Skinning the WordPress Admin—Recommended Read
This week Justin Tadlock at WP Tavern highlighted a Wordpress 5.7 update which implements CSS custom properties for the Wordpress admin. Worth a read.
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What’s in Your WordPress Toolset? A Page Builder or the Block Editor?
It has been just over two years since the Wordpress Block Editor was released as a core platform feature. Are you using a commercial page builder or have you migrated to the Wordpress Block Editor?
Full Screen Mode or Not?
The Wordpress Block Editor is designed to operate in "full screen" mode so you can focus on content creation. Do you prefer this or do you prefer to have the editing controls visible?
Next Tallahassee WordPress Meetup is Tuesday Jan 26!
The January 2021 Tallahassee Wordpress meetup will be help on Tuesday January 26, 2021. This will be a virtual meetup held on Google Meet. Hope you can join us!
Optimize the Reader Experience on Your Site
One way to optimize the reader's experience is to let them know how long it will take to read an article. Yoast just released a new tool to make this very simple.
WordPress 5.7 Ramps Up
The core team has laid out the plan for Wordpress 5.7, the next release of the Wordpress platform. It is targeted for release in March 2021. Matt Mullenweg will be the release lead.
State of the Word 2020 Recap
Quick recap on Matt Mullenweg's State of the Word 2020 keynote address. This was delivered virtually for the first time. Matt gave an update on 2020, plans for 2021, and there was a demo of the Site Editor beta.
WordPress 5.6 “Simone’ Released Today
Wordpress 5.6 was released today. This is a major release of the Wordpress core platform. We are doing a verification of the production release on our company sites today. Overall, a solid update to the platform, but not one that delivers much from a functionality perspective to non-developers.
State of the Word 2020 — Add to Calendar
Be sure to add the annual "State of the Word" keynote by Matt Mullenweg to your calendar. This year’s session will be streamed on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter on Thursday, Dec 17th, 2020 at 11 am EST.