WordPress version 4.8 is almost here and it’s packed with all sorts of new widgets. Which got us thinking about a feature request for 4.8.1: Widget Spinners!
Update: After seeing this week’s Torque Toon, Ryan Hoover made a working Widget Spinner prototype! You can check it out on his GitHub page.
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Happy Halloween, here’s a spooky toon. If you enjoy spooky WordPress stories, be sure to check out our recent Press This podcast, “WordPress Horror Stories.” Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons! Have an idea for a Torque Toon? Leave your ideas in the comments below!
It’s Friday the 13th… time for a scary comic! Don’t forget to check out our other editorial toons! Have an idea for a Torque Toon? Leave your ideas in the comments below!
Doc and Emily are getting ready to travel to DC for WordCamp 2023, one of the largest open source conferences of the year. Stay tuned for live coverage from the event here.
Headless WordPress may sound scary at first, but it’s really not that bad.
Did you know The San Diego Zoo is only an 8 minute drive from this year’s WordCamp US location? The San Diego Zoo is one of three zoos in the United States that has giant pandas. That got me thinking about a Wapuu/giant panda mashup.
I’m so excited about WordCamp US in September. Like many of you, I haven’t been to a WordCamp in years, so I thought I’d share some travel advice for San Diego. If you’d like some better travel advice, we’d recommend this WCUS travel thread by @GoGinaMarie.
Generative text-to-image tools, like Dalle-2 and Midjourney, are all the rage this summer. I used an AI tool called Craiyon to generate an image based on the prompt “WordPress mascot” and then redrew the results in a more consistent style. Here are the results:
Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter yesterday. So far he’s discussed enabling “long form Tweets”, Open Sourcing the algorithm, and adding an edit button.