I make websites (with WordPress) and write about it. Sometimes that's on my blog, and sometimes on the back inside cover of a worn-down copy of The Hobbit. Very focused on Gutenberg right now.
Other things I care about: self-directed education and secular homeschooling my five kids, going outdoors at least once a month, sleeping.
"True data liberation would be the ability to use core WordPress with your other software, keeping WordPress relevant, not trying to pretend like migrating content from Wix is what’s holding #WordPress back."
https://www.briancoords.com/newsletter/market-share-and-version-control/
via @briancoords
Excellent video from @briancoords on #WordPress dot-com (!) Studio that clarifies what it is and debunks what it is not.
@ross Since mine are all pretty nerdy, if I do get a comment it usually strikes up a fun conversation.
@jaibop Yeah that's a really good point. I actually don't think I want to deal with that either 😂
It's kind of amazing that my terminal handles misspellings better than the Siri/spotlight search bar on my iPhone.
@chris Yeah my local timeline is already pretty sparse - actually my Home timeline is as well because I haven't really mastered the art of discovering as many people to follow. So maybe self-hosted is the way to go.
@jaibop Yeah I wanted a way to pubilsh and follow from my own site and not really pay for another host. I'm wondering if I could install my own instance on the same server I use for my website 🤔
@davidbisset dot org apparently has a system where post content lives on a GitHub repo- when you make changes in the block editor it automatically sends them back to the repo as pull requests.
I need to migrate fediverse servers at some point and stuck between just doing a simple WordPress integration (not my favorite because I want to be able to follow people and browse on Ivory) or maybe join a WordPress-centric instance if there is one? Open to ideas!
"5 Promising PRs – a #WordPress 6.6 Wishlist" (via @briancoords)
https://www.briancoords.com/newsletter/5-promising-prs-a-wordpress-6-6-wishlist/
@ross Yeah sadly the extensibility is not nearly as simple as it used to be and the resources to learn how aren’t quite there either. Hopefully both of those aspects improve over time.
@ross wow thanks! Hopefully one day the block editor gets to a point where it doesn’t have such a high learning curve.
@fabiantodt Yeah this link is much easier than the tags (which never seem to work that well for me, especially since the Make blogs show full content instead of excerpts).
@ross I thought it was pretty exciting. I've been using it daily as I'm upgrading some test/dev environments to prepare for the next release.
The WordPress Training Team’s Big Changes: Learning Pathways and Website Redesign. https://wptavern.com/the-wordpress-training-teams-big-changes-learning-pathways-and-website-redesign #wordPress #WordPressDev
@fabiantodt Thank you! I keep forgetting to share them on the fediverse 😬
Blocks in Menu’s and new Block Bindings
https://remkusdevries.com/newsletter/blocks-in-menus-and-new-block-bindings/
Media Experiments, WordPress 6.5, Gutenberg 17.5 and block building updates — Weekend Edition 281
Issue #281 | January 20, 2024 | Read online Howdy, Work on the next major WordPress release, 6.5 is in full swing. Two more Gutenberg plugin releases and Beta 1 will be upon us. You'll find more information below, including additional resources. It's the first release since 6.0 that I won't be on the release squad, by choice. I will, of course, support it anyway I can.
@alda 😂 that’s not wrong. There should be a simple way to turn off posts and/or comments. For sure.
@docpop I’m glad to see at least a few of them picking open source platforms like Ghost. (No WordPress that I’ve seen though)
