wpMail.me wpMail.me issue#440 - The weekly WordPress newsletter. No spam, no nonsense. - December 18, 2019
News & Articles
Progress on WordPress’ 2019 Projects Sets 2020 Roadmap (wptavern.com) Josepha Haden, Executive Director of WordPress, published an update of WordPress’ goals in 2019. The focus for WordPress over the past year has been on nine primary projects. Of the nine projects, WordPress only managed to ship two in 2019. This means that the focus in 2020 will be much the same as the community continues building on the progress it has made toward the existing projects.
The State of the WordPress Economy (thinkwritecode.com) The GPL sets the stage for all the actors involved in WordPress. No matter how hard any of them try to push it to one side, it stubbornly finds its way back in any meaningful argument or decision. It’s not an elephant that stumbles over precious china, more like a single-minded bull that will not allow anyone to forget they are in an arena under his reign. All this is exactly how the GPL’s creator envisioned it. No accidents or surprises here.
Ten Years of Dev4Press (www.dev4press.com) Dev4Press announced the final week of celebrations leading to the tenth birthday on December 15, 2019. This will include a special 20% discount for all Dev4Press plugins, addons and club membership licenses and a final giveaway for a lifetime license (2 awards) for Dev4Press Plugins Club Membership.
EU VAT for Easy Digital Downloads: Complete Guide (barn2.co.uk) Did you know that if you sell digital products (e.g. WordPress themes or plugins) to customers in the EU then you must collect European VAT, even if you're not based in the EU yourself? Barn2 have just launched a new plugin that provides the easiest way for any Easy Digital Downloads store to meet European VAT rules, along with a complete guide to walk you through this often-overlooked topic.
Zero BS CRM 3.0 Improves UI, Changes Database Structure, and Becomes More Extendable (wptavern.com) The team behind Zero BS CRM launched version 3.0 of their WordPress plugin. This is the first major release since the plugin was acquired by Automattic in August. The updated plugin uses custom database tables, opens the plugin for more extensions, and has a more consistent UI than previous versions.
How I Made WordPress Faster with 1KB JavaScript (dev.to) How it works?
Flying Pages injects a tiny JavaScript code (1KB gzipped) that waits until the browser becomes idle, detect links in the viewport (also on mouse hover) and preloads them so that browser doesn't have to wait while navigating through pages.
8 Things I Learned Building a WordPress Site without Code (wpshout.com) About a month ago, we read a headline in the Post Status newsletter called “Let’s No-Code This Thing and All Go Home.” The whole topic, and especially the phrase “No-Code” itself, got us really excited, and it made us want to build a WordPress site with absolutely no code and see how it went. This article presents my eight main lessons and takeaways from the process.