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Awesome Motive Acquires Sandhills Development
[ad_1] Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, there were a number of acquisitions in the WordPress space. Awesome Motive acquired Sandhills Development, the company behind Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, WP Simple Pay, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay, and the Payouts Service. Meanwhile, LearnDash joined […]
Continue readingAwesome Motive Acquires Sandhills Development – WP Tavern
[ad_1] Awesome Motive, the company behind OptinMonster, WPForms, MonsterInsights, and other popular WordPress plugins, has acquired Sandhills Development. The deal includes all of the company’s WordPress products and services: Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, WP Simple Pay, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay, and the Payouts Service. The majority of the development team will be joining Awesome Motive to continue supporting the […]
Continue readingA World Where (Some) Block Development Is Merely a Templating System With No Build Process? – WP Tavern
[ad_1] What if WordPress developers lived in a world where we could create PHP-based templates that would output data on the front end and handle editable fields via the block editor? Or, we had a system where we could create blocks without a build step? While there are many reasons the modern WordPress editor is […]
Continue readingIs WordPress Development Really All That Hard To Get Into Today? – WP Tavern
[ad_1] Oh, how easily we forget the WordPress of 10, 15 years ago. We are spoiled. We are spoiled by the gluttony of documentation and tutorials, a wealth of knowledge created over more than a decade. We are spoiled by our own expertise, built-in our more vigorous youth, now sitting on our haunches as we […]
Continue readingFull Page Patterns Are Still the Missing Piece of Block WordPress Theme Development – WP Tavern
[ad_1] It was the early days of the Gutenberg project. Many on the Theme Review Team and those in design circles were trying to wrap their heads around this new concept called blocks. In particular, we wanted to know how it could be applied to theme development. There were many discussions on the pros and […]
Continue readingEdupack Is Tackling Higher Ed With WordPress, Looking for Development Partners – WP Tavern
[ad_1] “We’re basically building the Jetpack for Higher Ed,” said Blake Bertuccelli as he pitched me on the idea of Edupack, a project still in its early stages. He and his team are looking for more advisors to join the eighth round of their once-monthly braintrust events. It is a project they began in November […]
Continue readingBuddyPress 9.0 Scheduled for Short Development Cycle to Ship Block-Based Widgets Ahead of WordPress 5.8 – WP Tavern
[ad_1] BuddyPress 8.0 was just released earlier this month on June 6, but the core development team is gearing up for a short development cycle for 9.0. The release will be specifically targeted at getting BuddyPress core widgets ready for WordPress 5.8’s new block widgets experience. Contributors are aiming to hit the following timeline to […]
Continue readingDevKinsta Review: Local Development Environments On Demand
[ad_1] It’s common advice when developing a WordPress website – set up a local development environment. Because of this, there are some great products that help you spin WordPress sites up in a snap. This DevKinsta review looks at the latest, and potential greatest. Underneath that familiar purple hue is a set of essential tools […]
Continue readingWordPress Theme Development: Core Concepts (Full Guide)
[ad_1] Welcome! WordPress themes are one of the most important topics that one must understand to be good at WordPress development. Themes underlie the entire visual half of WordPress sites, but often grow to do even more. Because of the visual importance, they’re a great place to dive in if you’re interested in getting to […]
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