Just this last Monday I attended WordCamp Whitley Bay in the UK. Besides reconnecting with old friends and making new friends, seeing a small WordCamp of about a 100 attendees was a nice experience again. Great reminder that WordCamps don’t have to be these behemoths of a couple of thousand attendees.
With driving back on Tuesday, yes I love roadtrips 😅, it’s been a short week, but I’ve got lots to mention.
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Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Twenty Twentythree is full in development and if you’d like to see how we’re finally getting an un-opinionated default WordPress theme again, you can
already play with it with Playground .
Thanks
- One of the oldest features inside WordPress is called Quick Edit. And it’s lovely to see
it being improved upon actively again . I might have to start using it again!
- Convesio shared a very thorough overview of the
history of WooCommerce . Like, there’s really a lot of information about its history from many different angles there.
I enjoyed this one a lot!
- Speaking of WooCommerce… They published an interesting tutorial on the
WooCommerce Developer site about how to place an order using the Store API .
I think this is a sign, just like HPOS is, that WooCommerce is quickly becoming a faster and more solid platform to work on. Not just “on”, but also with with external tools. The future of WooCommerce is bright IMO.
- As soon as I saw
this ticket I was kinda surprised this wasn’t already in place for the WordPress plugin repo pages.
🚀 Performance
- This one I missed, but a draft version of the
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) has been published.
This collective report team prioritizes the establishment and implementation of sustainability principles on the internet, with a particular emphasis on web performance. It should come as no surprise that a sustainable web is very closely connected to a fast web.
- WP Rocket
released their 3.15 version . Very nice version as it adds the option to lazy load background images. Helping you with improving your LCP and FCP.
- Felix Arntz
shared the results from the WordPress 6.3 performance analysis based on 100,000s of real WordPress sites, with amazing outcomes: The enhancements from 6.3 improved LCP by almost 6% at scale, and for some sites even by more than 20%. Read all about it on the Make WordPress site .
My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:
Best Front-end optimization plugin Cleaning up WordPress + script manager Cloud based performance optimizations
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Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
- The
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💡 Interesting Finds
- Playing with CSS never gets boring. Especially when you
play around with CSS Mask Animations . No clue what that is? Smashing Magazine’s got you covered. Excellent tutorial, as always. - My buddy Nat
shared a funny meme about what to (not) do when a client doesn’t pay their bill. In the comments, Igor mentioned a pretty cool solution for those types of situations .
📖 What I am reading
Didn’t have much time to read significant amount of pages, but I did read these two longer articles:
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