WordPress August in short.
After a pretty quiet summer, development of WordPress core seems to have picked up with three notable releases.
Gutenberg 6.3 claims the be “an important milestone in terms of accessibility of the editor”. It brings text alignment in the table block and color support to separator block.
The WordPress 5.2.3 RC 1 release includes 29 bug and regression fixes, The official release of 5.2.3 is scheduled for Wednesday, September 4.
Gutenberg 6.4 among a lot of other things includes a new block example API, The Typewriter experience and new callbacks to the ServerSideRender to handle failures.
WordPress:
- How to create a Gutenberg block plugin using wp-scripts with PostCSS build process. By Jeffrey Carandang.
- Bringing CSS Grid to WordPress layouts by Andrea Gandino and Simone Maranzana.
- Why use Elm as a frontend for WordPress? By Will King.
- Video: 6 WordPress development tools to make your life easier. By Alex Young.
- Preventing free-range WordPress hooks. By Lee Noble.
- Build customizer settings Feaster by using the Kirki Framework in your project. By Danny Cooper.
- The (Upcoming) WordPress renaissance. By Leonardo Losoviz.
- Ionic and WordPress integration using the REST API. By Umang Rathore.
- Video: Creating a WordPress plugin. By Daniel Persson.
- AWPS: A modern WordPress starter theme for savvy Developers. By Alessandro Castellani.
- Preloading JavaScript assets in WordPress. Alex MacArthur.
- The comprehensive guide to WordPress security in 2019. By Lizzie Kardon.
PHP:
- PHP 7.4: What promises it has in store for the PHP developers? By ShaliniPanchal.
- PHP date & strtotime cheat sheet. By Dan Englishby.
- Arrow functions in PHP. By Rishiraj Purohit.
Javascript:
- JavaScript: What’s new in ES2019. By Marin Radman.
- Arrow functions shortening recipes in JavaScript. By Dmitri Pavlutin.
- Moveable is draggable! resizable! scalable! rotatable. By Daybrush.
- Cheat sheet for moving from jQuery to vanilla JavaScript. By Tobias Ahlin.
- Writing a simple MVC app in plain JavaScript. By Tania Rascia.
- Using Prettier with Airbnb’s ESLint config. By Daniel Beutner.
- First-Class Functions in JavaScript. By Nick Scialli.
- How to write clean code: an overview of JavaScript best practices and coding conventions. By Adrian Hajdin.
Css:
- Can you nest media and support queries? By Chris Coyier.
- Backdrop-filter. By Css Tricks.
- Flexbox and padding. By Chen Hui Jing.
- Code a responsive navbar with HTML and CSS Flexbox. By Ceora Ford.
Misc:
- Beyond cookies: Today’s options for client-side data storage. By Brian Neville-O’Neill.
- Firefox developer tools can do that? By Yaser A Mehraban.
- Use snippets in VS Code, to boost your productivity. By Arkadiusz Chatys.
VS Code extension that lets you open the MDN docs of a CSS property. By Dzhavat Ushev. - How to create a WordPress Development Environment in 5 minutes using Docker. By Use the Force.
- Video: Develop with Docker, containers for everyone! By Maura Teal.
Suggestions?
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Have a great September.
