Gutenberg Times: WordPress 6.9 Dev Notes, WordCamp Canada talks, Interactivity API — Weekend Edition #349
Hi there, We are getting close to the WordPress 6.9 release. Below you find links to published Developer notes. You can also wait for the Source of Truth to be published next week to learn about besides developer changes coming…
WordPress Broke Your Site? Here’s a 5-Minute Rollback Plan
You update WordPress expecting everything to run more smoothly, but instead…your website seems broken. Maybe the layout has shifted, a plugin stopped working, or you’re suddenly seeing error messages. It’s frustrating, but it’s also very common. Most WordPress crashes look…
Matt: Kanye’s Back
In case you missed it, Kanye has started apologizing for the event he went through. I didn’t comment on it publicly when it happened because it seemed so strange to me that such a beautiful soul, who had created so…
Designer Diaries: Tropicalia and Sinister Institute, or Two Games Nineteen Years in the Making!
by Phil Walker-Harding I was fortunate to have two new games launch at SPIEL Essen 25: Tropicalia and Sinister Institute. Both of these games have long development histories — eleven and eight years respectively! — and I learned a lot…
Kickstarter workers celebrate end to 42-day strike after securing four-day workweek, minimum salary, AI protections
A 42-day strike by workers at crowdfunding giant Kickstarter has ended after the company agreed protections for its long-running four-day work week programme, raising the minimum salary floor and preventing AI from replacing job roles. Members of the Kickstarter United…
The Story Behind Francis Tresham’s The Judge in Circuit
by Keith Thomasson Image: Tony BoydellWhen Francis Tresham passed away in October 2019, he left a fair number of unfinished games behind. When you realize that he tended to work on projects over a number of years and had multiple…
Jake Spurlock: Raptorize It: 15 Years Later, Now With Blocks
Fifteen years ago, I released a WordPress plugin that answered a question nobody asked: “What if your website needed more velociraptors?” The Raptorize It plugin took the brilliant jQuery work from Zurb and made it dead simple to unleash Jurassic…
Akismet: Version 5.6 of the Akismet WordPress plugin is available now
Version 5.6 of the Akismet plugin for WordPress is now available. In this release, we’ve improved performance, updated the setup process to more clearly explain errors when they happen, and cleaned up and standardized our UI across all of the…
#193 – Roger Williams on How We Might Reimagine Sponsoring WordPress Contributions
Transcription [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox Podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in…
We Built a Free Tool to Show You Exactly What’s Wrong With Your Content
You know that feeling when your content isn’t performing like it should, but you can’t quite figure out why? We built FreshRank.ai to fix that. FreshRank will analyze your content to deliver actionable insights that improve user experience, engagement, and…
