Another one of those quick announcement posts, but this one is really important and an interesting step in the right direction for the Open Source WordPress community.
WordPress
WordPress is the most popular CMS in the world (by far – over 60% of all sites which use any CMS use WP) which is installed on over 32% of the top 10 million websites.
In other words, WordPress is the absolute market leader in terms of publishing and promoting content on the web.
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WordPress 5.0.3 is Live
The latest version of WordPress – WP 5.0.3 – went live on Wednesday 9 January 2019, and it’s working fine and as expected on my site here, and several clients who have minor version updates turned on.
Using WordPress Twenty Seventeen Theme? Use the Read More Tag!
Sometimes developers think about problems and look for solutions in the code, even though there’s already a better way.
Almost a year with no comments…
I’ve recently been thinking about turning a few things off.
In fact, I have recently actually begun turning things off. For example, Google Analytics.
Backward Compatibility Vs Technical Debt
Here’s an interesting explanation of the “Eternal Struggle” between Technical Debt and Backward Compatibility (in a WordPress context) from WP CLI maintainer, Alain Schlesser.
The Best, Correct, Right and Only ;) way to update WordPress or WooCommerce!
As you may or may not be able to glean from my facetious title – its got a 😉 in it for this reason – I don’t think there is an only, right, best or most correct way to do really anything… all developers and store managers will find their own path.
Develop WooCommerce? Install the latest release often!
This is a quick one, but its something I believe is important. Its a little note to self, and anyone else out there who works with WooCommerce as a developer – or wants to.
New Baby Resolutions
In case you didn’t know (and why would you) my wife and I had another baby, born on 2nd August, a baby we have called Heather.
Download the Latest Version of WordPress
Here’s a quick post for all time… its about where to download the latest version of WordPress – the most recent, stable, release.
Various Changes and speed enhancements
In case you were following along, a few more changes have gone in here, at this site, because here is where I have license to do things my way.