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WordPress 5.9, Full Site Editing, Spotify, and More

Published over 1 year ago • 2 min read

WordPress 5.9, Full Site Editing, Spotify, and More


WordPress 5.9 and full site editing was a major focus of last week, and you'll see that in some of the articles below. I also spent a lot of time supporting the acquisition and relaunch of MasterWP, the newsletter for WordPress Pros. I definitely recommend adding MasterWP to your WP newsletter feed as well, as we have some great things in the works.

As always feel free to respond to this email and follow me on Twitter for more frequent articles and other links I share out.

Testing Full Site Editing and Twenty Twenty Two

Last week I updated my site's theme to Twenty Twenty Two and attempted to take advantage of FSE (Full Site Editing) in WordPress 5.9 to design everything you see here.

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MasterWP: What's on deck for WordPress 6.0

WordPress 6.0 will be the release that really completes the Site Editor.

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MasterWP: WordPress 5.9 and Full Site Editing

This week for MasterWP, I answered the question "can agencies take advantage of full site editing, or is it really just an appeal to the DIY, no-code crowd?"

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Why I don't build websites for equity or ownership

If you've been building websites long enough, you will no doubt get the inevitable pitch to build a website for someone's new business idea. For free.

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VSCode Snippet for using jQuery in WordPress

These days I'm trying to use vanilla JS as much as possible, but more often than not, I find myself writing jQuery when in WordPress.

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That's all for this week. What do you think the next big focus in the WordPress community will be?

Brian Coords

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