Plugins

ACF 5.8, a Flood in a Gutenberg Desert

Managing the content body of a website using blocks is generally a good idea, but from the point of view of someone developing larger, very customized projects, where sometimes the administration interface is significantly more complex than the front-end, Gutenberg, for me, is a stunningly bad implementation of that good idea1 The Desert The discussion […]

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Plugins

Edit Flow: This is Why We Can’t Have Nice пожитки.

Edit Flow is a fantastic plugin: it basically turns a standard WordPress installation into a newsroom, with complete control of the editorial workflow. As far as code quality is concerned, it is enough to say that it is prominently featured as one of the recommend plugins on WordPress.com’s VIP service, and that the WordPress.com VIP team itself contributes […]

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Plugins

Oh My, DradCast! (also Martinis)

Very happy to see my WooThemes post being discussed on the DradCast (jump to 46:05, but you should watch the whole thing. “Rap battle”, and I’ll say no more), and glad to see the i18n discussion reaching the United States on a larger stage. I think Dre an Brad may have confused “.pot is mandatory” with […]

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Plugins

Dear WP Job Manager: We Need to Talk

It’s not you, it’s me Let me get the obvious out of the way, so that we can focus on what’s important in mending this relationship: I love you, I do. The way you blend into my site’s dashboard sends shivers of joy every time I open your settings page, and your Ajax-powered search and […]

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