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WordPress 4.8 a great setup for cool things to come
Continue Reading: WordPress 4.8 a great setup for cool things to comeSure, 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
Continue Reading: An unforseen diversionSo 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
Continue Reading: Supporting the WordPress customizer decisionSo 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
Continue Reading: Playing the waiting gameSo 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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WordPress 4.3 not flashy, but a solid update nonetheless
Continue Reading: WordPress 4.3 not flashy, but a solid update nonethelessLast 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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Getting started with a new theme
Continue Reading: Getting started with a new themeSo 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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The plan after a break from WordPress
Continue Reading: The plan after a break from WordPressIt’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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Starting designs on the sports theme and thoughts about Adobe Experience
Continue Reading: Starting designs on the sports theme and thoughts about Adobe ExperienceClasses 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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WordPress 4.7 another big step in the right direction for platform
Continue Reading: WordPress 4.7 another big step in the right direction for platformWordPress 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.
