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Number 90! When I picked my newsletter back up, I knew consistency was going to be the maker or breaker. I’m quite pleased we’re at number 90 of ​Inside WordPress​. Hope you all are too 🤗. Let’s get to it! Want to get in front of 950+ dedicated WordPress friends? Check out ​my sponsoring options​ […]

WordPress 6.4 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on …

The WordPress Photos Directory crossed a major milestone this week, surpassing 10,000 photos. It’s a growing resource that exists to provide free, publicly-contributed, CC0-licensed photographs. Every photo submitted is moderated by a volunteer. I’m super excited about this milestone,” Photos team moderator Michelle Frechette said. “Most (if not all) of the moderators are also photographers, […]

This security and maintenance release features 19 bug fixes on Core, 22 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 8 security fixes. WordPress 6.3.2 is a short-cycle release. You can review a summary of t…

Enterprise The WordPress platform has grown to become the dominant market leader for content management. Discover how today’s biggest brands use WordPress, and how WordPress can work for your enterprise. Enterprise use cases Whether as a primary or secondary content management system (CMS), you’ll find WordPress being used by enterprises at scale wherever there’s a […]

A new malware has been posing as a legitimate caching plugin to target WordPress sites, allowing threat actors to create an administrator account and control the site’s activity.

I recently had Jess Frick, Director of Operations at Pressable, on the WP Minute+ podcast. We had an insightful conversation about Pressable’s relationship with Automattic, how the company differentiates itself, and the benefits of Jetpack. I appreciated getting Jess’s insider perspective on Pressable and how they balance being owned by Automattic while still maintaining their […]

New course cohorts plugin. Easily create course cohorts where you allow groups of students to enroll and progress through a course together.

WordPress 6.4 will be shipping a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Four (TT4), expected in early November. This theme is more feature-rich than previous default themes, and contributors have been wo…

Sometimes you can be too smart for your own good. This story is about someone who knew better than WordPress… but wanted to use it anyway.

On Wednesday, October 18th, we will update the WordPress Showcase as part of the ongoing visual refresh of WordPress.org.  We began this project last year and have continually iterated on the initial design throughout 2023.

If your site uses third-party cookies it’s time to take action as we approach their deprecation. Chrome plans to disable third-party cookies for 1% of users from Q1 2024 to facilitate testing and then ramp up to 100% of users from Q3 2024. In this Cookie Countdown series, we’ll guide you through the timeline and […]

WordPress is a fantastic revenue-generating powerhouse. This post will discuss how Dollie spearheads the WordPress monetization revolution!

Discover the complexities of WordPress product demos and the need for a unified onboarding experience. Learn why not all products are one size fits all and how browser-based WordPress Playground is changing the game.

On a daily basis as a WordPress developer I run into a number of page builders. Being a freelancer developer, I tend to work with a lot of different WordPress setups. I do have a preferred way of building things, but often have to adapt to fit the client brief. One client frustration that occurs […]

The fediverse has arrived at WordPress.com.

Attackers have quite a few sneaky ways to gather information from your WordPress website. They can get their hands on details like the WordPress version you’re using, the active plugins and their versions, and even info about your active users. In this article, we’ll take a deep dive into the

In her weekly column Two Worlds of WordPress, Marieke van de Rakt explains how leaders sometimes have to be just like Spiderman.

WooCommerce CEO Paul Maiorana began the presentation with a few stats on Woo’s growth in 2023: 4.4M+ live websites currently using WooCommerce (StoreLeads.app Woo usage) 33% of the top 1 million online store are powered by Woo…

I’ve been having lots of thoughts of the WordPress leadership, community, development process and the resulting product lately.My outlook isn’t particularly great… Leadership: I think many in the WP community view Matt Mullenweg as our version of Steve Jobs. The quiet genius that dictates every granular detail of the the product to create the most […]

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#140 – WordPress 6.4 Beta 2 Released, Font Library Moved to WP 6.5, Live Preview in Plugins Repository

Edit your WooCommerce Checkout page — options for manual coding & easy-to-use extensions. Simplify checkout, add upsells, boost conversions, & more.

I posted about how convoluted all this was recently in The State of API-Powered Publishing to Social Media Networks. I don’t think it’s gotten much better, I just wanted to document exactly what I’m using right now so I can track if it gets better. Here’s where I’d like to be posting to…

In order to make a more intuitive connection between the on-click behavior of images and the usually-global lightbox toggle that you toggle off on a per-image basis, moving the control to the link dialog seems a way to do it. Issue.

The ninth edition of a monthly roundup that cuts through most of the noise, curating the features you need to build on top of modern WordPress.

Here’s how the Redis CLI can put you in command when adding this popular NoSQL database to WordPress (with help from Docker).

WordPress 6.4 Beta 3 is now ready for testing! This version is under development, so please do not install, run, or test it on production websites. Learn what’s new and how to get involved in…

A premium WordPress theme I bought came with critical security vulnerabilities out of the box. And it got worse from there.

Well, it finally happened… @ithemes has become @solidwpplugins ! The new website is live at http://solidwp.com. We also launched the new Solid Academy website at http://academy.solidwp.com, created by my agency. Check it out.

A new open-sourced Gravatar Hovercards library is live for users of WordPress.com and Jetpack, and is available to be implemented by anyone around the web.

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This uses the wp shell command. It gives you an interactive prompt into which you can do various WordPress “things”. One small annoyance is that it doesn’t like multi-line entry. It treats every hit of the enter key as “plz run the codez” – so, at the end of this blog post, I’ve put the […]

Are you experiencing any problems with leaving comments on WordPress or receiving email notifications of comments?This is what I’ve found out.

Introduction In today’s digital landscape, WordPress has emerged as a powerhouse for building websites and blogs. With its user-friendly interface and extensive plugin library, it’s the to

Last week WordPress meta contributors implemented a “Live Preview” button for plugins in the official directory, with the intention of allowing users to safely test any plugin in one click. The button went live across all of WordPress.org’s 59,000+ plugins but took plugin developers by surprise as it was pushed through without any communication or […]

Building off of both the public 6.2 Source of Truth and 6.3 Source of Truth, I’m offering up the next edition for WordPress 6.4, set to launch November 7th, 2023. This is an early look — come back on October 24th, 2023 if you want a confirmed finalized version. I like to share early and […]

Searching for the best WordPress block themes? 🤔 In this article, we’ve curated a list of the ten best WordPress block themes that let you fully design your site using the new WordPress Site Editor experience. You’ll be able to design your site’s templates using blocks while also accessing pre-made style variations to quickly change […]

Multiple Balada Injector campaigns have compromised and infected over 17,000 WordPress sites using known flaws in premium theme plugins.

The WordPress site editor introduced template parts to everyone. So what are they and how can you create template parts on your website?

WordPress: A whooping 54.9MB without any theme code is almost 10 times the size of Kirby. And we all know how much plugin and theme code usually gets added.

In this episode of Press This, guests join Doc Pop to talk about their Halloween horror stories! Listen if you dare!

I like the JetPack related post functionality. But I wanted to customise it far beyond what the default code allows for. So here’s how I went from this: To this: Documentation The complete documentation for related posts is pretty easy to follow. This is an adaptation of “Use Jetpack_RelatedPosts_Raw to build your own list of […]

If you’ve done research about website accessibility, you’ve probably come across Accessibe. But as you’ll see, it does anything but make your website accessible.

These “Core Editor Improvement…” posts (labeled with the #core-editor-improvement tag) are a series dedicated to highlighting various new features, improvements, and more from Core Editor related p…

Variations is a block theme and hopefully the last theme you will even have to install. It comes with many different templates and block patterns to make creating a website easy.

Howdy, Seems Summer break is over for many developers, designers, and site builders, and they came back inspired to write and share their learning with the rest of the community. There is a ton of material in today’s weekend edition for every level of WordPress users. Dig in. And if you still us browser bookmarks…

For entrepreneurs, reducing customer churn is one of the best ways to achieve success. Here are 4 contextual discounts to keep users engaged.

Discover the ultimate WooCommerce event at WooSesh 2023 – Get ready to boost your online store with expert insights!

This feature is still experimental. “Experimental” means this is an early implementation subject to drastic and breaking changes. Tabs…

NASA has removed the beta label from the new nasa.gov website, which was launched on WordPress, replacing Drupal as the CMS. After a lengthy process, which required 18 months of active web developm…

Jessica Lyschik, a passionate WordPress Core and Community Team member, brings tremendous value as a contributor. Carole Olinger has nominated her for the Yoast Care fund for outstanding contributions. Explore the world of this dedicated WordPress enthusiast and her deep affection for the community.

🔎 WordPress 6.3.2 RC1 & 6.4 Beta 2 are ready for testing🔠 Font manager delayed for testing⏭️ Plugin Repo Live Demo launched and retracted❓What metrics matter in contributing to WordPress

Released in Gutenberg 16.7, the Font Library is a major feature that was originally planned for sync into WordPress Core for the 6.4 release. It’s now slated for WordPress 6.5 and we need you…

WordPress is the platform used by many of small publishers. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google are leaving the news business.

Hacktoberfest is an annual worldwide event held during the month of October. The event encourages interested individuals to contribute to open-source projects by having 4 pull requests (PRs) accept…

As many of you, I desperately need to know what happens to a fresh WordPress site, when you install the 108 most popular plugins.

The WordPress 6.4 release squad has decided to punt the planned Font Library feature to 6.5 after core maintainers found major gaps in the Font APIs that cannot be resolved in time for the upcoming…

WordPress 6.3.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing.

We’ve got the best 2023 Black Friday deals on WordPress plugins, themes, web hosting, and tools to grow your business. They won’t last, so don’t miss this!

Just a quick video showing you how to disable the new Live Preview feature that was added to the WordPress.org plugin repository. For more information about the feature and its progress see the Trac ticket: https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticke…

Start publishing your blog posts directly from Obsidian to WordPress, simplifying your workflow and saving you valuable time.

Vote for your favorite WordPress Plugins, Themes, Tools, and Services at The WP Awards 2023 event. Nomination opens soon and voting begins in October 2023 and results in December 2023.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday special WordPress Deals 2023 discounts, offers, freebies, lifetime access to themes, plugins, and website services.

Over the past several weeks, we’ve been working through the review to get this theme approved at WordPress.org. And as of this morning, Ollie is now available o

Along with the introduction of the new error type that warns of unsafe email configurations, this version introduces important changes in the configuration validator. While most users don’t need to worry about this, if you are a developer and have ever used the WPCF7_ConfigValidator class in your code, I recommend you pay attention to the […]

This complete guide and step-by-step tutorial will teach you exactly what WordPress multisite is, its pros and cons, and how to set it up.

WordPress and Images WordPress is actually pretty smart when it comes to images. Images have two main sizes associated with them: Image file size, whi

Hi everyone, my name is Josh Kohlbach. I’m the CEO of Rymera Web Co. We are beyond excited to announce we acquired Visser Labs and all its plugins from the original owner Michael Visser back at the end of August 2023. Let me tell you a short story: Once in a while, stories align and […]

I’m extremely excited to share that Envira Gallery, NextGen Gallery, Soliloquy Slider, and the Photocrati theme are joining the WPBeginner family of products.

There are times when I have wanted to add a search block to a post or page in WordPress and have it only return results from a specific post type, rather than searching all posts types that are included in search. After a lot of back and forth I have managed to do this with […]

Went live last night and according to reports it’s a little “rough around the edges” and that “its very much beta/alpha right now” with PHP warnings showing from WP core.

Discover SEOKEY 1.7, the latest version of our even more powerful and complete audit module for performing SEO audits on your WordPress website!

The WordPress Million Dollar page, filled with sponsors and their awesome products. Why not take a look and find a hidden gem 💎 on LayerWP.com

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,271 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. I’m back from holiday and I had a great time in Rome – just a little flu but nothing major. I spent 5 days with no […]

In the not-too-distant past, the majority of themes on WordPress.com were ready-to-use Classic themes or Hybrid themes, with paint-by-number typography, multiple color palettes and and an overall “look and feel” created by a professional designer that we users could easily customize and fill with content. Today, if you venture beyond a theme’s static front page […]

Geoff explores the often-overlooked divide between WordPress.org and WordPress.com, shedding light on the blurred lines between open-source ideals and commercial interests.

WP Product Writeup offers quality, white-label content for makers of WordPress plugins, themes, and SaaS providers.

WordPress 6.4 is set to launch on November 7th, 2023 and with it comes a new slew of design tools. As with the various prior release related exhibits, starting with WordPress 6.0, an exhibit for art created with WordPress 6.4 will be available. To help provide some sparks of inspiration sooner rather than later, this […]

Quality attribution of content is very important. It lends credibility to your own content. Until recently footnotes in WordPress have been difficult to make, but starting with WordPress 6.3 it’s super simple. Here’s how.

Discover the advantages of open source for enterprise organisations, from digital innovation to development speed and transparency.

The Learning Pathways project is gaining momentum! For those who may not have had the opportunity yet, I would like to direct your attention to the Project Thread: Learning Pathways on Learn WordPr…

Mike McAlister, creator of the free Ollie theme, will be dropping the innovative onboarding features from the theme in favor of putting them into a separate plugin after facing pushback during the review for inclusion in WordPress.org’s Themes Directory.

WordPress 6.4 Beta 2 is now ready for testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-cr…

“We are honored and excited to have Accessibility Checker become an officially recommended tool in the WP Buffs Partner Hub,” stated Chris Hinds, COO at Equalize Digital. “This partnership reflects our shared commitment to making the web a more inclusive place for everyone. WP Buffs has recognized the value that Accessibility Checker brings to the […]

What worked before will no longer work today. You know this, because you can see your company’s metrics. It’s not Matt or Automattic’s fault. It’s not because people aren’t as “hot” on WP as they were during the pandemic….

Style variations are a great way to change the look of your website with the WordPress site editor. So let’s learn more about thm.

This month, Automattic had the privilege of working with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (BKC) to migrate their early 2000s blogging platform over to our Pressable infrastructure. (Pressable is a small host Automattic runs to develop our WP.cloud infrastructure, it gets you all the performance and security of our high-end WP.com plans, […]

The hurdle is getting past looking at code and saying, “Oh, this is code. I can’t understand it.” You’re not looking at zeros and ones, you’re looking at words you can understand.

Permalink of this material: ( Video A video walk-through of these #WPDiversity resources What is the Diverse Speaker Training Group (#WPDiversity)? We are a working group within the WordPress Commu…

If you use WordPress’s HTML5 comments, there’s an annoying little gotcha. There’s a four year old bug which prevents client-side form validation. HTML allows elements to have a required attribute. In theory, that means the form shouldn’t submit until the input is filled in. Sadly, WordPress uses novalidate on the form – as the […]

September is over! Time for an update on all things Photos. We’ve begun onboarding new members to the photo moderators team.

WordPress’ Community team has proposed a draft for the 2024 Global Community Sponsorship Program, with fees increased to cover the costs of the rapidly expanding number of in-person events.

Explore the advantages of open source CMS, specifically WordPress, and delve into the business value of Linux and open source solutions in the competitive CMS arena.