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This week, 138 new vulnerabilities have emerged, potentially impacting 10 million WordPress sites. 89 vulnerable plugins remain unpatched.

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How to use UI, E2E, GUI tests to verify your changes inside your WordPress plugin or theme? How to setup the Codeception and GH Actions for acceptance tests?

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,467 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. Well, today it’s launch day! I’ve worked days and nights in the last few weeks, and the new Business Bloomer Club is now live. From now onwards, you […]

Learn more about the planned “Rollback Auto Update” feature in WP 6.5.

Learn the basics of adding static commands via the WordPress Command Palette API. The tutorial walks you through building three example commands.

Where has this year gone? Only one month left, and we’re heavy into the holidays already. Whatever you celebrate, and however you celebrate, we wish you wonderful times with family and friends.

The amount of work and experience by the team made me realize why this is the biggest WordCamp event in LATAM.

One of my dear readers asked me the other week what I thought about WordPress Stories posts. My first thought was, “What’s that? Never heard of it.” I was clueless until recently …

This article explains how to customize the home and blog pages in a block theme like Twenty-Twenty Four

On November 10th, 2023 Gutenberg contributors met in a Hallway Hangout to discuss the best ways to triage the Extensibility Issues for inclusion into 6.5 or later version of WordPress.  TL;DR&…

A PR to make table header columns and pagination permanently visible regardless of scroll position. This ensures the data inside each cell can always be interpreted, and that pagination is locked in the same position.

WordPress’s Gutenberg editor has revolutionized the way themes are created and customized, and at the heart of this transformation is the theme.json file.

Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker received a GAADY award from the GAAD Foundation for its work to improve accessibility in WordPress.

Here’s a cool thing I made. Here’s a cool thing someone else made. Here’s something I just learned. Here’s something I want to learn that looks cool. Why I want to learn/use/do this thing. Why I don’t want to learn/use/do the thing. I’m in the process of learning something but I haven’t quite got it […]

Over the past few months, contributors have been working on a new design for the Developer Resources section of WordPress.org, which includes the official Code Reference, Block Editor Handbook, Theme Handbook, and much more. This project aims to refresh the aesthetics of the Developer Resources section, convert the site to a block theme, and improve […]

If you celebrate it: Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the weekend with your family and friends. It’s the first time in over twenty years, when Thanksgiving was just another Thursday in our workweek. Here we have plenty of bank holidays around Christmas and New Year’s. I am not complaining. It was merely one of those first Living […]

Content outsourcing helps scale your marketing efforts with a team of experts. Learn how to outsource writing and find the best talent for your website.

Hello and welcome to the November edition of WooCommerce Blocks Extensibility Snaps! This post is a monthly update to highlight things we’ve been working on and keep you up to date with our p…

When I started thinking about side effects in WordPress development, I was working on something concrete. That lead me to thinking about it in the abstract.

This Week at WordPress.org (November 19, 2023) News Exploration to support Modules and Import Maps Plugin Directory: Preview button revisited Block theme

Well, here it is. The beginning of the journey to the redesign and new concept of the Do the Woo podcast channel, 4.0

A behind-the-scenes look at Twenty Twenty-Four, the most expressive and capable WordPress default theme yet, alongside WordPress 6.4.

As described in Theme Structure, WordPress requires that all themes include a style.css file. Its most important function is to “register” the theme with WordPress through configuration data at the top of the file. Many themes also use it to serve CSS to the front-end (and even the editor).

It’s a bad Three Stooges tale when one person makes three ‘company’ accounts and spams for all.

WordPress CLI, or Command Line Interface, is a powerful tool that often remains underutilized by many WordPress users. If you’re accustomed to managing your WordPress site through the familiar web interface, diving into the command line might seem daunting at first. However, the benefits are substantial, offering increased efficiency and control over your WordPress installation.

Over the past few months, contributors have been working on a new design for the Developer Resources section of WordPress.org, which includes the official Code Reference, Block Editor Handbook, The…

In software product creation and business development, failure is the one thing you can count on. Find out why celebrating failure is vital for learning and growth, as demonstrated by 18 software entrepreneurs.

I spoke at quite a few conferences over the years. Mainly WordCamps, but I also did an occasional SEO conference and made an appearance at a conference

In this guide, we’ll explore how to translate contact forms with Polylang and the reasons why using a contact form plugin is essential for a dynamic and user-friendly website.

Learn about the latest trends in tools, technologies, AI, and programming languages.

After years of praising the utility of WP-CLI and using it on just about every project I work on, I had yet to contribute to it. Until now.

“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 18,448 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. It’s Black Friday week, and today’s newsletter will probably get lost in your promotions tab. But you never know. Therefore, today’s special is a series of helpful snippets […]

Plugin Demo relaunches 1. The button is double-opt-in. It’s not shown by default for any plugins. 2. It’s now possible for plugin developers to configure the preview environment and install dependencies (other plugins and themes). 3. Plugin developers can test the preview before making it available to the public. 4. Most php extensions are now […]

Fearlessly try out new ideas and designs before publishing them to the world.

Looking to the future, a collaborative effort is underway to explore native support for modern JavaScript modules and import maps within the WordPress ecosystem.

The challenge of innovating with WordPress is that the project may not always embrace new ideas or functionalities. The WordPress core may not move quickly enough, and its mission may diverge from that of users and product makers. Innovation often comes from outside the project, and pushing the boundaries may…

The Gutenberg team released version 17.0 last week and it has the first version of collaborative editing for WordPress users.

What if you could replace regexing all your content with something less cryptic? With WP 6.1 and up, you can.

So I’m working on a small project and I ran into a task involving a form with a file input that has to update an image attached to a custom post type. It got pretty interesting because it took a bit of digging to get it to work. While there was not a lot of […]

Learn the basics of adding static commands via the WordPress Command Palette API. The tutorial walks you through building three example commands.

The archive template is a pretty important part of your WordPress website. Here’s how you can edit or create templates in the site editor.

Earlier this year we launched a new initiative called dev-squad. The initial goal of dev-squad was to hold weekly, 30-minute triage sessions to help move PRs and newly opened bugs forward. These triage sessions can focus on either PRs or bugs and do not have to cover both in a single session. The initial sessions […]

Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks.

Hideo is a clean portfolio and blog theme with bold headings and subdued colors.

I’m sorry I haven’t had the time to find a new writer for the Tavern in the time between when Sarah gave her notice a few weeks ago and now. There’s never a dull moment in tech and my priorities with WordPress core and Automattic ended up taking more time than I expected. Funding and […]

I’ve been thinking about the video production stack I use for recording, streaming, transcribing, subtitling, repurposing, and promoting WPwatercooler on social media. I thought I’d share what I’m using. If you’ve used something different, I’d love to know what you are using. If you have any questions about my setup, please give me a shout […]

I propose transitioning the video embedding platform for Learn WordPress from WordPress.tv to the WordPress YouTube channel. We will still submit videos to WordPress.tv but use the Youtube videos for embeds.

Learn why ongoing maintenance retainers are a strategic necessity for businesses. Enhance performance, security, and user experience.

This has been an emotional, bittersweet morning for me, reading through old posts, as I close the book on my time at this beloved publication. Today is my last day before moving on to embrace a new challenge in the world of tech.

Make any website interactive with the WordPress Block Editor using WP Interactions. Set triggers that set off a series of actions that play.

The WP Community Collective (WPCC) is proud to announce the start of its inaugural Fellowship program as the first-ever WPCC Fellow Alex Stine officially begins the Accessibility Fellowship this month as a sponsored contributor with the WPCC.

WooCommerce 8.3 was released today, featuring Cart, Checkout, and Order Confirmation blocks as the default checkout flow for new installations. This is a major milestone in moving WooCommerce towar…

This Week at WordPress.org (November 13, 2023) News State of the Word 2023 – Madrid, Spain Introducing Twenty Twenty-Four WP Briefing: Episode 66:

Dynamically populate social link URLs using the render_block filter in WordPress.

Learn why starting small is key to success when embracing AI in WordPress. Discover practical tips for maximising your investments in AI.

PublishPress Capabilities shows capabilities for many free and commercial plugins, from Yoast and Rank Math to Learn Dash and Gravity Forms.

Learn about AI search for a WordPress website powered by the Open AI engine. Read about the pros and cons and test out the free AI plugin from Crocoblock.

This is a summary of a Hallway Hangout that was wrangled in the #accessibility channel after a prior hallway hangout on improving accessibility in the Site Editor and took the new form of a concret…

Learn about the importance of ethics in AI and how to mitigate bias, ensure transparency, protect privacy, and promote accountability.

Extension for Visual Studio Code – Remotely edit WordPress sites on InstaWP inside VSCode

Congratulations to all who helped make WordPress 6.4 available! Now that it has been successfully released, I invite all who contributed to reflect and share our thoughts on the release process to …

Topher looks back at nine years of HeroPress.

You’ll want to mark your calendars for December 11, 2023. State of the Word is the annual keynote in which WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg celebrates the progress of the open source project and offers a glimpse into its future.

The mainstream narrative has declared Tumblr dead for years. Last week, a leaked memo finally revealed the site’s plans to scale down its operations—but its art, fandoms, and inside jokes rage on.

In software product creation and business development, failure is the one thing you can count on. Find out why celebrating failure is vital for learning and growth, as demonstrated by 18 software entrepreneurs.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,413 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. I’m currently away, so I’m writing this issue on the go. Not the best time of the year to go on holiday with Black Friday around […]

I hate data. And I love data. Safe to say, my relationship with data is somewhat complex. I love statistical analysis; I love getting new insights out of

Sometimes content managed in WordPress needs to be converted to static HTML. The journey from a CMS to just static HTML is showcased here.

The WordPress plugin WP Fastest Cache is vulnerable to an SQL injection vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of the site’s database.

Change user role with WP-CLI in 1 minute! Save time and effort and find out the best alternative for bypassing the Dashboard with WP-CLI.

In this project, our goal is to get a lightweight version of Blogpocket.com with pages weighing less than 512 KB. To achieve this, we have prepared the following steps to get a highly performance-optimized WordPress site with lightweight pages. Additionally, we have developed a system to automatically clone entries without affecting the SEO of the […]

How do you build custom settings pages for “modern” WordPress? My next big project is a WordPress multisite with a smooth onboarding / settings experience so that an in-house marketing team can spin up and customize new sites on the network quickly. It feels like the perfect use case for full site editing. In the […]

Discover the Search Generative Experience (SGE) from Google: an innovation powered by generative AI for making user search experiences more interactive.

Moog is one of the latest free block themes to be released on WordPress.org. It features a minimal and bold layout with a responsive, masonry style grid on the homepage. Moog is well suited to blog…

This is a little negative-nancy-ish, so if you aren’t feeling that right now — just close this tab 😜. It struck me recently how this list of plugins I saw in the 2023 Annual WordPress…

Your website’s PHP software may need to be updated

This version improves server response time by ~4% over version 6.3.2. This, combined with additional frontend optimizations, leads to improvements to Largest Contentful Paint (LCP)—an important Core Web Vital. This release caps off an ambitious year of work for the Performance Team, with major improvements made in each release.

Howdy, Oh wow, catching up on 4 weeks of Gutenberg and WordPress news is an almost impossible task, especially with a major WordPress release happening in between. This edition includes mostly release information and developer notes. Furthermore, I am excited about the new themes that arrived at the Theme directory, plugins and documentation. I hope…

Meet Twenty Twenty-Four, the most versatile default theme yet—bundled with WordPress 6.4 and ready to make it uniquely yours.

The new MyPressable Dashboard experience is now live, making it easier than ever to build, manage, and maintain your WordPress websites. 

Tips for writing effective and easy to understand case studies for your WordPress plugin, theme, or service.

In WordPress 6.4, a change has been applied to how the main query loop is being handled for block themes.

In this episode of Press This, BuddyPress’ iMath and David Cavins discuss new features in version 12.0 and the possibility of a BuddyVerse upgrade with the help of ActivityPub.

Summary  During September and October 2023, the Training team experimented with facilitating its first course cohort. Course cohorts have been a goal of the Training team since 2022. The first…

Six years ago I got tired of running my blog on a shared hosting due to downtimes and I decided to move it to a Digital Ocean droplet. Back then a droplet was 5 dollars and a couple of cents for each Snapshot. For all those six years it ran smoothly and I had complete…

The second ever WP-CLI Hack Day is now complete! It was a ton of fun to collaborate with folks all over the world — without the long airplane flight 😊 Many thanks to everyone that participated! 🙏 @…

This week in HeroPress read about working in Uganda, Diwali, and coming out as an ally.