Category: WordPress

  • Emoji 13 Coming to WordPress

    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 šŸ«€ or not, you can include one on your WordPress site and it’ll display for them. You have stuff to do ā€” like feed…

  • Happy Birthday WordPress!

    Happy Birthday WordPress!

    Yesterday marked the 17th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. I didn’t use WordPress back thenā€”I 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…

  • Jetpack’s Publicize Now Uses Twitter Cards

    Jetpack’s Publicize Now Uses Twitter Cards

    A long time ago, Jetpack’s Publicize featureā€”which automatically posts to your social media platforms when you publish a new postā€”started 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…

  • 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…

  • šŸ§ WordPress Adds Emoji 11 Support

    šŸ§ WordPress Adds Emoji 11 Support

    New emoji are out this month and WordPress will be one of the first to support them.

  • Customizing the Privacy Policy link in Genesis eNews Extended

    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…