Well, there it is. The 100th version of all my newsletter variations. This means I finally cracked the “how to be consistent” formula as close to half has been published this year!
So this is possibly the last Inside WordPress of this year. Possibly. I might do one more as an entire bonus edition next Friday with just highlights of what you all clicked on the most this year.
Let me know if that interests you!
Either way, let’s get to the contents of number 100!
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🗞️ Inside WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Bernhard Kau published an explainer article on how to integrate your theme or plugin that handles user data to the Privacy Policy Guide in WordPress.
One of those features that, I think, is highly underused. Hope this inspires you to check it out, and integrate your solutions into it.
- Nat Miletic published an article near and dear to my heart on how to reduce your WordPress website size. He provides tips on how to clean up your unused images, file system, and database.
- Joost shared two articles this week that’ll help you set up your Github repositories in a much better and smarter way. Hell, your entire Github account!
You gotta love it when people get annoyed and then produce solutions to fix the annoyance.
- Jonny Harris took it upon himself to update the official WordPress OAuth1 plugin.
Bless him, I say.
- Cloudflare has to be one of my favorite companies out there. I mean, the vast amount of solutions they offer to create a better and faster version of your site is just … 🤯. Jack Arturo agrees and wrote a wonderful article about how they use Cloudflare’s features for their WP Fusion site.
- Krishna Kant Chourasiya shared a WordPress plugin boilerplate that demonstrates how to build a simple admin options page with React in WordPress.
🚀 Performance
- WordPress has made wonderful progress in the area of performance this year, culminated in the most excellent 6.4 version. One of the things it helped improve are the Core Web Vitals. Here’s a great overview of what was achieved this year!
My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:
- The best Front-end optimization plugin
- Cleaning up WordPress + script manager
- Cloud based performance optimizations
🔆 Inside WordPress Highlight
Curious as to why I have this opinion? Do click this post and check out my reply.
You know I’m onto to something if Mike McAlister agrees.
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
- The most versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress
- LocalWP, the easiest to use local dev solution
💡 Interesting CSS Finds
- Here is a stapler made with only CSS & HTML and using only a single <div></div>. Wild.
- CSS :has() is now supported in every browser!
- You can create auto-resizing text inputs with one line of CSS
Sorry, not sorry for sharing all these cool and modern CSS solutions we have nowadays!
- Dave Martin transformed his late mother’s handwriting into the Kathleen Regular font.
One of the most wonderful tributes I’ve ever seen.
Final thoughts
This has been an extremely busy year for me. Not only by growing my newsletter, working on my courses, launching my podcast, my YouTube channel, but most certainly also building Scanfully and one other soon-to-be-announced service for all the WordPress companies out there.
I want to thank all my partners for sponsoring my newsletter and podcast, but I most certainly want to thank you as well, my friend, for allowing me in your inbox every week!
Happy holidays!
That’s it for this week’s edition of Inside WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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