Full-Site Editing (FSE) represents a huge change in the way WordPress users design and develop websites. As a member of the WordPress community, you’re probably eager to gain some hands-on experience with it. However, when WordPress 5.6 shipped, it did not include this long-awaited feature. Fortunately, there is a way to access the Full-Site Editor. With some help from the Gutenberg plugin and an experimental WordPress theme, you can access a beta release of FSE today. This is a prime opportunity to test out the next phase in WordPress design before it’s officially released. In this article, we’ll get you […]

WP Engine’s developer-focused conference DE{CODE} just wrapped up for the second year in a row. The virtual conference acted as a way to bring together people from around the community and learn. The day consisted of three keynotes and a variety of shorter breakout sessions that focused on the life cycle of a website: Set up, Build, Launch, and Optimize. On top of talks, attendees could attend networking sessions as well as chat in the Slack channel. Each talk focused on how to make your site more powerful and reach more people. Headless WordPress The first keynote, delivered by WP […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc and Emily talk with Joshua Dailey, the co-founder of Infinite Uploads. We’ll talk about the Infinite Uploads plugin can help you better manage media and file storage on your WordPress site. Josh also shares some great tips for plugin authors on how to win the Plugin Madness challenge. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Bridget Willard.

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc and Emily talk with Greg Rickaby, the Director of Engineering at WebDevStudios. Greg’s newest project, the Next.js WordPress Starter, is a quick way to launch your next headless WordPress project. We’ll talk about that project and more on this episode. Github – https://github.com/WebDevStudios/nextjs-wordpress-starter Docs/Wiki – https://github.com/WebDevStudios/nextjs-wordpress-starter/wiki Demo – https://nextjs-wordpress-starter.vercel.app/ Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Josh Daily.

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]

Gutenberg has been out for quite a while, but you’ll find that there are still plenty of new skills to learn and features to discover. Plus, the editor receives updates pretty frequently, which means there might be an abundance of details you aren’t even aware of. Though Gutenberg promotes itself as an easier way to build websites than the classic WordPress editor, there’s still a learning curve to it. Discover all these hidden features, though, and you’ll be well on your way to mastering the tool. Let’s lift the veil on the mysteries of Gutenberg. Here are 10 Gutenberg features […]

Ecommerce isn’t the future of business, it’s the present. Research predicts that, by the end of 2021, there will be more than 2 billion online customers. Add to this the fact that Covid-19 shifted how small businesses operate and you’ll understand why so many entrepreneurs are trying hard to adapt their brands to the digital economy.  This transition might be confusing for many, though. Turning your brick-and-mortar store into an online business isn’t only time-consuming, but expensive.  If you don’t do it right, you’ll waste so much energy and resources on a project that’s meant to fail.  Besides, as the […]

If your site loads quickly and promises a secure browsing experience, you’ll be less likely to face problems building an audience. However, there are lots of factors that go into creating a high-performing, secure WordPress site. As a busy website owner, continuously testing and improving your website’s speed and security can feel overwhelming. Fortunately, WordPress comes with a built-in Site Health Check that can do some of the hard work for you. This tool will scan your site, identify issues, and provide a clear, actionable plan to achieve a high level of WordPress performance and security. In this article, we’ll […]

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc will talk with Ebonie Butler, a DJ, coder at Yikes, WordPress Core contributor, and founder of WordPress Women of Color. Ebonie is on the release team of WordPress 5.7 and is organizing the testing for that release. We also talk about Plugin Madness nominations, WordPress Core release schedules, Gutenberg’s 100th release, and Luke Carbis’ This Week In WordPress podcast. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Josh Daily.

Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]