Tech Reporting
How Can WordPress Core and Plugin Development Maintain A Healthy Working Relationship?
With any software development, you have to take into consideration your technical dependencies. This is no different in WordPress plugin development. The caveat may be that in an ecosystem with 40-50% adoption and over 50,000 plugins in the directory, how can this process be more of a team effort? The first release candidate for WordPress…
Read MoreThe Four Seasons of WordPress Core Updates — 2021
Update 30 Mar 2021 The preplanning for WordPress 5.8 has a timetable and there is now a 21 day RC window (June 29 – July 20). WordPress 5.8 drops 20 July 21. YAY! There are now 21 days between the release candidate and WordPress 5.8.https://t.co/50jvlOQ9GP pic.twitter.com/Jd1jsdeel6 — Bridget Willard (@BridgetMWillard) March 30, 2021 Update 13…
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…
Read More