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What Is Gutenberg Full-Site Editing (And How to Access It Today)

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Will Morris

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March 5, 2021

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Full-Site Editing (FSE) represents a huge change in the way WordPress users design and develop websites. As a member of the WordPress community, you’re probably eager to gain some hands-on experience with it. However, when WordPress 5.6 shipped, it did not include this long-awaited feature. Fortunately, there is a way to access the Full-Site Editor. With some help from the Gutenberg plugin and an experimental WordPress theme, you can access a beta release of FSE today. This is a prime opportunity to test out the next phase in WordPress design before it’s officially released. In this article, we’ll get you […]

DE{CODE} 2021 Looked to the Future of WordPress

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Emily Schiola

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March 4, 2021

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WP Engine’s developer-focused conference DE{CODE} just wrapped up for the second year in a row. The virtual conference acted as a way to bring together people from around the community and learn. The day consisted of three keynotes and a variety of shorter breakout sessions that focused on the life cycle of a website: Set up, Build, Launch, and Optimize. On top of talks, attendees could attend networking sessions as well as chat in the Slack channel. Each talk focused on how to make your site more powerful and reach more people. Headless WordPress The first keynote, delivered by WP […]

Torque’s Social Hour: With Joshua Dailey from Infinite Uploads

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Doc Pop

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March 3, 2021

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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc and Emily talk with Joshua Dailey, the co-founder of Infinite Uploads. We’ll talk about the Infinite Uploads plugin can help you better manage media and file storage on your WordPress site. Josh also shares some great tips for plugin authors on how to win the Plugin Madness challenge. Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Bridget Willard.

Torque’s Social Hour: With Greg Rickaby

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Doc Pop

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March 3, 2021

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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream about WordPress news, events, and life in quarantine. In this week’s episode Doc and Emily talk with Greg Rickaby, the Director of Engineering at WebDevStudios. Greg’s newest project, the Next.js WordPress Starter, is a quick way to launch your next headless WordPress project. We’ll talk about that project and more on this episode. Github – https://github.com/WebDevStudios/nextjs-wordpress-starter Docs/Wiki – https://github.com/WebDevStudios/nextjs-wordpress-starter/wiki Demo – https://nextjs-wordpress-starter.vercel.app/ Join us next Wednesday from 3-4pm PST when our special guest will be Josh Daily.

Press This Podcast: Personalization using Amazon Personalize for WooCommerce with James Jory of AWS

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Emily Schiola

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March 3, 2021

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Welcome to Press This, the WordPress community podcast from WMR. Here host David Vogelpohl sits down with guests from around the community to talk about the biggest issues facing WordPress developers. The following is a transcription of the original recording. David Vogelpohl: Hello everyone and welcome to Press This the WordPress community podcasts on WMR. This is your host, David Vogelpohl, I support the WordPress community through my role at WP Engine, and I love to bring the best of the community to you hear every week on press this as a reminder, you can find me on Twitter @wpdavidv, […]

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