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News & Articles
WordCamp US 2020 Canceled Due to Pandemic Stress and Online Event Fatigue (wptavern.com) WordCamp US 2020, which was originally scheduled for October 27-29, was officially canceled. In April, organizers transitioned to planning for it to be held as a virtual event, but the tenuous situation with the pandemic in the United States and the stress on the event’s large crew of volunteers has precipitated a full cancellation. The decision was announced on the WCUS website.
The Remote Work Well-being & Mental Health Survey 2020 (www.bigorangeheart.org) To better help understand how Big Orange Heart can deliver on its mission to support and promote positive well-being and mental health within remote working communities, they are launching our annual Well-being and Mental Health Survey.
The survey is entirely anonymous and will help improve the lives of others within our community through better understanding.
🎉 Introducing the GraphQL API for WordPress (leoloso.com) GraphQL is steadily becoming the most popular API solution, because it makes it easy to access the data from a website. It provides a great developer experience.
Leonardo Losoviz believes that the GraphQL API for WordPress can succeed to integrate these 2 together, combining their characteristics: to make it easy to anyone to provide access to their content.
What’s New in Gutenberg (August 5) (make.wordpress.org) WordPress 5.5 is around the corner and Gutenberg contributors have been busy fixing a number of important issues to make sure the editor on 5.5 is as stable as possible. Gutenberg 8.7 changelog reflects that with a number of fixes including important a11y ones.
The Best Client Portal Software Compared (2020) (www.cozmoslabs.com) It’s easy to see why client portal software could be so useful for businesses of all shapes and sizes, regardless of industry. In this post, we’re going to take a look at five of the best client portal software options available today and show you how to install the tool of your choice on WordPress!
Set Up Visual Studio Code and xDebug as the Ultimate Editor for WordPress Development (deliciousbrains.com) If you keep up with the many text editors and developer tools available, you may have heard of Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code. VS Code is a free, open source code editor that is lightweight like Sublime Text, but offers many of the same features as bigger IDEs like PhpStorm or WebStorm.
In this article we’ll review some features of VS Code that we love, and show you how to make the most out of it for WordPress dev.