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WP’s default Gutenberg editor is an intuitive, yet highly flexible page editor that exists as an independent open-source project, and has meanwhile matured and become popular, with integration into Drupal as well.

In this post, we explain what a CDN is and its benefits to your website plus how to set up the Cloudflare CDN with your WordPress site.

CMS Core Web Vitals in Decline, Global Botnet Crumbles, WordPress Can Drink Now, and More!

This Week at WordPress.org (June 2, 2024) News WordPress 6.5.4 Maintenance Release WordPress 6.6 Beta 1 WordCamp Europe 2024: Mid-Year Update and Q&A

WordPress 6.6 will ship with version 18.3 of the React library, which is identical to 18.2 but adds warnings for deprecations and other changes to help developers prepare for the React 19 upgrade o…

In this article we will see how to provide a very high level of protection to a WordPress blog with a web application firewall.

Nowadays, it’s easy to run a web server locally on your computer. Multiple products even handle the complex configuration part for you. Still, I prefer to develop WordPress websites on a server connected to the Internet.

In the Big Picture Goals 2024 post, Josepha called on the WordPress community to focus our energy on attracting new users to WordPress. Historically, our Meetups, WordCamps, and Flagship WordCamps …

Alex Standiford has been an active member of the WordPress community since 2014 and is the creator of Siren Affiliates.

Our new program gives agencies robust tools, dedicated support, and extensive resources so they can thrive like never before.

WordPress Playground – An official tool & plugin from WordPress that you need to know right now

WordPress 6.5.4 is now available!This minor release features 5 bug fixes in Core. You can review a summary of the maintenance updates in this release by reading the Release Candidate announcement. …

Sometimes you write code to benefit a wide audience, and sometimes you write it to make your life a little easier. This is one of the latter. I wrote a small script that generates the list of credits found at the bottom of minor release posts such as the one for WordPress 6.5.3. The input […]

During the International PHP Conference, I had a chance to give a talk called

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials handpicked for you (and the other 19,131 subscribers!), so that you can learn something new. Life’s good as I go on a short break tomorrow. Temperatures are going to be quite extreme (35 C / 95 F) but thankfully there’s a swimming pool in the […]

Why categorising and tagging your blog posts correctly is one of the most powerful way of getting your blog posts noticed

WordPress Community News: hot takes, upcoming events, quick links, and our meetup info. Got a tip? Message Michelle!

It’s a phrase that I’ve started to use more often, to the point where it starts to lose any sense of meaning. Does it mean anything?

In which we should ban someone because they didn’t want to work with another developer.

In March 2021, Josepha introduced the proposal of a WordPress Project Contributor Handbook. This handbook was intended to be an overarching resource and place for policies, best practices, guides a…

WordPress 6.6 Beta 1 is here! Please download and test it. This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on product…

The program is not just about funding, but ensuring the community reflects the broad spectrum of people who contribute to WordPress.

And there are many intriguing options for web designers. Using CSS and JavaScript offers a path to creating high-end effects. They not only look great, though. There are ways to build features that are performant and accessible as well.

In an exclusive eBook that we’re releasing later this year covering ways on Optimizing WordPress for Speed, you’ll see the following information:  Caching can help deliver a site in less time because you have a stored copy of a resource instead of having to query and find it. But, caching won’t make a slow site

Learn how to implement Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) support feature with Next.js and Faust.js on WP Engine’s Atlas platform. Boost performance, enhance SEO, and keep your content fresh with this step-by-step guide.

Apple, really stepped into it, when it made an iPad advertisement that essentially showed all creativity (and creative effort) being crushed and compacted into a thin piece of glass. It was a tone-…

I love many of the new, simple blogging platforms—Scribbles, Pika, Micro.blog, Bear Blog, omg.lol, and so forth. They’re useful for helping you get words on page without much fuss. You don’t worry about endlessly tweaking your design, because there really isn’t much of one. Like social media, it’s more standard interface than personal website. This […]

WordPress 6.5.4 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing.

Josepha is the Executive Director of the WordPress project, helping to coordinate and guide volunteer efforts across the WordPress ecosystem. She also leads Automattic‘s open source division supporting developers, designers, community builders, and WordPress advocates contributing to the web’s most loved CMS.

Dive into the new WPGraphQL-IDE plugin! Discover how its improved visuals and expanded functionalities can streamline your development process and enhance your headless WordPress projects.

Advanced Custom Fields version 6.3 is now available! 🚀🎉 ACF 6.3 introduces validation support for fields in ACF Blocks and the ability to store ACF Block

The next major release of WordPress, version 6.6, is scheduled to ship on July 16, 2024. It’s not expected to be as developer-centric as WordPress 6.5, but there’s still plenty to get excited about: refinements to existing APIs, community blueprints, and expanded global style variations. In this article, we’ll dive into the most significant updates […]

This Week at WordPress.org (May 25, 2024) News WP Briefing: Episode 80: Unlocking Your WordPress Potential with Learn WordPress Tools Apply for the Kim

A few months back, I created WordPress Next, a boilerplate for WordPress projects that comes with a Composer-based setup, DDEV for local development, and a customized configuration file to allow using environment variables, with even a fallback to a .env file if needed.

Discover five exciting WordPress features that enhance user experience, streamline site management, and elevate web development creativity.

WordPress ​6.5.4 RC1 dropped in the last 24 hours​ and it reverts this weird bulk activation hack we’ve currently got going. It introduces ​a new filter to restore auto-redirect after plugin activation now​. This is good. This is listening to feedback. Let’s see what else happened this past week, shall we? Within WordPress is brought […]

In March 2021, Josepha introduced the proposal of a WordPress Project Contributor Handbook. This handbook was intended to be an overarching resource and place for policies, best practices, guides a…

Enhance the default YouTube Embed Block to load faster.

Automattic’s mission is to democratize publishing and ecommerce, and a fully informed citizenry is the foundation of a functioning democracy.

WordPress Media Corps — you might even chuckle when you hear the phrase. This experimental initiative is a team that replaced the WordPress Marketing Team. Not commercial WordPress, mind you, but the open source dot org side of the house. If you’ve been following me for any amount of time,…

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials handpicked for you (and the other 19,023 subscribers!), so that you can learn something new. I still have a strong cough, my kid has been acting weirdly for the last few days (maybe he’s on a growth spike) and my wife has just recovered from […]

WordPress Media Corps — you might even chuckle when you hear the phrase. This experimental initiative is a team that replaced the WordPress Marketing Team. Not commercial WordPress, mind you, but the open source dot org side of the house. If you’ve been following me for any amount of time,…

At nearly 1000 free Gravity Forms snippets, this is the most comprehensive library of snippets for Gravity Forms ever made.

Threat actors are exploiting a WordPress plugin to insert malicious PHP code in e-commerce sites and steal credit card data.

It seems like just yesterday WordPress was becoming a teenager, and in a blink of the eye it’s now old enough to drink! 21 years since Mike and I did the first release of WordPress, forking M…

We’re elevating our brand identity with a new framework to create a seamless, unified experience for all!

Read on to learn about how Paco navigates WordPress’s dynamic environment, powered by curiosity and the spirit of lifelong learning.

Harness the power of OpenAI language models like GPT3 and others from inside Gravity Forms, free of cost.

AI, Colors & Typography. If you’re new here, welcome to Shaping WordPress, where I share every couple weeks what’s top of my mind and…

A number of plugin authors have reported that the fix introduced as a part of #60992 has not sufficiently helped their users, therefore #61269 is being proposed as a short cycle fix. In order to ge…

In this interview, Jakob Trost, CTO, speaks about the journey of taking the Greyd Block theme to the official WordPress theme directory.

team @ wordpress.org • 4 hours ago The WordPress plugin directory raised the ceiling that shows the number of active installs from 5+ million to

The WordPress community’s commitment to creating welcoming, inclusive, and accessible events is unwavering. By periodically revisiting our policies and adapting to the evolving needs of our communi…

Angela Jin from Madrid, Spain writes about finding her place in the world and how WordPress guided her to that place.

In most Western societies, people tend to consider men and women equal. Most people agree that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men.

This release includes 178 pull requests by 58 contributors. Look for improvements to the Grid block, a new handy keyboard shortcut, and useful features for extenders. Additionally, as always, a num…

I don’t work primarily on creating code, so I don’t consider myself a programmer. I use the code of others to build websites.

Advanced Custom Fields version 6.3 is now available! 🚀🎉 ACF 6.3 introduces validation support for fields in ACF Blocks and the ability to store ACF Block

The latest updates to the Gridbuilder ᵂᴾ plugin

The new Content Board feature is is a kanban board for planning your WordPress content, and you’ll find it in the PublishPress Planner plugin.

This is a bi-weekly update of work the design group contributed to. Work happens in overview issues, and in needs design, or needs design feedback issues. If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, drop a note in the #design channel. If you have questions, you can also ask them […]

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials handpicked for you (and the other 19,014 subscribers!), so that you can learn something new. We’re doing slightly better here, we’ve been sick for at least 3 weeks but hopefully the summer is now going to help with killing the virus! It’s been hard to […]

In the left menu, under “Pages”, click “Add New Page”. Then, where it says “Add title”, replace that with just three letters: now. That will ensure the URL is /now, and after it’s posted, you can change the title to “What I’m doing now” or whatever.

It sometimes feels like web design has lost its creative flair. Has it? Or have we changed how we use our creativity?

WordPress is, among other things, a perfect time capsule of open technologies from the early days of innovation on the web, and widely deployed.

I took a lot away from DrupalCon Portland 2024, and while one of my lasting memories from the main keynote (the Driesnote) will be the introduction of Starshot, something that has occupied a good amount of space in my brain is what happened just prior to Dries’ Starshot announcement. At the start of his presentation […]

With almost 10 years of management experience in various industries, Sandra Kurze has extensive knowledge in product sales and marketing.

This month, I’m celebrating 6 years as a Partnerships Manager. To remember this experience, I’m sharing my free eBook, WordPress Partnerships: Basics.

Updates to system software and site components mean extra work. Here are some tips for managing those software changes that may impact your website.

This is the 38th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Om Malik and his blog, om.co.

Explore PaddlePress Pro 2.3 featuring improved account and subscription management for seamless Paddle integration with WordPress

The WordPress community has long advocated for diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) training. Over the years, teams have explored various avenues, usually engaging diversity consultan…

Imagine if in a few clicks, you could get access to an exact replica of someone else’s WordPress creation and get a peek behind the scenes. Or imagine if you could provide a copy of your site to he…

As part of the efforts to assess the health of the WordPress project, a working group is forming to test demonstrations of various tools we could leverage. If you would like to participate, please comment below. We’ll take this to Slack-based meetings in Sustainability Slack channel.

Here’s the list of all the community Blueprints submitted to this repository. See the contribution guidelines to submit your Blueprint and share your WordPress setup with the world!

We are thrilled to announce that WordCamp Europe has been granted a prestigious Patronage from the European Parliament.  This incredible recognition acknowledges the importance of our conferen…

Unlock the secrets to selecting a payment plugin for your WordPress site! Ensure seamless transactions and boost customer trust today.

This post is a follow-up to the WordPress 6.6 call for volunteers update. I’m glad to announce the WordPress 6.6 release squad is ready and the Core Triage and Documentation lead roles have b…

This Week at WordPress.org (May 13, 2024) News WP Briefing: Episode 79: Why Start a WordPress Media Corps (and Why Now?) Apply for the Kim Parsell

You know those times WordPress is all, “Hey, we’re running out of memory here… think you can increase it?” Here, maybe a screenshot will help.

Are you using filter tags on your WordPress website? This article will help you understand the difference between tags and categories and why you should add WordPress filter tags to your publications.

Whenever I talk to web developers outside the inner circle of the WordPress community, it is bound to come up: WordPress security. It is the most important reason why a certain group of people does not want a WordPress site. They think, they’ve read, they’ve heard that WordPress sites are not secure and that they […]

What happens when the pond we all share stops growing but we keep adding new fish?

Predicting the future of Google search, how soon will AI-driven snippets redefine how we discover and engage with online content?

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

Do a better job and review everything and listen to me because I know better!

I recently built a new WordPress block to add a toggle between light and dark modes on your website, like I have…

A trend toward consolidation in WordPress has been going on for at least a decade now, but it’s not only limited to WordPress. All aspects of the web industry have been affected by it. In this post, we’ll introduce you to five mergers and acquisitions from recent history.

Tracking and recognizing all contributions in WordPress helps assess the project’s health by diversifying input, lowering risk through broader engagement, and improving onboarding and acknowledgment systems. This approach aims to keep WordPress robust and thriving for many more years.

About the Acquisition Convesio’s strategic move aims to enhance its technology stack and expand market reach by integrating advanced marketing automation tools designed for WordPress and WooCommerce. Naples FL, May 9, 2024 – Convesio, a high performance WooCommerce hosting platform, is excited to announce the acquisition of Growmatik, a cutting-edge marketing automation tool for WordPress […]

WisdmLabs LearnDash add-ons are the newest acquisition to join the LearnDash suite of online learning and training solutions.

Agencies and independent developers generally have a tool belt with a variety of WordPress plugins, themes, and services they use on client sites. Site Owner Admin by Dave Grey is one of those plugins you should consider adding to your repertoire. If you’ve worked as a freelancer or agency, chances are your email address was

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…

Jos Velasco writes about the security and stability of freelancing with WordPress in Mexico.

Reflecting on my experience building my first completely custom full site editing theme, from start to finish.