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As we near the close of 2023, our sights are set on the horizon of the coming year. Openverse has grown incredibly over the past year, thanks to the countless contributions, feedback, and ideas of our passionate community members. We have had some excellent successes this year, including:

This guide will walk you through everything you need to know to prepare your WooCommerce site for Black Friday now.

Openverse Wins the 2023 OEG Open Infrastructure Award. Get a sneak peek into the exciting developments for developers in the upcoming WordPress 6.4 release.

We are pleased to announce the release of User Registration 5.2. Find out more about the add-on and what’s included in this update.

You may have noticed “Accessibility Statements” popping up on more and more websites. Not sure if you or your clients need an accessibility statement? This article is for you.

This article will explore GraphQL and WPGraphQL, delving into their core principles, architecture, and how they contrast with the WordPress REST API. Whether you are a seasoned developer looking to understand this method of data retrieval or someone new to the field, this article will provide a comprehensive overview of GraphQL/WPGraphQL, its importance, and its […]

WordPress contributors are incredible. How can we better acknowledge and celebrate the important contributions made, and recognize the impact they have for the WordPress open source project? This discussion will explore where we currently are not recognizing contributions, and how we can more appropriately and readily show appreciation for contributions and contributors.

I tested six AI chatbots by creating a WordPress plugin. Find out if ChatGPT, Bard, Bing, Claude, Code Llama, and Llama 2 completed the task.

Tickets for WordCamp Asia went on sale and then quickly sold out (first batch) WordCamp Asia 2024 will be held in Taipei, Taiwan, from March 7 – 9, 2024. The three-day event will be packed full of workshops, presentations and networking events.

(I would be remiss if I didn’t take this opportunity to first and foremost emphasize that when a [custom] design is created and approved without real content, it sets everyone involved up for failure – the designer, the developer, the content creator, the end-user – everyone. Something I will definitely expand more on one day, […]

For WordPress security you need more than the basics. Use our tips: Password Manager, 2FA, backups, updates, rights & education to keep your site secure!

I used ChatGPT to help with a presentation, and unintentionally turned it into a unique asset. After giving it several articles written about my site, it suddenly became capable of providing me ideas to improve my site based on the information I previously fed it. I’m keenly interested to see how this revelation will help […]

We’re excited to celebrate the extraordinary talent, innovation, and dedication that thrives within the WooCommerce community. This awards ceremony is your opportunity to help us put the spotlight on exceptional WooCommerce stores, agencies, developers, and community advocates—to celebrate the very best that WooCommerce has to offer!

There’s more to block attributes than meets the eye. Attributes contain data needed by your block, and that data can be retrieved from a number of different locations, not just the block delimiter.…

Five agencies were noted for exceptional work in ecommerce. See what made them stand out + find your own agency or register to become a go-to WooCommerce pro.

Many people confuse WordPress.org and WordPress.com – and it’s a big problem for the future of open-source WordPress.

Openverse is a powerful tool for finding and reusing Creative Commons licensed and public domain works, currently indexing over 700 million images and audio files. As the successor to the Creative Commons Search built in 2019, Openverse is now maintained and continually developed by WordPress…

We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 8.1.0. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version. This release contains: 357 commits from 50 contributors&nbsp…

The Faust.js team has been hard at work finishing up our implementation of Next.js’ App Router as well as a new Gutenberg feature that will allow you to take an existing React component and use it, with minimal configuration, in the WordPress Block editor.

This is a summary of a Hallway Hangout that was wrangled in the #fse-outreach-experiment channel as part of the FSE Outreach Program. Video Recording: Notes/Links: When I was the only one in attend…

What’s new on WooCommerce? A lot! Discover new products, updates, featured WooExperts, and more in the first edition of What’s New With Woo.

People can subscribe to receive my blog via email. This is managed by the JetPack plugin. I want to be able to display something like “Join 1,234 subscribers and receive updates via email”. So, how do I get the subscriber count from the API?

Sezzle, a Buy Now, Pay Later leader, is pleased to announce an expanded partnership with WooCommerce, the leading open-source eCommerce platform.

WordPress core developer John Blackbourn sparked a heated discussion yesterday when he posted an image of his WordPress User Switching plugin ranking higher for the WordPress.com listing than the page on WordPress.org.

Sadie-Michaela Harris has lived in Bruges, a castle in France, a narrowboat in England, & now with cows in Scotland, because WordPress let her

There’s a term we use a lot in WordPress forum/plugin work, called Sock Puppets. That’s what we call an account someone makes with the intent of disguising who they are, usually to troll or for some other nefarious purpose. For plugin reviews in particular, the sock puppets are generally used to make fake reviews. Specifically […]

“Why has @wordpressdotcom replicated the entire http://WordPress.org plugin directory on its .com domain name? Searching for some plugin names now results in the .com page ranking higher than .org.”

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,219 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. It’s time to get back to life this week, and all is well thankfully. Recovering won’t be easy but it’s all downhill from now. Having said […]

WordPress is the biggest content management system out there, with a 64% market share (Shopify, Joomla, Squarespace, and Wix have a 14% market share combined!) Source: Zippia WordPress offers robust functionality, tons of plugins, and an intuitive UI.  However, if you’re like most WP users, you don’t use it to the fullest. This is because […]

Kathy Zant saw the miracle of internet very early. As the internet grew, she grew with it. From the simple days of HTML to complex universe of WordPress and

There are at least 100 separate instances of admin notices generated by core. In a quick search for id=”message”, there are 92 hits, but I know that there are also cases that don’t have that ID. The markup for all of these should be generated by a function; this would make future updates easier, as […]

Like all great communities, the strength of the WordPress community is the incredible people who participate and also bring their unique perspectives and ideas to the project. As the NextGen Event Project rolls along, we have put together some creative concepts and ideas powered by your fellow WordPress enthusiasts. These concepts are all ready for […]

In changeset 12097, the active install growth chart shown for each plugin in the plugin directory was removed “due to insufficient data obfuscation”. These stats are actually very useful for plugin developers and it’s really and truly one of the only indications of the growth or decline of a plugin over time. These graphs at […]

It has be nearly one year since WordPress silently turned off active install growth data for plugins hosted in the official plugin repository, a key metric that many developers rely on for accurate tracking and product decision-making. “Insufficient data obfuscation” was cited as the reason for the charts’ removal, but this opaque decision landed without […]

Thursday, September 7 was a very interesting day in the WordPress publishing space. We a saw a significant investment in the space, with more to come.

WordPress tends to struggle with messaging. Could it harm its long-term future? What could be done to create a more user-friendly vocabulary?

The following dives deep into the latest updates to the Command Palette, a new tool available with WordPress 6.3 designed to speed up your workflow. With work underway for WordPress 6.4, here are some very early looks at what you can look forward to when it comes to this new option in your WordPress creation […]

How to extend a Woocommerce payment gateway to add the support for another subscription plugin.

Earlier this year, the WordPress Training Team published the results from the Individual Learner Survey completed in 2022. The goal of the survey was to identify the most useful and high-impact res…

WordPress vs Ghost – Key Differences Explained in 2023 As 2023 unfolds, website builders have a tough choice to make when deciding which platform to go with for their blogging or business needs. Two platforms garnering significant attention are WordPress and Ghost. Both have grown in popularity due to their robust features, customizable design, and

We’re thrilled to unveil our brand-new Invited Speaker Program! As we strive to elevate our flagship event, we are taking a comprehensive approach to redefine what makes WordCamp truly unforg…

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

If you’re blogging like I’m doing here, it’s nice to be able to kick your posts out automatically to social networks (in addition to RSS). A reasonable list right now: There are many more sites we’d consider social networks, but they aren’t as obviously a good fit for sharing blog posts. Instagram is a big […]

For storing data in a custom API endpoint, I needed to run code whenever the block editor gets saved. That was easier said than done.

August 2023 marked another exciting chapter in WordPress, with the Community Summit and WordCamp US bringing the community together for meaningful discussions, knowledge sharing, and learning. This month also welcomed the long-awaited WordPress 6.3 release and offered a glimpse of what’s to come. Let’s dive into it.

The 2023 edition of the annual survey about the latest trends in the CSS ecosystem.

WordPress offers a Time to Read block so you can tell visitors in advance how long it will take to finish reading the post.

The latest version of WooCommerce Blocks, version 11.0.0, is now available for download on WordPress.org and GitHub. Notable Changes New Product Collection block Product Collection i…

WordPress events spark innovation and adoption by way of accessible training and networking for users, builders, designers, and extenders. We celebrate community by accelerating 21st-century skills, professional opportunities, and partnerships for WordPressers of today and tomorrow. What innovating event types will the WP Community host in the future to embrace our purpose? Use this form […]

Howdy, The WordPress 6.4 release is fast approaching. This week I tested two new features. I am excited about that content creators and designers will be able to add a background image to group blocks. I see a few more decorative, wall paper like backgrounds for quotes, or call out paragraphs in our future. Furthermore,…

Video Version Recently, the WordPress theme team released a new block theme called Stacks for building slide decks, which has […]

We asked respondents to share their most important criteria when selecting an open source project to contribute to in their personal time.

Today I received an unsolicited email from a website called FestingerVault. They had created a WordPress account on their website using my email address, even though I had never heard of them before.

In this tutorial, we will explore the process of integrating media or external content into your website. This will be achieved by utilizing embed blocks, the HTML block, and the direct insertion o…

Why my label of “WordPress Community Person” no longer fits.

What started as an experimental program in May 2020 with the expectation that the Site Editor would ship in the following 6 or so months turned into nearly 3.5 years of feedback loops, knowledge sh…

Explore the seamless integration of Convoworks with Twitter to create a bot that automates tweets. Dive deep into the process, from crafting tweets with GPT to efficient scheduling using WordPress hooks. A comprehensive guide for both beginners and advanced users.

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), one of the plugins WP Engine acquired from Delicious Brains in 2022, has published the results if its first annual survey. Although ACF reports more than 4.5 million active users, including PRO site installs, the survey only gathered feedback from 2,031 respondents.

Nexcess today announced its Top Tier designation in three categories of Review Signal’s 2023 WordPress Hosting Benchmarks.

Learn how WordPress hosting benchmarks work, what to look out for, and which factors can have the most significant impact on performance.

The latest version of Easy Digital Downloads is here! Learn how EDD 3.2 streamlines and simplifies discount code management & its other major improvements!

As open-source projects with similar goals, WordPress and Mastodon seem like a great match. Here are eight ways to use them together.

Today, I’m proud to announce a merger months in the making with a fellow premium digital services agency whose work and leadership I’ve come to admire: Fueled. Fueled is to mobile and enterprise-grade online applications what 10up has been to WordPress and online content management and publishing: an innovator and leader driven by the values […]

Add COmments to Posts @richard_tabor I made a new block plugin for adding markdown comments that only display while editing a post…

PHP is a tremendously popular language. Imagine running your PHP applications in different environments like a browser or a phone. This opens a new set of possibilities for the PHP ecosystem and Wo…

From the session schedule: Historically, the WordPress project has avoided taking clear public stances on legislation as it appeared across the world, instead relying on our sustaining/underwriting…

“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 reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Gutenberg and the Site Editor project (formerly called Full Site Editing).

The story behind our new logo and website created by Ryan Bracey, the team at Second Melody, Joe Dolson, Nick Croft, and other organizers.

Often anchor links can be overachievers and can scroll a user past the section intended. This plugin attempts to change that by offering a setting that allows you to change the scroll offset when clicking anchors. It also adds a nice animated scrolling effect when clicking an anchor rather than the sudden jump that usually […]

Given that over half of all WordPress installations are in languages other than English, our goal is to translate and sustainably maintain all the documentation in the world’s primary languag…

Discover the highlights of the WordPress Community Summit 2023, where global contributors gathered to discuss the future of WordPress.

A Women in WordPress Mentorship Scheme. We want to increase the representation of women in WordPress boardrooms and leadership.

Fun & flexible software for online communities, teams, and groups

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,204 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. It’s a sad day for my family and me. The bad news arrived yesterday, after many days of good ones. I guess it’s always like that […]

🎉 Put all the pieces together with Notion WP Sync. From planning in Notion to publishing on WordPress, it’s a seamless journey. 🛤️ #ContentJourney

We are thrilled to announce the launch of OmniForm, a groundbreaking form solution that sets the foundation for the future of form-building on WordPress websites. While its current focus is on general forms, OmniForm’s robust framework is poised to handle a wide range of form types, including search forms, login forms, surveys, polls, and more. […]

LION Publishers is announcing an initiative to help news businesses obtain affordable technology from leading technology service providers.

Media Temple (MT) is closing its doors after 24 years in the hosting industry, with the brand now retired and customers fully migrated to GoDaddy. In 2013, GoDaddy acquired MT “to win the hea…

One of the most frequently cited limitations of the WordPress block editor is the lack of true responsive design options that are found in full fledged site builders like Elementor. The WordPress editor opts for a slim approach, leveraging fluid design tools for spacing and typography that ideally reduce the need for having multiple breakpoints […]

In the realm of creativity and innovation, there exists a dichotomy between pursuing meaningful work and getting bogged down by the trivial.

Looking for the fastest WooCommerce themes to guarantee a fast-loading store? We went hands-on and tested 8 great options – check ’em out!

WordPress community members are often encouraged to contribute to the project. That makes plenty of sense. The software is open-source and relies on both sponsored and volunteer contributors. It’s what keeps things moving forward.

Delve into the love/hate relationship with WordPress! Discover the 5 major frustrations with WordPress, from complexity to security.

On August 16, 2023, our Wordfence Threat Intelligence team identified and began the responsible disclosure process for a stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Newsletter plugin, which is actively installed on more than 300,000 WordPress websites. The vulnerability enables threat actors with contributor-level permissions or higher to inject malicious web scripts into pages using […]

A story, to be effective, has to have certain components to help people understand that story and to reach and to be moved by that story.

The core performance team recently conducted an in-depth i18n performance analysis. It showed that localized WordPress sites load significantly slower than a site without translations. The blo…

Let’s say you want to automatically delete specific sorts of comments from your WordPress blog. For example, immediately trashing any comment that has a specific phrase “Elephant Juice” in it. You can do this by going to Settings -> Discussion → Disallowed Comment Keys. Or you can add something to your theme’s functions.php file. Here’s […]

Rocket.net is an official Five for the Future partner with several of our key employees contributing to Core as well as our sponsorship of WordCamps and Meetups.

As we gear up for the year 2024, it’s time to put on our tech-savvy glasses and dive into the exciting trends and updates that will shape the future of our beloved content management system. From PHP support and headless WordPress to the growth of WooCommerce and the integration of AI, there’s a lot to […]

Justin Kopepasah writes about his struggle to get work and acceptance after serving a prison sentence, and finding both in WordPress.

Today I’m delighted to announce the launch of version 2.1 of my Freelance Availability Widget WordPress Plugin! This adds one new feature, the ability to specify the text within the shortcode should that date has passed. You can see it (sometimes) on my home page – instead of saying “Available June 2023” at the time of […]

There’s a brilliant post by WordPress about how they’ve optimised some of the backend code to make it more efficient. So here’s a suggestion for something else which can be optimised. If you want to schedule a blog post to be published later, you have to use this WordPress control: I find it mildly annoying. […]

Migrating add-on data and settings between sites has long been a difficult task for Gravity Forms users. While Gravity Forms allows you to export forms

Block variations are one of the most powerful ways to extend WordPress. Learn how to create them and incorporate variations into your workflows.

WordCamp US (WCUS) 2023 Contributor Day was held this year on Thursday, August 24th. Typically all Make Teams share one room on Contributor Day, but this year the Training Team shared a large room …