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Phase 3’s focus on collaboration, revisions and workflow takes Gutenberg further into enterprise territory. Inspired by @annezazu’s earlier outreach exercise, and following up on my own proposal, I…

It needs to be easier to install and use your own website. But building the right onboarding experience may be more important than building the right tool.

The block’s markup returned on the front end can be dynamically generated on the server when the block is requested from the client (dynamic blocks) or statically generated when the block is saved in the Block Editor (static blocks).

Minor miracle for me to get one of these done three years in a row – but let’s get it rolling! This got delayed because I’m recovering from minor surgery, but here we go… WordPress Contributions I made 85 commits to WordPress core in 2023 – almost three times as many as in 2022. This […]

It was an interesting ride for the year 2023. There were a lot of lows initially, but as the year progressed, around the beginning of spring, things turned to mostly highs. Overall, the takeaways were mostly positive.

This week we feature an essay from Lesley Sim from Singapore, and show off some great photos and podcast episodes!

It’s helpful to understanding identifying and registering anonymous functions in PHP and in WordPress.

One of the things that should have long ago raised a lot of alarm about the state of the WordPress security industry is how often security plugins are found to contain vulnerabilities. Instead, it has

An overview of the past year of the WordPress Developer Blog that highlights key changes, our growing group of contributors, and more.

Learn to use project specific npm scripts as both a task runner and a build tool, and unlock their advantages over other task runners like Gulp and Grunt.

A series of WordPress and WooCommerce podcast shows for developers, agencies, product creators and other builders is introduced.

As 2023 came to a close, WordPress bid farewell with the much-anticipated annual State of the Word and the 6.5 roadmap, among other exciting updates. Read on to learn more about the community’s end…

Discover the role of HPOS in accelerating WooCommerce store performance. Understand how HPOS & solve your data-related issues.

Read the annual year in review and transparency report for 2023 from Katie Keith, CEO and Co-Founder at Barn2 WordPress Plugins.

December, in fact 2023, has come and gone! And it was an amazing year for the photo directory! Our goal is to moderate photos as quickly as we can. And with our bigger team, we’ve been working through photos even faster. Please do remember we are all volunteers and work through the list as we […]

“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a remin…

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,552 subscribers), so that you can learn something new. Well, happy 2024! I wish you the best of luck in terms of health, wealth and happiness. This will be a special year for me as well, as I […]

WordPress advertises that you can customize the look of email newsletters, but I couldn’t find settings for that — so I wrote support. They replied and said actually, no, there are no settings for that. But first, their AI Support Bot took a crack at an answer — and absolutely, confidently hallucinated two settings that […]

It’s true, it’s true, I turn forty years old in ten days. What do you get the guy who has everything? I admit I’m not the easiest to shop for, I can be quite particular in my pref…

Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, recently sat down with Tim Ferriss to talk about a bunch of different things. One of those things: blogging. It might not come as a surprise, but Matt described blogging as one of the most rewarding things he did last year. Not only because blogging, or […]

Writing about WordPress in the age of AI as developer is proving its own set of challenges. Of all types of people, though, shouldn’t we be here to meet it?

What does the current data really tell us about websites and WordPress? What’s the future of websites and how does that impact our businesses?

Conferences offer a blend of targeted education and networking opportunities, a combination that can advance your skills and career. They can be expensive to attend, though. Between the ticket prices,… Read more

The WordPress ecosystem is very good at talking to each other. We are, however, not as good at keeping up with the rest of the open-source world – something Marieke recently mentioned in her column too – and I think this is where we are missing many opportunities. In this post, I explain why WordPress […]

It’s time for the Grumpy Designer’s annual look at the year ahead. This satirical report is chock-full of useless facts and mindless predictions.

In this guide, I will demonstrate how to create a super simple WordPress options page using the modern WordPress approach (with React) and utilising the core Gutenberg components.

Every year, our CEO writes up a yearly recap on how the year went and what we’re planning do to next. This is our recap for 2023.

“The Famous WordPress 5-Minute Install” was great. Unfortunately, today it can cause serious security problems. The typical scenario is to upload core files to your host, open the insta…

Results to be used in an article at MainWP. They also may be used in other MainWP assets. Respondents may remain anonymous.Name and information are optional only.www.mainwp.com2022 Survey Results

AI generated content is cheap and fast. But you shouldn’t blindly trust it to represent your WordPress product.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you, so that you can learn something new. Well, we’re at the last issue of 2023. Newsletter #424 was on January 4, 2023 – which means I only skipped a single issue this year, and that’s an incredible achievement […]

The Site Editor gives you a powerful way to visually create every part of your site and tell your story. It lets you handle everything from big stylistic changes to simple copy updates all in a sin…

In the ever-evolving landscape of web development and ongoing changes, Managed WordPress Hosting customers desire seamless functionality for their WordPress site. Addressing this imperative need, GoDaddy is pleased to announce a new partnership with Zend by Perforce to provide GoDaddy Managed WordPress Hosting customers the benefits of Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) Long-Term Support (LTS), enabling the […]

It’s 2024: Get insights from experts at Yoast to understand the evolving SEO landscape and user behavior. Prepare for the year with this knowledge.

Discover why media companies are moving away from custom CMSes and embracing WordPress VIP to unlock new opportunities for growth and success.

How Jamstack, MACH, and traditional CMSes like Drupal are evolving by learning from one another. Also, debunking some myths in Jamstack and MACH marketing.

Quentin Le Duff from France writes about his journey toward helping humanity by building websites for all that need them.

This article tells you how to add an under-construction page to WordPress in an easy way. So read on to know how to do that.

Want to have some fun with WordPress?Here’s a word puzzle based on terms from the ecosystem. Have fun finding them! The grid resets every day.

Learn how neglecting accessibility affects your business, gain insights into inclusive web design and the impact of legal frameworks like the European Accessibility Act and explore the world of accessibility in WordPress with Anne-Mieke Bovelett.

🎉Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. For the first 6 months, all awarded bounties receive a 10% bonus. View the announcement to learn more now! Last week, there were 16 vulnerabilities disclosed in 16 WordPress Plugins and no WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence Intelligence Vulnerability Database, and there were 7 […]

Based on the previous proposal around the 2024 Major Release Timing, it’s time to call for volunteers. Since there are release dates for the upcoming three releases, let’s formalize the 6.5 release…

Amidst the myriad events and releases that get highlighted during the course of a year in WordPress, countless other projects and contributions quietly move us ever closer to our goals. The items listed below were submitted by team reps and are just a selection of the projects that their teams are proud of. Give it […]

This Week at WordPress.org (December 18, 2023) Accessibility Accessibility Team Meeting Agenda: December 15, 2023 Community Meetup Organizer Newsletter:

After my blog post about healthy GitHub repositories, I learned that many people didn’t know how to create .github repositories and what you can do with those. That automatically also means that you don’t know about organization profile pages, so I wrote a quick post about those, too, which you’re reading now. I’ll start by […]

See previously BP Dev Chat summary November 27 (2023) In attendance: @dcavins @im4th @emaralive Slack archive NB: this development meeting was the last one of 2023. 12.0.0 Release Recap 1 week afte…

Get inspired by stories of 100 successful WordPress business owners from around the world. Read their personal stories and elevate yourself.

Free Session Bodacious Block Themes: An in-depth Look at this New Era of Theming We all knew the landscape of WordPress themes was shifting with the introduction of Gutenberg. What we didn’t know, was by how much. Block themes are the catalyst by which the full block editing experience comes to fruition. With block templates, […]

As of [57212] in the wordpress-develop SVN repository and 415ecc9 in the Gutenberg repository, the versions of Node.js and npm required for WordPress Core development are now 20.x and 10.x. Require…

What do stars have prepared for WordPress developers in 2024? Indystack brings you the first WordPress and web development horoscope.

Joseph begins with opening remarks, and the projects and people developed from Automattic. – 0:45 How do you see the future of Automattic as a multi-platform company, with different investments? – 3:00 Matt discusses the future of Automattic – 4:30 Joseph discusses first-time founders, and asks Matt for his wisdom for first-time founders. What could […]

Given we’re near the end of 2023, I thought I’d do the same as last year. In keeping with said trend, here are the most useful (or popular) articles from 2023.

Gutenberg 17.3 has been released and is available for download! This update incorporates numerous enhancements, bug fixes, improvements in performance and accessibility, and ongoing development of Phase 3 features. Summary of changes in global styles revision history Updated preferences panel Integration of Gravatar Service for Social Icons Other Notable Highlights Changelog First time contributors Contributors

In her post, Marieke reflects on the year 2023 and looks forward to 2024.

As a result of investing in a fair few companies and getting a lot more requests to invest, I look at GitHub repositories a lot. I often run into GitHub repositories that don’t look well maintained. So, I thought I’d write a small article on what a healthy GitHub repository should look like.

We’re excited to announce the release of Gravity SMTP beta 1. Reliably send emails from your WordPress website. Test the beta today!

For our 5th annual Insight Jam LIVE! Solutions Review editors sourced this resource guide of artificial intelligence predictions for 2024 from Insight Jam, its new community of enterprise tech expe…

To do this will need to ask for small icon (eg. favicon) or fetchsome aria-hidden markup and hover title etc. I am suggesting this to encourage companies to support WP more and so user can see wher…

As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time to reflect upon the year, and all that’s been achieved! As usual, it’s been an action packed year for the team at Gravity, with a new product in the works, new features for Gravity Forms, numerous new add-ons, a new podcast, and much much more!

Hello fellow Training Team Members! I want to start this post with a round of applause! This year we have accomplished so many things together that it brings me so much joy to be looking back on it…

This post summarizes and highlights the impact that WordPress has had on Core Web Vitals (CWV) in the field in 2023, providing a metric-based retrospective at the end of the year. TL;DR: The WordPress performance team and all WordPress contributors can be very proud of the accomplishments: The overall CWV passing rate across all WordPress […]

An Interview With Finn Bartram, Editor Of People Managing People

If you have an existing website that uses a classic theme, you might want to convert over to use the WordPress site editor. Should you?

My favorite posts of the year. Topics include freelancing, WordPress, Artificial Intelligence, & more.

A couple of weeks ago, we issued a request for individuals interested in becoming team representatives to submit their nominations. Users could either nominate themselves or tag someone they believed would be well-suited for the position. The post generated numerous comments containing nominations, many of which mentioned the names of the 2023 team reps. All […]

Join us as we recap SeedProd’s year in review for 2023. Explore our highlights, achievements, and updates, and gear up for an even more exciting year ahead!

WordPress hosting provider Kinsta is warning customers that Google ads have been observed promoting phishing sites to steal hosting credentials.

Credit card chargebacks are costly and time consuming. Disputing a chargeback takes time and effort for merchants and without a guaranteed successful dispute. This guide explains credit card chargebacks and breaks down how to dispute them by payment processors and offers 10 ways to prevent chargebacks.

With WordPress 4.9.6, we got some new privacy tools. This includes the new “Privacy Policy Guide”. Have you ever heard of it or even used it? If not, you should take a look at it on your site. You will … Read more →

Howdy, 2023 is coming to the end. This is the last edition for 2023, as I take a few vacation days over the Holidays and be with ailing family members. In January, it’ll be six years of almost weekly news about the block editor, and its progress into a first class site building tool. Thank you…

Welcome to a new series, called the Contributor Spotlight! In this series, the Training Team introduces you to one of our many valued contributors, and you can learn more about their contribution j…

16” M3 Max MacBook Pro, with all the memory and storage. I went from carrying two laptops earlier in the year, a 14” as well to just this. I like the Space Black color because it’s novel but might go back to silver next time. Brand new so just a few stickers so far!

Boost your online sales by running limited-time offers on your iste. Learn how to easily create and manage limited-time offers and discounts in WordPress!

In November, we launched the Annual Meetup Survey. This year, we propose a unified survey for all Meetup members and organizers. Because of lack of time, we were not able to coordinate the translat…

In the ever-evolving landscape of the digital world, ensuring the security of websites is of paramount importance. WordPress, being one of the most popular content management systems, is particularly vulnerable to cyber threats.

After many months of hard work, the redesign for the Developer Resources section of WordPress.org was launched yesterday. The goal was to provide an aesthetic refresh, update the site to a block th…

There’s a new layout for the newsletter this week! We look back at Ed Finkler’s HeroPress essay, and solar panels used to make Heineken beer!

MADE WITH BLOCKS is a video podcast with ideas, tricks and news about WordPress. This week: WordPress Collaborative Feature, Find My Blocks, Retrieving Templates and Template Parts, and more

If you aren’t familiar with it, WordPress publishes a showcase featuring prominent sites that have been built using WordPress. The goal of the showcase, as stated in the submissions page, is to “show the world what can be done with WordPress and help demonstrate the tremendous capabilities it has as a publishing platform.”

Howdy, WordPress community! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the brand new WordPress Events page, which was previewed during State of the Word. This dynamic platform is designed to be…

Smart Strategies to Demonstrate the Value of Accessibility to Clients Start with educating your clients about the value of making their site accessible.

The 20th anniversary year of WordPress is drawing to a close. It’s tempting to take a look back as we enter the last weeks of 2023, but we thought it… Read more

For years, plugin developers have been looking for ways to demo their plugins to users. Users don’t read readme.txt files or plugin pages on WordPress.org. They want to try and see a plugin in action for a bit, which is a much better way of seeing whether a plugin solves your problem. The new WordPress playground […]

“WordPress continues to help me grow personally and professionally. I’ve made so many great friends in this space, online and offline.”

Explore the integration of Next.js with WordPress using WPGraphQL with Server-Side Rendering (SSR) along with React Server Components, keyed in on understanding the differences.

🎁 Wordfence just launched its bug bounty program. Through December 20th 2023, all researchers will earn 6.25x our normal bounty rates when Wordfence handles responsible disclosure for our Holiday Bug Extravaganza! Register as a researcher and submit your vulnerabilities today!🎁 Last week, there were 109 vulnerabilities disclosed in 98 WordPress Plugins and 10 WordPress themes that have been added to the Wordfence […]

This Week at WordPress.org (December 11, 2023) News State of the Word 2023 Recap WP Briefing: Episode 68: Toward a More Interconnected Web Community

Heya, it is the revamped Gravatar! We have a fresh Profile Editor, three new highly-requested profile fields, and robust Privacy settings. Gravatar transcends mere online avatars, offering an open,…

Allowing selected users — known as beta testers — to take your software product for a spin before launching can aid in fine-tuning it to perfection.

Hello and welcome to a roundup interview that we did for a special occasion with the 2024 WCEU lead organizers!

The WP Awards 2023, this year was the best ever awards with a tremendous response from the WordPress community. With a total 5859 Votes across 27 categories, there was a lot of vote data to process.