Ever since Faust.js officially came out of beta in June of 2023, the team has been collecting RFCs (or requests for comments) on Github to steer the direction of the project. In this episode, we talk with Joe Fusco, a Senior Software Developer at WP Engine, who tells us how listening to users will help to create a project for the community. We also talk about some recently added features and the state of headless WordPress
Landing in Washington DC you immediately feel the history. You feel the weight of the decisions being made in the city and it gives you a sense of pride for belonging to something bigger than yourself. That’s why it was such an apt setting for WordCamp US 2023, on the heels of the 20th anniversary of the CMS. Being around community members and seeing the work they’re doing shows how far we’ve come in 20 years and where the CMS can go in the future. The Gaylord National Resort was buzzing with the excitement of WordPressers eager to discuss the […]
In this episode of PressThis, we cover the latest updates from WordPress core and the WordPress community. Listen now to hear about the big updates in WP 6.3, plus news about ACF, AI, and upcoming events like WordCamp US.
Our special guests for this episode are Damon Cook, a Developer Advocate at WP Engine, and Mike Davey, the Senior Editor at Delicious Brains.
Just ahead of WordCamp US, an exciting WordPress update was released, WordPress 6.3 named for Lionel Hampton. Hampton was a jazz vibraphonist, pianist, and percussionist who worked with the likes of Quincy Jones, Benny Goodman, and Charles Mingus. In 2021, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Grammy. Image source: make.wordpress Enjoy some of Hampton’s fast fingers in “Hot Mallets” as we go through the exciting updates to WordPress. WordPress “Lionel” 6.3, makes creating beautiful and powerful sites easier than ever before. There are updates for non-coders creating their first website and ones for long-time developers looking to optimize theirs. We […]
WordPress is a global platform with users in every corner of the world. And because of that, translations have been a hot topic for years. Translating your site makes it more accessible and opens it up to entirely new audiences. However, a new in-depth study by the WordPress Performance Team indicates that translations could slow your site down. Testing showed that localized websites, or websites that are tailored to specific target audiences and languages in different regions, can load up to 50 percent slower than non-localized sites. According to WordPress Contributor Pascal Birchler, “In addition to core itself, each plugin […]
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