To use web fonts with wide browser support, we need the font files in .woff and .woff2 format. Who does not care about Internet Explorer, Safari on Mac OS before Sierra, and a few mobile browsers can choose only .woff2 (there are tables with the browser support of the two formats on Can I use).
In this post, I show how to use the command line tool Glyphhanger to convert .ttf files to .woff and .woff2 and subset fonts to remove unused characters.
This week, the first version of privacy tools was committed to trunk. It is planned to get them into WordPress 4.9.6.
Continue reading "WordPress weekly recap #15: first version of privacy tools in trunk and more"WordPress 4.9.5 was released this week, with bug fixes and fixes for three security issues.
Continue reading "WordPress weekly recap #14: WordPress 4.9.5 and more"To change the URL of a WordPress site – for example, when a completely different domain should be used or to change from http:// to https:// – there are various solutions. This post describes two of them.
This week, the accessibility team published test results to the current state of Gutenberg accessibility.
Continue reading "WordPress weekly recap #13: current state of Gutenberg accessibility and more"If a WordPress installation is protected via .htaccess basic auth, the requests against the WooCommerce REST API with the PHP library do not work. I did not find the GitHub issue where someone said that CURL could be used to set the login credentials, but with that information, I found a question and the answers on Stack Overflow, that helped me:
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt( $ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, 'user:password' );Code language: PHP (php)I inserted these two lines at the beginning of my script and replaced user and password with the actual login data. With that, the requests against the protected installation worked.
The core team released the beta version of WordPress 4.9.5 for testing – the final version is scheduled for April 3.
Continue reading "WordPress weekly recap #12: WordPress 4.9.5 Beta and more"Two of my recent articles are about the WooCommerce REST API and the official PHP library from Automattic, which makes the usage of the API with PHP easier. This post describes a way to run multiple requests against a shop at the same time.
Continue reading "Parallel requests against the WooCommerce API with the PHP Requests library"This week, there was a support workshop on how to deal with angry users in support.
Continue reading "WordPress weekly recap #11: dealing with angry users in support and more"WordPress 5 will come with a new editor called »Gutenberg«, which is completely different from the current TinyMCE. That does not only mean change for the users, but also for theme developers, who want to modify editor styles, so it looks like in the frontend. This post shows you how that works for the new editor.
Continue reading "Creating theme editor styles for Gutenberg"