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The WordPress Community team has unveiled a new tool called Meetup Tracker. This tool replaces the Meetup Status Document and will enable Global Community Team members to more easily track all Meetup.com groups. There's also a new application form available for organizers looking to join the WordPress Meetup Chapter Program. Groups that are part of the program have their Meetup.com fees paid for by WordPress Community Support PBC. [ 163 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/meetup-group-organizers-can-now-earn-a…

The WordPress Coding Standards version 1.1.0 has been released on GitHub. This release includes more stringent function call formatting checks which are explained in the handbook. There's also stricter checks for overrides of WordPress global variables. To see a full list of what was changed, fixed, and added, check out the changelog.
https://wptavern.com/wordpress-coding-standards-1-1-0-relea…

Biratnagar, one of the oldest cities in Nepal, is gearing up to host its first WordCamp on December 22, 2018. The local community organized its first meetup in 2011 with 40 participants. Since that time the community has grown and recently hosted 250 members for a two-day meetup in January 2018. "WordPress Biratnagar has a remarkably large number of enthusiastic participants in local WordPress meetups, more than any other meetups in Nepal," lead organizer Ganga Kafle said. [ 261 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/biratnagar-nepal-to-host-its-first-wor…

For the past year, Daniel James has been developing the Dark Mode plugin for WordPress. The plugin is actively installed on more than 1K sites. Dark Mode replaces the white and grey colors in the backend with darker colors that are easier on the eyes. Dark Mode for WordPress James has published a proposal to merge the plugin into core. There are three things to know about Dark Mode up front. [ 479 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/dark-mode-is-possibly-coming-to-a-word…

The annual State of JavaScript 2018 Survey is in its third year running and is now open for participants. Sacha Greif, an Osaka-based web designer and developer, said he created the survey to get more data about recent trends after hearing all the online discussion about “JavaScript fatigue.” Last year's survey had more than 20,000 participants, a 115% increase over the previous year's 9,300 responses. [ 309 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/the-state-of-javascript-2018-survey-is…

At the end of 2017, WooCommerce published some of their "Wootenberg experiments", one of the first previews of what e-commerce might look like in the Gutenberg era. Gutenberg's handling of meta boxes has greatly evolved since that time and the WooCommerce Gutenberg Products Block feature plugin is now active on more than 20,000 sites. The plugin provides a basic custom products area for featuring products. [ 642 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/pootlepress-previews-upcoming-storefro…

In October, Google's open source AMP project (Accelerated Mobile Pages) will be heading into its third year. The initiative aims to improve performance on the mobile web and currently boasts usage on 25 million domains across publishing, advertising, e-commerce, and business websites. WordPress had a rocky beginning with its official AMP plugin, which was originally developed by Automattic, one of the earliest publishing partners on the project. [ 1,954 more word ]
https://wptavern.com/amp-for-wordpress-plugin-to-introduce-…

Gutenberg 3.7 is available for download and contains a number of changes. The Fixed Toolbar has been renamed Unified Toolbar. This is an optional mode that fixes all of the toolbar icons to the top of the editor, similar to the Classic editor. The team discovered that experienced users who don't mind the disconnect between blocks and the toolbar preferred this layout. [ 143 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-3-7-released-introduces-spot…

In this episode, John James Jacoby and I discuss the news of the week. We have a candid conversation about what it would be like if Gutenberg were merged into WordPress trunk earlier versus developed as a plugin. We also talk about Classic Editor install numbers, praising forks of WordPress, and some new tools that are available to search Gutenberg blocks. [ 188 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/wpweekly-episode-329-gutenberg-forks-a…

10up's Distributor plugin has exited beta and is now publicly available. The free plugin syndicates content across WordPress multisite networks and the web. It went into beta last year and 10up reports that more than 100 organizations and developers participated in the beta program. "We’ve already integrated many improvements contributed by beta testers, including 10up clients," 10up President Jake Goldman said. [ 194 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/distributor-plugin-now-publicly-availa…

After overwhelming feedback from testers indicating that Gutenberg is not well suited for simply writing posts, the project's contributors are considering a few options for improving the writing flow. These proposals are spread across several tickets on GitHub. Two weeks ago, Gutenberg technical lead Matias Ventura submitted a PR exploring the possibility of introducing a "Focus Mode" to the editor… [ 503 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-contributors-considering-a-f…

Gutenberg and WordPress core contributor Gary Pendergast has weighed in with this thoughts on ClassicPress, a fork of WordPress created by Scott Bowler. Pendergast praises the fork and extended an open invitation to Bowler to collaborate in the future. As a member of the WordPress core team, I certainly hold no ill-feelings towards them, and I hope they’ll be open to working with us in the future. [ 254 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/gary-pendergast-praises-classicpress-e…

Anders Norén has launched a new website called WP Glossary that contains definitions for terms that people encounter when using WordPress. The resource was born out of a need to provide documentation for client projects. "The last time I updated the glossary for a new client documentation, in the middle of May this year, it hit me that there must be a website for this," Norén said. [ 374 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/new-wp-glossary-site-translates-wordpr…

In Gutenberg 3.6.2, the development team moved the Convert Block option to the left most icon in the toolbar. As long as the toolbar is visible, so is the option to change block types. However, there are a few user experience issues with this approach. Convert Block Option The first is obvious. The paragraph block icon looks like an alignment option. [ 350 more words ]
https://wptavern.com/a-proposal-for-improving-the-change-bl…