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June 10, 2019

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Doc Pop’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. Ian Dunn has created a new WordPress plugin that uses neural networks to help identify “toxic” comments. If a comment scores poorly, a message will pop-up suggesting that the comment’s author consider changing their wording to be less toxic. You can download and install the Compassionate Comments plugin from the repository here.

Doc Pop’s News Drop: The Gutenberg Accessibility Audit

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May 14, 2019

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Doc Pop’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. In this week’s News Drop video we talk with Rachel Cherry, the director of WPCampus, about the results of the Gutenberg Accessibility audit. Registration is open for WPCampus 2019 on July 25-27 in Portland.

Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress 5.2 is here

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May 8, 2019

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Doc Pop’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 5.2 is here and full of new features. In this week’s News Drop we talk about Site Health, Fatal Error Recovery Mode, and support for cryptographically-signed updates. Love WordPress News but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Site Health section of the admin panel, support for a modern cryptography library, and support for cryptographically-signed updates. WordPress 5.2 launches today, May 7th and […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Using WordPress to Power VR Experiences

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May 1, 2019

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Doc Pop’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. In this week’s video, we chat with Anthony Burchell about his recent experiments with WordPress and VR. Anthony is building a music game using the REST API and WordPress blocks to manage the game’s assets.

Doc Pop’s News Drop: The Plugin Madness 2019 Finalists

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April 17, 2019

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Doc Pop’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. It is the final week of Torque’s Plugin Madness 2019 and we are down to our two finalists. Be sure to vote today for your favorite on PluginMadness.com. We also have a great new update from WordCamp Europe and news about WP Campus 2019. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. This is it, the final week of our Plugin […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Should Plugins Alter Search Results?

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April 8, 2019

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Doc Pop’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. In this week’s News Drop we talk about a recent Jetpack update which adds feature suggestions to activate a Jetpack feature to the top of search results on the plugin repository. Doc talks about why they did it and what it means for the future of ads in the WordPress dashboard. Since this video was recorded, a newer version of Jetpack has been released to make these suggestions easier to […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: WCEU 2019 and Plugin Madness

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March 30, 2019

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Doc Pop’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. In this week’s episode we talk about Think Like A Hacker, the new podcast from Wordfence.com and the newest results from our Plugin Madness competition. We also a feature a new video that the WordCamp Europe team shared with us about this year’s event in Berlin. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. This week we have a big update […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: WordPress Powers 33% of the Web!

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March 14, 2019

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Doc Pop’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. The World Wide Web just turned 30 and #WordPress powers over 33% of it. Learn more in this week’s News Drop. Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. Today is the World Wide Web’s 30th Birthday. Happy birthday, internet! I hear 30 is the new 20! On this day in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea of using a […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Wapuu Dashboard Pet

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February 25, 2019

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Doc Pop’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. In this week’s News Drop, we talk about Wapuu Dashboard Pet, a cute little plugin that’s like mochipet-for-WordPress. We also talk about this year’s Plugin Madness competition and the release of WordPress 5.1 Love WordPress news but hate reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop. drum If you love plugins, be sure to nominate you favorite WordPress plugin for our upcoming Plugin Madness competition. Each […]

Doc Pop’s News Drop: Hello WP!

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February 12, 2019

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