Author: Gary
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WordPress’ Gutenberg: The Long View
WordPress has been around for 15 years. 31.5% of sites use it, and that figure continues to climb. We’re here for the long term, so we need to plan for the long term. Gutenberg is being built as the base for the next 15 years of WordPress. The first phase, replacing the post editing screen…
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General Ann Dunwoody is Joining Automattic! 🤩
I’m excited that General Dunwoody is joining the Automattic board: not just for the new perspective to help bring different ideas, but also for how important diversity is to her. Personally, I’ve found that my work is only improved when I’m working with a diverse group of people, who don’t think, or act, or look…
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Podcasting: Tavern Style
Earlier today, I joined JJJ and Jeff on episode 319 of the WP Tavern’s WordPress Weekly podcast! We chatted about GitHub being acquired by Microsoft (and what that might mean for the future of WordPress using Trac), the state of Gutenberg, WordCamp Europe, as well as getting into a bit of the philosophy that drives…
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Introducing: Click Sync
Chrome’s syncing is pretty magical: you can see your browsing history from your phone, tablet, and computers, all in one place. When you install Chrome on a new computer, it automatically downloads your extensions. You can see your bookmarks everywhere, it even lets you open a tab from another device. There’s one thing that’s always…
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Introducing: Linkify for Chrome
In WordPress 4.2, a fun little feature was quietly snuck into Core, I’m always delighted to see people’s reactions when they discover it. Thank you kind WordPress Devs for introducing the paste-a-link-on-highlighted-text feature. It's already saved me half an hour this week! — meagan hanes (@mhanes) May 10, 2016 I love being able to highlight text in…
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Curing a Critical Security Bug
A WordCamp US this year, I spoke about the Trojan Emoji security bug, which we fixed in WordPress 4.1.2. In particular, I went through how we came to wrap our head around the bug, and then write a solution that worked for every WordPress site.