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Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. Site Editor Legends A small set of “legend” style pictograms depicting various UI elements of the …

People often ask me why did you build WordPress Playground? Well, here’s the story: One time I wrote an entry-level introduction to the Gutenberg data layer, and I noticed it was everything b…

Learn how to remove non-essential widgets from your WordPress dashboard and improve your website management experience.

For the upcoming WordPress 6.3 release, I’ve been contributing to the introduction of script loading strategies (i.e. the async and defer attributes). In the WP_Scripts class, all of the script tags are manually assembled with printf() & sprintf(), and as part of that work I wanted to start making use of helper functions that assemble […]

When you know the correct sequence for regenerating images using WP-CLI and the EWWW Optimiser plugin it’s a breeze. See how in 6 easy steps.

As part of my work on the WordPress Core Performance Team, I need to do analyses on the plugins in the WordPress Plugin Directory. For example, in WordPress 6.3 we’re finally shipping first-party support for adding async and defer to scripts (a 13-year old ticket). In this case, the excellent WordPress Directory Searcher (WPdirectory) is […]

Release season is upon us as we approach WordPress 6.3’s August 8th release. Your help is needed testing the latest changes. Do you run or attend WordPress events and notice only one type of person is attending? What can you do to be a good ally to foster, promote, and support diversity and an inclusive […]

We will now explore the correlation between page speed and SEO. We will also delve into specific examples to highlight the impact of page speed on search results in popular search engines like Google and Bing.

If you use Ultimate Member, I’m sorry. This is under active exploitation with unpatched vulnerabilities. Great work from Marc Montpas from WPScan. If you think a malware scanner installed in your website is going to help you clean up a hacked site, you’re mistaken. Don’t install the malware scanner in the same place hackers have […]

Elementor 3.14 introduces the next phase of Elementor AI, which includes image generation. With Elementor AI you can describe the images you want to create, enhance existing images, customize and edit to adjust their size, and more.

A new era has begun for WordPress.org’s Plugin Review Team. Mika Epstein, who has served for the past decade, is stepping down, but not before launching a new crew of volunteers. The team is …

WordPress malware scanning can be flawed, but it is far from being completely worthless. We argue that malware scanning on WordPress is still critical. It looks like the WordPress Misinformation Virus is at work again. This time its purpose is to spread the idea that WordPress Malware Scanning is completely useless. This sort of idea […]

Last Friday (June 23rd 2023) we had Marieke‘s goodbye party from Yoast. With that, we’ve both completely stepped out at both Yoast and Newfold Digital, and can start to focus on new stuff. I wrote a speech for the occasion and thought it’d be a shame to not share it with the wider world:

Recently, Automattic’s WP.cloud and Pressable.com platforms identified a trend in compromised sites, where rogue new administrator accounts kept appearing in the affected sites. After some investigation, we witnessed a post on the WordPress.org support forums by Slavic Dragovtev discussing a potential security issue, specifically a Privilege Escalation vulnerability, with the Ultimate Member plugin (200,000+ active…More

Following up on prior performance related hallway hangouts, @clarkeemily and I will be cohosting an upcoming hallway hangout to discuss happenings for 6.3. If you’re interested in joining, the Hall…

The time has come. As outlined in several other posts over the last few months (March, May), I’m stepping down from the Plugin Review team.

Query and list WooCommerce products, posts, terms, users, comments, REST API, and CCT items. Generate SQL queries using OpenAI.

Malware scanners are being actively defeated by malware on WordPress sites with security plugins don’t protect them. Is your site next?

Listen to the episode In this WP Minute podcast episode, Matt discusses changes in WordPress. He focuses on a feature called the Command Palette. This used to be known as the Wayfinder. Matt talks about how this is similar to things you can find in Apple’s Spotlight and Descript Notion.…

For the past few years, we’ve used the term Gutenberg to describe new WordPress features. Now it’s time to retire Gutenberg terminology and start calling it WordPress.

WordPress 6.3 Beta 2 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 production or m…

16.1 is loaded with exciting features, bug fixes, accessibility improvements and enhancements. Patterns, whose changes are synched across your site? Check. Automated footnotes for text blocks? You got it! This release consists of 247 pull requests, authored by 72 contributors, including three new contributors. What’s more, many of 16.1’s highlights will be included in the […]

Drupal declares its commitment to actively shape a safer and inclusive web.

Have questions, but not sure where to get answers? Here’s a list of learning resources to help you along your WordPress journey.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,555 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. It’s getting warmer here in Sicily and I’m honestly dreaming of moving to the beach house asap. Unfortunately, renovations are still ongoing, then we need to do a […]

Jay Walsh leads communications and PR for WooCommerce, the internet’s most-used ecommerce platform. Jay has over 20 years of communications experience spanning tech, public media, open source, gaming, and the public sector. When asked at a party about a “neat thing he once did,” Jay usually says it was joining the (then very-small) start-up team […]

Last week Gutenberg contributors were engaged in a spirited debate regarding a proposal to rename the new Command Center to Wayfinder. The feature, designed to be an extensible quick search and command execution tool, will land in WordPress 6.3.

One of the most exciting things at WordCamp Europe 2023 for me was discovering how far along the WordPress Playground project is. If you haven’t heard of the playground before, it’s a full version of WordPress, running directly in your browser!

WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taiwan is now officially set!  📅 Save the Date: March 7, 8 , 9, 2024  📍 Venue: Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Taiwan  We are thrilled to announce that we have secured the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), a remarkable 5-story building exclusively rented for 3 days, as the venue for […]

WordCamp Europe 2023 in Athens attracted more than 2,500 attendees from 94 countries, made possible by 112 organizers and 250 volunteers. The event is now looking forward to 2024, which will be hos…

The WordPress ecosystem is a powerful force. Themes and plugins offer endless possibilities. They help users kickstart businesses. And they play a role in democratizing publishing. But product founders face challenges. The ecosystem is anything but cohesive. Standards for code and marketing are non-existent. And new products have difficulty breaking…

There has always been some confusion and overlap between reusable blocks and patterns. The difference was that reusable blocks can be created and edited in the block editor and then reused in other…

Introduction In the world of web design, the integration of powerful tools can revolutionize the way designers bring their visions to life and shift the paradigm of the way websites are made. At Yotako our design-to-life AI technology (better known through our plugins Figma to WordPress and WordPress for Adobe

Howdy, It’s been a more quiet week. Many people have been working hard to get the latest features into the next Gutenberg release, so they can also be merged with WordPress 6.3. If you want to start testing, the Gutenberg 16.1 RC is available here. The changelog is massive. Next week, Tammie Lister will be…

Interested in contributing to WordPress, and want to start your contributor journey with the help of veteran contributors? Join the brand new WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program to gain the ne…

Ihtisham Zahoor Today we are going to conduct the interview of Ihtisham Zahoor from Pakistan. He is a WordPresser, WC Speaker/Organizer, aspiring Writer and an […]

I’ve written numerous tutorials explaining how to troubleshoot WordPress, plugins, email, and more. When investigating issues, diagnosing problems, and hunting bugs, troubleshooting is a critical core skill for any web developer. To help readers level up their tool belt, here’s a quick round-up of free plugins to help troubleshoot any of your WordPress projects.

Last but not least! This is the final episode of our post series about the new direction we plan to take regarding the BuddyPress project. If you’re just discovering this series, we advise you to read about the 4 first episodes of it.

5 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.

Check out our latest WooCommerce security guide for actionable tips and recommendations to help you secure your online store from malware, credit card skimmers, and hackers.

If I could put every experience I had, every conversation, and every laugh or hug here in this post, I would. But it would be a very long post and, of course, I would have discovered something I missed, or several things, thus even a longer post. This was my second WordCamp Europe, but my […]

So if you attended the final keynote at WCEU you would have seen the WP Playground demo video. I’ve been following WP Playground for some time now, and I was able to meet with the developer b…

In this blog, we will explain where the opportunities exist to improve website performance, how to check if a specific site can improve performance, and provide a small JavaScript snippet which can be used with Cloudflare Workers to do this optimization for you

WordPress is currently lacking a fundamental mechanism: sending notifications to users to give them feedback about state changes in the system. Traditionally, plugin developers and Core have been using admin notices for this purpose, but this solution is lackluster at best and comes with a lot of disadvantages.That’s why we started a Feature Project called […]

The fee structure varies, based on the user’s plan. Transaction fees are the highest for Free users at 10%, but it gives creators the opportunity to see if they can make money without it costing anything upfront. Commerce plan users ($70/month or $45/month billed annually) don’t pay any transaction fees. Stripe also collects 2.9% + […]

Up until yesterday, the Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) blog lay dormant for nine years, the last post chronicling how the team set out to create a Gravatar app that somehow “morphed into a Selfies app.” Communication went silent after that, although the Twitter account posted occasionally. The service has pivoted to become “a personal digital […]

Introduction Malware scanning and removal have traditionally been focal points in the WordPress security ecosystem. Users have placed their trust in Malware Sca

Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com, has launched a new AI-powered writing assistant for WordPress in response to the growing trend and demand for AI technology in 2023. This AI assistant can be easily added to any WordPress page, allowing users to interact with the tool through a text-based prompt. Many see the AI assistant […]

Director of Customer Success at StellarWP, Amanda Gorman, on collaboration, connection, and what customer success means to her.

WooCommerce has a nice feature when it comes to WordPress Error 500 / Fatal Error – it logs the error and all the information regarding it inside the WooCommerce Status > Logs > Fatal Errors area. My problem is that sometimes these errors occur in the backend, so they may not trigger the WordPress built-in […]

🧵We’ve decided to stop supporting our plugins on the http://WordPress.org free forums. Up until today, we’d treat every user or customer equally. In 7 years of supporting FREE users, we’ve been called names, accused of “stealing,” threatened, and, least but not last…

This tutorial onboards new moderators, allowing them to begin moderating as soon as they’re finished following the tutorial.

Igor Ligay manages a WordPress business from both Uzbekistan and Dubai and offers advice on pivoting from Services to Products.

Let’s dive into the world of colors, gradients, and duotone filers and discover how they can transform your WordPress website-building experience.

The Style Book is the new one-stop Global Style feature of the Site Editor that allows you to add all global or per-block design elements with a live preview window. This also lets users create a new set of variations that they can modify with a single click.

A better way to embed fediverse posts.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,534 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. I’ve spent the whole morning and early afternoon working on newsletter contents. So, I’d like to give yet another big shout out to our sponsors (hey GoDaddy, Nexcess […]

Freemius founder & CEO, Vova Feldman, & Head of Video, Zee Hazan, journeyed to Athens, Greece, for WordCamp Europe 2023. Read the rollercoaster of a recap.

Blocknotes is a new experimental app that runs WordPress natively on the iPhone. It was created by WordPress core committer Ella van Durpe and is powered by WordPress Playground, a project that runs the software in the browser without a PHP server.

Overview As mentioned in the post “Recap and Next Steps: Training Team Onboarding”, an optional Guide Program (similar to a mentorship or buddy program) for the Training Team could serve to support…

In early June, the team met in Athens, Greece, for WordCamp Europe. As an event sponsor and a fully remote company, WCEU presents an opportunity to meet our valued customers and community members and spend some time together in person. This year’s WCEU was a big event for us, marking many milestones. Here is what […]

WPGraphQL BuddyPress is a free and open-source extension for the WPGraphQL plugin, bringing the power of GraphQL to BuddyPress.

Widget areas allow you to easily display dynamic content on your WordPress website. Learn how to handle them in both block and classic themes.

Officially WordPress Core currently provides “beta support” (or “beta compatibility”) for PHP 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2, as per the compatibility table in the handbook. The term “beta support” was first used in 2020 for WordPress 5.6 and PHP 8.0, though no criteria were set for determining when it could be removed. When should WordPress Core […]

XHProf is a hierarchical profiler for PHP, designed to be lightweight so it could be used to collect performance data in production environments. This design makes it well suited for measuring the performance of an application with minimal observability costs, i.e., side effects that skew the performance metrics it collects. XHProf was originally released by […]

In May 2023, WordPress’ Community Team announced that it would be evolving the WordCamp format to promote adoption, training, and networking for professionals, leaving the flagship events to …

Following Twitter’s decision to disconnect its auto-sharing facility to WordPress, bloggers now have to use other auto-tweeting software or manually tweet their blog posts to Twitter. At the time, WordPress announced that auto-sharing to Mastodon would be available in June 2023, and it’s finally arrived!

Yesterday I released two versions of Kana, 0.8.0 and 0.8.1. It’s been a while since I’ve covered a release on here so let’s talk about what changed since my last release post. New features since 0.6.0 There’s been a lot of feature development for things I’m finding I needed in my daily workflow just to […]

Do you need to build tables on your WordPress site? Find out about the advantages of top WordPress plugins for creating data tables.

Tired of seeing the “Welcome To Your New WordPress Site” message on your dashboard? Not sure now to get rid of this message? Learn how in this post.

In 2005, Timothy “Wolf” Bishop was serving time in an Iowa prison for charges related to a gambling addiction. “When I was 25, I made a bet that I could not cover,” Bishop s…

Today, we are thrilled to introduce our brand new WordPress plugin: Security.txt Manager. This innovative tool is designed to make the management of your “security.txt” file as easy as pie, right from the comfort of your WordPress dashboard.

Today, we are excited to introduce Job Alerts for WP Job Openings, a highly anticipated addon that revolutionizes the way you connect with potential

Karim Marucchi, CEO of Crowd Favorite, and James Rutherford, Director, Global and Technology Partnerships at Pantheon Platform, spoke to marketers at Digital Summit, Phoenix about how marketing teams can streamline their editorial workflow effort.

On June 15, 2023, a Hallway Hangout was held to discuss the WordPress 6.3 roadmap, the major changes coming in the next release, and how they will impact building block themes and managing themes f…

WordPress cron jobs are a powerful tool for automating tasks within a WordPress site. In this article we explain what they are and how to use them effectively.

Howdy, After a week home from WordCamp Europe, I am still on a high from meeting all my WordPress friends and making new ones! I also learned about new products, and new APIs. A huge thank you to the sponsors, organizers, speakers, volunteers, contributors, and attendees. It was a fabulous WordCamp, the biggest in the…

Relive WordCamp Europe 2023’s Contributor Day: inspiring meetings, vibrant discussions, and preparations for WordCamp Germany.

I was catching up on my WordPress news this morning over at WP Tavern. Normally, that’s something I’d do in my RSS reader (because RSS is boss), but I hopped over to the WP Tavern site instead and spent more time admiring its image hover effect.

Ink has been getting some good traction lately and it’s already being used by some well-known companies for a while. Like most other open so…

Read Katie Keith’s reflections on Barn2 Plugins’ experience of sponsoring WordCamp Europe for the first time. Learning points & takeaways.

Join us for an inside look at this year’s WordCamp Europe! From a heartwarming welcome to the inspiring Contributor Day, to a versatile session lineup, productive meetups, and endearing Wapuus…

We strongly believe in the importance of having high-quality testing instructions in Pull Requests. This will allow us to perform front-load testing earlier in the process (before the PR is merged), and avoid late-breaking issues in the release process. This move will make the Pull Request stage one of the crucial parts of contributing to […]

There are a number of independent organizations that aren’t “official” WordPress things but still exist to support WP’s mission of democratizing publishing, like WPCC, and I…

Demonstration of the integration with Gutenberg (for the upcoming version of my plugin) that allows to retrieve and modify block data, deep within the structure of the block. In this video, selected attributes are translated using the Google Translate API, while everything else, including the block markup, remains undisturbed. Under executing the translation, we can […]

Apostrophes and Quotation Marks can be tricky in WordPress. Here’s what you need to know to get your typography right as you type, with or without artificial interference.

Meet Blocknotes, the first native iPhone app running WordPress on the device. @ellatrx built it with Playground. It saves notes to HTML and synchronizes them over iCloud. WordPress ecosystem can now run anywhere – desktop, mobile, web, even fenced ecosystems. Exciting!

Matt was really excited about the idea of more Drupal sites using Gutenberg, and he kindly offered to provide the full €20,000 in funding through Automattic. Furthermore, he will be sending some Gutenberg experts to join the sprint without any cost to the Drupal community.

Build a headless website fast with WordPress, the world’s most popular CMS, and Next.js, the most popular React framework. A free and open source solution by the experts at 10up.

When you think about searching online, do you picture the Google search bar, or the TikTok search bar? If it’s the former, you might be behind on the trends. Because while you’re optimizing your content for Google, younger generations are turning to social media to search for information. Almost 40% in fact. But should this […]

The WordPress Sustainability Team has launched. What’s that? The main objective of the team is to embed sustainable practices into the WordPress community and its processes. We focus on ensuring longevity; socially, economically, and environmentally.Several organizations exist to support the work of WordPress, such as The WP Community Collective and HeroPress. Matt is proposing a […]

The CMS Market Share analysis for June 2023: WordPress is still the leading CMS and its market share is super stable for the last year. In fact, most of the top 10 is stable. Shopify shows a small decline, but great financial numbers. Prestashop, acquired in 2021, is the fastest grower in the top 10, […]

“OptinAble” is a free #WordPress plugin “for collecting email subscribers and boosting your website conversions”. Home

Before you install that do-everything plugin – take a moment to discover the advantages of staying small. You might find that it’s the best option.

With WordPress 6.3 Beta 1 just around the corner, Gutenberg 16.0 gives us a sneak peek at the features that will soon be available in core WordPress. This latest release brings significant enhancements to the Site Editor, introduces a newly stabilized block, refines dimension controls, and includes many quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. In total, […]