Source: Make WordPress: Design

I’ll briefly summarise some of the things we said in last week’s meeting, at WordCampWordCamp WordCamps are casual, locally-organized conferences covering everything related to WordPress. They’re one of the places where the WordPress community comes together to teach one another what they’ve learned throughout the year and share the joy. Learn more. London and on…

Let’s keep going with the work on widgets! I’ve tested the Better Widgets 0.1 pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming…

There’s been a lot of chatter about how to handle the detection of the new dashboard design in a pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are…

Since there have been some questions about CEUX recently, as announced in our 10/22 meeting, CEUX has been put on hold until there are more available developers interested in working on the project. Thanks to @joen for collaborating on concepts with me, everyone who pitched ideas here and in our weekly chats, and @diegoliv and…

Attendees: @avryl, @helen, @melchoyce, @samuelsidler, @shaunandrews, @ubernaut We had a good chat today about the status of the front-end editor pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins…

I apologise for disappearing like that, but here’s a small update for the front-end editor! Just as a reminder, the link to the previous post, the plugin and the GitHub repo. We need your help! Here’s a list of some of the things that need to be done. Currently it’s just a draft and it will probably expand…

We’re back with another Friday update to MP6. We’ve had a flurry of improvements and bugfixes as we come down the home stretch. Open Sans is now included in MP6 instead of linking to Google Fonts. (background and discussion) Responsive fixes to the color scheme picker. Hide 3rd-party adminbar elements at responsive sizes to prevent…

I’ve analyzed user testing for two videos shaunandrews kicked off for v1 of Widgets + MP6. The clips represent the main points of interest and user confusion from the tests and range from 12 to 49 seconds, so they should be quick and easy to watch. Expects clicking “Save” will close the widgetWidget A WordPress…

I put THX38 0.7.1 through some testing. Here are some clips showing the main points of interest. Most are around a minute or so in length, some are shorter. Accidentally clicks into the customizerCustomizer Tool built into WordPress core that hooks into most modern themes. You can use it to preview and modify many of your site’s…

Howdy! The widgets team has been working hard! We’ve spent some time working with (and joining) the MP6 team to get a redesigned widgets screen into the latest version of MP6. If you haven’t seen it yet, download (or update) MP6, and you’ll get this beauty: We’ve also created a new pluginPlugin A plugin is…