I’m exhausted after DNow weekend (6 middle schoolers staying at my house over the weekend) but had loads of fun. Now that it’s past, it’s time to switch back to WordPress mode and pack my stuff. Wednesday evening I’ll be in Atlanta, GA talking to all the awesome people at the WordPress User’s Group about WordPress. You should come.
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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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Getting into Gutenberg, Part 2: A Knee-Jerk REACTion (and an Introduction to Gutenberg Blocks)
Reading time: 4 minutesI wrote yesterday on Gutenberg, WordPress' soon-to-be editing experience, as it was highly mentioned at WordCampUS here in Nashville over the weekend. Yesterday, I focused specifically on the outer facade of Gutenberg – movable blocks, layouts, and modular approaches to content. Today, we're going to look at the back-end. For a WordPress developer, this is…