Hey, Canadian WordPress community! 📣 Plank is proud to be attending and sponsoring WordCamp Canada 2025 in Ottawa. Learning, connecting, and community - it all kicks off on October 15. See you there! 👋 @wordcampcanada.bsky.social #WordCampCanada #WCEH2025

Websites aren’t just for people anymore. They’re for their AI agents, too. At Plank, we’re designing fast, accessible, structured experiences for both. Welcome to the User Agent Interface. Dive into our latest blog to learn more! Read now: bit.ly/4pxSpJ6

Seems like this would be super useful for defining different shades. "oklch is a newer color model that is designed to be perceptually uniform. This means that colors are much more accurate in terms of how humans perceive them and it makes working with them much easier."

Thanks for coming to my talk at @smashingconf.com, everyone! It was a joy and an honour to be invited – and I hope it was valuable! 🤗💚 Here are the slides: noti.st/matthiasott/... #smashingconf

I recently dove into the world of #OpenCart . I'm not fond of the ecosystem. Unlike the #wordpress community that I am used to, it is very unwelcoming. Despite it being an #opensource project, there are very few free extensions availible. Here is an extension that I created for practice. Enjoy.

We registered for #WPA11yDay, virtual 24-hour conference on WordPress accessibility taking place October 15-16. Tickets are free, donations accepted #WPAD2025 #WordPress #a11y

We're happy to finally unveil the full schedule for the upcoming Inclusive Design 24 #id24 24 hour online event on the 25 September 2025 inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/ #a11y #accessibility #inclusiveDesign

If you're new to CSS, one of the best ways to make your life easier is to take advantage of all the CSS debugging features in your devtools. To help, I teamed up with @amitsheen.bsky.social to create a free, 5-part beginner course on getting started with them: devtoolsforbeginners.kevinpowell.co

Can’t express how much of a fan I am of all things WP CLI / Bash, so Austin Ginder sharing years of experience with WordPress bash scripts into a new standalone CLI: CaptainCore Do is cool! It’s 100% open source, MIT licensed, and built to streamline WP site management from the terminal.

Ooh, my Chrome DevTools extension for debugging Scroll-Driven Animations is approaching 3000 users … - Live Minimap (!) - ScrollTimeline and ViewTimeline support - CSS and WAAPI SDAs supported - Plays nice with `position: sticky` - Visualize and edit the animation-ranges 👉 brm.us/sda-debugger

💚 Site of the Day - Plank - Digital Storytelling @plank.co (nice to be able to tag someone over here on bluesky!) ⚙️ ScrollTrigger Flip SplitText Webflow site → storytelling.plank.co showcase → gsap.com/showcase

This is INCREDIBLE; the Macs alongside the text aren't showing screenshots, it's booting emulators so you interact with what's being written about, and even includes the NeXT aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Rockin' it with pixels — code or craft ❤️ @coldironchef.bsky.social

When I got involved with Front End North, one of the things I wanted to achieve was an affordable ticket price. My inspiration was WordCamp London, which priced its tickets so that the whole community could come - not just developers, but testers, designers and writers too.

New to the blog: Our Top 10 Tips for working smarter, not harder, in the WordPress CMS! Get unstuck and build with confidence today. 👉 bit.ly/4kO2fDZ #WordPress #CMS #WebDesignAgency

The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs. I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all gifcities.org

People print websites, so I wrote an article over on @piccalil.li about how to make sure they don't feel the need to pull out all their hair while printing yours. Decimate a rainforest, spend a fortune on some new ink cartridges, unjam the mechanism, print off the article, and give it a read.

"Optimising WP_Query isn’t just about writing fast queries — it’s about writing efficient queries" 💯 #wordpress

✨ Designing for neurodiversity means recognizing that people aren’t edge cases but individuals with varied ways of thinking and navigating the web. So, how can we create more inclusive experiences that work better for everyone? Let’s find out: www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/desi...

Plank was founded in 1998, so this is a little trip down memory lane 💞

Also, run ESLint with --report-unused-disable-directives to get notified of obsolete eslint-ignore comments.

🎉 It’s WordPress’ 22nd birthday! 🎉 On May 27, 2003, a small project to simplify publishing turned into a global movement for the open web. Today, WordPress powers over 43% of the internet—and none of it would be possible without you. 💙 Thank you for being part of this story. #WP22 #WordPress

Have you ever scanned a dirty or crumpled up QR code, *certain* it wouldn't work, and then it instantly does? They're built to be really resilient! Here's a guide I put together, full of interactive visuals to show the design choices in the QR spec. perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-do-qr-codes-work

The Email Markup Consortium released its 2025 study on the accessibility in HTML emails, and the TL;DR is not totally dissimilar from what we heard from WebAIM’s annual web report. css-tricks.com/html-email-a...

On this 14th annual #GlobalAccessibilityAwarnessDay here's a throwback to our founder, @sashaendoh.com's talk on practical #accessibility: endoh.co/sashas-talk-... It's a great introduction for designers, developers, and content managers. Here's to making a truly inclusive web!

Today is the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day! At @plank.co we promote Accessibility & Inclusion in many aspects of our work. We talk to clients. We have a team that wants to be part of the solution. We'll work on this every single day. ethicalwebcollective.plank.co/accessibilit...

Helen, a great designer here at silverorange, has shared her experience with Sara Soueidan’s practical-accessibility.today course. It's targeted for developers, but it's critical for designers to understand the fundamental accessibility issues in the web. #gaad www.silverorange.com/blog/practic...

🔖 here’s a little bookmarklet to let you quickly clear the cookies on a page without developer tools or incognito mode. henry.codes/writing/a-bo...

The State of Devs survey is now open to participation, and unlike previous surveys it covers everything except code: career, workplace, but also health, hobbies, and more. css-tricks.com/state-of-dev...

🥳 It's an exciting day! 🥳 Thanks to Webflow GSAP is now 100% FREE - including ALL of the bonus plugins like SplitText, MorphSVG, and all the others that were exclusively available to Club GSAP members. We can't wait to see what you make! gsap.com/blog/3-13

Yea!! 🙌 We had one team member speak last year and will work on preparing some fresh submissions!

WordCamp Canada 2025 is coming and now’s your chance to help make it incredible! We have lots of sponsorship opportunities available, and we’re here to answer any questions! canada.wordcamp.org/2025/call-fo... #wceh

A fun journey into the world of Warhol 🧑‍🎨 🎨 🥫

We'll assume you use git for source control. Some of us at Plank use GUIs for day-to-day git tasks, but all of us the command line as well. Here's how core Git developers configure the software. There's something in there for everyone to up their game.

Happy 35th Birthday Adobe Photoshop! On February 19, 1990, Adobe Systems released a raster graphics editor called Photoshop 1.0.

We might be a little bit biased, but definitely agree that web development should be the backbone of your digital marketing 🤓🧑‍💻🎯

You should check out this video from @glassbricks.bsky.social, one of our frontend developers. We were pretty convinced he's a real person, but now not so sure who's pulling the strings

So excited! We are running a free workshop with the lovely @stephaniewalter.bsky.social! Join us on April 10 for Cognitive Biases 101! Register your free ticket on our website: smashingconf.com/online-works...

Improve lighting to make life easier for your eyes 💡👀

Here's a story about why it is vital to ensure that basic services work for *everybody*. shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01...

Cheering on @triassi.dev at the Concordia Hackathon this weekend!! 👨‍💻 🎉

Container queries unleashed 🙌🦸

Large Language Models ranked by capabilities, sized by billion parameters used for training informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

🤖 The Open AI -vs- DeepSeek dust up crossed my mind, and all I could think of was: What's old is new again. 🔸 Some might recall that the GIF img format had a patent + license, and it drove the young internet nuts (pic ⬇️) 🔸 the open source PNG format was conceived as a result of that license

This is exciting! We've written custom endpoints for menus in the past, so can definitely see using this in projects 🥳

We're going to keep an eye on @supercooldesign.bsky.social tracking and benchmarking 65 websites in the UK arts, cultural and heritage sector, very cool! 👀 🆒 😎

Found a shell command on the internet and have no idea how it's working? Use Explain Shell to help you break it down, and show what each flag does with nice annotations

Big news: Post Status is becoming a non-profit and reducing the cost of memberships. Their blog post has plenty of other details. Congrats to @joost.blog and Marieke van de Rakt! #WordPress poststatus.com/ringing-the-...