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Let’s be honest, new and shiny features get most of the attention around here. It makes sense: New stuff is exciting! But WordPress.com has plenty of baked-in features that are worth talking about too.

Losing your work is one of the most frustrating things you can experience as a website owner. When you choose WordPress.com, you never have to worry about that again. Today, let’s chat about backups, which are powered by Jetpack (Automattic’s own suite of security, performance, and growth tools).

Real-time backups and one-click restores

With Jetpack VaultPress Backup, every single change to your site is captured in real-time. We also back up your site at a consistent time each day as a failsafe.

Our backups happen in real-time, making restoring your site to a previous state as easy as finding a cute dog on the internet.

Let’s look closer at how this feature can benefit you and your site(s).

No expertise required

Manually backing up a website is a time-consuming and resource-intensive task, not to mention a bit daunting on a technical level.

We’ve removed all that hassle by doing the work for you behind the scenes.

Even better, we house redundant copies of your backups on multiple servers around the world, so your data is always secure and accessible.

Version control, but for your website

With the Activity Log, you can quickly see every site change at a glance, letting you know exactly what action (and which user!) broke the site.

Our one-click restores allow you to quickly recover a site from any point in time: Simply find when the problem occurred, click “Restore,” verify that you want to revert your site to a previous state, and in as little a few minutes’ time, you’ll be back up and running.

Never miss a sales order

If you’re running an online store, you know that orders can come in at any time. It goes without saying that you need a backup system to keep your order and customer data safe. There are times when daily or even hourly backups simply don’t cut it.

If you’re running WooCommerce on your site, you can reinstate your store to any previous iteration, while keeping all orders and products current.

Losing your work is a thing of the past

Our automated backups save everything for you: posts, files, databases, themes, plugins . . . all of it. Should your site crash for any reason — an incompatible plugin or theme, for instance — rest assured that it can be easily restored in just minutes.

Whether you’re running a business or spending hours perfecting your site as a hobbyist, our state-of-the-art technology provides the peace of mind that you’ll never miss a sale or lose content again.

Learn more about our real-time backups

Real-time backups and one-click restores are available on Business and Commerce sites.

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Over the last four months we’ve probably done more work on Tailwind UI than we ever have, and having finally wrapped up what we set out to achieve I’m excited to lay it all out for you.

I haven’t shared a Tailwind UI update since we released the Protocol template in December, but that’s not because we haven’t been busy.

Over the last four months we’ve probably done more work on Tailwind UI than we ever have, and having finally wrapped up what we set out to achieve I’m excited to lay it all out for you!

Commit: A beautiful changelog template for your next idea

Just a few days ago we released Commit, a brand new changelog template we designed for Tailwind UI — built of course with Tailwind CSS and Next.js.

Public changelogs have become a really popular way to keep people in the loop about what you’ve been working on, and to stay accountable and build your shipping muscles. They aren’t a new concept by any means of course, but I don’t think it was until Linear started publishing to their changelog site that others got excited about using them almost as an alternative to a company blog.

Commit is our take on the modern product changelog, designed as a single page website that can act as both your project homepage and a feed of everything you’ve been working on.

The Commit template in dark mode, partially scrolled down to reveal a second post

Like all of our templates, it’s loaded with features and details that make it a delight to experience and a pleasure to work on:

Light and dark mode support, because you can’t make anything a developer might read without optimizing it for reading at 2am with the lights off.
Hand-crafted typography styles, meticulously chosen font sizes, spacing, list styles, and more, designed specifically for this template.
Built-in syntax highlighting, powered by Shiki, and easy to customize with a few CSS variables.
Single-file editing experience, every entry lives in a single MDX file, so updating your changelog feels as lightweight as updating a CHANGELOG.md file in an open-source project.
Beautiful animations and effects, this time powered by Motion One, making it a great resource for studying how to pull off these sorts of tricks with a cutting-edge new library.

As always it’s easy to jump into the code and make it your own — here we’ve just tweaked a handful of colors and it feels like a totally different website:

The Commit template customized to match the branding of the Motion One open-source library

Check out the live demo for the full experience, and if you’re already the proud owner of a Tailwind UI all-access license, download a copy of the template to use it in your next project or just to study the source code to learn a new trick or two.

Redesigning hundreds of components for Tailwind UI

Design moves fast and with it being over three years since we first released Tailwind UI, we felt like it deserved to be put under the microscope and make sure it still felt like our best work.

We were pleasantly surprised to discover that yes, we have actually gotten better at design over the past three years, so we spent four months heads down making every component and category as pixel-perfect as we possibly could with our newfound powers.

A collage of redesigned page examples and components for Tailwind UI

Once we came out of our cave to see the sunlight again we had hundreds of redesigned components, dozens of totally new ideas put together, and a fresh batch of page examples to show them all off.

Here’s a run down of some of the types of improvements we made.

Redesigning existing patterns that felt dated

A lot of the component patterns in Tailwind UI are really timeless ideas, but as design trends change and we become better designers, the specific implementations of those patterns can start to feel like it’s from another era.

A comparison between an old component in Tailwind UI and it’s new redesigned version

We went through all of the components one-by-one and found lots of patterns we wanted to take another stab at and did our best to bring them into 2023.

Take a look at the Hero Sections category for some great examples of what these refreshed patterns look like.

Fine-tuning subtle details across the board

A lot of components didn’t really need a full on redesign as much as they needed just a little bit of extra polishing.

A comparison between an old component in Tailwind UI and it’s new fine-tuned version

We went through tons of components making subtle improvements to the spacing, typography, and contrast, and the results just feel so much sharper and cleaner.

The example above is from the Description Lists category — check it out there if you want to see it in its full browser-rendered glory.

Designing a ton of brand new examples

As we were going through all of the existing components, we kept coming up with new ideas that felt like they were missing from the original set of patterns.

A collage of new component examples in Tailwind UI

So we designed tons of brand new components, trying to fill as many holes that stood out to us as we could.

Lots of categories more than doubled in size, like the Feature Sections category which is loaded with really killer new ideas.

Adding more dark variations

It feels like almost every new website I see these days is dark by default, so it felt like we had a moral obligation to give you some more examples optimized for dark backgrounds.

A collage of new dark component examples in Tailwind UI

One of examples I really like are these new dark badges — there’s not much to them really but that little bit of opacity on the background color is such a nice effect for dark designs.

All-new page examples

Finally we took all of this new stuff and put together a bunch of brand new page examples to show them off, including the application UI example everyone has been bugging us for from the screenshots in some of our marketing components.

A collage of new page examples in Tailwind UI

Check out the updated Home Screens category for example to see some of these new designs.

So there you go, without a doubt our biggest Tailwind UI update of all time. We’ve been dripping out these improvements slowly since January and it’s all captured in the Tailwind UI changelog so check that out if you want to dig in to what’s changed in more detail.

Next up for us — digging in to a ton of ideas we have for Tailwind CSS v4.0, and exploring our first Next.js application starter kit. Excited to share more in the coming weeks!

(The post New changelog template + the biggest Tailwind UI update ever appeared first on Tailwind CSS Blog.)

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The Laravel team released Laravel 10.8, with method chaining indentation, syntactic sugar for Process::pipe() method, after validation rules, and more.

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Today, I want to share the new organization for decision-making that will be set up for the PrestaShop project. We believe this organization will help our community grow, get even more involved, and work together in building a better PrestaShop, faster.

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This package allows you to build FFMpeg strings in a fluent, easily maintainable way that feels familiar to php and Laravel devs.

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