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The Social Icons block provides options to set both an “Icon color” and an “Icon background color”. In versions prior to WordPress 6.3, the selected colors were hardcoded as…

As part of the release of WordPress 6.3, the new Performance team has been working on several improvements to the core. There are a few new additions to the WordPress Cache API, improved validation, and new actions.

This report is intended to answer questions and add context to our recently announced discovery of tens of thousands of compromised WordPress websites where popular security plugins were present but unable to detect malware that added itself to the security plugins’ allow lists.

Want to create and sell online courses with WordPress? Create a WordPress course website with Tutor LMS & ProfilePress membership plugin.

WordPress 6.3 introduces a new concept called “development mode”, which affects certain nuances in how WordPress behaves. Going forward, sites will be able to configure their development mode using a new WP_DEVELOPMENT_MODE constant, which is recommended for any development sites.

Laurence Bahiirwa is a WordPress devotee with love for the community. Learn more about him and his contributions in this interview!

The All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress security plugin, used by over a million WordPress sites, was found to be logging plaintext passwords from user login attempts to the site’s database, putting account security at risk.

A utility plugin is a single plugin that’s activated and does one thing with minimal user input and that enhances or streamlines their work within WordPress.

Imagine if there was an in-browser version of WordPress that didn’t need PHP, a server, or database to run? Welcome to WordPress Playground!

WordPress dominates the CMS market with an impressive 63.2% market share, meaning that a whopping 43.1% of all websites rely on this powerful platform. Just think about the vast number of potential website owners you could target if your expertise lies in WordPress! Now, you might be tempted to believe…

WordPress 6.3 introduces support for registering scripts with async and defer attributes as part of an enhancement to core’s existing Scripts API. This addresses a long-standing Trac ticket, …

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There are a number of internationalization (i18n) improvements in WordPress 6.2, which I’d like to cover in this dedicated dev note.

Gutenberg Phase 3 is bringing real-time collaboration and collaborative editing to WordPress. Here’s what that will mean for the platform.

I have been using Docker Compose for local development for years now. While I am comfortable writing or debugging a docker-compose.yml file, if I can avoid doing so, I will. Luckily, the WordPress open-source platform has a zero-config tool for Docker-based local development that is built on top of Docker Compose. If you run this […]

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…

WordCamps are a big part of community building. It is often a place where new members start to interact and actively take part in the project. Speaker representation will affect how attendees and future speakers feel about your event. If speakers or attendees feel outnumbered or not represented, they are less likely to engage with […]

New writing- and publishing-focused features have been added to WordPress, including a brand-new block, the addition of footnotes, and other writing flow improvements.

WordPress 6.3 comes with several enhancements that improve load time performance for content with images. The benefits can be seen in the Largest Contentful Paint metric (short “LCP”), which captures the time from the beginning of the request until the largest content element in the viewport has been rendered.

At StellarWP, we lean into the idea that change is growth, and change is good. With that change comes some news!  StellarWP recently brought on private equity firm One Equity Partners (OEP) as the newest Liquid Web investor. With new faces come new questions, curiosities and the opportunity for us to update our community on […]

Dedicating time to publish content on all your social media platforms can be tedious and time-consuming. That’s why Jetpack has been working hard to create robust tools to help you automatically sh…

The goal of this issue is to lay down the technical architecture to implement real-time collaboration in WP Admin (Post and Site editor).

Read our conversation with Birgit Pauli-Haack about the Gutenberg Times and the importance of knowledge sharing in open-source projects.

Everything you wanted to know about headless WordPress. Find out whether whether a headless CMS is right for your organisation. Download the guide now.

WordPress 6.3 brings significant improvements to the metadata API, enhancing the lazy loading capabilities for term, comment, and site metadata. These enhancements aim to improve performance, optimize code readability, and ensure a consistent developer experience across different metadata types.

Discover how WordPress developers can use ChatGPT in web development. Learn how this AI technology can be used to optimize code, design tasks, improve SEO, and more.

For WordPress developers, there’s power in numbers & banding together. But make sure you don’t join a mastermind group for the wrong reasons.

All-In-One Security (AIOS), a plugin active on more than a million WordPress sites, was found to be logging plaintext passwords from login attempts in the database and has patched the security issu…

Unlock the potential of JavaScript and AJAX to effortlessly get WooCommerce cart items. Elevate your e-commerce site with JavaScript for retrieving cart items.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,583 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. Our beach house is almost clean, doing the last bits today while writing this newsletter (here’s the proof!). It’s been a nightmare, but at least in this […]

Bluehost, a web hosting service that specializes in WordPress hosting, said Wednesday it’s launching a new WordPress site-building package that uses artificial intelligence. The package is called WonderSuite, and Bluehost said it’s designed to be a digital co-pilot to help you easily create websites fast.

I blog. A lot. Too much really. One of the things I like to do is see what I was rambling on about this time last year. And the year before that. And so on. So, here’s my On This Day page and here’s how I built it. WARNING Extremely quick and dirty code ahead! […]

So how can we design the overall admin in such a way that it can be shaped to any need, regardless of their simplicity or sophistication? How can we then manage complexity without being complicated? How can we make designing and building great interfaces on the platform easier and more expressive to usher it through […]

When using WP_Term_Query class, term meta should be lazily loaded, as term meta is not required for most page loads. Term meta can easily be lazily load using existing apis found in core in the WP_Metadata_Lazyloader class.

I feel excited and proud to announce the formal launch of the inaugural cohort of its experimental contributor mentorship program today (July 12th)! Organized by the Contributor Working Group of th…

This is an expansion on the Phase 3: Collaboration outline. Today we’ll cover block management and a few important development APIs. Now that blocks are able to model and express an entire site, it’s important to improve the way they can be organized, listed, and installed by users. The overall goal is to improve how […]

WordPress 6.3 will make site editing several clicks faster for users who are moving from the frontend to edit the corresponding template. When you click the “Edit Site” link in the admin bar from a category page, for example, you currently get dumped out into the Site Editor on the home page. From here it’s […]

I’ve been using WordPress here since the beginning and I am still happy with what it does for me. One thing that drives me bonkers though is a UX bug in the media tool. Almost every time I upload an image to WordPress, I start typing in alternative text. The problem is that the editor […]

While working on WordPress core, I discovered a pretty amazing function: wp_maybe_inline_styles. This function hooks into the style enqueueing process in WordPress. Instead of outputting a tag with an href attribute to a url of a CSS file, which when rendered in the browser requires a blocking HTTP request to get the CSS file […]

WordPress 6.3 Beta 4 is ready for download and testing. Testing for issues is a critical part of developing any software, and it’s a meaningful way for anyone to contribute—whether you have experie…

Creating presentation websites is 1 of our 3 main activities. We’ve been doing it since 2008, and from about 2010 we started trying different content management systems (or CMS), then writing our own, until we landed on WordPress in 2012. We have built over a hundred websites on WordPress and spent thousands of hours using […]

With the rise of TikTok, Instagram reels, and YouTube shorts, it seems like people want nothing but videos. So is blogging still relevant?

WordPress offers plenty of customization opportunities. If you can dream it, you can likely achieve it. The software allows developers the freedom to experiment. And WordPress core has continued to evolve. It seems like every major release brings more features to the back end. The Site Editor is a prime…

Our WordPress Plugin Readme File Generator makes the process of making a readme file quick and easy.

The web used to be fun and simple and easy to get stuff done with. Now it’s discovering that someone who doesn’t know what they were doing used a div instead of a button and fixing it involves half a day of frustratedly poking around files that make no sense and fixing a broken build […]

Snicco, a WordPress security services provider, has published an advisory on a vulnerability in the MalCare plugin, which is active on more than 300,000 sites. “MalCare uses broken cryptography to authenticate API requests from its remote servers to connected WordPress sites,” WordPress security researcher Calvin Alkan said. “Requests are authentication by comparing a shared secret […]

Looking to explore the most impressive, fast and convenient AI image generators for your WordPress website? We did the research and here are our favorites.

Today, we’re absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of our latest innovation – “Easy Text-to-Speech,” a powerful yet user-friendly WordPress plugin that’s all set to revolutionize the way you interact with your website visitors.

This block editor tutorial shows how you can set defaults for common core blocks, or even third-party ones.

Find out how to integrate Gravity Forms with the Gravity Forms OpenAI plugin to build a moderation (and notification) system for any form.

WebAssembly is easier than you think. It is difficult to get started with, but then it’s not. I’ve spent the last 10 months learning that, and now I will save you that time by sharing how to build PHP into WebAssembly in 10 minutes. And if you’ve never heard of WebAssembly, you can catch up […]

The sixth edition of a monthly roundup that showcases features that are specific to theme and plugin developers. The latest updates are focused on the upcoming WordPress 6.3 release.

Tyler Channel runs PaywallProject which tries to keep small newspapers in business. He offers a more affordable alternative to Newspack.

ActivityPub is a W3C standard, I mean recommendation. And WordPress supports it! Not by default, but for now, with a plugin. So, what does that mean? And why should you care?

Summary: This post gives a brief overview of what updates have been introduced to the team’s GitHub project management system so far, and outlines the next updates being planned. If you’d like to get involved with the next round of process updates, please comment below 😃

The People of WordPress goes to the US to feature Allison Dye, who uses the software in her work and disability-advocacy.

Recently, members of the Community Team and Incident Response Team took steps to cancel a scheduled WordCamp. This was an unfortunate but necessary decision on our part, and we want to provide more…

The block editor in WordPress has created a divide between those who copy and paste code and those who understand web programming. This change is here to stay, but don’t be afraid to learn – it’s easier than it looks.

Forget about ‘lorem ipsum’, we’ve got a jamboree of WordPress jargon to spice up your placeholder text. Enjoy the gibberish!

So yesterday, I was casually working on my WordPress central hub for my content throughout my site. I was tinkering with the settings, and while on the general settings page, I happened to click “save”. And that’s when all hell broke loose.

Affected plugin MalCare Active installs 300,000+ Vulnerable version <= 5.0.9 Audited version 4.97 / 5.0.9 Fully patched version Not patch provided in 3 month

Want to keep pushing the envelope in the WordPress business space? Join a mastermind group with like-minded peers to learn, share, & inspire.

Website security malware scanners are not enough to protect your site and data. The Swiss Cheese Method is the only way to protect your data.

Learn how to add custom fields to the BuddyPress activity form, and make your community website more dynamic and interactive.

Introducing Scheduled Creatives in AffiliateWP 2.15.0. Plan, automate, and optimize the visibility of your promotional content and boost conversions.

Phase 3 of the Gutenberg project is the collaboration phase with real-time co-editing of posts as you find with Google Docs.

This week, we’ve introduced five awesome new integrations that we think you’ll love. These integrations include BuddyPress, FunnelKit Automations, Customer.io, and Delighted!

WS Form, a popular and powerful WordPress form plugin, is thrilled to announce the launch of an innovative feature that will transform the form-building experience for WordPress users.

INN is a fascinating organization because they’re building a community of innovative publishers, including many start-ups.

This is an expansion on the Phase 3: Collaboration outline. This time we’ll focus on the media library and media flows. Introduction The media library has been an area of slow iteration during the …

A free WordPress job board plugin

We are excited to announce the launch of a new product – Gravity SMTP! Send and track WordPress emails with confidence. Test the alpha today!

The latest version of WooCommerce Blocks, version 10.6.0, is now available for download on WordPress.org and GitHub. Notable Changes Cart, Checkout, and Order Confirmation templates …

Ana Gavilán, an ardent supporter of the WordPress Community Team, holds immense value as a contributor. Recognizing her exceptional contributions, Patricia Navarro nominated her for the Yoast Care fund. Let’s delve into the world of this WordPress enthusiast and her profound affection for the community.

My long-time (23 years!) host is shutting down suddenly and forcing me to do something I’ve wanted to do for many years now and really never had the time- move from my old-school host to mode…

How will collaborative features improve WordPress? We discuss several scenarios that demonstrate how they can streamline working together.

Hey is a block theme designed by Automattic for users on WordPress.com and also released for free in the WordPress.org Themes Directory. It’s the kind of simple theme that enables you to quic…

In today’s digital age, the demand for skilled professionals in web development and content management continues to soar. WordPress, the popular open-source

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,559 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. I’m in the middle (literally) of our beach house post-renovation deep cleaning – for some reason dust decided to go everywhere, even inside the fridge – […]

This is a story I’ve told many, many times before. Only, I’ve never been asked by anybody within the WordPress community. So far, my stories have always been for my readers. My name is Ramya Pandyan but I’m better known as IdeaSmith. My first brush with blogging began in the late 90s when the internet […]

WordCamp Europe 2024 has announced its location next year in Turin/Torino Italy! The planning stages have already started and the

There was a time when I didn’t think anything would go wrong with plugins. And I remember the time when I realized how much trouble we were going to be in. This is the memory of that story.

Support for PHP 5 will be dropped in WordPress 6.3, scheduled for release on August 8th 2023. The new minimum supported version of PHP will be 7.0.0. The recommended version of PHP remains at 7.4 or greater.

TL;DR: Are you interested in contributing to our collection of WordPress-focused articles? We are opening our doors to guest bloggers who write exceptional content. Read on for more details. We bel…

WordPress contributors are onto another round of testing, as 6.3 Beta 3 was released this week. RC 1 is expected on July 18, and a live product demo is anticipated to be broadcast on Thursday, July…

Have you tried using ChatGPT for WordPress development? Here’s how to use it to create plugins, themes, new functions, and more!

MailHog, Insomnia, and JWT Auth are the tools I’ve found useful when building headless WordPress applications with a REST API.

This is an expansion on the Phase 3: Collaboration outline. Today we’ll look into edit history and revisions.

Read about how the Automattic Design team celebrated the WordPress 20th anniversary.

How well can an organization thrive if the Executive Leadership doesn’t have diverse experiences? It won’t last for long. Since the world doesn’t operate in a vacuum, your leadership shouldn’t be making decisions similarly.

WordCamp Dhaka (Bangladesh) 2023 has been cancelled by The WordPress Community Team due to concerns of corporate influence on the community decision-making process. The camp was scheduled for August 5, and organizers had already secured a venue and progressed on moving the camp forward. The Community Team published a statement on the event’s website, which […]

The sidebar gets a lot of use in the WordPress Block Editor, a.k.a. Gutenberg, but I found myself in a situation where I needed to programmatically close the sidebar and then re-open it later. This is how I did it.

WordPress 6.3 Beta 3 is now ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version on production or mission-cr…

The Command Palette will land in WordPress 6.3. This tutorial explains what it is and shows how to add your own commands.

This is the first expansion on the Phase 3: Collaboration outline. We’ll look into real-time collaboration and define some of the project requirements.

One of the motos engrained in me growing up is that you finish what you started. Not meant for silly little things, but anything with consequence. So, writing out the decision I came to two weeks back doesn’t come easy to me. But it’s time. Let me explain. I’d been co-organizer of WordCamp Netherlands 2009 […]