WordPress Monthly Dev Digest #021

Originally posted on my website on August 31th 2020

WordPress august in short.

While WordPress 5.5.1 is underway the big news this month was the releaase of WordPress 5.5. The official blog post can be found here, and i also listed a lot of the new developer goodies in the previous version of this series.

In related news, Elliot Condon and his team released a new version of the Advanced Custom Fields plugin. Besides a whole lot of improvements this new version (5.9) now includes support for inner blocks.

WordPress:

• Release: WordPress 5.5 "Eckstine"
• Release: WordPress 5.5.1 RC1
• Introducing the GraphQL API for WordPress by Leonardo Losoviz.
• Video: How to make a WordPress website from scratch by Adrian Twarog.
• Deploying Sage (WordPress Starter theme) to your host using Github Actions by BhanuSingh.
• Headless WordPress with Sapper by Shriji.
• How to downgrade WordPress to any version by GretaThemes.
• Set op VSCode and xDebug as the ultimate editor for WordPress development by Matt Shaw.
• Video: Creating your own Wp Cli command from scratch by WPCasts.

Javascript/React:

• Rando.js The world's easiest, most powerful Javascript random function.
• 10 cool React tips by Alexandru-Dan Pop.
• FunJavascript: A free series of fun Javascript, Html & Css projects by Chris Dixon.
• Video: React vs vanilla Javascript, Learn React for beginners part 1 by Dev Ed.
• Video: Javascript array methods flat and flatMap by Niall ‍Maher.
• Video: Lazy load Images with vanilla Javascript and Intersection Observer by James Q Quick.
• Understanding Bind, Call and Apply in Javascript by Weekly Webtips.
• Javascript Fetch Api tutorial with Js Fetch Post and Header examples by Manish M. Shivanandhan.
• Announcing Typescript 4.0 by Daniel Rosenwasser.
• Video: Introduction to React Recoil (Experimental) state management by Leigh Halliday.

Html/Css:

• A lightweight Masonry solution by Ana Tudor.
• Make your first Css art by Nadia Laasri.
• Nailing the perfect contrast between light text and a background image by Yaphi Berhanu.
• Video: Learn by doing: CUBE Css by Andy Bell and Chris Coyier.
• Supercharging the Html number input by Kilian Valkhof.
• Digging Into the Flex property by Ahmad Shadeed.
• Custom select styles with pure Css by Stephanie Eckles.
• Html picture element responsive images by Chris Bongers.
• Leading-trim: The future of digital typesetting by Ethan Wang.
• Why Css logical properties aren't ready for use by Elad Shechter.
• Flexbox rocks by James Cox.
• How to detect fullscreen mode using Css by Amit Merchant.
• Copy the browser's native focus styles by Chris Coyier.
• How I structure my Css (for Now) by Matthias Ott.

Php:

• What's new in Php 8 by Brent.
• Modernizing a legacy Php application by Adrien Poupa.

Misc:

• Asdf-vm: Manage multiple runtime versions with a single CLI tool
• Video: Getting started with freelancing with Kyle Prinsloo and Niall ‍Maher.
• How fast should your site load? By David East.
• How to use AVIF: The new next-gen image compression format by Dan Klammer.

Suggestions?

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Stay safe and have a great August.