WordPress Dev Monthly Digest Recap August 2019
After a pretty quiet summer, development of WordPress core seems to have picked up with three notable releases.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap July 2019
The month of Juli has been relatively calm for WordPress with no core updates. There was, however, the release of Gutenberg 6.1 with various improvements and bug fixes. In addition, the php coding standards have been updated to make use of more modern php syntax.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap June 2019
The month of June brought the WordPress 5.2.2 Maintenance Release with 13 bug fixes and some refinements to the Site Health feature. Gutenberg 5.9 introduced the useSelect and useDispatch custom React Hooks. And Gutenberg 6.0 among other features adds Snackbar notices and Pre-defined layout for the Columns block.
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WordPress: Adding custom svg icons to your Gutenberg blocks/plugin.
In this article i want to show you how you can add custom svg icons to your Gutenberg blocks and plugins. When i started working with custom blocks this had me googling around for a bit and not really finding the right solution.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap May 2019.
The month of May brought us WordPress 5.2 “Jaco” with al the new developer features listed in the previous edtition of this article , and the WordPress 5.2.1 Maintenance Release with improved security to the automatic update system.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap April 2019
All of April has been a approach to the WordPress 5.2 release with a Beta 2, Beta 3 and a 5.2 Release Candidate. Version 5.2 was schedueld for release on April 30th but has been bumped to Tuesday May 7th.
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WordPress: Adding widget areas to your theme’s footer.
In this article I will show you how you can use widgets to manage your WordPress theme’s footer area’s from within the WordPress admin. However the techniques I will show you are not limited to your footer area’s and can be applied to many different sections of your theme.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap March 2019
WordPress, now powering one-third of the web, had two releases in March. The 5.1.1 Security and Maintenance Release introduces some (security) fixes and enhancements and aims to prepare users for the minimum PHP version bump in WordPress 5.2 (scheduled for April 30th) from PHP 5.5 to 5.6.
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WordPress: Laravel Mix, Sass and ES6 Modules in theme development.
In this tutorial/article i’m going to show you a easy to setup way to start working with Sass and ES6 modules to modernize your WordPress theme development workflow. Both Sass and ES6 Modules can make your developmet a lot easier, help you beter organize your code and in the end keep your code much more maintainable.
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WordPress Dev Monthly Recap February 2019
February brought WordPress Version 5.1 nicknamed “Betty” after jazz vocalist Betty Carter. The new release brings updates in the fields of Site Health, Editor performance, Multisite Metadata, the Cron API, and it has some more Developer focused changes.
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