As a veteran WordPress user, you are probably aware that every year since 201o WordPress developers have given us a new default theme. In the past, it came with the last major release at the end of the year and was a highlight for many of us. This tradition picked up again with the release of WordPress 5.0, which, among other things, brought us Twenty Nineteen, the new WordPress default theme. Anyway, the theme’s arrival was reason enough for us to load a copy into a testing environment and give it a spin. In the following Twenty Nineteen theme review, […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: Wapuu Dashboard Pet
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 […]
Developer Automation With NPX and Commander
The more I learn about JavaScript development, the more I’m exposed to JavaScript build and config tools. The tools such as babel and webpack, frustrate me. The config tools, the magic software of joy that sets up all of your build tools for you via magic pixie-dust or something so you can just write code, those fascinate me. I wish we had more for WordPress and ones that did things exactly the way I think they should be done. I really dislike using templating languages for templating code. That’s what’s stopped me from building my own scaffolding tools before. I always […]
Why Generation Z is the Most Entrepreneurial Generation
The Internet plays a huge part in everyone’s lives. We use it to shop, connect to people, and be entertained. However there is a group of people utilizing the Internet like never before, and in fact, planning their lives around it, Generation Z. Generation Z consists of anyone born after 1995 and makes up about 25 percent of the US population. This group, unlike any other, is letting the Internet shape their futures, and business owners need to take notice. According to a study conducted by WP Engine and The Center for Generational Kinetics says that 55 percent of Gen […]
Doc Pop’s News Drop: 5 WordPress Trends That Aren’t Going Away in 2019
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. 2018 was a year of big changes in the WordPress community and there’s no telling what new things we will see in 2019, but we are sure that these five WordPress trends aren’t going away anytime soon. Love WordPress News But Hate Reading? My name is Doc and this is Doc Pop’s News Drop! Happy New Year. 2018 was a wild year for WordPress. After years of hype, we finally […]

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