WordPress 5.1 Beta 2 (wordpress.org) WordPress 5.1 Beta 2 is now available!
This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version.
Best Password Manager: LastPass vs Dashlane vs Bitwarden vs 1Password (www.codeinwp.com) Security isn’t the only thing that matters – you also need something that’s easy to use if you want to make it a part of your daily routine (c’mon – we’re all human).
To help, we’ve put together this list of the four best password managers in the market, all of which will help you securely and conveniently store passwords across all the devices that you use.
WP Offload SES: Announcing A New WordPress Plugin For Amazon SES (deliciousbrains.com) Whether you’re an existing Amazon SES fan and just haven’t found a good, reliable way to connect it to your WordPress site or if you’ve just been looking to offload your site emails to an email sending service but weren’t sure where to start, WP Offload SES is for you.
Gutenberg Phase 2 to Update Core Widgets to Blocks, Classic Widget in Development (wptavern.com) Gutenberg phase 2 development is underway and one of the first orders of business is porting all existing core widgets to blocks. This task is one of the nine projects that Matt Mullenweg outlined for 2019, along with upgrading the widgets-editing areas in wp-admin/widgets.php and adding support for blocks in the Customizer.
White-Label WordPress, Scale Quickly and Increase Your Bottom Line (wpbuffs.com) WordPress is a great place for a web developer or maintenance professionals to work, but its cold and overly technical nature can be quite off-putting to clients. This is just one of the reasons why you should consider white-labeling WordPress websites.
In the following guide, we want to show you all of the ways you can make use of WordPress white-labels to improve the user experience and increase your profits.
What Are Source Maps (And Are They Needed)? (tommcfarlin.com) If you work on the front-end of a site in any capacity – be it for a plugin, a theme, or even something outside of WordPress – you’re likely working with minification tools. But one of the features that come with working with these technologies and that’s the ability to generate source maps.
And this raises a question (or maybe two): What are source maps? And are they even needed?