WordPress turns Seventeen to-day! WordPress community is celebrating its birthday. In Celebrate Seventeen post, its co-creator Matt Mullenweg writes: May 27th, 17 years ago, the first release of WordPress was put into the world by Mike Little and myself. It did not have an installer, upgrades, WYSIWYG editor (or hardly any Javascript), comment spam protection, […]
Twenty Twenty Default WordPress Theme
The WordPress Developer team announced yesterday that WordPress 5.3 will include a new default theme: Twenty Twenty. The development of Twenty Twenty theme is lead by WordPress community’s much admired developer Anders Noren. Its initial announcement was received by the WordPress community with excitement and well deserved praise for Andres’s Twenty Twenty development lead role. […]
WordCamp Minneapolis 2019 – My First WordCamp
This week I attended WordCamp Minneapolis 2019 at the University of Minnesota campus. Even being nearby because of my odd work schedules & other priorities, I was unable to attend previous years. This was my first WordCamp attendance and I found it well organized, with good food, hospitable volunteers. I was interested to attend WooCommerce […]
Styling Gutenberg Blocks in WordPress
The WordPress theme reviewer team member Carolina Nymark has created a WordPress Block Styles site and GitHub repository dedicated to WordPress Block styling. The site also contains block styling tutorials for beginners, block style library, block list and external resources.
WordPress 5.0 “Beto” is Released
WordPress 5.0 “Bebo” is released to-day (Dec 6) despite loud criticism from some developers & business agencies . Since its a major release, develops are taking extreme care even after its release. WordPress 5.0 Beta 1 was released on October 24. I downloaded and setup a new test-site. In my initial evaluation, it throw error […]
Progressive WordPress Theme Development
The underscores (_S), a starter theme for WordPress, is one of the popular WordPress starter themes used by WordPress developer community. Because it’s just a bare-bone starter theme meant for hacking, a glimpse of WordPress theme directory shows how this has been utilized by themes developers to make their own.These themes vary in their file […]