ClassicPress Adds PHP 8.0 Support, Image Lazy Loading, And More In v1.5.0
After a lot of hard work, a lot of testing, and many cups of coffee and tea went into releasing v1.5.0, which brings full support for PHP 8.0.
Help Test PHP 8.0 Compatibility in v1.5.0-RC1
Help test ClassicPress v1.5.0-RC1 with PHP 8.0 and report all issues. Your help is greatly appreciated.
New at ClassicPress: Security Release, GitHub Issue Templates, And More
Learn what the ClassicPress team has been up to over the last few months, including security release, GitHub issue templates, plugin directory, and more.
Help ClassicPress Reach Fundraising Goal – We Need $294
Two weeks ago we launched a fundraising campaign to help ClassicPress with operating expenses. Our goal is $1200/year or $100/month. In two weeks, 15 financial contributors helped raise 76% ($906) of our budget goal. This includes our first official sponsor – Brinkman IT. THANK YOU, EVERYONE! Now, we’re only $294 short of reaching our budget […]
Support ClassicPress With Every Amazon.com Purchase
Amazon shut down the Amazon Smiles program in February 2023. Consider donating or buying ClassicPress swag.
Support ClassicPress And See Your Donations in Action
In the past, ClassicPress received some donations without any solicitation. A handful of individuals shouldn’t carry the financial burden of the entire project. ClassicPress is a community-driven and supported project, the community should come together and fund the project if they want the project to survive and thrive. This is why we’ve begun streamlining the donation […]
Plugin/Theme Directory Moving to ClassicPress
As we transition to the new leadership, we are beginning to work on improving our infrastructure. That includes the plugin/theme directory. The current directory was built using Laravel, a great PHP framework. It served its purpose of allowing us to begin accepting plugins. Unfortunately, we don’t have anyone with Laravel experience to continue improving and […]
How to use GitHub Desktop and XAMPP to review PRs
In previous GitHub Desktop tutorials we showed you how to submit a pull request (PR), so you could start contributing to the development of an open-source project such as ClassicPress. Once you are comfortable with this concept, the next stage in contributing is to start testing and reviewing other PRs that have been submitted. An […]
Using the Update Manager to handle updates
Anyone developing a CP-specific plugin needs to be aware that (for now) it’s the developer’s job to process the updates. There are a number of ways to handle this, but the most widely used method is via the Update Manager plugin. This was specifically written for ClassicPress by John Alarcon (Code Potent) after other options […]
ClassicPress Usage Report – September 2021
One of the most frequently asked questions about ClassicPress is “how many websites are using it?” It’s a fair question. As the predominant fork of WordPress and the best way to keep the Classic Editor as the standard editing option for the foreseeable future, everyone is curious how many people are using ClassicPress. After combing […]