Category: WordPress
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Emoji 13 Coming to WordPress
As of r48048-core, WordPress will polyfill Emoi 13 glyphs on devices that do not support them. What this means is whether or not your viewer’s device is able to display a š« or not, you can include one on your WordPress site and it’ll display for them. You have stuff to do ā like feed…
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Happy Birthday WordPress!
Yesterday marked the 17th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. I didn’t use WordPress back thenāI didn’t find my way to it until it was a youthful four years old in 2007. In the 13 years since, the software has made a major impact of my life, sure, but the community around it has…
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Jetpack’s Publicize Now Uses Twitter Cards
A long time ago, Jetpack’s Publicize featureāwhich automatically posts to your social media platforms when you publish a new postāstarted attaching an image to your tweets to help them catch people’s attention. At the time, a tweet with a picture would perform better than a tweet with just a link. This is all fine and…
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I’m a Code Wrangler
This is old news at this point, but I realized I never mentioned it here. A few months back, I shifted from a Happiness Lead to a developer. I’m excited about the move and especially that I’m able to continue to work on Jetpack. I’ve always worked with the code powering Jetpack, but usually minor…
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š§ WordPress Adds Emoji 11 Support
New emoji are out this month and WordPress will be one of the first to support them.
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Customizing the Privacy Policy link in Genesis eNews Extended
You put together a brand new fancy Privacy Policy page on your WordPress 4.9.6+ site and are ready to include a link to is using the latest version of Genesis eNews Extended. That’s great! This is a brand new feature, though, so themes aren’t styling for it yet. What can you do? Styling Using the…