• Screenshot of the WordPress 4.8 landing page

    WordPress 4.8 a great setup for cool things to come

    Sure, WordPress 4.8 doesn’t break any major ground, like the WP REST API in 4.7, but it’s another solid, quality release from the volunteers who work in core. And it sets up greater things down the road.

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    An unforseen diversion

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    So everything has been moving at a snail’s pace for Giornalismo, primarily due to my busy schedule, but Thursday things came to an interesting halt. The folks who run and maintain WordPress and the WordPress directory made it official that all themes will have the use the WordPress Customizer instead of creating separate theme options…

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  • Supporting the WordPress customizer decision

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    So last week the WordPress Theme Review Team made the decision that all themes hosted in the WordPress Theme Directory will have to use the Customizer to display theme options. The decision was expectedly met by resistance from many developers who had their own way of displaying theme options, which makes sense given how much…

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    Playing the waiting game

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    So this past week has been a pretty good week with the WordPress theme development. Since this time last week, I’ve submitted Giornalismo for the theme review to get into the WordPress Theme Directory as well as the Nuovo 2.0 update. That has gotten a lot off of my plate development-wise, but now comes the…

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  • Getting started with a new theme

    So the last month or so has been a down period for me and WordPress. After sending off the initial version of Giornalismo and the 2.0 release of Nuovo, I haven’t been doing much work in developing on WordPress.

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  • WordPress 4.3 not flashy, but a solid update nonetheless

    Last week, WordPress 4.3, nicknamed “Billie Holliday” for the jazz musician — as are all of the major releases for the blogging platform — was released to the world. This was the first release cycle that I followed heavily through the Make WordPress blog, so none of the features in the release caught me off…

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    The plan after a break from WordPress

    It’s been a long three-plus months. My final fall semester in college was everything that I could handle… and then some. But the semester is finally over for me and with it an opportunity to get back into developing in WordPress.

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  • Homepage for Sports Bench theme

    Starting designs on the sports theme and thoughts about Adobe Experience

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    Classes are finally over for the semester, which means I have a little bit more time to get back into WordPress development. It also meant I had some time to test drive Adobe’s latest Creative Cloud product, “Experience.”

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  • Screenshot of the WordPress 4.7 welcome screen

    WordPress 4.7 another big step in the right direction for platform

    WordPress 4.7 dropped on Tuesday after much anticipation. The newest release doesn’t change the game, but it’s another strong step in the right direction for the content management system.

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