins and, and quickly gain an understanding of it.
\n\n\n\nAnd so everybody’s been left to their own devices on that. The theme may very well take care of all of that, of all of that for you. And you may need to adjust absolutely nothing. You’re entirely happy with the theme and you don’t dabble. But if on that one particular occasion, you just wished to change that one particular thing you want the, I, don’t know, the, the heading to be slightly bigger, you just fiddle about and locate the CSS for that and modify it, add something to a style sheet, so on. And it’s fairly straightforward and it can be done by more or less anybody on their own, but it doesn’t require any consistency. Naming what you like so long as it works.
\n\n\n\nBut your approach is, is slightly different. And yeah, it feels as if maybe it’s not got the momentum at the moment, but it feels like, you know, maybe with things like this happening, your initiative happening, people talking about it more, maybe somebody could take this on. And as you say, maybe at some point it does need somebody on high to make a decision executively and say, okay, we’re going to concentrate on this and it’s going to become important. But I don’t know that any of that is in the roadmap right now. So you may need to keep banging the gong for a little bit longer I think.
\n\n\n\n[00:40:23] Mark Root-Wiley: I actually, you know, I, I played a lot of percussion growing up, so I love banging a good gong. One thing I noticed is, you mentioned the number of comments on the Tavern post, I certainly got a few comments on my blog post and I published a, sort of a Github issue that the sister of the blog post and it got a lot of comments and, and I do think people are listening.
\n\n\n\nI’m not sure what’s required to sort of get some action steps. But, I will say that, what really made me think that, yes, I, I do think people are listening at this moment is there was a blog post, at this point, I think about a month ago, on the make wordpress.org/core blog called core styles and theme customization, the next steps.
\n\n\n\nThe gist of that post is basically like here’s a bunch of links to get hub issues, please go read them and leave your feedback. The speed of change in an open source project is never going to be what we want it to be. And I really do try to always remember that when I’m feeling impatient, which is certainly why I wrote this whole thing.
\n\n\n\nBut I do think that, it is important for folks to always be paying attention, always be sharing their mind, because I do think, at some point, especially if a lot of us keep talking about this, like some decisions will get made. And so, you know, make sure if you’re interested in this, make sure to go leave some comments on, on these issues and keep bumping them up so people can see that they are high priority for a lot of us in the community. I know it’s not just me.
\n\n\n\n[00:41:42] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it was quite interesting. The article that you mentioned, the core styles and theme customization, the next steps I was highlighting the bits that were basic replications of everything that you were saying. And quite a lot of the article got highlighted. Let’s put it that way. So it would seem that, on some level, there is movement here and people are definitely in agreement with you.
\n\n\n\nDo you have any insight into how this might get revved up and get more interest attached to it? In other words, are you willing to put your best foot forward and become somebody in the vanguard? Like I said, banging the gong. Or do you find that there’s probably a better way of, have you got any insights into where people could go if they agree with you and want to get involved to make this happen?
\n\n\n\n[00:42:25] Mark Root-Wiley: Gosh, it takes everyone in the community weighing in, I think that. One thing I’ll say is that, you know, I tried to get a lot of people to review my blog post and, even gives me advice on like, how should I publish it and who should I let know about this?
\n\n\n\nCause I think that if it’s just me it’s ineffective. It does need to be a community. And so, you know, I would say I would love to see other people sharing their own proposals even. I don’t know. I don’t even know if you want to include this part, I don’t think it can just be me.
\n\n\n\nI it’s pretty silly actually. I published this blog post and then 24 hours later, we had a new baby. I definitely had to fall off the face of the earth and disappear for a while, but I was so thrilled to see other people, saying like, yeah, this is awesome. And here’s the couple of things I have to add.
\n\n\n\n[00:43:08] Nathan Wrigley: There’s a whole lot towards the end of the article where you outline the different problems that your solution may solve. I won’t list them all now, but all of it kind of makes common sense to me. One can only hope that the ideas that you’ve suggested go forwards and that people, as a community, can coalesce and come up with an idea.
\n\n\n\nAnd as you said, you’re not bound to any one particular way of doing it. It’s just the mere idea of standardizing things, whether it be named this or that is not important, it would just be nice to have some standard documented that everybody can adhere to and therefore make it a lot easier for all of us to make websites, whether we’re building them for clients or we’re just editing and tweaking them ourselves.
\n\n\n\nOne of the concerns that we may have is the stability of WordPress CSS in the future. And I know that you have possible concerns that in the future, for example, Gutenberg blocks, there’s no requirement for the CSS, the classes, and so on to be the same today as it will be tomorrow or indeed yesterday.
\n\n\n\nSo in other words, is that a problem, do you think? Is there any problem of consistency where let’s say that you build something and you ship It, and it goes out to your client. It’s using blocks, but suddenly unbeknownst to you, the blocks CSS classes all get modified, perhaps ever so slightly, but enough to break things. Is that a concern that you have?
\n\n\n\n[00:44:36] Mark Root-Wiley: It really is. And I think that this is one of the biggest things I sort of learned from this intense period of engagement I’ve been having with the project is that, in discussing this with other people and really closely going through, uh, lots and lots of issues and the Gutenberg Github repository. I found some core development team members really saying that they viewed the HTML markup and the classes and how the CSS has written as essentially like non-public, which is to say you can’t count on this stuff not changing in the future.
\n\n\n\nThat was really shocking to me. And I think for a couple of reasons, I mean, th the first is that, you know, that’s never how it’s been in WordPress in the past. The HTML for the comment forum, the HTML for the search forum, like those weren’t always seen as, you can count on this, there are ways to change it if you need to, but if we’re going to change this stuff, it’s going to be a huge deal and you’ll hear about it in advance, and we’re really gonna try to avoid that.
\n\n\n\nAnd so it felt like, uh, that was a departure from how things had previously been. And also as I’m someone who I think follows the project, like more closely than average, even though I, you know, I’m certainly not like a day-to-day contributor, or anything, but this was huge news to me as someone who’s been working with the block editor for years now.
\n\n\n\nAt least to me, I don’t even really know that it’s reasonable to just say that like, well, here’s a bunch of HTML and CSS. Themers I know you have like your job to do and you need to make changes to this, but like, you can’t count on it. That doesn’t really seem fair.
\n\n\n\nAnd I certainly don’t think people are really aware of that. They’re not going to go in and one day, you know, completely change the image block or the block quote block drastically. I don’t really think they mean we’re going to just completely change everything. But I do think it just highlights the need again, to really spend some time focusing on what is the HTML that can serve as best going forward. So we don’t need to change it.
\n\n\n\nWhat are the CSS classes and the ways of handling CSS styles that we want to commit to now so that we can all just know what’s coming in the future. And so that when there are changes made, they are a big deal, and people are given lots of advance warning and they can, they can react.
\n\n\n\nAnd so I think I’m seeing more advanced warning in WordPress 6.0, which is awesome. It’s time to have that conversation about how can we just reduce the number of times we need to make big changes like that. Cause people are going to style HTML, no matter what.
\n\n\n\n[00:46:58] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. I wonder if it’s a product of the fact that the block editor is now basically a conduit to put in lots and lots of little components. So you might have a paragraph block and you might have a, an image block or a cover block or whatever it might be. You’ve got all of these different blocks and the functionality of that is not yet a hundred percent certain. In other words, aspects of it could change. And so I wonder if them communicating CSS will change is a product of that. They’re just not sure exactly what those blocks will look like in a few years time. And if they become radically different, maybe the functionality changes. Let’s hope it doesn’t. I’m sure it won’t, but if it did, some of the CSS may need to change. I don’t know.
\n\n\n\n[00:47:42] Mark Root-Wiley: I think you’re right on the money there. I mean, the block editor is so much more powerful and I want to be really clear that like, that’s awesome. Like the folks I work with generally, like love that they can do more complex things like columns, or like finally putting text on top of an image for the cover block.
\n\n\n\nThose are good things. And we had to have a more complex system to make that possible. So I’m not against the complexity, but I just think it’s really important that the folks who are building the product, don’t forget about those of us in the real world who, you know, have to make things work every day. And we have, we have new sites we’re constantly working on, the impact of even what can seem like a really tiny change can be really big.
\n\n\n\nTo bring it all back around, I really do think that if we can have just a few more standards and right, if we can have that kind of contract between themes and blocks, I think we can reduce the amount of times that those kinds of changes happen.
\n\n\n\nI totally acknowledge that they’re going to have to happen every once in a while. If we want to have this like big, nice thing, we’re going to have to put up with probably more changes. Cause there’s more things that can change, but, let’s really, let’s take a minute and figure out how we can make that as infrequent unpainful as possible.
\n\n\n\n[00:48:51] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. It’s interesting your language there. You described it as a big, nice thing. And in a sense it’s a big, nice thing made up of lots of smaller little nice things. Each of those little nice things is completely independent. And you may not use those on your website, but you may.
\n\n\n\nAnd if there’s modifications made to the CSS classes and what have you, the downstream effect could be pretty catastrophic. You know, if you’ve just built 50 websites and they’re all using the exact same block and some tiny little change affects you 50 times, that’s suddenly created a lot of work for you that potentially was not even thought about elsewhere.
\n\n\n\n[00:49:27] Mark Root-Wiley: It has. In some extreme cases, this is maybe the reason why some people are often building custom blocks that really they could just be using the core block, but I’ve, I’ve at least anecdotally heard that folks do that sometimes because they know that their block isn’t going to change, even if they don’t want to have to take the time to build it.
\n\n\n\n[00:49:44] Nathan Wrigley: If people Mark wants to find you. They want to actually reach out to you. You may wish to share a Twitter handle or a website or an email address. Totally up to you. Yeah, any place that you could be found if people are inspired to join you?
\n\n\n\n[00:49:58] Mark Root-Wiley: Yes. I am M R W web pretty much everywhere. So that’s, uh, MRW web with two W’s, uh, I’m MRW web.com. I’m M R W web on GitHub and Twitter and in the WordPress Slack and Post Status Slack. All these other places. I have a highly Googleable namee. If you want to come find me, I would love to hear from you I’m. I am not that hard to find.
\n\n\n\n[00:50:23] Nathan Wrigley: Well, Mark, thank you very much for being on the podcast today. I really appreciate.
\n\n\n\n[00:50:28] Mark Root-Wiley: Thanks so much for having me. This was a blast Nathan. Great, great questions. I got to say.
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\n\n\n\nWordPress 6.0 also introduces a new interface for locking blocks, which allows useres to prevent blocks from being moved or removed. It is useful for preventing accidental edits but also for theme developers who want to prevent users from removing blocks inside templates, preserving more complex layouts.
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[[ to quickly access the link menuWordPress 6.0 also introduces a gaggle of new layout controls for page building. Users can now control gaps, margins, typography, and more on multiple blocks inside a Group block. Creating layouts is easier with the ability to position groups of blocks by quickly switching between stack, row, and group variations. The Gallery block is now more flexible with gap support for custom spacing.
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\n\n\n\nTheme authors can now register patterns from the official Pattern Directory using theme.json, so that users have quick access to patterns the author has highlighted.
\n\n\n\nWordPress 6.0 introduces five new template options for full-site editing: author, date, categories, tag, and taxonomy.
\n\n\n\nOne of the most anticipated features of this release is the Style Switcher. It allows userse to apply quick style changes within the same theme, and includes the ability to further edit the font weight, style options, and color palette.
\n\n\n\nTheme authors can create multiple different theme.json style variations and place them into their themes’ /styles folder. Users will then see the styles under the Styles menu in the top toolbar of the site editor.
WordPress 6.0 is the product of collaboration from more than 500 contributors in 58+ countries. It introduces more than 1,000 updates and bug fixes, including many that make the platform more performant and accessible.
\n\n\n\nCheck out the 6.0 Field Guide and the release notes for a more detailed look at all the changes in the latest release.
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\n\n\n\nSay hello to “Arturo” and WordPress 6.0, inspired by Grammy-winning jazz musician, Arturo O’Farrill. Known for his influence on contemporary Latin jazz, Arturo has pressed more than 15 albums spanning a body of work across five decades.
\n\n\n\nTake some time to explore WordPress 6.0, built to help you unlock your creative aspirations and make your site-building experience more intuitive. And check out some of Arturo’s inspirational sounds that span Afro Cuban jazz, contemporary Latin jazz, and so much more.
\n\n\n\nWith nearly 1,000 enhancements and bug fixes, the second major release of 2022 is here. Download it now! As of today, WordPress powers more than 42% of websites worldwide.1
\n\n\n\nSite owners and administrators should upgrade to take full advantage of the many stability, performance, and usability enhancements today. WordPress content creators will enjoy a suite of new features geared toward improving the writing and designing experiences.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExpanding Gutenberg into a full site editing experience in WordPress means that all of the problems the community had to address were complex and far-reaching. WordPress 6.0 is an example of the community’s commitment to tackling these tough challenges together. With thoughtful updates to the writing experience, building better block functionality, and adding a new intuitive style switcher, I’m really proud of the work that’s been done in this release to make a great site editing experience.
Josepha Haden Chomphosy, Executive Director
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\n\n\n\nWriting improvements abound, whether you’re writing a brand new post or adding elements to an existing page. Explore more ways to streamline your content creation process, including:
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\n\n\n\nBlock themes now include the option to contain multiple style variations. This expands the new Style system even further and enables shortcuts to switch the look and feel of your site all within a single theme. In block themes that support this feature, you can change both the available settings, like the font-weight, and the style options, like the default color palette. Change the look and feel of your site with just a few clicks.
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\n\n\n\nWordPress 6.0 includes five new template options for block themes: author, date, categories, tag, and taxonomy. These additional templates provide greater flexibility for content creators. Tailor each with the tools you already know or with the following new options in this release:
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\n\n\n\nPatterns will now appear when you need them in even more places, like in the quick inserter or when creating a new header or footer. If you’re a block theme author, you can even register patterns from the Pattern Directory using `theme.json`, enabling you to prioritize specific patterns that are most helpful to your theme’s users.
Design tools grow more powerful and intuitive with each release. Some highlights for 6.0 include:
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\n\n\n\nNew keyboard shortcuts enable you to select multiple blocks from the list view, modify them in bulk, and drag and drop them within the list. List View can be opened and closed easily; it comes collapsed by default and it automatically expands to the current selection whenever you select a block.
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\n\n\n\nNow you can lock your blocks. Choose to disable the option to move a block, remove a block, or both. This simplifies project handover, allowing your clients to unleash their creativity without worrying about accidentally breaking their site in the process.
\n\n\n\nThis release includes several updates focused on improving the performance of WordPress. These enhancements cover a range of performance areas including improving the page and post-load speed, reducing the execution time of various query types, caching, navigation menus, and much more. The performance team working group is an important focus area of the core development team. For more information on this group’s work, please follow their work on Making WordPress with the #performance hashtag.
\n\n\n\nAccessibility is an integral part of the WordPress mission of fostering an inclusive community and supporting users of all types around the world. With this in mind, WordPress 6.0 includes more than 50 updates specifically focused on enhancing the accessibility of the platform. You can read about these updates and learn more about the accessibility initiatives that are ongoing.
\n\n\n\nSee WordPress 6.0 in action! Watch a brief overview video highlighting some of the major features debuting in WordPress 6.0.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExplore learn.wordpress.org for quick how-to videos and lots more on new features in WordPress. Or join a live interactive online learning session on a specific WordPress topic.
\n\n\n\nDevelopers can explore the WordPress 6.0 Field Guide. It is overflowing with detailed developer notes to help you build with and extend WordPress.
\n\n\n\nRead the WordPress 6.0 Release Notes for more information on the included enhancements and issues fixed, installation information, developer notes and resources, release contributors, and the list of file changes in this release.
\n\n\n\nThe group listed below tirelessly supported the release, from conception to ship date, and beyond:
\n\n\n\nWordPress 6.0 would not have been possible without the contributions of more than 500 people in at least 58 countries. Their asynchronous coordination to deliver hundreds of enhancements and fixes into a stable release is a testament to the power and capability of the WordPress community.
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\n\n\n\nBy release day, 76 locales had translated 90-percent or more of WordPress 6.0 into their language. Community translators continue after a release ensuring more translations are on their way. Thank you to everyone who helps to make WordPress available in 205 languages.
\n\n\n\nMany thanks to all of the community volunteers who contribute to the support forums by answering questions from WordPress users around the world.
\n\n\n\nIf contributing to WordPress appeals to you, it’s easy to learn more and get involved. Discover the different teams that come together to Make WordPress and explore the product roadmap on the core development blog.
\n\n\n\nWordPress is software designed for everyone, emphasizing accessibility, performance, security, and ease of use. The project believes great software should work with minimum setup, so you can focus on sharing your story, product, or services freely. The basic WordPress software is simple and predictable so you can easily get started. It also offers powerful features for growth and success.
\n\n\n\nWordPress believes in democratizing publishing and the freedoms that come with open source. Supporting this idea is a large community of people collaborating on and contributing to this project. The WordPress community is welcoming and inclusive. Our contributors’ passion drives the success of WordPress which, in turn, helps you reach your goals.
\n\n\n\nLearn more about WordPress and how you can join our community to help shape the future of the world’s most popular website platform.
\n\n\n\nSix-point-oh is here
Time to download and upgrade
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\n\n\n\n“One of the main objectives for OSI in 2022 is to reinforce our communication channels,” Maffulli said. “We’re improving the perception of OSI as a reliable, trustworthy organization. The OSI didn’t have a regular publishing schedule before, nor a content plan. Now we have established a regular cadence, publishing at least once a week (often more), commenting on recent news like a winning against a patent troll or court decisions about open source licenses, featuring our sponsors, and offering opinions on topics of interest for the wider community. It’s a starting point to affirm OSI as a convener of conversations among various souls of the open source communities.”
\n\n\n\nThe blog was launched on a subdomain of the opensource.org website, which uses Drupal 7, self-hosted on a droplet from Digital Ocean. It’s also tightly integrated with CiviCRM to manage members’ subscriptions, donations from individuals, tracking sponsorships, and sending the newsletter.
\n\n\n\nAs Drupal 7 is approaching EOL in November 2022, the team is planning to move everything to WordPress. They explored managed hosting with Drupal but found it was more expensive and also required them to migrate to a more recent version of Drupal. Themes and plugins made for D7 are not compatible with D9+, so they didn’t see an advantage in terms of time or simplicity.
\n\n\n\n“Unfortunately we don’t have staff to manage a self-hosted Drupal installation and nobody on staff really knows how to use it,” Maffulli said. “Tasks like creating landing pages proved to be quite time consuming for us.
\n\n\n\n“With money, knowledge and time constraints and an urgent need to increase our publishing rate, ramping up the organization’s visibility online we decided to migrate the website in two phases: First, we migrate the blog so we have a fresh look together with the improved publishing schedule. This phase is complete – the blog is on a managed hosting offered by DreamHost. The second phase is the migration of the rest of the site: this is ongoing with the help of Automattic and will take a few months to complete.”
\n\n\n\nAlthough Maffulli wanted to avoid creating a blog under a subdomain, and preferred using the old URL (opensource.org/blog...), mixing Drupal self-hosted with a managed WordPress site was not a common use case with straightforward solutions. If the new blog design looks familiar, that’s because it was inspired by WP Tavern’s new design.
\n\n\n\n“Once we decided to go with a subdomain, the new site took really only a few days to launch: I knew I wanted to have a simple site, minimal amount of plugins, no page builders and a very clean design based on WP Tavern, of which I’m a fan,” he said.
\n\n\n\nSince the Tavern’s theme wasn’t yet on GitHub, Maffulli contracted a developer who used WordPress’ new full-site editing features to create a simple child theme based on the Twenty Twenty-Two default theme. He said he is glad overseeing the project gave him a chance to learn the basics of FSE.
\n\n\n\nSome members of the OSI staff were already familiar with WordPress, which contributed to the decision to use the software. The wide range of functionality and third-party integrations were also a factor.
\n\n\n\n“We rely a lot on content calendar solutions that allow to manage schedule posts and social media promotions from one tool,” Maffulli said.
\n\n\n\n“We’re addicted to CoSchedule. That tool is far from perfect, primarily because it’s not Open Source. But it’s so incredibly powerful and convenient for a small team like us. We track our publishing calendar and tasks with CoSchedule, making it so easy not to miss a beat: every blog post has it’s social media attachment, same with the newsletter, that becomes a blog post for archive. Soon, we’ll add podcasts.”
\n\n\n\nMaffulli said he wishes the WordPress media library offered a more standardized way of storing and tracking copyright information, like the author, source, and license.
\n\n\n\n“I think this unnecessarily exposes WP users to copyright infringement claims where trolls could threaten successfully people who may have not kept their records clean,” he said. “It’s something to think about for future releases of Instant Images and similar plugins.”
\n\n\n\nThe OSI team has opted to keep comments closed on posts at this time, since they do not have the capicity to properly moderate comments.
\n\n\n\n“I have a lot of experience managing online communities and I know it can become very time consuming,” Maffulli said. “We just don’t have staff but we’re raising funds to solve that.”
\n\n\n\nOSI is also looking into creating a way to give its members the privilege of commenting. This would require a way to integrate authentication with CiviCRM to access members’ records.
\n\n\n\n“While we build staff and upgrade opensource.org, I hope to setup services from the IndieWeb community into Voices of Open Source,” Maffulli said. “This will allow for comments made on various social networks to be aggregated back into blog.opensource.org.”
\n\n\n\nThe new Voices of Open Source blog has started by featuring the network of OSI affiliates, which boasts 80 organizations, including Mozilla, Wikimedia, Linux Foundation, OpenUK, and more.
\n\n\n\n“We’d like to share OSI’s unique position to highlight open source stories, challenges, and successes of companies and people around the world,” Maffulli said. OSI is in communication with its affiliates to make them aware of this opportunity and is aiming to open guest posting on the blog to indvidual members in the wider community sometime in the future.
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\n\n\n\nThis week\'s function is wc_get_product_category_list, and there\'s no need to explain what it does as its name is self-explanatory.
As usual, we\'ll study the WooCommerce core function code, see where and why it\'s used, and finally we\'ll cover a quick case study. Enjoy!
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe function wc_get_product_category_list can be found under \\woocommerce\\includes\\wc-product-functions.php:
/**\n * Returns the product categories in a list.\n *\n * @param int $product_id Product ID.\n * @param string $sep (default: \', \').\n * @param string $before (default: \'\').\n * @param string $after (default: \'\').\n * @return string\n */\nfunction wc_get_product_category_list( $product_id, $sep = \', \', $before = \'\', $after = \'\' ) {\n return get_the_term_list( $product_id, \'product_cat\', $before, $sep, $after );\n}First of all, let\'s look at the function parameters:
\n\n\n\n$product_id, which is of course the product we want to get the categories for.$sep, by default a comma, which defines the list separator.$before and $after, by default empty strings, which define what shows before and after the list of categories. (prefix / suffix)Now to the function statements — actually, statement, as there is only one:
\n\n\n\nreturn get_the_term_list( $product_id, \'product_cat\', $before, $sep, $after );That really sounds like a WordPress function as there is no mention of “woo,” “wc,” or any other WooCommerce prefixes. Let\'s look it up in the WordPress developer code reference documentation. (https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_term_list/)
\n\n\n\nHere we go:
\n\n\n\nfunction get_the_term_list( $post_id, $taxonomy, $before = \'\', $sep = \'\', $after = \'\' ) {\n $terms = get_the_terms( $post_id, $taxonomy );\n \n if ( is_wp_error( $terms ) ) {\n return $terms;\n }\n \n if ( empty( $terms ) ) {\n return false;\n }\n \n $links = array();\n \n foreach ( $terms as $term ) {\n $link = get_term_link( $term, $taxonomy );\n if ( is_wp_error( $link ) ) {\n return $link;\n }\n $links[] = \'<a href=\"\' . esc_url( $link ) . \'\" rel=\"tag\">\' . $term->name . \'</a>\';\n }\n \n /**\n * Filters the term links for a given taxonomy.\n *\n * The dynamic portion of the hook name, `$taxonomy`, refers\n * to the taxonomy slug.\n *\n * Possible hook names include:\n *\n * - `term_links-category`\n * - `term_links-post_tag`\n * - `term_links-post_format`\n *\n * @since 2.5.0\n *\n * @param string[] $links An array of term links.\n */\n $term_links = apply_filters( \"term_links-{$taxonomy}\", $links ); // phpcs:ignore WordPress.NamingConventions.ValidHookName.UseUnderscores\n \n return $before . implode( $sep, $term_links ) . $after;\n}Simple enough — get_the_term_list accepts basically the same parameters we covered above, plus the $taxonomy parameter, which in our case is passed as product_cat to tell WordPress we\'re retrieving WooCommerce product categories.
Here\'s how it works:
\n\n\n\nget_the_terms( $post_id, $taxonomy ) gets the product ID category objects.$links array gets filled with the list of categories, each with its own link.return $before . implode( $sep, $term_links ) . $after gives us the content we need: “prefix + $links separated with $sep + suffix”Define a product ID (e.g., 57) — and that\'s all you need to do!
\n\n\n\nCall the function:
\n\n\n\necho wc_get_product_category_list( 57 );And see the magic happen:
\n\n\n\ncat1 link, cat2 link, cat3 link, ...Of course, if you have access to the $product global, you can call the function dynamically. For example, if you want to call the function on every single product pages, you could do this:
echo wc_get_product_category_list( $product->get_id() );Now I want to see where and when the function is called, so we give it a bit of context. With a quick search through the WooCommerce plugin, I find a single result in \\woocommerce\\templates\\single-product\\meta.php, line 34:
<?php echo wc_get_product_category_list( $product->get_id(), \', \', \'<span class=\"posted_in\">\' . _n( \'Category:\', \'Categories:\', count( $product->get_category_ids() ), \'woocommerce\' ) . \' \', \'</span>\' ); ?>Which generates this output on my single product page:
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/image-752x357.png\")
Now we know wc_get_product_category_list is responsible for showing the list of categories in the single product page where it comes with a prefix (‘Category:\' or ‘Categories:\' based on category count) plus the default comma separator and no suffix.
Let\'s use wc_get_product_category_list for our custom development example now and consider a quick case study.
Where could wc_get_product_category_list come in handy? Surely, in the shop page.
By default, WooCommerce shows the list of products with image, title, price and button. There is no mention of product categories there, so let\'s add them ourselves.
\n\n\n\nBefore:
\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/image-1-752x398.png\")
The custom snippet:
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\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https://cdn.poststatus.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/image-2-752x383.png\")
A few notes:
\n\n\n\nwoocommerce_after_shop_loop_item hook with priority 9, which is just before priority 10 (the add-to-cart button). TLDR: I\'m outputting the category list above the add to cart button.$product so that I can access the product ID.wc_get_product_category_list function, with the following parameters:$product->get_id() -> the product ID\' - \' -> the separator\'<p>In: \' -> the prefix\' \' . _n( \'category\', \'categories\', count( $product->get_category_ids() ), \'woocommerce\' ) . \'</p> \' -> the suffixIt\'s interesting how I reused this line from the single product page, as I mentioned above:
\n\n\n\n_n( \'category\', \'categories\', count( $product->get_category_ids() ), \'woocommerce\' )Basically, if count = 1 the first string is returned (singular “category”), while if count > 1 you get the plural “categories.” You can see the difference in the last screenshot above.
Any other use cases you have in mind? Let me know in the comments!
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\n\n\n\nGreetings from Porto, Portugal. It’s a wonderful city. You cn walk and walk and walk, up the hill, down the hill, with ever changing view. The ratio of restaurants and bar per block is on average three. In certain areas, every single doorwar offers you a different place to eat or drink.
\n\n\n\n\n\nLast week, WordCamp Europe organizers announced that there will be a livestream of the sessions’ in track one and two. That’s good news, as there are amazing talks and speakers on the schedule. If you want to casually run into me, I will be at the Community Booth Friday and Saturday around 10 am 🙂
\n\n\n\nBefore people from the WordPress Community descend to Porto, core contributors will release WordPress 6.0 on May 24, 2022. The signs seem in their favor, and RC candidate four is now available. Hector Prieto, release co-coordinator, outline the WordPress 6.0 Release Day Process, just in case you are interested in how the sausage is made, so to speak.
\n\n\n\nStay well, and safe!
\n\n\n\nYours, 💕
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Nick Diego, developer advocate at WPEngine, has been teaching the Working with Template in Full Site Editing series on the Meetup Social Learning space. Part 1 and Part 2 are now available on WordPress.tv
\n\n\n\nIf you want to know how far the Gutenberg project and the block editor in WordPress has come, watch this video by Anne McCarthy: Building a site with WordPress 5.0 vs WordPress 6.0
\n\n\n\nThe Pattern Creator is a online tool which allows you to create block patterns for inclusion into the WordPress Patterns Directory, a place where you can access freely available patterns for your websites. On this podcast episode of the WPTavern’s Jukebox, Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan on How To Use the New Pattern Creator, Nathan Wrigley talked to Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan, who share two different perspectives. Segota is a themer and Choyce-Dwan is on the team, that built the Pattern Creator.
\n\n\n\nNow that the Style Switcher is coming to WordPress 6.0, it might be time to learn how to create Style variations for your theme. A style variations is a user-selectable skin of the same theme. Everything stays that same except the color palette or the available fonts. Caroline Nymark published a lesson for you on her site.
\n\n\n\nJustin Tadlock also wrote about Global Style Variations, “Skins” for Themes, Have Landed in Gutenberg earlier this year.
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\n\n\n\n75 Block Themes in the WordPress Theme Directory, Catch FSE is one of them. Justin Tadlock took it for a spin and published his review. Catch FSE Is a Bold, Business-Friendly WordPress Block Theme.
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\n\n\n\nKevin Batdorf, developer at Extendify, published a plugin called Image Filters that adds 22 more filters to your choices, even better than Instagram and you can do it all on your website!
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\n\n\n\nUsing the Navigation Block with Wes Theron, a 45 minute walk through the ins and outs of the new Navigation block.
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Design With Me: Create a Simple Website for your Small Business w/ Sarah Snow
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDo you remember what it was like to use WordPress 5.0? Three years and ten major releases have radically changed the site building experience, but it’s not always easy to see recognize when focused on some of the smaller, iterative changes that slowly add up. Anne McCarthy, WordPress product liaison at Automattic and co-release coordinator for 6.0, has created a short 13-minute video that shows the immense amount of progress contributors have made on site building features.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMcCarthy takes viewers back in time to WordPress 5.0, released in December 2018, which introduced the block editor and the Twenty Nineteen default theme through the work of 400+ contributors. She demonstrates using the Customizer with the default theme. These were simpler days and it’s clear now how limited the Customizer was for implementing the most basic changes.
\n\n\n\nThe video contrasts that experience with the upcoming 6.0 release, which features the work of 500+ contributors on features that didn’t exist three years ago.
\n\n\n\nMcCarthy quickly demonstrates the 6.0 site editing experience, swapping out template parts, and showcasing the breadth of the customization available for images, colors, typography, controlling the posts that are displayed, style variations, and the impressive array of design tools available.
\n\n\n\nTen major versions later, nearly every aspect of a WordPress site is customizable through the site editor. For those who have not yet made the leap into full-site editing – it’s essentially like the old Customizer but with super powers, better instant previews, and the interface is a panel on the right. At this point, I don’t think the usability is at a level where someone can just get in there and immediately know what they are doing. It takes a little bit of exploring, but it’s moving in the right direction.
\n\n\n\nVideos like this one show what is possible and just how far WordPress has come since it first introduced the block editor. It also indirectly answers Joost de Valk’s recent claims that the full-site editing project not being done yet is partially to blame for WordPress’ recent decline in market share.
\n\n\n\nWhile WordPress remains the uncontested market leader among CMS’s, some say this small percentage of a decline is inconsequential. Matt Mullenweg has stated in previous interviews that he views market share stats as a “trailing indicator” in the quest to create the best possible experience for users and developers. A growing market share, in that sense, is a signal of user satisfaction.
\n\n\n\nWordPress jumped into the block paradigm at the right time, just as many other apps began adopting the concept of composable blocks for creating content and designs. Full-site editing is the extension of that vision but it takes time to make it something polished and delightful to use. McCarthy’s video is a good reminder of the limitations that users previously labored under while trying to edit their sites, and the “why” behind all the effort going into FSE.
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Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship returns to WCUS › Think like a platform again! › Leo Gopal on support for mental health in the community › WP Accessibility Day › Performance Lab 1.1.0 › The WordPress Way › Dropping jQuery for speed › More to WP than Headless and FSE for devs › and more…
With WordCamp US being held in-person (September 9-11), that also means the WordPress Foundation’s Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship has returned! This scholarship provides financial assistance — including travel costs — so the recipient can attend the conference. It\'s good to see three scholarships will be awarded this time, thanks to COVID-19 taking out in-person events for us in 2020 and 2021.
\n\n\n\nBrian Coords says WordPress “needs to start thinking like a platform again.” While I don\'t agree that Full Site Editing feels like or is the next “Google Plus or Apple’s Ping,” I do believe it could distract from user experience elsewhere and other things that need attention. (My take: Google abandoned Plus without putting much effort into it, and Apple is just bad at social full stop.) [DB]
\n\n\n\nI talked about what WordPress needs in a recent Post Status Comments episode on the prospects of declining market share with Joost de Valk, Alex Denning, and Jessica Frick. [DB]
\n\n\n\nLeo Gopal from Cape Town, South Africa writes about depression and mental illness, and how the WordPress community has rallied around him.
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\n\n\n\nIf you\'re a Gravity Forms user and have ever needed charts and graphs, then GravityView‘s new plugin might be of interest.
\n\n\n\nThe WP Accessibility Day website is live! The date for this event is November 2-3, 2022.
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Here\'s a good two part series (part one and part two) from Hidde de Vries on common accessibility issues that you can address and fix on your site today.
\n\n\n\nRoss Wintle has combined a searchable command palette with “fancy browser APIs” to enable voice-controlled WordPress. Fun experiment!
\n\n\n\nIf you are new to WooCommerce and looking into performance enhancements, this post from Ibad Rehman might be a good place to start.
\n\n\n\nBernhard Kau has released a WordPress plugin for MailChimp users. “If you are using MailChimp and want to show a nice archive on your page, you can now add it with a block.”
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\n\n\n\nA nice take here from Ollie Williams on color fonts. Modern web typography, fonts, and CSS have come very far in a relatively short period of time.
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\n\n\n\nJason explains what this means in specific terms in a time of debate and discussion about what should happen to WordPress software when a paid support license expires. For Jason, the WordPress way “means our code will continue to work as expected if your paid license expires.”
\n\n\n\nWhile I think there are slightly different takes on what is best for customers and that experiments in the WordPress ecosystem should be encouraged, I also would like to see more people follow in Jason\'s footsteps and publish their core values.
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\n\n\n\nCourtney Robertson shows you how to lock blocks in WordPress, a new feature coming in 6.0. Good for when a client takes over writing and revising content and hits a button accidentally.
\n\n\n\nHere\'s a free and open source tool that converts tweets into static HTML — perfect for testimonials.
\n\n\n\nGOV.UK dropped their jQuery dependency from their front end, with some impressive numbers in the performance results. Great takeaway: “Don\'t shortchange your users if the web platform can easily do the job a framework can.”
\n\n\n\nHéctor Prieto shares the WordPress 6.0 release process (starting next week), including the timeline and how you can help.
\n\n\n\nTom McFarlin thinks there is more to WordPress than FSE and Headless. He feels “we’re spending a lot of time talking about the same things in WordPress as of late.”
\n\n\n\nI can understand where Tom is coming from — there are lots of technologies beyond React we can use. Getting off the beaten path is a good way for developers to get new ideas, have fun, and prevent nimble competitors from dominating certain niches.
\n\n\n\nJonathan Bossenger explains why it\'s important to think about indexes for custom database tables — and when not to use them. He shows how you can diagnose and add indexes, offering valuable tips. One example: “When you are filtering or joining data based on specific fields, adding indexes to those fields is a crucial step in ensuring your queries are optimized.”
\n\n\n\nSari Azout says it’s no longer enough to organize the world’s information — it\'s more important to organize the world’s trustworthy information with “boutique search engines that index, curate, and organize things in new ways.” This article rings true to me, as I find some Google searches less effective than they have been in the past.
\n\n\n\nGet them and more in Post Status\' Week in Review. We gather WordPress and WooCommerce news along with significant writing, videos, and podcast episodes from the WordPress community and beyond. Don\'t miss the latest updates from the people making WordPress in our This Week at WordPress.org summaries. It\'s all in our newsletter!
\n\n\n\nGrowth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand.
Jonathan Majors
Have you ever had to work outside of your comfort zone? It’s something I’m trying to get used to. But it sure isn’t easy.
\n\n\n\nThis week and next I’m working from my dad’s home office in Tennessee while we prepare to sell his house.
\n\n\n\nThis place is beautiful, and the view from the office is breathtaking. It’s easy to see why my dad loved it here.
\n\n\n\nBut beautiful things can still be uncomfortable.
\n\n\n\nTraveling to WCEU has many people anxious about traveling after so long, and attending a WordCamp after a number of years.
\n\n\n\nBut discomfort can help us grow, connect, and be more than we were before.
\n\n\n\nWhatever you’re doing, I hope you’ve built in a little discomfort to help you evaluate where you are, plan a course for the future, and thrive wherever you end up.
\n\n\n\nIf you\'re going to WCEU, here are some tips on getting the most out of it!
\n\n\n\nHave a great weekend,
\n\n\n\n— Michelle
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Get our weekly WordPress community news digest — Post Status\' Week in Review — also available in our newsletter.
And don\'t miss the latest updates from the people making WordPress. We\'ve got you covered with This Week at WordPress.org.
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\n\n\n\nThe position requires the ability to discern the immediacy of news stories that need to be told, attention to accuracy, and the ability to cultivate sources. Applicants must be willing to engage positively with the WordPress community and maintain an unwavering commitment to serve the public interest, without corporate influence. A deep knowledge of the WordPress ecosystem and the Gutenberg project is helpful for this position.
\n\n\n\nWP Tavern is WordPress’ newspaper of record. We are looking for writers who can approach this community with a critical and unbiased point of view, preserving the independent and provocative spirit of the Tavern. Applicants should use the contact form to get in touch, and be prepared to submit at least three writing samples for consideration.
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The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit that provides infrastructure support for free and open source software projects, has received a favorable ruling in its right-to-repair lawsuit against Vizio, an American TV manufacturer. The SFC alleges that Vizio has demonstrated “repeated failures to fulfill even the basic requirements of the General Public License (GPL),” after the company refused to provide the source code for software with copyleft licenses that it bundles with its products.
\n\n\n\nVizio had filed a request to “remove” the case from California State Court into U.S. Federal Court. After hearing oral arguments from both sides, the court has granted SFC’s motion to remand the case back to California State Court.
\n\n\n\nIn the ruling, US District Court judge Josephine L. Staton stated that the GPL introduces “an additional contractual promise separate and distinct from any rights provided by the copyright laws:”
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found there, that the enforcement of “an additional contractual promise separate and distinct from any rights provided by the copyright laws” amounts to an “extra element,” and therefore, SFC’s claims are not preempted. Id. at *5. There is an extra element to SFC’s claims because SFC is asserting, as a third-party beneficiary of the GPL Agreements, that it is entitled to receive source code under the terms of those agreements. There is no right to receive certain works—or source code in particular—under the Copyright Act; indeed, the Act’s primary purpose is to limit who may reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute, and display protected works. As SFC points out in its briefing, the right to receive the source code would appear to be “the very opposite” of those exclusive rights. (Reply, Doc. 26, at 17.) The fact that SFC claims status as a third-party beneficiary to the GPL Agreements and not the actual copyright holder—and therefore, has no authority to impose limitations on the reproduction and distribution of the software—only underscores that the contractual right at issue is qualitatively different from the rights under the Copyright Act. Thus, there can be no question that the extra element—that SFC is third-party enforcing its right to receive source code under the terms of a contract—transforms the nature of the action.
One of the functions of the SFC is to assist member projects in enforcing the terms of FLOSS licenses, including through litigation. This particular case is unique because the organization is presenting this lawsuit on behalf of individual consumers, as opposed to the traditional path of defending copyright holders of the GPL code in question.
\n\n\n\n“The ruling is a watershed moment in the history of copyleft licensing,” SFC executive director Karen Sandler said. “This ruling shows that the GPL agreements function both as copyright licenses and as contractual agreements.”
\n\n\n\nSFC contends that many electronics products are built for planned premature obsolescence and that companies often do this by violating the GPL. If the product is bundled with copyleft software, a consumer has the right to modify, improve, and repair the software. For this the be possible, the companies producing the products must make the source code available. This also enables consumers to find skilled people to repair their products when a device fails after updates have been disabled so that products do not become nonfunctional. This ruling is not just a major win for the GPL but also for consumers who may not know that companies violating the GPL significantly impact their ability to find repairs for electronic products.
\n\n\n\n“Software Freedom Conservancy looks forward to our opportunity to prove, in state court, our third-party beneficiary right to the complete, corresponding source code as defined by the GPL and related agreements,” Sandler said. “This claim is central to the right to software repair, as it allows users to exercise the right to copy, share, modify, and reinstall the software on the devices that they receive.”
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\n\n\n\nYou could stop there, but you could also use this as a way of learning how blocks are constructed. Open up the pattern to see how it’s laid out. What settings were used to create the styling?
\n\n\n\nRight now, the Pattern Directory is quite small. There’s a few hundred patterns to explore, but it could certainly do with some more contributions, and that is what this podcast is all about.
\n\n\n\nThe Pattern Creator is the way to create patterns so that they can be submitted, reviewed, and hopefully accepted into the Pattern Directory.
\n\n\n\nWe’ve got two perspectives on the podcast today from people who come at it from different angles.
\n\n\n\nAna is a self taught WordPress themer and designer who is making use of patterns at Anariel Design, her website building business, and Kelly is an Automattician who has been working with the team building the Pattern Directory and Creator.
\n\n\n\nWe talk about how the Creator works, how you can submit your patterns and what constraints are there for having your submissions accepted.
\n\n\n\nSo, if you’re curious about how patterns can speed up your website building workflow, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nhttps://wordpress.org/news/2022/03/get-creative-with-the-all-new-pattern-creator/
\n\n\n\nhttps://wordpress.org/patterns/
\n\n\n\nhttps://wordpress.org/patterns/about/
\n\n\n\nhttps://wordpress.org/patterns/new-pattern/
\n\n\n\nAna is @ana_segota on Twitter, and @anasegota on the Make Slack Channel.
\n\n\n\nKelly is @ryelle on both Twitter and the Make Slack Channel.
\n\n\n\nTranscript[00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast, which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, learning about the new pattern creator.
\n\n\n\nIf you’d like to subscribe to the podcast, you can do that by searching for WP Tavern in your podcast player of choice, or by going to WP Tavern.com forward slash feed forward slash podcast. And you can copy that URL into most podcast players.
\n\n\n\nIf you’ve got a topic that you’d like us to feature on the podcast, well, I’m very keen to hear from you, and hopefully get you, or your idea featured on the show. Head over to WP Tavern.com forward slash contact forward slash jukebox, and use the contact form there.
\n\n\n\nSo on the podcast today, we have Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan. I suspect that you’ve heard about block patterns, but if you haven’t, you’re in for a treat.
\n\n\n\nPatterns are collections of blocks which anyone can assemble for easy reuse at a later date. You can make them as simple or as complex as you like. Style them and save them away. When you’re ready to reuse them, they’re just one click away. It’s a great time-saver .
\n\n\n\nHaving said that, not all of us are great at design, or perhaps we’ve just not had the time to explore how block patterns are created. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a source of patterns which we could use in our WordPress websites, safe in the knowledge that they were completely free to use? There is, and it’s called the pattern directory. You simply find a pattern that you like and copy paste it into your site.
\n\n\n\nYou could stop there, but you could also use this as a way of learning how blocks are constructed. Open up the pattern and see how it’s laid out. What settings we’ll use to create the styling?
\n\n\n\nRight now, the pattern directory is quite small. There’s a few hundred pounds to explore, but it could certainly do with some more contributions. And that is what this podcast is about. The pattern creator is the way to create patterns so that they can be submitted, reviewed, and hopefully accepted into the Pattern Directory. We’ve got two perspectives on the podcast today from people who come at it from different angles.
\n\n\n\nAna is a self-taught WordPress themer, and a designer who is making use of patterns in her website builds. And Kelly is an Automattician who has been working with the team building the Pattern Directory and Creator. We talk about how the creator works, how you can submit your patterns and what constraints are there for having your submissions accepted.
\n\n\n\nSo, if you’re curious about how patterns can speed up your website building workflow, this episode is for you.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re interested in finding out more, you can find all the links in the show notes by heading over to WP tavern.com forward slash podcast, where you’ll find all the other episodes as well.
\n\n\n\nAnd so without further delay, I bring you Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan.
\n\n\n\nI am joined on the podcast today by Ana Segota and Kelly Choyce-Dwan. Hello.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:01] Ana Segota: Hi.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:01] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Hello.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:02] Nathan Wrigley: Very nice to have you both here. As we always do at the beginning of the podcast, I’m going to give both of you an opportunity to introduce yourselves, to give us a bit of an orientation.
\n\n\n\nIf you’ve listened to the introduction to this podcast, you probably know that we’re going to be talking about the pattern creator. And so it would be important to know why the two guests today are coming on talking about that. So, we’ll take it one at a time. We’ll begin with Ana. Ana, just tell us a little bit about your journey with WordPress and how come it is that you became involved with the pattern creator.
\n\n\n\n[00:04:33] Ana Segota: So, hi Nathan, nice to meet you and thank you for inviting me. So I’m Ana Segota, and I am a themer, and I love creating WordPress themes using block patterns. I always was more as a designer, but I learned to code to be able to create WordPress themes myself, but now having a block patterns is such a relief for me because I can concentrate on design more.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:04] Nathan Wrigley: That’s really nice. Thank you. Yeah. The intention of the tool is to make all of those decisions a little bit easier. So it’s nice, nice to know that in your case, it’s working. So, okay that’s going to be one perspective that we’ve got in the show today. And another perspective comes from Kelly. So Kelly, just spend a moment, tell us who you are please.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:21] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Sure. So my name is Kelly Choyce-Dwan, also ryelle online. I work at Automattic and I have for over seven years. I started with WordPress in 2009, and I’m now working on the Meta team where my focus recently has been on the pattern directory and pattern creator.
\n\n\n\n[00:05:41] Nathan Wrigley: Now many people listening to this podcast will be very up-to-date users of WordPress. There’ll be using the tools that are shipping all of the time, and they may well have discovered patterns and be using them to great effect.
\n\n\n\nOn the other hand, I suspect that there’ll be a fair amount of people who as yet have not delved into patterns. They may know what they are. They may not. So I’m wondering if we could really just rewind a little bit, make no assumptions about anybody’s knowledge about patterns and just lay out what they are. So it’s a very general question. Either of you feel free to answer it. What are patterns in WordPress and why might you wish to use them?
\n\n\n\n[00:06:24] Ana Segota: So for me block patterns, I like predefined and ready to use layout that you can click or drug and create pages. It’s like a collection of blocks arranged together to help you create different layouts. If you’ve used sometimes page builders, or Elementor templates, for example, it’s the same thing. You can use them on your website. You can adjust them, change the layout, change the colors. And I think they’re very useful.
\n\n\n\n[00:06:59] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you. So they are basically quick ways to build websites. You’re using other people’s predefined layouts. The work, in great measure, has been done for you. You can discover collections of blocks, which are generically called patterns, and you can click on those and import them into your post or page or whatever it might be.
\n\n\n\nSo it speeds things up. I’m curious, for those of you, who’ve never used this before again, how do you actually build them? What’s the process that one might find themselves in, and bear in mind, we might be speaking to users of WordPress who are familiar with page builders, and don’t really find themselves interacting with the WordPress block editor.
\n\n\n\nSo we may need to have a little bit of a description around there. What are we actually doing? How do we create and build patterns?
\n\n\n\n[00:07:51] Ana Segota: Okay. so mostly, I’m building block patterns for the themes. As a background, I first start, with niche, different niche, and what can be useful for that niche. And then I start creating block patterns directly in the editor, where you have all the options of block that you can combine in one block pattern.
\n\n\n\nSo mostly I started with a group block, where I put then columns or cover or images, and start creating different ideas and different layout.
\n\n\n\n[00:08:34] Nathan Wrigley: Are you able to save those, as WordPress currently stands? Are you able to save those and I’ll stay with Ana. Are you able to save those Ana so that they can be reused on other websites. In other words, can you save more time by having your own little collection of blocks, which you then can use on this website over here and this other completely different website?
\n\n\n\n[00:08:58] Ana Segota: Maybe Kelly knows better, the other way, but what I know you can always copy the block you have and paste it on other website. Or you can export it. But not sure if you can save it inside the editor for like a gallery or something. I’m not sure that you can, or if you can do this, maybe Kelly knows that.
\n\n\n\n[00:09:22] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Well, I know that you can, if you copy the block code into like a code file, the you can register it that way, but it requires code.
\n\n\n\n[00:09:33] Ana Segota: I think, there is no easy way to save it in a gallery for the beginner user, for example.
\n\n\n\n[00:09:41] Nathan Wrigley: At the moment, it feels as though it is the domain of people who are fairly experienced with WordPress. All of the tooling, with things like Elementor that you described, where you, you might have a private cloud of things that you’ve created in the past, and you can log in, and there’s a cloud service attached and you can download those to all of the other websites. We’re not quite at that point yet, although maybe some of the discussion that we’ll have today will revolve around that.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:10] Ana Segota: Yeah, I would love that.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:12] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, that would be a really nice addition.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:14] Ana Segota: But I think the, pattern creator is doing some kind of saving those block patterns and one place where you can reuse it. But we will come to it.
\n\n\n\n[00:10:24] Nathan Wrigley: That’s okay. We’ll come to that in a moment. Just to say, patterns are collections of blocks and you piece them together, akin to a jigsaw and you build up designs, and style those designs, add images, add forms, add whatever it might be, background, color, padding, and so on, until you’ve got something that you’d like to look off. And at the moment, it probably lives within one WordPress website. But you can copy and paste that over somewhere else, but there’s no sort of cloud functionality.
\n\n\n\nAnd so, to the main conversation today, which is the pattern creator. Just so that you know, the links will be in the show notes to everything that we talk about today. And the pattern creator may well be something that you want to go and play with because it enables you to do a very large amount more than potentially you can do in your normal WordPress website. So, whoever wishes to take this. What is the pattern creator? Hopefully we’ll be providing people with the link so they can find that. That’s all good. But what’s the purpose of it? Why was it built? Why did the WordPress team decide that a tool like this needed to exist?
\n\n\n\n[00:11:33] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: So the pattern creator is a place to go and create patterns to share with anyone who uses WordPress, and it was created to make the process of making a sharing patterns easier. It’s a place that you can go and make a pattern and you know that it can be reused without having to write that code.
\n\n\n\n[00:11:54] Nathan Wrigley: So, at the moment it’s not only is it a place where you can go and create patterns. It’s a place where you can go and discover other people’s already created patterns. And if you’re, if you’re coming to this podcast from another page builder, think about it as rows. You’re essentially grabbing rows from websites or component parts of websites. And so it serves that double purpose. Not only can you create your own, but you can also go and freely download other people’s work. Have I got that right? Have I misstated that?
\n\n\n\n[00:12:25] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: That’s correct?
\n\n\n\n[00:12:26] Nathan Wrigley: So in terms of how the editor works, we need to go to the website, the pattern creator website. And once we’re there, my understanding is that you need a, a wordpress.org account.
\n\n\n\nOnce you’ve got yourself, a wordpress.org account, you can log in and you are presented with something which looks very, very similar to the usual WordPress block editor interface. It’s a little bit more spartan because the menu on the left kind of basically doesn’t exist. So all of those options for posts and pages and what have you are gone. Let’s talk about the design decisions.
\n\n\n\nSo the menu on the left is gone. We’ve got the option to add blocks. Are we just dealing with a subset of the core blocks or can we add any of the core blocks?
\n\n\n\n[00:13:15] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: It is a subset currently, because we don’t have the dynamic content that might be on your website. So we can’t replicate the full experience of using that block. But almost all of the core blocks are available.
\n\n\n\n[00:13:30] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, so you can log in and you can start building out your blocks, or rather, I should say you can start building out your patterns. Then presumably there’s some kind of save process. And if you’re happy with things, can you use this if you chose to do it this way, can you use this as a private repository of your own blocks, that you’re maybe not ready to share with the world? Maybe they have to be kept in a draft state or something like that. Could it be used in that way? I know that’s not the intention. The intention is to have them shareable, but you were to design something and be not entirely satisfied with it, could you keep it there and come back to it at a later date and tweak it?
\n\n\n\n[00:14:13] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah, totally. You can save things as drafts. Actually, when we were first building it out, one of the ideas was that it could be a private repo for you to put your own patterns in. That isn’t built yet, but it could be in the future.
\n\n\n\n[00:14:26] Nathan Wrigley: So there is a kind of workaround to make it a directory of your own, if you simply save things as draft. But that isn’t the point. The intention is to make it universally available to everybody. And so on.
\n\n\n\nDoes this require an up to date version of Gutenberg on the backend? So just to be clear, it’s like a SaaS product. You’re not installing WordPress anywhere. You are just going to a website and interacting with it. But I’m just curious to know, as Gutenberg is updated and modified and the blocks change, we’re several years in, and there’s been a great deal of change in the way that certain things work.
\n\n\n\nDo you have confidence that everything that you build today will look the same in, let’s say a couple of years time. In other words, do you anticipate that some things may break in the future or are you trying as hard as possible to mitigate against that?
\n\n\n\n[00:15:18] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Well, I hope it won’t, but the pattern creator is using always the stable version of Gutenberg. So it will always be up-to-date when you’re creating patterns. Patterns created a few months ago, we’re created with an older version of Gutenberg, but between backwards compatibility block transformation, Gutenberg is trying not to break your content too. So I’m fairly confident that things will continue to work. If there are patterns that do brake, we have a reporting mechanism for reporting that.
\n\n\n\n[00:15:51] Nathan Wrigley: So it’s just Core blocks that we need to worry about. And it’s a subset of the Core blocks. Now, I’m looking on the interface at the moment. There’s the option for me to add a title? Obviously that’s just for the purposes of knowing what the pattern is that I’m saving somewhere. And then I can, in the normal way, click the little plus icon and I can add blocks as I choose. Put a group in, put some columns in and so on, and fiddle with those blocks just as I would do on my regular WordPress website.
\n\n\n\nAnd I’ve got the list view where I can see the stack of all of the different things that. I’ve created. And then on the right-hand side, you’ve got a title and a description. Do both of those serve the purpose of showing to somebody, once it’s been submitted to the pattern directory, which we’ll get onto in just a moment. Those titles and descriptions would give the people, browsing the pattern directory, some orientation as to what it was about and what it was designed to achieve.
\n\n\n\n[00:16:46] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah, that’s right. The title is the pattern title, and it’s the same when you’re in that little sidebar and the top title, they’re just two inputs for the same thing. Good title would describe what the pattern is, like one of the pattern contains, what it should be used for.
\n\n\n\n[00:17:01] Nathan Wrigley: Then in order to presumably aid search on the other end in the pattern directory. Currently we have six categories. There’s no option to create categories of your own. At the minute we look like we’ve got buttons, columns, gallery, header, images, text, and then there’s the option to add in keywords, maximum of 10.
\n\n\n\nAgain, is this all just to help the taxonomy of it, to help assist people on the other side to locate things which you’ve got buttons in and specifically columns and galleries and so on? Is that the That’s the sole purpose of that.
\n\n\n\n[00:17:34] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: That’s right. And, they’re also used, those are the same properties that are used in WordPress Core when you’re registering patterns.
\n\n\n\n[00:17:41] Nathan Wrigley: So I could spend hours happily building out my new blocks and constructing them up into patterns and saving them away. And once I’ve got something that I’m happy with, there’s a blue submit button at the top right hand corner in the same way that you would have publish in WordPress typically, but this is submit.
\n\n\n\nWhat is the process, what’s going on there? What is the list of things which happen after that? So I’m thinking in terms of, I just clicked submit, but presumably at that point, all sorts of other things are set in motion. Maybe it’s sent to a particular team and people have to authorize things and check that it doesn’t break any guidelines. And that might be a long list of things that go on in the background there.
\n\n\n\n[00:18:24] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah. So when you submit a pattern, it asks you a few things more just to make sure you filled out all of your details. there are a few things that we’ll check for automatically, making sure you’re using a decent title. We’ve had a few patterns that are just called my pattern, which isn’t helpful for other people. So we detect things like that.
\n\n\n\nSo after the automated checks, it does get submitted as pending. So it does not automatically approved yet. And there is a pattern review team that will look through the pending patterns and publish things that are valid. Most things do get published. So you probably would get published within a day or two.
\n\n\n\n[00:19:02] Ana Segota: It’s mostly hours or a day. I submitted here, so top, one day
\n\n\n\n[00:19:08] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, it’s really quick. A big gripe about the, let’s say the theme review team or the plugin review team was that there was quite a long wait, sometimes very long. There’s a lot more complexity, I guess, within a theme, a lot more code floating about. So at the moment. if you submit something, as of, let’s say May 2022, you’re very likely to have a decision fairly quickly.
\n\n\n\nIn terms of that being authorized, what are the guidelines? What are the kinds of things that are allowed and disallowed? In other words, so you mentioned that a good title, a good descriptive title is going to set you on the road to having its, authorized and put on the pattern directory.
\n\n\n\nAre there any other guidelines that need to be, you need to be mindful of? Not only in terms of getting it submitted, but things that you don’t want people to submit because it contravenes certain rules or regulations.
\n\n\n\n[00:20:03] Ana Segota: I think the most important part is to combine multiple blocks together, so not just to use one block and post it. So multiply blocks together and create some interesting and useful layouts. So maybe front design part and also something that can be creative and useful to the users. Also to highlight the capabilities of the blocks they contain and provide a starting point to customize the content.
\n\n\n\nGood pattern book needs to be, has a well-defined purpose too. And for don’ts, maybe to avoid to design patterns for a single theme. So to think about it to be used in different websites. Not to create a pattern that is like a full page. Or just a simple pattern that is using a paragraph. And I think you need to use photos from the gallery there. You can’t import your photos or from some other website, and that’s probably it.
\n\n\n\n[00:21:11] Nathan Wrigley: So the photos are coming in from, Kelly, maybe you can help us out here. Are they coming in from Openverse?
\n\n\n\n[00:21:18] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: They are yeah. It’s all CC0 photos from Openverse. So they’re able to be used by anyone without any, without worry about crediting people.
\n\n\n\n[00:21:27] Ana Segota: Yeah, that’s very helpful.
\n\n\n\n[00:21:30] Nathan Wrigley: Another podcast episode altogether isn’t it? The whole Openverse project’s fabulous. Yeah. so obviously there’s constraints in terms of the do’s, you know, it needs to be usable on multiple websites, and so on, just as Ana said, but there’s some certain don’ts as well. We’ve prevented the ability to upload images by just using Openverse images, which is great.
\n\n\n\nBut also, I guess that would be in terms of the text that you write into paragraph or heading fields, there would be a requirement for it to be, let’s call it family friendly. You know, we don’t want anything which might cause anybody any hassle and presumably that’s a trip wire which the team would immediately reject it on.
\n\n\n\nSo, okay. Let’s let’s imagine that we’ve built this fabulous pattern. It’s absolutely hit the guidance on the head and it’s been approved. What then? Where does it go? Where does it live? How can other people find it?
\n\n\n\n[00:22:24] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: So it’s in the pattern directory, which is just wordpress.org/patterns. You can use that website to search through patterns. Once you found a pattern that you like, you’re able to use it in your own website, just by simply copying it. And there is a copy button on each pattern that you can use to copy the code for it.
\n\n\n\nAnd if you just paste that straight into your editor, you have that pattern.
\n\n\n\n[00:22:48] Nathan Wrigley: So, you go to the pattern directory, presumably you would then search and filter against the things which you created when you were submitting your pattern. And then there’s a simple copy and paste button. You copy it. It’s in the clipboard of your computer and you just go over to your website and in an empty block, there’s no sort of container or wrapper that you need to stick it in. You literally just paste it into a brand new empty text block and all will work?
\n\n\n\n[00:23:18] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yep.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:19] Ana Segota: Yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:19] Nathan Wrigley: Are there any gotchas there? Because that process, whilst it’s not necessarily quite as optimal as the cloud that we were talking about earlier, where you could actually see it within your WordPress website, which I guess ultimately would be an easier experience?
\n\n\n\nDoes it always work? Are there any situations where copying and pasting that code has unexpected consequences. I don’t mean things breaking. I just mean that the styling, for example, something that the theme brings to bear might make things look peculiar and not quite how you intended.
\n\n\n\n[00:23:51] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah, I think that’s possible because it is, I mean it uses the Core blocks. So if your theme styles the core blocks minimally, maybe, you’ll probably be fine, but if your theme is doing anything really creative with some of the blocks, I suppose you could have some trouble where a quote that you copied from the pattern directory looks totally different on your site.
\n\n\n\n[00:24:12] Ana Segota: But if you are using a full site editing theme, I think you are good with.
\n\n\n\n[00:24:17] Nathan Wrigley: It should just work. Yeah. Do you know if there’s any intention to bring any of this kind of functionality into WordPress Core. And what I’m meaning by that is that I could hook up my let’s say wordpress.org account to my website. And then I could create patterns inside my website and then authorize them to be submitted to the pattern directory.
\n\n\n\nI feel like that might be quite a useful workflow at some point in the future, because then you’re not necessarily having to go out and go to a different website in order to create the patterns and publish them and so on. And equally, I wonder if in the future there are any plans to make it so that I can pull these patterns in, in the same way that we described that page builders like Elementor and so on, have their cloud templates and so on, and so forth.
\n\n\n\n[00:25:11] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah, I think the second is much more likely than the first. So if you were to create a pattern on your own website. Uh, you might be using any number of blocks that are not Core blocks. So I don’t know that creating a pattern on your website and pushing it up is on the roadmap at least, because there’s a lot more gotchas. We can’t control the media that you’re using. Like we’re able to use Open verse images on the pattern creator.
\n\n\n\nSo there’s a lot more, a lot more like gotchas that way. But, having an ability to pull patterns from the pattern directory on wordpress.org into your own site. I do think that that is probably going to happen soon.
\n\n\n\nAlready, you can call out, well already in WordPress 6.0, you’ll be able to register pattern slugs when you’re building a theme, and then it will pull down those patterns from the pattern directory. So you can pull patterns like that.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:06] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. That’s, that’s interesting. So imagine that I’ve submitted one of my patterns. I’m very happy with it, but a year or two passes and I now for goodness knows what reason, I now don’t wish that pattern to be part of the directory. I’m wondering if either of you have any knowledge about whether things can be removed or once I’ve submitted it, is it up there for life? And I have essentially given it over to the community in perpetuity.
\n\n\n\n[00:26:36] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: You can revert your pattern to draft, if you want to take it down. You can also trash it. We’re not tied to always supporting things the way that the theme and plugin directories are because there isn’t really as much of a tie to your content and this thing on wordpress.org, because once you copy a pattern down, you have it, you don’t need to sync back up with the parent. So we don’t need to, we don’t have the same issues of keeping something around.
\n\n\n\n[00:27:00] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, so you can curate that yourself. You can just, if you like return it to a draft status. So there’s a permanent connection between the wordpress.org repository that I can access with my user login and password, and the pattern being published. In other words, when I clicked submit, it’s not just taken from my submission and put into some other SaaS, if you like.
\n\n\n\nSo my expectation was that when I submitted it, much in the same way that I was submitting a form on a website, that form can then live somewhere else. You know, the form submission can come to me via email. I can’t rescind that form being sent. But in the directory the submit button and the draft status button is directly connected to whether it’s on the pattern directory.
\n\n\n\nSo if I click draft again, it will immediately, without any human supervision, it will suck it out of the directory and mean that it’s no longer there.
\n\n\n\n[00:28:03] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah, that that’s correct.
\n\n\n\n[00:28:05] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I really didn’t understand that. I just assumed that I was submitting it rather like a form. Somebody would inspect it, check it into another platform. So that’s kind of good to know.
\n\n\n\n[00:28:15] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah. It also means that you can edit. So if you make your pattern and then you decide that you actually, you’ve submitted it, it’s been a week though. And you don’t like the color of the button. You can make that change. It’ll submit it back to pending, and it has to go through that review again. But, once it’s published, your pattern will have the new change now.
\n\n\n\n[00:28:34] Nathan Wrigley: Okay. So we have to go through the process. Do you have any insight into how popular patterns have become over time? I mean, I still feel that the editing experience for proprietary page builders is something that people are keen for Gutenberg to have. You know, in other words, what you see is literally what you get.
\n\n\n\nThere’s no ifs or buts, it’s just exactly the same on the backend as it is on the front end. And I feel that a lot of people are not moving over to Gutenberg because that experience is not there yet. So, this one may be for Kelly, it may be for Ana. Ana, you might like to draw on, you know, your experience or maybe your friends and colleagues. Is it as usable yet? Are patterns as useful to you as your page builder that you may have used in the past yet? Or if we still got a way to go, what are your, what are your instincts on that?
\n\n\n\n[00:29:25] Ana Segota: From my point of view, I think the block patterns are now really well made and they can be really useful. And I think they are mostly easier to use them. So for the user’s point of view, but they come more to the problem where we are starting to use templates, for example. Full site editing and templates. Block patterns are I think easiest part from the whole full site editing,.
\n\n\n\nFrom my experience, mostly they like block patterns but, I think we are still in early stage because there is not a lot of themes that are full site editing themes. And sometimes we also have older themes that we are updating with block patterns, but it’s like a mix of old way and new way. So I think when we start doing more full site editing themes, it will get easier and user will get to know znd to accept it more.
\n\n\n\nBut I think block patterns are really useful from the user side, but templates are a bit tricky now, I must say, a bit confusing because we have a two editors now, like site editor and normal editor that they know from past. And they’re asking why I see now here block pattern, but in the old editor I need to click on the edit template to edit the template. It’s a bit tricky and confusing at the moment I must confess.
\n\n\n\n[00:31:00] Nathan Wrigley: We’re on the cusp of WordPress 6.0 being released, and as each different, a new release comes around, there is more being added and the complexity sometimes goes up and hopefully at some point the complexity will go down again and be more straightforward to use.
\n\n\n\nI guess that one of the biggest wins of using patterns and the pattern directory, which you would submit things to with the creator, is that all of this is just free. It’s completely freely available. You can use it in any which way you’d like, there’s no constraints over how you might use it. And if we rewind the clock about, oh, I don’t know, let’s go for about 12 or 13 years.
\n\n\n\nI imagine that the plug-in directory felt like a similar thing, you know, you would submit your plugin and within a few hours, somebody would say yes. That’s great, thank you very much. We now know that WordPress has 50,000 plus plugins. The directory whilst being very useful is quite hard, it’s very difficult to track things down. We’ve got certain things being recommended because they’re popular and it may be hard for people to have their bits and pieces discovered.
\n\n\n\nI’m just wondering, Kelly I’ll fire this one at you. I’m just wondering if in the future there are plans to make it so that as you submit patterns, there’s maybe more options around curating it, more taxonomy, terms, greater ways of being able to search and discover things. Because at the moment, it’s easy.
\n\n\n\nThere’s a handful of patterns, well, that’s not quite true, but you get point. There aren’t 50,000 of them. But in the future, when this takes off, I could see there being literally hundreds of thousands of patterns. And at that point it’s going to be extremely difficult to separate the ones that you would like from the ones which are just there in front of you, but you don’t necessarily feel able to use. So really I’m just wondering how that may be curated in the future. Any roadmap plans for that?
\n\n\n\n[00:33:00] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah. you’re right there are, what did you say, 50,000 plugins?
\n\n\n\n[00:33:03] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah,
\n\n\n\n[00:33:04] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah, there’s 400 patterns.
\n\n\n\n[00:33:06] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:33:07] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: So a little different. I don’t know that there’s any concrete roadmap for what the future of this directory might look like. There are some discussions about whether there should be different categories, like buttons, columns, taxonomy. There’s questions about how we should handle patterns that are more for site building versus just content patterns. So I do think that this is all very much still like to be decided, and really if anyone has opinions, I’m sure we’d love to hear them.
\n\n\n\n[00:33:39] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, we’ll get onto that actually now because that feels like a good point. So obviously this is being built out in the open. The pair of you have obviously taken a great interest in it, but it may be that people listening to this, this is new to them. And they think that they would like to play with this a little bit, become involved with the team.
\n\n\n\nSo maybe again, I’ll direct this one at Kelly first off. Are there any ways, better ways where people can get involved in the project of the directory or the creator? Where are the best places to go and hang out?
\n\n\n\n[00:34:12] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: If you want to have feedback about the future of the pattern directory or if you just want to report that something’s not working. The project is on GitHub. It’s at github.com/wordpress/patterndirectory.
\n\n\n\n[00:34:27] Nathan Wrigley: So that’s the best place to go if you wish to find out about becoming involved. Ana, just wondering about your experiences of being involved with this. Have you got any, any insights? Is there a thing that you found the most useful? A, I don’t know, a Slack channel or a website where people are helping each other out. A group of some kind, maybe a community online somewhere where this is all happening?
\n\n\n\n[00:34:50] Ana Segota: I was in contact per Slack, with Anne McCartney also and, mostly Slack and Twitter, but yeah, mostly Slack or Github, yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:35:01] Nathan Wrigley: Now, I know that neither of you will be able to answer this question directly, but the theme repository and the plugin repository, they feel like there’s no way that they are going away. They’re going to be here for the long-term. You know, I can imagine decades from now, they’ll still be in existence. Do you both have confidence that this journey that we’ve taken on where blocks and patterns are becoming the new, the new way of creating quick and easy websites. Do you feel confident that this is the way it’s going to be done? You know, that we ought to sail our ship in this direction?
\n\n\n\nYour long-term thoughts really on whether or not this is the way it’s going to be done in the future.
\n\n\n\n[00:35:40] Ana Segota: I hope so. I really hope so. I think this way is, better way of making, for example, I am in theme business, so, it’s easier to create themes. Especially to offer easier way of using themes to users. So finally theme can be a design for me, and that’s a really big step in the right direction. So I really hope it will stay. And also be better with the time and more easier to use.
\n\n\n\n[00:36:12] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you. And Kelly.
\n\n\n\n[00:36:14] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah, I do think that this is the way forward. I think that using blocks and making patterns is really only going to become more, more standard. Easier to use. And so I think that this is going to be the way to make websites
\n\n\n\n[00:36:28] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah. Just one last quick thought. I mentioned something similar earlier and Ana talked about it, I’m going to direct this one at you, Kelly, if that’s all right. I don’t know what your experience is with other website building tools. And we mentioned page builders, such as Elementor and, I just wondered what your thoughts are on where the user interface is and the user experience is at the moment.
\n\n\n\nMaybe you’ve got some insight into that. Maybe you don’t, but I just wondered whether you thought that it was yet at a point of maturity. And that kind of ties into the question I’ve just asked about whether it would be widely adopted, because it feels like there’s a big holdout of people the moment who simply cannot make the move because the experience as yet doesn’t have that, it’s exactly the same on the front end, as it is on the backend. And Ana, I think you just said, Yeah in the background. You can identify. You’ve committed, you’ve jumped over and you’ve made that journey and put the investment of time into…
\n\n\n\n[00:37:24] Ana Segota: Yeah, but it takes a lot of challenges, yeah. Because I get the input from the user side and I also used Elementor before to see how it works. And I must say it’s still a long way. But, what is most confusing now to the users, what I said before, also, those two editors and two different phase. We now have again templates that you can edit.
\n\n\n\nAnd they’re a bit confused. Like, okay, I go on out to edit the template and I saved it and now it’s applied to all my pages and now you need to explain it that they need to refresh it and pull it back. And it’s a bit confusing. So we don’t have one editor where you can do all the things. For example, you come to one editor and click, for example, to choose a layout and this layout is there and you can edit it and that’s it. Yeah, it’s a bit struggle for now.
\n\n\n\n[00:38:25] Nathan Wrigley: I do wonder if that struggle, and I’m going to see what Kelly makes on this, I do wonder if that’s going to be for a little while into the future, if that’s going to be a limitation in terms of adoption, is the fact that there are difficulties. There’s a lot of learning which needs to take place to wean you off those tools and, whilst the WordPress Core way of doing blocks and patterns and so on is free, widely available, done in the open, open source and all of that kind of stuff. I wonder if the adoption is going to be stifled because of the constraints that Ana just mentioned. What do you think about that?
\n\n\n\n[00:39:04] Ana Segota: I think it depends also on us, on themers a lot. How we will implement this and make it easier for the users. And we also need to educate now the users, how they can use it and make it as easier as possible. And sometimes there’s not that easy because you need to follow updates and to do the updates all the time and to educate people about it.
\n\n\n\nBut I think it’s a good step in the right direction. And I think with the time and with the education people will adopted it yeah. Just by creating a pages using just block pattern it’s a really a big step. And it’s a great thing. You can really create most everything with block patterns without using templates for example.
\n\n\n\n[00:39:54] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I think people just need time, the inspiration to get into it…
\n\n\n\n[00:39:59] Ana Segota: It’s a new, it’s a new thing and you always need time to learn something new.
\n\n\n\n[00:40:03] Nathan Wrigley: That’s right. We actually interviewed Courtney Robertson from the Learn initiative last week. And there’s an awful lot of content. And I think that’s maybe a piece that was missing in the past, the ability to go and find video tutorials, which answer the exact question that you’re looking for.
\n\n\n\nKelly, can I put that one to you? Is it basically the same question? You said that you hadn’t got a great deal of experience with page builders and so on, but I’m just wondering if you had any intuitions around there, whether or not the UI and the UX is, is everything that you guys had hoped it would be, or do you feel that there’s still quite a lot of work going through WordPress six and seven and maybe even, eight.
\n\n\n\n[00:40:39] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: Yeah, I haven’t used page filters. I am definitely a pretty vanilla WordPress user. But I have been, you know, working with the site editor and I can see that it is a little confusing still. I do think that it needs to be iterated on, but I think that the future is going to be good.
\n\n\n\nI think the plans are there and it’s constantly getting better. So I’m very positive about it. Yeah.
\n\n\n\n[00:41:02] Nathan Wrigley: Thank you. Okay, just to wrap up, if people have listened to this podcast today and they would like to get in touch with you and make contact and use your expertise. What’s the best way of getting in touch with you? It could be a Twitter handle could be an email address, or it could be nothing. You might wish to share nothing at all, but I’ll start with Ana. What’s the best way to get in touch with you, Ana?
\n\n\n\n[00:41:24] Ana Segota: Twitter, or Slack or email. It’s all good. Maybe you can add a later?
\n\n\n\n[00:41:31] Nathan Wrigley: Yeah, I will definitely add your Twitter and Slack into the show notes. And same question to you, Kelly. What’s the best way to get in touch with you?
\n\n\n\n[00:41:40] Kelly Choyce-Dwan: You can find me on Twitter, Ryelle, R Y E L L E or on wordpress.org Slack. I can also chat there.
\n\n\n\n[00:41:49] Nathan Wrigley: Okay, Ana and Kelly, thank you so much for talking to me on the podcast today, and I appreciate you giving me an hour of your time. Thank you very much, indeed.
\nWell, the week started the release of WooCommerce 6.5 and ended with a 6.5.1 bug fix release. Between all of that, WooCommerce Blocks 7.6 was also released.
\n\n\n\nOver on Do the Woo, we had a conversation about the upcoming release of WordPress 6.0. The Woo Roundtable, consisting of Ronald Gijsel, Robbie Adair, Robert Jacobi, and Tammie Lister dove in to offer some insights about 6.0 and how WooCommerce plays into it.
\n\n\n\nThen Ronnie Burt from Sensei LMS and Automattic shared his extensive experience in the wider education space and his journey to move into the WordPress ecosystem, and LMS space:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“And so when I think about democratizing education, I think about how do we help [provide] the best content [so the] best learning experiences bubble to the top and be found.”
A little bird told me about a drop in the WordPress market share. Or actually, a Tweet from Joost de Valk. As a result I had to add my small take to the influx of reaction we have seen. It\'s short!
\n\n\n\nI think we just need to wait and see what shakes out. It\'s too early to say if this is a new trend.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“…I am not losing any sleep over that number right now. To be fair, depending on your own stakes, you may feel differently. And trust me, there are some interesting insights that Joost shared in the post, as well as others that are either agreeing with or serving a rebuttal. And if you dare go down that rabbit hole, well, good luck.”
Trust me, I didn’t spend much time on my response for several reasons:
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n“I have had touchpoints in the technical space for over 3 decades. If I was someone that could predict what came next for any specific technology, or 100% understood a lot of the ups and downs, well, maybe I wouldn\'t be rich but I would sure have a lot to talk about.”
We can all agree that WordPress has come a long way since its beginning and that it grew into something a lot more than blogging software.
\n\n\n\nAt its core, it’s still a content management system (CMS), but with over 59,000 plugins in the wordpress.org directory, you can customize it to be much more.
\n\n\n\nThe reason for its popularity is its low entry barrier for both content creators and developers. Sometimes this comes with a cost. It’s no secret that WordPress has a bad reputation when it comes to development. It has a lot of legacy baggage and die-hard rules that prevent any backward compatibility breaking change when it comes to PHP code (Gutenberg is another story I won’t get into).
\n\n\n\nThat legacy PHP code is often used by the developers that are starting to enter the world of programming, and the issue with that is they can learn some bad programming patterns. That in turn means they will reuse the poorly written code, increasing the amount of bad code in the world.
\n\n\n\nThis is where WordPress gets its bad reputation in the developer community.
\n\n\n\nSo how can we break this cycle of bad code? By teaching new developers how they should write good code. One example of teaching new developers (but also old ones that are still clinging to the ‘WordPress’ way of doing things) is by writing tutorials.
\n\n\n\nAnother way is to encourage them to use tools that can help them write better code.
\n\n\n\nI’m currently involved in the work which aims to release the new version of the WordPress Coding Standards, a set of rules used for the PHP_CodeSniffer tool that will let you know if your code has some potential issues (security, best practices, code style).
\n\n\n\nAnother tool that I’ve recently developed is a package that will help developers set up WordPress integration tests that use the Pest testing framework.
\n\n\n\nThe main motivation behind creating this package is to encourage more people to write tests for their code, especially plugin developers.
\n\n\n\nA lot of developers in the WordPress community go with the mantra: I can see that it works because I’ve tried it out in my browser. That’s OK, but there are issues with that.
\n\n\n\nFirst, it’s time-consuming. Every time you make some change, you need to make sure it works, but also that you didn’t break anything.
\n\n\n\nSecond, people make mistakes. We are not foolproof, and code may be misused in ways you never thought possible. You would be amazed at how creative people can be when writing code.
\n\n\n\nAutomated tests are quick and can help you in testing various cases that will happen when you execute your code.
\n\n\n\nYou test for the intended behavior (happy path), and in a quick way, you can add examples of how your code can be used in a way you didn’t intend it to be used (unhappy path).
\n\n\n\nIt also safeguards your code from regressions. A code regression is when you unintentionally break one part of your code by adding new code.
\n\n\n\nTesting in WordPress is not a new thing. And it’s not like you couldn’t set up tests for your code before. There are amazing libraries out there that will help you set everything up like wp-browser.
\n\n\n\nBut the problem is that the setup procedure is often clunky.
\n\n\n\nYou need to set up a separate database for tests, and you need to run certain scripts, then change files to make it all work.
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The aim of the wp-pest integration test setup is to eliminate all that extra work.
\n\n\n\nIn order to set it up, your project must use Composer. It’s a de-facto standard way of adding packages to your code.
\n\n\n\nIn your terminal type
\n\n\n\ncomposer require dingo-d/wp-pest-integration-test-setup --devAfter you’ve downloaded the package and its dependencies you can set up the theme tests by typing
\n\n\n\nvendor/bin/wp-pest setup themeOr, in the case you want to set up tests for your plugin, you can write
\n\n\n\nvendor/bin/wp-pest setup plugin --plugin-slug=your-plugin-slugOptionally, you can provide a --wp-version parameter, to specify which WordPress version you’d like to test your code on.
In the background, a WordPress instance will be downloaded, and an in-memory database will be set up, along with two examples of tests that you can run.
\n\n\n\nThen, running either
\n\n\n\nvendor/bin/pest --group=unitor
\n\n\n\nvendor/bin/pest --group=integrationwill run the tests.
\n\n\n\nThe beauty of Pest is that its syntax is developer-friendly. It has amazing documentation and great syntax. Let’s look at a simple example. Say you are registering a custom post type called ‘Books’:
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<?php\n\nnamespace Tests\\Integration;\n\nbeforeEach(function () {\n parent::setUp();\n});\n\nafterEach(function () {\n parent::tearDown();\n});\n\ntest(\'Books custom post type is registered\', function () {\n // We can use assertions from PHP_Unit.\n $this->assertNotFalse(has_action(\'init\', \'test_plugin_register_books_cpt\'));\n\n $registeredPostTypes = \\get_post_types();\n\n // Or we can use expectations API from Pest.\n expect($registeredPostTypes)\n ->toBeArray()\n ->toHaveKey(\'book\');\n});\nRunning vendor/bin/pest --group=integration gives us the following output:
Installing...\nRunning as single site... To run multisite, use -c tests/phpunit/multisite.xml\nNot running ajax tests. To execute these, use --group ajax.\nNot running ms-files tests. To execute these, use --group ms-files.\nNot running external-http tests. To execute these, use --group external-http.\n\n PASS Tests\\\\Integration\\\\BooksCptTest\n ✓ Books custom post type is registered\n\n Tests: 1 passed\n Time: 0.14sAnd just like that, you have the ability to run WordPress integration tests in your theme or plugin. Tests are amazing because not only are they safeguarding us from mistakes, but they also force us to write clean and testable code. This is especially true for plugins that have complicated logic or are communicating with third-party APIs.
\n\n\n\nWriting tests for such a codebase will force you to think about what your code architecture looks like so you can easily write automated tests – not to mention the time and money you’ll save from not having to manually test everything.
\n\n\n\nIf you think this is something you might benefit from, feel free to use it, and star the repository on GitHub.
\n\n\n\nHopefully, this will encourage more WordPress developers to use tools that will enhance their coding skills.
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\n\n\n\nWordPress NYC is hosting an interesting new six-part series on analytics beginning this week on Thursday, May 19, at 7PM EDT. Co-organizer Victor Ramirez will kick it off with a workshop titled “The Product & Marketing Data Landscape.” Attendees will get an overview of the current WordPress analytics landscape. Subsequent events will cover how to make a tracking plan, how to migrate to open source tracking options (while respecting privacy), and how to leverage WordPress data to improve user experiences.
\n\n\n\nRamirez is the lead product analytics engineer at The Knot Worldwide and also runs a WordPress agency on the side.
\n\n\n\n“I was inspired because product analytics has been my job for two years,” Ramirez said. “It’s one of the hottest roles in technology everywhere except WordPress.”
\n\n\n\nDuring the workshop he plans to demonstrate the benefits of using Rudderstack, an open source customer data pipeline tool, and Avo workbench, a data governance platform, comparing those to private enterprise options. The schedule for the series includes weekly presentations through June 23:
\n\n\n\nThe series will introduce attendees to the concept of collecting first-party data (as opposed to third-party data) and learn how to create better, privacy-respecting experiences for consumers, instead of “targeting” them with unwanted messages.
\n\n\n\nIf you’re using WordPress for a product or service, this workshop may give you a new way to think about consumer data collection for your business. The event is free and the link to attend online will be visible for those who sign up to attend.
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\n\n\n\nYou can view changes since the RC2 release via Gutenberg and Trac.
\n\n\n\nThis version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, and test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended that you install RC3 on a test server and site.
\n\n\n\nYou can test WordPress 6.0 RC3 in three ways:
\n\n\n\nOption 1: Install and activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (select the “Bleeding edge” channel and “Beta/RC Only” stream).
\n\n\n\nOption 2: Direct download the release candidate (zip).
\n\n\n\nOption 3: When using WP-CLI to upgrade from Beta 1, 2, 3, 4, RC1, or RC2 on a case-insensitive filesystem, please use the following command:
\n\n\n\nwp core update --version=6.0-RC3
All plugin and theme developers are encouraged to complete testing of their respective extensions against WordPress 6.0 RC3 and update the “Tested up to” version in their readme file to 6.0 this week. If you find compatibility problems, please be sure to post detailed information to the support forums, so these items can be investigated further prior to the final release date of May 24.
\n\n\n\nReview the WordPress 6.0 Field Guide, for more details on this release.
\n\n\n\nReview additional information on the full 6.0 release cycle.
\n\n\n\nCheck the Make WordPress Core blog for 6.0-related developer notes in the coming weeks which will detail upcoming changes.
\n\n\n\nDo you speak a language other than English? Help translate WordPress into more than 100 languages.
\n\n\n\nTesting for issues is critical for stabilizing a release throughout its development. Testing is also a great way to contribute to WordPress. If you are new to testing, check out this detailed guide that will walk you through how to get started.
\n\n\n\nIf you think you have run into an issue, please report it to the Alpha/Beta area in the support forums. If you are comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, you can file one on WordPress Trac. This is also where you can find a list of known bugs.
\n\n\n\nIt’s near time for six
The reward is the journey
Just one week to go
Thank you to the following contributors for collaborating on this post: @dansoschin, @webcommsat.
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\n\n\n\nIn the 1950’s, at the apex of the mining industry’s economic influence, McDowell County had close to 100,000 people living there. They mined the coal that built much of the infrastructure for American cities. After the industry became more mechanized and many left to find work elsewhere, the community began to deteriorate, drugs got a foothold, and many local kids are now raised by their grandparents. Property taxes evaporated, as a large number of homes are on homestead exemption, which further lowers property taxes for those who are 65+ or considered disabled.
\n\n\n\nThe Welch News remains in the county as a unifying force that the dwindling populace relies on to stay connected and informed. Publisher Melissa Nester often says she learned how to read by reading the Welch News. Three years ago, she purchased her local newspaper to keep it from shuttering.
\n\n\n\n“Our previous owner made the decision to close the newspaper at a point we felt we were going strong,” Nester said. “Revenue had declined along with the business population we used to support our operation over the years, however we felt it was an asset to community building and wanted to use it as such.”
\n\n\n\nNester purchased the paper, with the promised support of her core team members at the time. Most of them are still working with her today.
\n\n\n\n“The Welch News had been a staple in all our lives,” Nester said. “When we announced that we would cease to print, the community was outraged. We cried with customers stopping in to see us one last time, most of them sharing stories of their first job being a paper carrier at the newspaper. One of our carriers at the time told us the story of an elderly woman who said all she had at home was a landline phone and The Welch News. It’s all she had. We were absolutely floored as we heard how much our community wanted us to remain.”
\n\n\n\nAfter purchasing the paper, Nester held a meeting on May 8, 2018, where she invited everyone she could think of to help her plan a path to move forward. Tyler Channell, creator of the PaywallProject, attended this meeting and listened to the team’s goals and concerns.
\n\n\n\n“Building simple WordPress-based sites for various businesses is something I’ve done dating back to 2008,” Channell said. “I really started focusing on local newspaper web development in late 2017 after graduate school (journalism) at West Virginia University.”
\n\n\n\nChannell began helping local West Virginian newspapers, after they reached out with specific questions about generating revenue from their publications.
\n\n\n\n“Digital ads weren’t cutting it for them (a similar story I hear from publishers across the country),” Channell said. “With Facebook and Google owning virtually the entire digital ad market, newspapers must focus their efforts on generating paid digital subscriptions to remain sustainable. People are willing to pay for local content that they can’t get anywhere else.”
\n\n\n\nAfter helping his first local newspaper find success with a paywall he implemented, he decided to put together a simple ready-to-go website solution focused on growing paid digital subscribers for local newspapers across West Virginia and beyond. He now has approximately 20 local newspapers signed on to the PaywallProject’s services. The all-in-one subscription platform for local news costs $199/month and includes website development, a flexible paywall subscription platform with no transaction fees, migration, and built-in ad management.
\n\n\n\n“I use a number of different themes/plugin-based solutions combined with custom code, payments via Stripe, and hosting through DigitalOcean to bring it all together,” Channell said. “The goal for me is to provide all technical aspects so that local news publishers can focus on publishing content.”
\n\n\n\nFor many small publishers, this is their very first website. Channell said his clients are quick to acclimate to WordPress.
\n\n\n\n“I think when you remove the technical aspects of digital subscriptions, it reduces the learning curve dramatically,” he said.
\n\n\n\n“Growing digital subscriptions takes a lot of time and effort. But with each new paid subscriber a newspaper brings on board, local journalism becomes that much more sustainable.”
\n\n\n\nThe Welch News’ WordPress site helped put the publication on a path to sustainability. Within the first ten days of launching their digital edition, they gained 100 new subscribers, and subscriptions keep rolling in from local residents and people all over the country.
\n\n\n\n“I believe [Channell] was particularly interested when he learned our newsroom was staffed by millennials who cared deeply about the community they live in and hoped to make a positive change,” Nester said. “He realized our staff could easily transition.
\n\n\n\n“As publisher/owner, at 56 years old, I have probably been the person hardest to train on using the site, but even I am very comfortable posting articles without help.”
\n\n\n\nWelch News Editor Derek Tyson is the primary person writing and editing articles, approving submissions, and managing ad design and layout for the front page.
\n\n\n\n“We really enjoy the ease of access WordPress offers,” Tyson said. “I think we all were quite surprised how easy it was to put our articles into the digital format to share with the world at large. The transition wasn’t hard. Changing our office routine after over 90 years of only print publishing was by far the hardest part. PaywallProject made this transition easy for us. Trainings happened in our own newsroom, and PaywallProject has always available to help with any issues.”
\n\n\n\nThe entire publication process is still very much a labor of love, as is evident in this video the PaywallProject created featuring The Welch News. The team managing it is far younger than most of the town but fiercely dedicated to keeping this vital community resource going.
\n\n\n\n\nGrowing paid digital subscriptions in rural Appalachia is possible! @nestergirl2 @thatdamntyson pic.twitter.com/rpOE8fUEqM
— PaywallProject (@paywallproject) May 9, 2022
“Putting ourselves out into the digital world was both exciting and terrifying,” Nester said. “We were skeptical about our content being capable of generating online subscriptions. But it was the best case of being proven wrong in our lives.
\n\n\n\n“It does sometimes feel unnerving to move from a local publication that is only read via print media in your community, to a publication with a far greater reach. Sometimes that brings forth ‘internet warriors’ to criticize, as well as ‘internet warriors’ to support. PaywallProject is knowledgeable in the field of journalism, and that makes a great difference.”
\n\n\n\nThe Welch News is just one of hundreds of publications that have found WordPress in the post-print news era, but unlike many others who transitioned to purely digital publishing, they are committed to keeping their print version going on their 1966 model printing press. They print three days a week and offer home delivery within McDowell County, as well as mail delivery across the nation.
\n\n\n\n\n“We have a high population of elderly residents, and strongly feel that they need the connection with the home delivery drivers three times each week,” Nester said. “We understand this isn’t the greatest business model, and often hear the advice to move to a weekly publication. Our desire to serve our residents in the best way possible keeps us headstrong about a three-day print publication.”
\n\n\n\nThough nearly everyone from his generation has moved away from the area, Tyson’s commitment to serve The Welch News’ elderly subscribers burns strong.
\n\n\n\n“We’re here to serve a very vulnerable population that I feel like the modern world is pretty quick to sweep under the rug,” Tyson said in a recent documentary about the county. “I see elderly people suffer, feeling like they’re not important and nobody needs them anymore. That’s just awful. They’re not as strong, they move a little slow, they’ll talk your head off but they’re living human beings that matter, and I’m going to fight for them.”
\n\n\n\nLocal news stands as a guardian for small, economically vulnerable counties like McDowell. In an area that is frequently cited among the five poorest counties in the US, the people still have their own voice through The Welch News. This publication finding sustainability is like a flower growing up through the concrete.
\n\n\n\nAs we witness the slow death of the American newspaper, these little newspapers staying alive to keep the public informed offer a ray of hope. Small publications continue to contend with the greed and corruption of the advertising industry, tech giants that have willfully eroded publishers’ trust through collusion and manipulation of the digital ad market. With affordable publishing tools like WordPress, The Welch News and its contemporaries can have a fighting chance.
\n\n\n\n“This is very much a heart project to serve and better our community, and we aren’t sure how long we can sustain it,” Nester said. “I’m certain we wouldn’t have survived the income loss from COVID without our website.
\n\n\n\n“I often say I quit my job every morning, but go anyway. I quit again by nightfall, and the email comes showing the income from online subscriptions and I decide to try again.”
\n\n\n\nTyson and his small team of journalists believe the best hope for keeping local news alive, when many small outlets have shuttered or consolidated, is maintaing a hyperlocal focus.
\n\n\n\n“Our strategy has been to shift our content priorities from broad coverage to a hyperlocal focus on issues within McDowell County’s borders,” he said. “With so many forms of media coverage available today, we decided to focus on what you couldn’t find anywhere else and in turn, showing that important things happen in small towns that deserve media attention.”
\n\n\n\nWordPress and the PaywallProject helped introduce a new stream of revenue for their century-old business. As the subscriptions continued to flow in, Nester said they realized “hyperlocal content did indeed have true value and would not be found anywhere else.” It’s one of the reasons many of the 2022 Pulizter prize winners have won for local stories that would never be covered in the larger news market.
\n\n\n\n“Citizens near and far should understand the need to fund local newsrooms, and the important work they do,” Nester said. “Understanding that without supporting local journalists, a large sense of community will be lost with each news desert that comes. If newsrooms are funded through community support, it is a better representation of that community and a means to bring forward local issues for resolution.”
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\n\n\n\nHave a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to wpbriefing@wordpress.org, either written or as a voice recording.
[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:00]
\n\n\n\nHello everyone. And welcome to the WordPress Briefing. The podcast where you can catch quick explanations of the ideas behind the WordPress open source project, some insight into the community that supports it, and get a small list of big things coming up in the next two weeks. I’m your host Josepha Haden Chomphosy. Here we go!
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:00:40]
\n\n\n\nY’all, we’ve got an absolutely jam-packed couple of weeks in WordPress. We’ve got events happening and releases shipping and contributor days being coordinated (I almost said contributor days being contributed). That’s also what they’re doing. I’ll share some of those highlights in today’s small list of big things, but I did want to specifically call out something that’s coming up this week on Thursday (May 19, 2022), and that something is Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
\n\n\n\nThe team of contributors over on the Accessibility team has participated in the Global Accessibility Awareness Day in the past. So I thought it would be interesting to hear from one of the co-founders of this particular day of awareness.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:01:27]
\n\n\n\nAll right. And with that, Joe Devin, would you like to tell us a little bit more about yourself?
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:01:34]
\n\n\n\nSure. So I am the co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, which is a day that goes viral every year on the third Thursday of May. We typically have the Twitter reach on the GAAD hashtag on Twitter of 200 million users, which is, I think, pretty much their active user count. We stopped counting once we hit their daily active user count.
\n\n\n\nAnd then, I am Chair of the GAAD Foundation, which we launched last year. And then I have a day job too, where I’m CEO and co-founder of Diamond, which is an inclusive digital agency that builds software accessibly by default.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:02:15]
\n\n\n\nWonderful. Well, we are so excited to have you today. I said we like it’s me and the mouse in my pocket—we in the WordPress community that’s going to listen to this. Super excited to have you today. So you mentioned GAAD, Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Last year was your 10th anniversary, which is very exciting, but like with so many good things, I hear it all started with a blog post and a blog post on WordPress, no less.
\n\n\n\nSo I’d love to hear about how GAAD evolved from that, with, as I understand it, your co-founder of Jennison (Asuncion). That must be where you met him, I assume.
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:02:51]
\n\n\n\nYes. Yes. So what happened was I started a WordPress blog called My SQL Talk. So it’s a database blog, and I just thought it was a brilliant name. I mean, My SQL Talk, like that, should be super popular.
\n\n\n\nAnd it probably had maybe ten people who ever looked. Um, and then my dad was getting older, and my dad was a survivor of the concentration camps, and he was a genius. He spoke ten languages. It, he was one of those people. That, when he walked into a room, he just commanded respect. You knew that there was history. I don’t know how to explain it really, but it was special when my dad walked into the room. And considering all of this that he suffered in his life, watching him get older and struggle, particularly with his banking, was very painful to see. And the bank wasn’t accessible, so I wrote this blog post proposing that we create a Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
\n\n\n\nSometimes I get these visions, and they never turn into anything. But while I think about it, I’m like, “all right, let’s write this blog post and this can definitely work. Right?” And then you finish the blog post to hit send, and you’re like, “this is not going to work.”
\n\n\n\nBut I wasn’t even smart enough to do social media on it. But fortunately, WordPress had an auto-tweet feature, and it tweeted it out, and Jennison Asuncion, my co-founder, happened to be around and not out that Saturday night. And he read the blog post, and he said, “this is a great idea. Let’s make it happen.”
\n\n\n\nAnd we had two busy people, but we both had a community. He had the accessibility community, and I was building a tech scene in Los Angeles. And what I discovered is if you combine a great idea with the community, great things can happen.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:04:49]
\n\n\n\nOh man, you’re speaking my language over here, helping people find their communities, knowing that community is the thing that is the lifeblood of society.
\n\n\n\nThat sounded like a tautology. It is not a tautology. You can have a society with an attempt to not have any sort of community around it, but I bet it doesn’t work very well. Well, that’s, that’s very interesting. And so you all just kind of talked through what that would look like, I assume in confidence, or that would have to take place, right? Or was it on Twitter in those days?
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:05:24]
\n\n\n\nOh, you could still look in the comments and see the back and forth of Jennison and a bunch of other people that got pretty involved with GAAD that are some legendary folks in there. It’s kind of mind-blowing because I dunno how, how you feel, but for me, when I used to code, uh, three months later, I’d look back at old code and be like, “oh, I suck,” you know, or write an email even and you look back on it a day later and are like “what a stupid email, how stupid am I?” You know? But I look back on that one after ten years; I was scared to look at it because I’m like, it must’ve been really bad. But you know, it kind of held up, and exactly what I wrote in there happened – to my utter shock.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:06:06]
\n\n\n\nBut also, it’s kinda nice, though, to look back and be like, “oh, I used to be much dumber.”
\n\n\n\nCause then you’re like, look how far I’ve come. I’m no longer that dumb. I’m a different kind of dumb now; good for me. I always hope to be a different kind of dumb as I go forward.
\n\n\n\nSo then, okay, so that was your ten-year anniversary last year. GAAD, in general, now has been going on for 11 years, and at the time of this recording, in a couple of weeks, but then probably a week when it finally publishes, you have your next, your next round of that going.
\n\n\n\nI think it seems safe to assume that awareness of the need for accessibility has increased during that time, but we all know that the work of accessibility is ongoing. And so, I’m just curious to hear from your perspective if the awareness of the need for accessibility has generally started to permeate developer communities.
\n\n\n\nAnd are you seeing more developer awareness around the need for accessibility in tech in general?
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:07:12]
\n\n\n\nYeah. You know, it’s not enough. It’s certainly improved a lot. I keynoted a conference probably four years after GAAD started, maybe five, and I kind of assumed nobody would have heard of accessibility, and I was taken aback when I asked who had heard of it, and a good chunk of the room had. So even then, there had been a difference, and I’d say now I see accessibility mentioned a lot more in conferences and stuff. But when it comes to actually building it, there’s a tremendous amount of ignorance. There, there still needs to be a lot more awareness.
\n\n\n\nAnd I think partially people are a little bit scared to dip their toe because they’re scared that they’re going to be told that “no, it’s not accessible,” or that they’re going to say the wrong word or offend somebody. So I’d say that there’s some degree of trepidation, but also developers, and it’s not just developers, designers, and product people. There’s so much to learn, and it’s like, “oh God, there’s another piece that I have to learn.”
\n\n\n\nAnd I’m so glad that you invited me on this podcast because it’s the developers that, you know, I am a developer, not anymore, I haven’t touched code in years, but that’s where I came from. Right? This is my peach, right? Particularly WordPress folks, because I had done a fair bit of WordPress before I moved on to some other things. And, I think we have to talk about usability and understand that accessibility is so much more than how we look at disability.
\n\n\n\nAnd if you don’t mind, I’m going to ask you a question. How do you think the typical WordPress developer or designer would define disability?
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:09:05]
\n\n\n\nin the kinds of conversations that I’ve had over the years, it frequently has to do with visual things. Because it’s just screens all day, right? And that’s a primary area where our designers and developers really have made some effort.
\n\n\n\nBut my personal favorite sort of, of example, for like, when you’re looking at how to make sure that your products are accessible is, what, if you have to use your website, or you have to build your website using only one arm. Because that gives you an opportunity to kind of look at disability from a permanent standpoint.
\n\n\n\nLike if you have lost permanent use of one arm, but also gives you an opportunity to look at the temporary options for that sort of lack of mobility. Like you’re a mother with an infant, and so you have to be able to, you know, get your stuff done with one arm. And so I know that we paid a bunch of attention to screen readers and what works in not way back in 2018 and 2019 did a lot of work with. Literally zero screen. And can you still do the thing that you need to do, which was incredibly difficult. And I was really excited to see what our developers came up with around that. But I think that that is quite a bit of that discussion as we’re going through it from the beginning to the end.
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:10:27]
\n\n\n\nYeah. I mean, that’s a great answer, and you definitely understand some of the nuances way better than I think that the average creator, digital product creator, I’m including the, you know, the product people, the designers, and the developers.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:10:42]
\n\n\n\nWe’re very fortunate to have more than just developers in WordPress.
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:10:50]
\n\n\n\nThe reason I bring this up is that the WHO (World Health Organization) had to; they’re the ones that did massive research across the globe. And they had to, they had to come up with a definition, and in their definition, they needed to draw a line. Typically, I don’t remember the exact thing cause it’s a 350-page report, and I kept looking for where they defined it again.
\n\n\n\nIt was a little hard to find, but essentially it’s if there’s a major disability or a disability that impacts some significant portion of your day-to-day activities. And that’s really great when you’re trying to do a report on how many disabilities there are out there; what percentage of the population has a disability?
\n\n\n\nAnd their figures are something like 15% of the population has a disability, which is a huge number. But at the same time, they also mentioned that 2.2 billion people have a visual impairment. And we also know that over 33% of the population is over 50, and I’m included in that population. And I can say that when you’re over 50, you know, I’ve got clouds in my eyes.
\n\n\n\nI don’t know where they came from, but they definitely make it harder to see. When I’m in a restaurant, I can’t focus on the person across from me the same way. My hearing is not the same, and anybody over 50 is going to have certain impairments and won’t see as well; color contrast issues are a big deal.
\n\n\n\nBeing able to raise the font is a big deal. And I think that accessibility is connected in most people’s minds with disability. And they’ll attach that to something like being blind or being deaf or hard of hearing or having a missing limb or having some other kind of disability.
\n\n\n\nAnd, as a result, they’re like, “well, I don’t even know any people in that category possibly,” and as a result, they’re like, “well, how important is this?” Yes. They might feel guilty. I should do the right thing. This is the right thing to do. But honestly, like how much money should I spend on it? How much, what percentage of my time should I spend on it?
\n\n\n\nAnd it’s because they don’t realize that everybody has different abilities. And so, I’m starting to go away from even talking about disabilities and asking people to remember that all of us perceive things differently.
\n\n\n\nDo you remember the gold dress where they were trying to say, what color is this dress? Is it gold and white or blue and black? And it is blue and black, but to me, all I see is gold and white. And then there was Laurel or Yanny. Do you remember that?. And some people heard it, and typically older people heard it as Laurel, and I’ve, and I do this in some of my presentations. I play that, that sound. And usually, it’s Laurel for me, but sometimes it’s Yanny. Even personally, it changes.
\n\n\n\nAnd so, we have a totally different perception. Now think about memory. There’s a different kind of blindness. If you try and remember, let’s say a relative or a friend that is no longer. How well do you see that picture?
\n\n\n\nBecause for me, it is very, very vague, but for some people, they say, and I’ve been asking people, and I’d love your answer as well. How vivid is it? And some people say, I can read the, I can see the pattern on the shirt. It’s as vivid as if I see with opening my eyes, seeing, you know, the regular in front of me, and I can even read a name tag in the memory.
\n\n\n\nAnd I’m like, Woah, so maybe I’m blind in a way. Right? So how do you see it? How do you remember things?
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:14:42]
\n\n\n\nOh, I’m a, I’m a real visual person and a tactile person. And so, like if I interacted with someone, I’m very likely to be able to picture, like, recreate that mental picture pretty well in my mind. I recently, very recently, met some of my first people in that executive leadership space who were like, yeah, I don’t, I don’t visualize things.
\n\n\n\nAnd I was like, what are you, how do you do this work? Because like, you have to be able to do that. And they were like, no, I don’t have mental pictures.
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:15:13]
\n\n\n\nSome people don’t have an inner dialogue.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:15:17]
\n\n\n\nI don’t understand that either,
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:15:19]
\n\n\n\nMe either. So accessibility studies all of these differences with respect to how you’re presenting all of this information.
\n\n\n\nAnd if you don’t pay attention to accessibility, you’re really just missing out. And then there’s colorblindness. If you’re creating something like slack that has an online/offline indicator, and you only use red and green for people who are colorblind, they see gray and gray. And so what I’m trying to teach the community with digital product creators is that no, you cannot ignore it.
\n\n\n\nYou can ignore accessibility, but then you’re not good at your job. I mean, I don’t mean to say it in an offensive way, but you’re not good at your job if you’re unaware. If you break a rule on purpose, great. But if you don’t know the rule, it’s just a lack of craft, and you absolutely should make it a priority.
\n\n\n\nAnd you’re not doing it as a charity. You’re doing it because you care about your users, and you care about your craft, and you want to build things well, and it’s a necessity. And I think that this is the kind of message that our community needs to hear.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:16:31]
\n\n\n\nI want to touch on something that you sort of brought up a bit, um, at the start of the answer there.
\n\n\n\nSo you brought up the concept of usability. And in the last time that I did a podcast about accessibility, I defined accessibility as a subset of usability. Do you think that if we were to consistently draw that line for people so that it’s not just like accessibility is this thing that you should do outside of usability?
\n\n\n\nIf we were to more consistently draw that line, do you think that that would help people to see and understand better that its shades of existence, usability, and accessibility?
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:17:10]
\n\n\n\nOh, 100%, a hundred percent. And in my company, we kind of realized that that’s exactly what we have to do. We have to see this as usability.
\n\n\n\nAnd I don’t, we talk about accessibility a lot, but I don’t want to. It’s part of the plumbing for us. We’ve made it part of the plumbing, and I can tell you it’s a struggle to take accessibility and make it part of an organization, even when you’re bringing it top-down, believe it or not. For our teams, particularly the designers, they are blown away by what they’re learning because they’re improving their craft.
\n\n\n\nAnd design is typically where there’s a struggle to get accessibility accepted because there seems to be a very strong idea of what a design should look like. And I think it’s really about the approach because UX and design it’s all about empathy for people. And when you approach it, not as, even though empathy should mean that, that, you know, do the right thing at the same time, it’s more about empathy for your user, and your user includes so much more than just people with disabilities that you haven’t run into somebody that has that disability and therefore you build it better, and it’s, it’s completely blown their mind. They love it. They love doing it. And I’m not hiring people with accessibility coming in. We’re training them to work accessibly.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:18:34]
\n\n\n\nSo I think it’s interesting that you talk about empathy as part of being able to make sure that you’re creating something that’s accessible because I actually feel like empathy is. Like it’s being considered this gold standard for many, many things right now. And I think it actually is more harmful in the long run than instead making altruistic choices.
\n\n\n\nAnd so, I have a blog post that I will link in our show notes that will kind of help everybody see more fully my concept there. But when you rely on empathy, you do kind of have to rely on one, being able to run into all of the issues you were mentioning. You have to know people who have problems in order to know that the problems exist.
\n\n\n\nAnd then you also kind of have to assume that once you have willingly put yourself into the discomfort of that kind of disability, whatever, wherever it exists on that spectrum, your experience of that discomfort is the same as someone who lives with it. And I just don’t think that we can necessarily do that.
\n\n\n\nI always think that trying to do the altruistic thing, like doing your research and figuring out what it is and trying to make decisions on behalf of other people as best you can, which is a terrible thing. Still, like decisions that take into account the experiences that people are sharing with you and then going to them and saying, “does this make that experience better or worse?” is the more sustainable option from my perspective, this is specifically leadership. Still, I think it’s true for accessibility as well, and probably product design as a whole, but it’s very difficult. Like people really feel like they understand the concept of empathy right now. And I do think that sometimes that leads us down the wrong path for things.
\n\n\n\nWhat’s your thought on that? I think you kind of agree based on what your answer was
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:20:33]
\n\n\n\nOh, no, absolutely. And you know, we, you, can’t never about us without us, as the common saying, and we’ve gathered a group of a hundred people with a wide variety of disabilities for research. Whenever we do any UX and research, and sometimes we’re asked to just do research projects, we go out and ask the users.
\n\n\n\nWe had some really interesting companies approach us to do innovation and accessibility, and they had strong assumptions. We looked at the assumptions and agreed with it, but we’re like, all right, they were smart. They said, “vet this with users for us, please,” because they didn’t want to gather their own group.
\n\n\n\nWe vetted with users, and we’re blown away, always blown away because there are so many things you just don’t know unless you’ve lived with a particular disability. You can’t guess, and you’ve got to speak to your users and a wide variety of them.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:21:30]
\n\n\n\nYes, absolutely. Absolutely. What role does open source play in expanding accessibility, either in specifically the digital space or just accessibility in general?
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:21:42]
\n\n\n\nI guess if the question is, what role does it play? I would say the role it plays is it is, unfortunately, it makes accessibility worse because, for the most part open source is not very accessible. And it’s a personal passion of mine, so I’m really glad that you brought that up.
\n\n\n\nYou know, it is so bizarre. You write a blog post and then it goes viral, and it goes viral every year to a degree that you can’t even believe it, that all these companies that you know are running events. Privately, publicly talking about it. And then you get all these people thanking you for what you’ve done year after year.
\n\n\n\nAnd then one year, you read on Twitter, The Blind Onion; I’m sure you’re familiar with The Onion, the satirical clip, there’s the Blind Onion. And they tweet out, “Now that Global Accessibility Awareness Day is over, we look forward to 364 days of global accessibility oblivion.” And that really hurt at the time, but at the same time, and I was told to ignore it, don’t worry about it, but I’m like, no, this is coming from a place of pain.
\n\n\n\nAnd the point of GAAD was to make a difference. It wasn’t too to just give everybody an opportunity to say, “Hey, look at what we’re doing,” and then not make a difference. So, as a result of that, I started to think about, well, where are we with this? And, and so I’ve created a state of accessibility report that through my company, we’re able to run for a few years, and it’s not, you know, the state is not great.
\n\n\n\nAnd I’m like, well, what can we do to change things? So, as a result of all of this, I really wanted to figure out, well, what can we do to make sure that GAAD does make a difference? And so, I came up with the idea of the GAAD pledge, which is specifically meant for open source frameworks.
\n\n\n\nAnd the idea of the GAAD pledge is that an open source framework, when they are ready, takes the pledge to make accessibility a core value of the framework. Now, terms of what that actually entails are different for every single project because every project is unique. We did create a bit of a framework, which had the idea of saying, okay, you’re going to, first of all, create an accessibility statement that says that this framework is going to conform to whatever, WCAG, which is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, to whatever WCAG level is decided and is appropriate for the framework. That there’s going to be documentation for anybody that is downloading this piece of open source project and trying to implement it, that there should be guidelines for them, that all of the examples should be accessible.
\n\n\n\nIt’s really important because even the frameworks that try to pay attention to accessibility. You’ll often see that people from the community will provide examples, and they’re inaccessible. And it’s really sad when you see that because so many people are just copy-pasting. That’s typically how it works, and they’re going to copy-paste something bad. So putting a statement around it, I think, would be really great.
\n\n\n\nAnd what we’re hoping to see is that lots and lots of big open source communities decide to take the pledge. And then it’ll sort of be table stakes that any new open source projects as well look, all of these frameworks that made it, they took the pledge and therefore we should take the pledge as well.
\n\n\n\nAnd so the very first year, we had React Native take the pledge, and they put a lot of effort into their accessibility. The second group to take it was Ember.js, and they always put a lot of effort into their accessibility, and they continued that effort. We’re about to announce the next one, but we’re still two weeks away.
\n\n\n\nSo I can’t say anything yet, but yeah, we’re, uh, we’re hoping for a lot more uptake on, on the gap pledge because it, it affects so many people downstream. WordPress’s what percent of the web right now? 43%? So there you go. That’s so many people.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:25:57]
\n\n\n\nSo many people. Yeah, fun fact Gutenberg, our current rewriting of the editing experience in WordPress, primarily uses React. And so, I’m glad to hear that they have taken that pledge as well.
\n\n\n\nAs with any good cooking, it starts with good ingredients.
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\n\n\n\nYou said it. That was great. I wish I was a cook, though.
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\n\n\n\nI love it. All right. Let’s what keeps you up at night when it comes to the state of accessibility?
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\n\n\n\nWhat keeps me up at night is how to move the needle. It is such a big thing to change. And there are so many angles that you can approach this with, but at the end of the day, it’s, it’s a monster.
\n\n\n\nIt’s a monster. There are so many legacy sites out there. If you look at WebAIM, they do a yearly report on the state of accessibility as well. They call it the WebAIM Million, and they’re typically seeing 97% inaccessible, 98%. It goes up and down a little bit every year. And that’s, that’s just a huge boat to move.
\n\n\n\nI think we need to at least get the newer, uh, newer websites and mobile apps to move. And what we’ve seen in our state of accessibility report is that only the very top companies seem to put in the effort to make their products accessible. There is a big push with the enterprise companies to do it.
\n\n\n\nThe CEOs are starting to talk about it, but what we need is the entire culture of software development to change. Or I should even say digital product development change and to move that boat is massive. And that’s I put it in my tagline in my email like that’s my mission in life, and I hope to achieve it before I die.
\n\n\n\nSo that keeps me up at night.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:27:52]
\n\n\n\nI think that would keep me up at night as well. I mean, it seems like you are really just personally mission-driven and impact-driven. Do you feel like, in the event that the work that you’ve accomplished so far is what you accomplish, you feel still like you’ve had an impact?
\n\n\n\nI feel like you have had an impact.
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:28:13]
\n\n\n\nI’m not one of those people that tries to have a legacy or like tries to focus on what my impact is and all of that. I just try and do good work. And hopefully, it just shows at the end of the day. I’m just trying to have the impact without the accolades.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:28:34]
\n\n\n\nI get it. Well, Joe, thank you so much for joining us here on this episode of WP Briefing. You have been a delight to chat with.
\n\n\n\n[Joe Devon 00:28:42]
\n\n\n\nLikewise, it’s really been a pleasure to meet you, and uh, and I appreciate the opportunity.
\n\n\n\n[Josepha Haden Chomphosy 00:28:54]
\n\n\n\nAnd now it’s time for our smallest of big things. As I mentioned at the start, it is packed. Number one tomorrow, May 17th, RC3. So one of the final RCs that we’re going to have for the WordPress 6.0 release, unless something goes horribly, horribly wrong, which I don’t think it will.
\n\n\n\nAnd then, two days after that, Global Accessibility Awareness Day, as I mentioned, will be on May 19th. So, this coming Thursday.
\n\n\n\nAnd then next week, we have the 6.0 release. We have the WordPress 6.0 release on May 24th.
\n\n\n\nThree days after that, WordPress turns 19 on May 27th, starting its final teenage year before we turn twenty in 2023. So that was the rapid-fire dance card for the next two weeks.
\n\n\n\nThe stuff that is happening with and around WordPress for everyone to know. As a heads up, also, many people are headed to WordCamp Europe in Porto(, Portugal). The first week of June, I am going to do a live from WordCamp Europe episode. It will not be live. I’ll just record it live. And so. You know you’ll get to hear me with my hoarsest voice and maybe singing to my computer. Cause that almost always happens at these things.
\n\n\n\nAnd that, my friends, is your small list of big things. Thank you for tuning in today for the WordPress Briefing. I’m your host, Josepha Haden Chomphosy. And I’ll see you again in a couple of weeks.
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\n\n\n\nI can hardly wait to be in the same room with fellow contributors across many teams during Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe, collaborate on the open-source project tasks, and meet new contributors in person!
\n\n\n\nNext week, my husband and I will fly to Porto for a two-week work-cation prior to WordCamp Europe. We will explore Portugal’s second largest city and its wider area during lunch breaks, evening strolls and weekend excursions. It’s a new way of traveling for us and we are grateful for our remote work so we can stay for a longer period of time in a city.
\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd now back to the topic at hand: News and community resources around the block editor, block themes, full-site editing and more.
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WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) Now Available for Testing. It seems everything is on track for the final release scheduled for May 24, 2022.
\n\n\n\nCurious what WordPress 6.0 looks like? Watch this great video by Jamie Marsland with short succinct demos of the most important features for site builders and he asks WordPress 6: The Most Exciting Update Ever?
\n\n\n\nCan you believe, Core Contributors already started Bug Scrubs for 6.1? I guess you can never start too soon.
\n\n\n\nFor the first time, George Hotelling led the release for the Gutenberg plugin and posted the release notes: What’s new in Gutenberg 13.2? (May 11). Many PRs were Bug fixes, and not so many new features. Hotelling highlights the new save method for user’s editor preferences. Now that the preferences (Welcome buide, Full Screen, Top Toolbar etc) are stored in the user meta table of the site, you can now access the site from any computer and it will remember the choices you made. We waited quite a while for this feature to land.
\n\n\n\nJustin Tadlock took the plugin for spin and he has more details in his article: Gutenberg 13.2 Adds Persistent User Preferences and a Visualizer for Margin and Padding Controls
\n\n\n\nEarlier this week, I was part of the This Week in WordPress #208 live show and podcast. with Daniel Schutzsmith, Nathan Wrigley, and Michelle Frechette.
\n\n\n\nWe talked about FSE Testing Call 14 using the refactored List and Quote Blocks, the new feature to assign patterns to the page creation process, the Artist in Residence program by DigitalCube, introduced by Rachel Winchester and so much more. It was lovely to connect with my friends again. We had great fun. Listen in!
\n\n\n\nEver we started seeing Full-site editing evolving, community members pushed the envelop and created tools for creating themes. Today, I put three of them in one space.
\n\n\n\nThemeGen.App by David Gwyer was very early and the site provides you an easy way to make all the color and settings choices via a nice web interface and then create a theme.json file.
\n\n\n\nCarolina Nymark‘s Block Theme Generator makes a few decisions for you. She offers visitors to download a basic block theme, and empty theme and an advanced block theme. The latter is the best teaching tool, as it includes not only a bare bones theme, but also example templates, block patterns and block styles. With help of a bare bones form, you also can select your color palette and some default settings.
\n\n\n\nWhile both mentioned Block Theme Generators are aimed at the Theme developers working with code, Jamie Marsland of PootlePress just built a Block Theme Generator that’s aimed at the #nocode site builder. It’s fairly new and used out of the box tools and the WordPress site editor to design every aspect of a theme that you then can export. Marsland explains in this video on YouTube, how he built it, why Theme Export is such a big deal, and how you can also build a theme generator for you team.
\n\n\n\nWordPress 6.0 To Ship New Block Locking Feature – Justin Tadlock gives you a sneak preview on the new feature.
\n\n\n\nFull-site editing experience is not for everyone yet. Ruth Raventós, CEO of Nelio, after explaining what FSE entails, walk you through the decision-making process on if your site, your online business, is suited to adopt aspects of FSE. It’s not a technical evaluation, rather than a strategic approach. “The first task you should do is to understand all the functionalities you want your “new” website to have and see which of them can be provided by FSE. Then, for those that are provided by plugins, evaluate if they are compatible with FSE or what alternatives you have.” Ruth Raventós wrote.
\n\n\n\n4 (four) more days, until May 18th, 2022, to heed the FSE Program Testing Call #14: Rallying Recipe Reviewers. It’s also available in Italian. (Raduniamo i recensori di ricette), thanks to Piermario Orecchioni
\n\n\n\nAnne McCarthy, Courtney Robertson and Sarah Snow tested all the features mentioned in the call for testing together in a zoom video meeting. If you don’t have time to do the testing yourself, but want to know what’s in the pipeline you can watch this on WordPress.TV: Testing WordPress Together: New Interactivity Features for Recipe Websites
\n\n\n\nVikas Singhal announced that their block theme Gutena already supports Webfonts API that allows you to host fonts locally, with a single line in theme.json.
\n\n\n\nIn his latest Building with Blocks post, Justin Tadlock walks you through the process of How To Build Coupon Cards With WordPress Blocks. Get ready for the 2022 eCommerce season for Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the fall. Or for any other eCommerce sale you might have in mind.
\n\n\n\nBernhard Kau, who is not only co-organizer of this year’s WordCamp Europe but also a plugin developer, just released a new plugin: Campaign Archive Block for Mailchimp
\n\n\n\nAfter adding an API key in the settings, the block displays the latest newsletters from your Mailchimp account. Kau has added some display settings and a control for the numbers of campaigns to be listed. This way, you keep your visitors for one more page on your site before they head off to read you latest campaigns. A plugin that does one thing and only one thing. The best kind of block.
\n\n\n\nIt’s a solid first version and if you are interesting in a short twitter exchange between Kau and myself, on possible improvements, you can follow along here.
\n\n\n\nMunir Kamal, developer of the EditorPlus plugin, demonstrates in this video How to Create Animated Search Box in Gutenberg. All through the plugin and a short CSS snippet added to the backend for rendering the animation. Pretty nifty!
\n\n\n\nJustin Tadlock reviewed one of the newest block themes: Catch FSE Is a Bold, Business-Friendly WordPress Block Theme
\n\n\n\nCore contributor and Gutenberg developer Dave Smith, gave a presentation recently on Gutenberg Now, Next and How to Use it Better Today.
\n\n\n\nHe spoke to developers at the WordPress agency CornerShop Creative who are building sites for nonprofits, small and large. The video description has time stamps so you can jump to the relevant topics. Smith also points out that the second half of the presentation was Live Q & A and he provided answers to questions, you might have too. The slidedeck is available online.
\n\n\n\nLiam Giddy ventured into building a business listing using ACF Blocks and the Query Loop Block with a block theme and created this tutorial. It’s great step on the journey to switch to block theme development.
\n\n\n\nMay 18, 2022 – 6 pm EDT / 22:00 UTC
Sticky Styling: Getting Colors, Fonts, and Sizes to Stick w/ Sarah Snow
May 19, 2022 5pm EDT / 21:00 UTC
Using the Navigation Block w/ Wes Theron
May 19, 2022 – 2pm EDT / 18:00 UTC
Builder Basics: Working with Templates in Full Site Editing (Part 3) w/ Nick Diego
May 23, 2022 1pm EDT / 17:00 UTC
Hello Blocks! Coding a custom block w/ Ryan Welcher
May 25, 2022 – 7pm EDT / 23:00 UTC
Design With Me: Create a Simple Website for your Small Business w/ Sarah Snow
Featured Image: Skyline of Chicago by Birgit Pauli-Haack (Nov 2021)
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