Nathan Rice

As you may know, WordPress 5.0 introduced a new editor experience (for those that haven't decided to explicitly disable it), and the response has been mostly "ok, cool." from users, despite the controversial release schedule, and the decision to punt many accessibility and performance issues to subsequent patch releases. And while I won't try to overcompensate for the problems that have been pointed out, I will say that I mostly like the new editor experience, both from the perspective of a …

Continue Reading about WordPress 5.0 and Gutenberg: A better way to handle CSS overload

At the risk of sounding dismissive, I have to admit that I roll my eyes most of the time I see people pronounce the inferiority of WordPress theme frameworks. I've been hearing this argument since before Genesis was even a conversation, much less an actual product. But if I'm honest, I can see why some people don't care for them, or denounce them by proxy for a particular segment of the WordPress community -- "the users" -- as being more, not less, difficult to use than a traditional …

Continue Reading about In Defense of Theme Frameworks

If you haven't heard, Genesis 2.0 is coming soon (you can run Genesis beta by using this plugin). And with it comes the ability to make your site output HTML5 markup and Schema.org microdata, which put a new emphasis on semantics in the way we mark up out content. With this in mind, it became clear to us that our old loop hooks just didn't pass the smell test. "post" simply does not accurately describe the types of content you can manage with WordPress. For instance, pages. Or worse, the …

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