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This week was an exciting week for Dutch startup WordProof as they were awarded a €1 Million prize by the European Commission.
With this contest, Europe aims to stimulate the use of blockchain technology to solve social problems. WordProof, founded one year ago, managed to leave 175 participants from all over Europe behind. Which is quite an impressive feat for this young startup.
[Read more…] about WordProof awards €1M grant by European CommissionThere’s an interesting proposal on the Make Core blog by Ian Dunn. The proposal suggests to auto-update all older or equal than 3.7 – the version that introduced auto-updates – WordPress instances to 4.7.
The reason for wanting to do this is actually best summarized by Otto in a comment:
If we simply said “we’re not backporting fixes anymore” and left it at that, then that changes nothing except now we’re intentionally leaving a huge portion of the web vulnerable to undiscovered threats
Samuel “Otto” Wood
Read the rest of the post on the Core blog and weigh in. It’s a bit of a read, but I would include the comments before asking your questions or adding your comments.
The Theme Review Theme announced today that they will shortly be requiring new themes to include keyboard navigation to be built in.
The main goal for this new requirement is to make the themes on WordPress.org have better accessibility features by default. Having keyboard navigation included means you would be able to navigate theme settings and such in the browser without the use of a mouse. This is especially needed for users of alternative input devices who are sighted.
Read more about it at the announcement post.
Google announced the developer preview of Google Site Kit on GitHub. They’re launching it on GitHub first so this way they allow WordPress developers to test drive the plugin and test Site Kit compatibility with other plugins. For now, it’s the easiest way for Google to gather implementation feedback and recommendations for this plugin.
Google’s current implementation of the plugin setup flow requires developer know-how and familiarity with Google Cloud Platform and OAuth verification process. The current setup experience is not the final user experience they plan to make available to WordPress users. Learn more about it on GitHub.
In June of this year, WP Engine took over StudioPress from Copyblogger. They’ve been quiet the first couple of months, but WP Engine is making their intentions with StudioPress, and specifically Genesis, very clear in the last couple of weeks.
[Read more…] about WP Engine moves forward with Genesis and more StudioPress newsEver since WordCamp Europe 2018 in Belgrade, people have been anxiously waiting for the release schedule of WordPress 5.0. Specifically, when will Gutenberg finally been added to core.
Well, the wait is over. Matt Mullenweg published a plan for WordPress 5.0 over at the Make WordPress Core blog. This is what he had to say about it:
[Read more…] about The plan and schedule for WordPres 5.0This week’s Monday was the first opportunity to buy your WordCamp ticket for what’s going be a great WordCamp Europe again. This time in the beautiful city Berlin in Germany.
[Read more…] about WordCamp Europe releases second batch of tickets