Since last Friday, I drove about 4262 kilometers to meet with friends and watch Matt Mullenweg deliver the State of the Word in Madrid, Spain. That’s 2648 miles for our metrically-challenged friends 😏.
Lots of kilometers, I know, but there were also lots of friends, and it was a great State of the Word.
If there’s one thing clear about the state of WordPress right now is that I don’t think we’ve seen this much work done on WordPress in one year than ever before.
I was already very bullish on WordPress’ future, but at this rate, 2024 is going to be lit.
Anyway, there’s more news than that! Let’s dive in.
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Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Joost published his findings of the State of the Word on Post Status.
And really, I pretty much agree on everything he mentioned there.
- Pascal Birchler shared a bunch of Block Editor experiments with us. Experiments like image compression, file conversion, and video recording. There’s a video as well as a Github library.
Bullish, yo. I’m very bullish.
- Damon Cook shared an approach for if you’ve ever needed to create a WordPress site with a bunch of test data (users, posts, page, custom post types, terms).
- The roadmap for WordPress 6.5 was published, btw.
Have I mentioned I’m bullish? So is Mike.
- Rich shared all the demos you saw in Matt’s keynote, btw.
- The results for the State of Enterprise WordPress are out and about as well. I mentioned them a few editions ago.
- Maggie Cabrera, one of the people responsible for the wonderful TT4 default theme we have with WordPress 6.4 published an open letter to a future default theme lead.
🚀 Performance
- Testing the Performance of Social Media Embeds
- Why web perf tools should be reporting website carbon emissions
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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- Ever needed to trouble shoot performance or funky behaviour on a WordPress site? There’s a plugin that can help you out tremendously. It’s called the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin and it’s created by our friends from WordPress.org
One of the things that it allows you to do is it lets you troubleshoot problems by selecting which plugins to activate for the currently logged in user. Neato.
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
- The most versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress
- LocalWP, the easiest to use local dev solution
💡 Interesting Finds
- CSS scroll snapping is so good now that Safari supports scroll-snap-stop
Now, normally, I’m very hesitant to share ”another guru’s” take on AI, but for Kim I’ll make an exception.
🎁 Bonus
This is a presentation I enjoyed a lot. It’s about equal access to information and opportunities is a human right. Matt Hobbs teaches you how web performance is one of the critical tools to achieve equity online.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Inside WordPress. Thanks for reading!
Best, Remkus
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