A lot of people have been asking me to explain some of the new features in WordPress 2.7 – the main ones are the admin Interface and some of the new, movable widget-like items in the post menu and on the dashboard. But, it’s hard to talk about visual changes when, to be honest, you can’t see them. Enjoy this >5 minute screencast on some of the new features included in WordPress 2.7.
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WordPress, React, and The Future
Reading time: 1 minuteOn September 14, Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress was rethinking its use of the React.js library due to Facebook’s clarification on its patents. The short story: Facebook released React under a modified “open-source-ish” license (called BSD+Patents) that allow them to judiciously revoke the patent if a service violates the terms of service (specifically, if they…
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A Field Guide to Responsive Block Styles in WordPress 7.1
Reading time: 5 minutesWordPress 7.1 added responsive styling to the block editor. Basically, you can now define how a block looks at different screen sizes without writing a line of CSS. It’s one of the longest-standing requests in block-theme land, and it landed alongside a few related pieces: configurable breakpoints, pseudo-state styling, and – importantly – some new…