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Matt Mullenweg Announces WordPress 5.0 Release Plan, Estimates Release Candidate to Ship in November
Matt Mullenweg has announced a plan for releasing WordPress 5.0 with a tentative estimate for a release candidate to ship in November. Mullenweg is leading the release but has designated 11 other leads to head up various focuses, including triage, design, JavaScript packages, REST API, merge process and several other important aspects of the release.
Hacktoberfest is Back for Year 5
DigitalOcean started Hacktoberfest with a simple mission in mind: to give back to the open source community that had given us and many other companies so much. Five years later, more than 100,000 developers from 120 countries have participated, contributing nearly 400,000 pull requests to almost 100,000 repositories. They’re back for another year and officially welcome you to our fifth annual celebration of open source in partnership with GitHub and Twilio!
Should Gutenberg Replace Your WordPress Page Builder?
One of biggest issues for designers is how Gutenberg will affect page builders. On the surface, there does appear to be some shared functionality between them. Does that mean the page builder tools we’re using today will become obsolete? Should we toss them aside for Gutenberg?
