Tech Reporting
The Four Seasons of WordPress Core Updates — 2021
Just when you were getting used to WordPress 5.6 and all of the jQuery issues, you’ve got more work to do, plugin devs. Don’t stop testing your themes and plugins. The next WordPress Core Update (5.7) is coming on March 9, 2021. In fact, there will be four WordPress Core updates in 2021 according to…
Read MoreWordPress 5.6 and PHP 8 – Changes [Did] Happen
Is your plugin ready for PHP 8? Maybe I should ask if you’re ready for WordPress 5.6? Either way, there will be changes. Breaking ones. Read them all on PHP 8’s GitHub page. PHP 8 comes out on Thanksgiving and WordPress 5.6 comes out 12 calendar days later. So, yay! Not so much? Also, why…
Read MoreWordPress and Facebook oEmbed Support
Many of us who have been blogging for years are completely used to being able to post a link to a Facebook or Instagram post and it magically appearing. That is from the oEmbed support from Facebook’s API. The old oEmbed endpoints end October 24, 2020. They have new Facebook oEmbed endpoints. The developer requirements,…
Read MoreGet Your cPanel Updates in Slack!
How exciting is this news from cPanel? Their new update (90) has a lot of great features, but the one that caught my eye is the ability to use Slack’s webhooks to get notifications. Their release notes say: In cPanel & WHM version 90, you can now send system notifications to one or more Slack…
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