A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
8Bit is Shutting Down
8bit8Bit, the maker of the Standard Theme, is shutting down. The four founders of 8Bit are all significantly involved in various parts of the large WordPress ecosystem. You can follow John, Tom, Jared, and Chris going forward.
The Standard Theme forums will be open another thirty days.
Pippin And I Have Started A Podcast
I’ve teamed up with Pippin Williamson to talk about WordPress development in a new podcast called Apply Filters. As in apply_filters( 'podcast', $brad, $pippin, $guest );. If you’re not a WordPress developer, you probably won’t get it.
An Issue Tracker for Documentation
The issue tracker is a central place where people can report issues related to documentation (kind of like trac, but for docs). We’ve been discussing on-and-off an issue tracker for documentation. We’re reaching the point at which we need to make this happen.
WebDevStudios’ Take On a WordPress Core Widget UI Refresh
Let’s face it – unless you like devoting your time to clicking, dragging, accidentally letting go of your mouse button, then clicking and dragging again, we all hate the widget management page. With things becoming more and more streamlined with each WordPress release, how is it that the widget page remains such a cumbersome, laborious trial of will and patience (not to mention finger dexterity)?
It’s Legal but Unethical
Some people in the WordPress community are still trying to hold on to that last shred of proprietary licensing. That idea that their code shouldn’t be shared with others. That it’s wrong to use their creations freely.
What is WordPress Lacking? A Template Language
Django, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Laravel, Drupal—what do these platforms have that WordPress lacks? A template language.
This is where the “boo”s usually start. I’ve talked to many top people in the WordPress community who believe that the current PHP-based templating system is fine. Hard to disagree with them when WordPress powers nearly 20% of the web.
