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Ola Bodera
Embracing web-safe fonts
Before webfonts were widely available, designers relied on a relatively small number of web-safe fonts, i.e. fonts that come pre-installed with various operating systems, and thus most likely to be present on user’s devices. As a result the web was saturated with Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Georgia and Times New Roman. While these fonts are not…
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Rick Banister
Squad Goals
A few keys to distributed success Since becoming the lead of my team I’ve spent a fair bit of time helping my team members define career growth goals and track their progress. Everyone is different and their growth can obviously take many forms—from skill-building to efficiency to leadership. That said, I have noticed a few…
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Adding WooCommerce Support to Libre 2
The Theme Team is hard at work adding support for WooCommerce to some of our popular themes, and last week I wrapped up my first rotation. My project was to add WooCommerce support to an existing free theme, Libre 2. Despite being a long-time WordPress user, I have relatively little experience with WooCommerce and its…
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Joen A.
The New Block Blueprint
WordPress is set to receive a new block-based editor in the future, and I’ve spent the better part of this year working on the design. The driving force is that instead of looking at the document as the unit to edit, we are now looking at piecing together this document from a sequence of blocks,…
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Ashleigh Axios
Designing Better Events
The wicked problem in event design is deeper than the usual suspects of branding, way-finding, and the experiences on the website and application. The audience experience is what matters most and who is in that audience is key. Learn some of the ways Ashleigh made a more accessible event with non-traditional design.
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Ballio Chan
Questions on Marketing Creative Strategy
In recent months, the WordPress.com marketing team has been making great progress in creating new creative work to showcase our products and connect them with our current and prospective customers. One of our focus areas is to think more strategically in our creative approach, which leads us to more comprehensive campaign-level thinking. I’d like to…
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Mel Choyce
What’s Coming in WordPress 4.9
As y’all might remember, I’m currently co-leading the release of WordPress 4.9. Since we’re winding down toward release, I wanted to take the opportunity to walk through some of the key features of the release. Drafting and scheduling changes in the Customizer In WordPress 4.9, you’ll be able to draft your customizations before publishing them, or…
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Kjell Reigstad
On Finding Joy in the Unexpected and Making the Decision to Be Busy
Earlier this month, I attended the inaugural Dribbble Hangtime conference in Boston, MA. I had a lot of fun, and thought I’d share a couple of the ideas I took away from the event. Kelli Anderson showed some of the most inspiring work of the day. She’s been exploring paper as a medium lately, and…
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Courtney Burton Doker
Thoughts on working fully distributed for the first time
When I first tell people that I’ve joined a fully distributed company and now work from home I get one of two reactions: curiosity and delight or the more common look of horror and confusion. For anyone who isn’t familiar with fully distributed organizations, the distinguishing factor from other companies that have remote employees or…
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Ian Stewart
Why I’m so excited about the Gutenberg Editor for WordPress
The other day a friend of mine at Automattic shared the following. So I bought this theme for my personal website and I wanted to make it look nice before I activate it, of course, so I go into the Customizer and nothing looks like in the demo. Then I read the docs that tell…
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