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Set up a local WordPress development environment with Docker, Xdebug, and PhpStorm. Benefit from a customizable, easily replicable setup.

Watch out Substack, here comes WordPress! Automattic has now enabled WP.com blogs to share paid or gated content. Should I mirror my Substack to my wp.com website?

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,513 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. I’m just back from WCEU2023 – amazing as always… 2,500 incredible people and lots of business and non-business chats over the 3 days I was there. […]

We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 7.8.0. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version. This release contains: 549 commits from 61 contributors&nbsp…

What a conference it was. Like every year, it was amazing to meet all of my friends, meet some new people and learn something new. Like, last year, I traveled to WordCamp Europe with my wife and my kid. This means Nicolas (2 y.o.) has already been on two WordCamps Europe. That’s quite an achievement.

Employee Resource Groups. A pedestrian name for a deeply enriching and maybe even life saving opportunity.

The first edition of the event was hosted in 2020 by the WordPress core Accessibility Team. They wanted to manage it independently of the WordPress Foundation in order to reserve the option to do things like pay speakers for their time and expertise. The most recent 2022 event ran its finances through WP Accessibility Day […]

The WooCommerce Stripe Gateway plugin for WordPress was found to be vulnerable to a bug that allows any unauthenticated user to view order details placed through the plugin.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to be at the front of everyone’s mind. It’s hard to escape – even if you’re not a fan of the technology. Therefore, it’s no surprise that this talk has invaded the WordPress community. Developers are already finding ways to integrate tools like ChatGPT into their plugins. And project co-founder Matt […]

In late 2022, new categorizations were introduced in the Theme and Plugin Directory to enhance your browsing experience. These filters categorize plugins/themes as “Commercial” and “Community,” to help you find the most suitable options for your WordPress website. Here’s what you need to know about the “Commercial” and “Community” filters: Commercial: The Commercial filter allows […]

We’re thrilled to announce that we have expanded our VIP-CLI dev-env sync sql command to include support for WordPress Multisites. This new feature is a significant step forward in our ongoin…

See all 6 ways to improve TTFB + server response times. Boost UX, get better Core Web Vitals scores, & win in the search rankings. Top tools for quick wins.

Q&A segments at a live event are a valuable point of connection where attendees have the opportunity to gain the undivided attention of the speaker or panelist and get answers to important ques…

The details The minimum PHP version required for WooCommerce was bumped from 7.2 to 7.3 in WooCommerce 7.7 in May 2023. As part of that announcement, we mentioned that during mid 2023, we would bum…

Media Contact Amber Hinds(512) 942-5858 x 3contact@wpaccessibility.day Read the Press Release Georgetown, Texas, June 12, 2023 – WordPress Accessibility Day, a virtual 24-hour conference dedicated to education on accessibility best practices for WordPress websites, is excited to announce that the event has received 501(c)(3) nonprofit status through a partnership with Knowbility. WordPress Accessibility Day was […]

One Equity Partners (“OEP”) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Liquid Web, a provider of managed cloud services along with significant bare metal assets in both North America and Western Europe, creating an expanded offering known as CloudOne Digital , a new platform for consolidation within the cloud hosting sector. The senior […]

Inspiring the global community The atmosphere was electric at WordCamp Europe (WCEU) 2023 in Athens, Greece, as WordPress celebrated its 20th anniversary and the opportunity to gather in person for…

The highly anticipated release (45.2) introduces an enhanced element edit window and performance improvements every web expert will appreciate.

If you’re wondering how any sane person could love using WordPress blocks or get on board with the site editor in WordPress, I’ll gladly tell you my story.

At this year’s WCEU keynote address in Athens, Greece. WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg, Gutenberg Architect, Matías Venture, and Executive Director, Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflect on WordPress in 2023 and aspirations for the coming year.

The Pattern Directory has been updated with a new filter to switch between core-bundled patterns (“Curated”) and the general community patterns. Combined with the change, the homepage & category pages default to showing the core-bundled patterns. Community patterns can be seen by switching the filter in the dropdown. Search results and author pages still show […]

A Complete guide to Elementor AI. Now you write website content, Custom CSS code, Custom HTML code using Elementor AI .

The WordPress Polyglots team are indispensable to the global success of WordPress. Here we take a detailed look at these unsung heroes.

For the first time, we are naming the top 100 global workplaces. This ranking is based upon BPI’s proprietary Love of Workplace Index™ analysis of external public online ratings and direct interviews with and responses from company officials.

Now that we have a library of courses available on Learn.WordPress.org, it would be beneficial to gather feedback from learners who have completed a course. Starting in June, a survey has been adde…

May has been a month of celebrating WordPress and the open source community that makes it possible. In honor of the project’s 20th anniversary, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflected on this journey and the opportunity to build a better future for those who come after: The more our community invests in itself and […]

Growth in demand for WordPress, at 11.3%, is up 53% from the growth rate we measured last year. This equates to half a million more WordPress and WooCommerce searches each month, compared to the same time last year.

The number of people with good feelings towards open source software and think about starting a business with it is a lot. Actually, I am there for a year and a half, and I had some trial and error with launching my own open source software business. I think I want to share my experience […]

Automattic is distributed first, but we love getting together in this magic space.

Apple almost never fails to wow, and they had a lot of cool announcements at WWDC yesterday. Apple’s previously favorite (app of the year!) journaling app was Day One, one of Automattic’s products, but they announced their own Journal app. One nice thing about competing with Apple is they only really interoperate with their own […]

Gutenberg 15.6 introduced a new feature called “Command Center” under the experimental flag that aims to serve different purposes: Quickly search, navigate, and switch between different types of content Run commands to perform tasks or actions Extend and customize the tool, also with AI, via third parties (plugins) For now, jumping into different site content […]

A useful feature or a tool to generate low-grade AI spam?

Enabling ‘Discourage Search Engines’ in WordPress could be an SEO disaster. Learn how this overlooked WordPress setting can ruin your marketing efforts.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,501 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. I’m on my way to Athens tomorrow, so as usual the last day at work is always… complicated. I hope to have fun and – honestly […]

The digital world is a diverse, rapidly changing environment with many devices, user needs, and interaction modes. Therefore, creating adaptable, versatile, and genuinely responsive websites is imperative. Though it has taken several years to get to where we are, the WordPress block editor is a substantial upgrade from the classic editor. It has become a […]

When assessing what content will need to be updated and revised for LearnWP, these are sources of information. Core Announcements:GitHub LabelsCore DevNotesGutenberg Changelogs (on Core)Trac:Editor…

Scale better, faster. An upgrade to WooCommerce order storage. What does this mean? Will you be affected? What are the next steps? Get the full rundown!

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With the introduction of block inspector tabs in WordPress 6.2, block developers have more control over where custom controls should appear by leveraging the group of the InspectorControls component.

AI Assistant block, a groundbreaking addition to Jetpack. With this powerful feature, you can harness the extraordinary capabilities of artificial intelligence directly from your editor…

The WP Feature Notifications project will be at WordCamp Europe Contributor Day, led by @sephsekla. We are a small, focused team, and always on the lookout for new contributors, so we would encoura…

I’ve recently seen a lot of new products applying AI to image alternative text, which I think is an area that requires a great deal of caution. MasterWP just released their product, EveryAlt, which analyzes images in your media library for alt text. It seems like a reasonable methodology: from reading the info, it only directly […]

Meet Johannes, the first opensource wireframe kit that will help you for your next WordPress design project.

Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. Font Management Moving fast now is a fonts library PR, which we are collaborating on while continu…

WordPress 6.4 will be the third major release of 2023. The following release team and its cohorts are contributors who answered the call for leadership volunteers and interest. This release aims to galvanize participation and shared ownership for those that identify as gender-underrepresented in the WordPress open source project. This post is shared earlier than […]

During a recent internal review of the Formidable Forms plugin, a security issue was detected which could enable users with low privileges such as subscribers to install arbitrary plugins on vulnerable sites.

Getting the attachment ID by a thumbnail URL of it, is not builtin to WordPress. However, with a little trick you can achieve it anyway.

The Training Team is excited to announce a new role to the Faculty Program – Translation Coordinators. If you have experience translating content for the Training Team and are excited about helping even more people get involved, then Apply to Join today!

Howdy, Before, I got the reward of seeing my WordPress buddies, friends, and colleagues in Athens, I had to work hard with the moving company to get our furniture organized in our new flat. I wasn’t hopeful, if I will find the packed lanyard with all my pins in time for WordCamp Europe, so I…

Interview with Executive Director of WordPress on why after 20 years as the top platform WordPress is more powerful than ever

GetGenie Version 3.6.0 has added a one-click blog feature that allows you to generate an entire blog post

PatternsWP is an innovative WordPress plugin that enhances your website design process with its intuitive Block Patterns Library. PatternsWP is a collection of pre-designed block patterns that can be used with any WordPress theme, allowing users to easily build professional websites in minutes. With the flexibility to add multiple patterns to a post or page, […]

With Stackable version 3.8.0 comes a new user interface and exciting new features! Learn all about this release as you read this article.

Today I wrote 20 articles with the help of AI to help kickstart the blog for my new WordPress Support business WP Master. The plan was to do 4 blocks of 2 hours straight and aim to do 5 articles in each block, check out this morning’s post here to see the full plan. Here’s […]

It’s here! Uncanny Automator 4.15, our free no-code automation plugin, is now available for download. The final release of the Automator 4.x series, it’s also the biggest, packing in multiple new integrations and huge new features. This is just the free version too; wait until you see what’s in Pro! Important: As this is a…

We owe it all to you! This month, we achieved a remarkable milestone of surpassing 500,000+ active installs. Thanks a million!

Welcome to the online repository for the book, Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress, on the history and development of WordPress. This book focuses on the 2nd decade of the WordPress project, especially the Gutenberg project, the global pandemic, and a look at the hoped-for future of our project.

RioVizual is a table block plugin that allows you to easily create and customize tables within the WordPress Gutenberg block editor. With this plugin, you can create responsive tables with various numbers of columns and rows, as well as customize the table styling and formatting options. This plugin offers a simple and user-friendly way to […]

Check out a step-by-step tutorial to enable two-factor authentication on WordPress easily. Secure your site with this detailed content.

Allows you to filter the Featured Products in the WooCommerce Product Admin screen.

WordPress, the ubiquitous publishing platform that launched millions of blogs and websites, turned 20 on May 27th. While not the first open source content management system (CMS), WordPress caught on like nothing before and helped spread open source to millions. It was simple, easy to deploy, and easy to use, and WordPress had the added […]

Gutenberg 15.9.1 has been released and is available for download! This minor version includes two fixes. Custom fonts are back again visible on the editor (51178) There was a regression on Gut…

With full site editing, you can add new sidebars to any WordPress block theme, even themes that do not originally include sidebars. There are a couple of

WordPress.com is taking on Substack and others with today’s news that its Newsletter product will now support paid subscriptions and premium content.

This is a very interesting question asked by Jamie Marsland. Personally, I’d say it’s slightly above 2, but it needs to be a full 3 as soon as possible. Interesting question because context matters. I’m obviously quite savvy when it comes to WordPress, and I’d say, for me personally, it’s a good 3. Why? Well, […]

We share a few valuable lessons we’ve learned from the WordPress community. Some may sound basic, but they’ve impacted both our careers and life.

If you’ve been puzzling over WordPress and the significant role templates play in its operations, you’ve landed on the right page. We all know that WordPress, as a leading content management system, can seem a bit overwhelming, especially when you start delving into its integral components like themes and templates. And yet, these elements are […]

Twenty years of WordPress. Wow. Reaching twenty years of age is truly a momentous occasion: it is a transition to adulthood, and all the more so for a scrappy, rebellious, Open Source piece of software that blossomed from an idea and went on to change the web forever.

“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 remin…

Displays a “Last Updated” date for all of your plugins installed by way of the WordPress Plugin Directory.

Biscotti is a plugin that modifies the expiration of the logged in user cookie in WordPress to three months, six months, or one year. Because some people hate to have to keep entering their passwords.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,497 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. The weather is still a bit crazy down here in Sicily, and with the summer approaching this is a tad unusual. At this stage, I don’t […]

Performance Lab plugin updates are released monthly on the third Monday of the month. April’s release 2.3.0 includes further enhancements to creating stand-alone plugins as well as some small bug fixes. The second plugin, Fetchpriority has been approved by the WordPress plugin team, awaiting approval of Dominant Color Images. The Performance Lab plugin has also […]

As promised in a previous post, 2FA for WordPress.org accounts is now ready to test as an opt-in feature. Note: this feature is for logging in to the WordPress.org web site itself; it does not affe…

After a bit of unexpected delay, a new release of WP-CLI is available as of today: WP-CLI v2.8.0. For this release, we had 66 contributors collaborate to get 277 pull requests merged. As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible.

ordPress, the open-source blogging software, is twenty years old. The software’s first official release (WordPress 1.0) was made available on May 27, 2003. I had been using the software for a little longer when it was still in alpha. In 2004, I switched my old website to WordPress, becoming the first major blog to embrace […]

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Google updated their article on INP a few weeks back. Interaction to Next Paint (INP) is a new Core Web Vital metric currently under development. It gauges a page’s overall responsiveness to user interactions by observing the latency of these interactions during a user’s visit. The goal? Achieve an INP of 200ms or less for […]

The Gutenberg plugin, a new-age editor named after the innovative printing press of the 15th century, has been instrumental in revolutionizing content creation on WordPress. However, as we analyze the landscape of WordPress today, the question arises: should we remove the Gutenberg plugin from the WordPress.org repository?

I think part of what Mike Little showed with his comment on my blog that led to the creation of WordPress, is that it’s not about how many views you have, how many likes, trying to max all your stats… sometimes a single connection to another human is all that matters. All it takes is […]

Coming together like we did at the AI for WordPress conference gives the open source community a chance to shine, and in my opinion we all did exactly that. If you missed the conference, don’t worry – you can watch the recordings from each session over on YouTube. 

We covered the latest developments in AI for WordPress at the Word on the Future virtual conference. Watch the recordings now on YouTube.

Automattic, the company behind the open-source WordPress content management system, has started force installing a security patch on millions of websites today to address a critical vulnerability in the Jetpack WordPress plug-in.

The premium WordPress plugin ‘Gravity Forms,’ currently used by over 930,000 websites, is vulnerable to unauthenticated PHP Object Injection.

Available WordPress AI plugins & services are starting to stack up like NFT’s in 2021. WPAI Universe lists 50+ AI resources for WordPress and wp.org has 116 results for the search term ’chatgpt’ at the time of this writing. For over a year, WordPress has been a natural pairing for…

Making WordPress leading on sustainability asks for: Awareness about the impact of carbon emissions by the web and understanding how to build and work in a more eco-friendly way. Guidance for WordPress event organizers to organize events in a more sustainable way. Creation and promotion of eco-friendly themes and plugins.

WordPress Contributor Team Updates

This post presents (i) a summary of the findings of and (ii) an analysis of the results of a survey focusing on the needs of individuals when learning about WordPress. It is part of a fuller and evolving Needs Analysis to identify the most useful and high-impact resources and content for Learn.WordPress.org. The findings will […]

Love this from Matt Mullenweg. It’s what we believe at Micro.blog, too. …it’s not about how many views you have, how many likes, trying to max all your stats… sometimes a single connection to another human is all that matters. Happy 20th to WordPress. Heck of an achievement.

I released two plugin updates that were a bit painful. The first is for WP to Twitter – and has been coming for quite a while. In this release, I removed support forms and all of the promotional materials for WP Tweets Pro, which I’m no longer selling. I think that the reasons for discontinuing […]

Users often assume that known software is free of security flaws because it has been checked by a sufficient number of tools and security testers. However, this is not an assumption that a pentester or bug hunter can afford to make. Vulnerabilities may lurk in various places, and finding an interesting bug often requires patient […]