Many readers will be aware of the increasingly bitter dispute currently going on between Automattic and WP Engine. Automattic is a company that specializes in hosting WordPress websites. It was founded by its current CEO, Matt Mullenweg, who was also a co-creator of WordPress. WP Engine is a hosting company that also specializes in hosting […]
Elisabetta Carrara has been writing a great series of posts about ClassicPress over at LinkedIn. Take a look!
In a previous post, I talked about how recent versions of ClassicPress have removed from core and deprecated the thickbox library, and I also explained how developers can follow suit in their themes and plugins. In this post, I am going to tell a similar story about the jQuery UI library, which ClassicPress has now […]
A theme of development since version 2.0 of ClassicPress was released has been the replacement of obsolete JavaScript libraries. In version 2.1, for example, the thickbox library was removed from core. The point of thickbox is to enable the use of modals, but there is a much better alternative available these days. The dialog element […]
We’re delighted to announce the release of ClassicPress version 2.2. This is a feature enhancement and maintenance release with many exciting new features. Media Library Many of the new features provide major enhancements to the media library. It is, for example, now possible to Quick Edit and Bulk Edit media file attachments on the Media […]
We’re delighted to announce the release of ClassicPress version 2.1. This is a maintenance release and so, like version 2.0, it is based on a re-fork of WordPress 6.2.3. But, if you’re one of those who likes to say that “ClassicPress is just WordPress without blocks,” this release should make you think again. Version 2.1 […]
We are delighted to report that a website built with ClassicPress has just won a prestigious national award in the United States. TryFile, a site that enables US law schools to have their students learn how to file court documents correctly, has just been awarded the Innovations in Technology prize by the American Association of […]
After the COVID crisis, the huge endeavor our core team undertook to release ClassicPress v2 (codename Bella) by re-forking WordPress, the release of the new plugins and themes directory with its integration plugin, and all the ongoing work that resulted in a big improvement in the migration plugin — not to mention all the accessibility […]
We are pleased to announce that the new iteration of the ClassicPress Directory of plugins and themes is now live. Unlike the previous version, the new one is built using ClassicPress itself. This means it can act like a showcase for ClassicPress, as well as being much easier to update and maintain. Developers Developers wishing […]
Version 2 of ClassicPress has been out for a couple of weeks now, so perhaps it’s time to start exploring its new features. While much of version 2 adds non-block features forked from WordPress, ClassicPress also now boasts some features of its own. One of these features is that ClassicPress now outputs HTML5 by default. […]
