Last week, Matt Mullenweg announced that WordPress was breaking up with ReactJS due to Facebook’s patent clause, which means that the upcoming Gutenberg editor will be completely re-written in some other language. Probably Preact or VueJS.
If you are thinking of selling WordPress products, you have two options: list on a marketplace, or sell through your own site. I’d highly encourage you to sell on your own site, here’s why. Giving Up Control Listing on a marketplace means that you are totally dependent on them for your traffic and sales. This is tempting in the beginning because if you don’t have any traffic they can provide it for a fee. 50 percent of a few sales is better than 100 percent of no sales, right? This is short-term thinking. Consider three years from now when you’ve […]
Doc’s WordPress News Drop is a weekly report on the most pressing WordPress news. When the news drops, I will pick it up and deliver it right to you. WordPress 5.0 and the Gutenberg Editor are still coming, just a little later than we may have originally hoped. In this week’s video, we talk about the revised suggested roadmap for Gutenberg, WordPress 4.9, and other future releases. One quick note, shortly after we edited this video, Matt Mullenweg shared this post about the Gutenberg team’s decision to move away from React and use a different library, which Matt states will […]
One of the benefits of working with WordPress is its maturity as a platform. However, the reason it has stayed so relevant is the project’s adaptability. Recently, there have been great strides towards a switching to a brand new editor called Gutenberg. As with any major software change, you’ll want to make sure your existing plugins and themes will be compatible with this new editor. Thankfully, the code for the Gutenberg editor is now available as a public plugin in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. This means you can download and install it to get a feel for any major compatibility issues in […]
The smartphone created revolutionary advancements in existing technologies and development processes. Today, the extent of the mobile app development market is large as it encompasses small-scale businesses, leading enterprises, and startups. Though WordPress was primarily thought of as a blogging platform, it is now used for much more than that, including mobile app development. In the article below, I will describe why the two worlds work perfectly together. Why WordPress? WordPress offers exceptional customization to your mobile app’s layout and many mobile app developers use it as a backend for a mobile app. Being an open source CMS, WordPress supports […]
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