Mention: Mark Howells-Mead

  • Generate Blocks 2.0, WordPress on Vercel + GB Phase 3 update

    One week until Black Friday! That is today. And you can kinda tell the world of WordPress is quite focused on that because it’s been a bit of a quiet week in terms of news. Today’s edition is somewhat dev oriented, but I tried to include some fun bits for everyone here and there. And…

  • Bring FSE Features to Classic Themes + Other 6.5 news & So Much More

    It’s here! No, I don’t mean this newsletter (although I would totally understand your enthusiasm 😄), but I’m referring to WordPress 6.5. The best version of WordPress we’ve seen so far and I’m not alone in this feeling. Right, Rafał? Also, per usual, Rich Tabor created a wonderful thread on X highlighting all the wonderful…

  • Changes at Woo + A Productive Joost

    Hope you enjoyed your extra day yesterday. Can you believe we’re already 8 episodes into 2024 on this first day of March? Crazy how fast this goes. One more month to finish our Q1 goals for Scanfully 👀 Ready for this one? Let’s go! Get in front of 1150+ dedicated WordPress friends and check out…

  • Performance, Performance & Big Things #079

    This was a big week. Lots of interesting things happening with WordPress 6.3 beta and discovering its features. But also with publishing another super interesting podcast, appearing on TWIW, and sharing a big decision. Let’s jump into episode 79, hope you enjoy it! 🗞️ Inside WordPress News Here’s what I saw happening this past week:…

  • WP Performance Focus for 2023 & Container Queries – #062

    Hi there 👋🏻 Ramblings. Number 62. Can’t believe it’s gone so fast, but right before number 61 was published, I noticed I was exactly one subscriber away from 500 subscribers. I did a shout out on the socials asking who would want to be lucky number 500 and it that turned out to be Torsten…

  • WordPress Bugs Be Gone + CSS performance #057

    This was a big week. If only for one simple fact: it’s been twenty years! Twenty years since Mike Little commented on Matt Mullenweg’s blog. A simple comment. Nothing more than letting Matt know that he would love to help out fork B2 into something new. Something that would become known to the world as…