When you’re reading this edition of Inside WordPress, I’ll most likely be driving on the German Autobahn somewhere around Essen. I’m at the annual Esson Motor Show. Confirming that I do, in fact, have interests outside of WordPress. Hmm, maybe I should create a newsletter about that too, huh? 🤔
Anyway, we got lots to cover from last week, so hope you’re rested enough! Enjoy!
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🗞️ Inside WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Gravatar, the service I’m assuming you’re all using has seen quite an update. It’s got privacy settings now, and it now can almost(?) function as your link in bio page? Check it out.
Good time to update your bio and social media links there. Because how long has that been since you last updated that one, my friend?!
- Jonny Harris shares this gem for when you’re having problems working out parameters to pass to a WordPress REST API endpoint?
Seriously cool (hidden(?) feature.
- Laracast, yeah, yeah, I know, published a wonderful PHP for beginners video course that’s well over 10 hours.
So… you may feel dirty clicking that link, but if you really want to understand PHP proper, get over yourself.
- PHP 8.3 was released and if you want to figure out compatability, go and check out Vikas post on how to do that with InstaWP.
- Brian Coords wanted to replicate the TwentyTwentyFour theme’s “Choose a pattern” modal when creating new pages. He figured out how to do just that and wrote a wonderful tutorial on it.
- Maarten Belmans from Studio Wombat is sharing his results from his Black Friday campaign.
Very interesting to read these results, his conclusion, and the conversation in his thread on X!
- Josh made some predictions on what will happen with WooCommerce in 2024.
What’s your favorite one?
- Matt Cohen talks about building WordPress plugins in context and how your plugin, your product should best suit it’s user’s needs.
Do you agree? Should WordPress plugin settings pages always adhere to WordPress’ look and feel? And if not, what is too far?
I recently did an interview style video for the Unfiltered podcast, and I’d love to share that one with you. Hosted by Paul Halfpenny (CTO & Founder of Filter) and Nathan Wrigley (of WP Tavern & WP Builds)
🚀 Performance
- Calibre shared an interesting guide about the Psychology of Speed. It’s a Guide to Perceived Performance.
- Zack Leatherman published A New Technique for Image Optimization: SVG Short Circuiting.
- If you’ve been following the Inside WordPress newsletter for a while, you know I’ve referenced WordPress’ push to the WebP image format before, as well as the failed attempt to merge it into Core. But here’s an interesting related question, should AVIF be the dominant image format on the web instead?
My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:
- The best Front-end optimization plugin
- Cleaning up WordPress + script manager
- Cloud based performance optimizations
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💡 Interesting Finds
- Another magical CSS find. You can use CSS (and JavaScript) to create some amazing things with gradients. Speckboy shows you how.
- Another GPT that’s interesting to play with. It’s a Marketing Insights Guru by Simon Vreeman.
- Want to move Chrome’s download button to the bottom again? I know I did!
🎁 Bonus
🎙️ Sometimes it’s wonderful talking to people who’ve been in the WordPress Community more than a decade, and sometimes it’s great listening to a relative newcomer. My conversation with Danil Michailovas from Omnisend what exactly such a conversation.
I’d also like to share a feature we’re going to be launching in Scanfully which we’re calling the WordPress Events Timeline, WET for short. It’s how to do User Activity monitoring In WordPress proper.
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