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The idea was to create a frequent podcast (every week day) that would keep me updated with all the latest news and developments in the world of WordPress. But instead of relying on manual work or spending hours recording and editing audio files, I wanted it to be as easy as possible.

May 27, 2023, marks exactly 20 years since Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked b2/cafelog to create WordPress Version 0.70. Quite a bit has taken place in the past 20 years, and imagine how much…

On May 25, 2023, a Hallway Hangout was held to discuss ways to curate the Editor experience in WordPress, building block themes, and challenges you might encounter when building with blocks for cli…

It’s funny what gains traction for the long haul, and what turns out, in hindsight, to be a flash in the pan. I, for one, never would have predicted that WordPress would grow to become, by far, the most popular CMS in the world, and the foundation of a thriving company whose primary goal is […]

The WP Photo Directory needs photos! Help out by contributing to this artistic cause!

Yesterday May 27, 2023, was a milestone date in the history of WordPress, marking the 20th year since the first version 0.70 was publicly released on May 27, 2003. In all, the open-source software has gone through 47 public versions over the past 20 years to its current version 6.2.2, evolving along the way from […]

5 years ago, I worked at Osom Studio as a WordPress developer, and now I’m a DevRel at Kinsta. Back then, WP was taking 100% of my time; now – not so much. But it doesn’t change the fact that I owe a lot to WordPress and to its community and that it always will […]

18 years, 7 months and 20 days ago I published my first blog post on my first (public, at least) WordPress site. WordPress was not even 18 months old. Today WordPress turns 20 and for very nearly half of my life now I’ve been blogging with, building with and developing on WordPress. It’s been my […]

Happy birthday, WordPress! What does that even mean, though? WordPress is the community of people who have built it and contributed to it over the last two decades, and before that, when it was a l…

Topher’s thoughts on blogging, WordPress, and the history of the world.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the first release of WordPress. None of us knew what we were getting into when it started, but we had a shared conviction that the four freedoms of the GPL combined with a mission to democratize publishing was something worth spending our time on.

WordPress is 20 years old today, an estimable milestone for open source software running on the web. Parties are happening all over the world – in Geneva, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Bangkok, Laho…

Check out the downloads page for some newly added media assets that you can use for presentations, wallpapers, social media, and all your #WP20 celebrations!

Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress is the second volume in the WordPress Milestones Book Series. Picking up where volume one left off, this edition explores the most recent ten years of WordPress (2013-2023). From documenting the most important technical changes in the CMS to elevating contributor voices, readers will be led through the key […]

Reflecting on 20 years with WordPress, Birgit Olzem shares her journey of resilience, community strength, and how WordPress saved her life. Her story inspires advocacy for greater DEIB within the WordPress community. %

Join us as we commemorate two decades of WordPress, exploring its remarkable milestones, the vibrant community behind it, and the exciting future ahead.

It’s May 27, 2023, where people all over the world are celebrating the WordPress 20th Anniversary.

When WordPress was born 20 years ago, it broke new ground and changed the world in so many ways. It bettered the lives of millions of people, including mine.

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Happy 20th Anniversary to WordPress! Congratulations to everyone working, teaching, developing, designing, writing, supporting, in short: being part of the WordPress community and the ecosystem. Open-Source is a fascinating idea that has been proven no only successful in certain parts of the world but in all 200 countries where WordPress is used! Millions of lives…

It’s hard to believe WordPress has been around for 20 years. We take a look back at the last 20 years and forward at the next.

WordPress is two decades old! A time for celebration, with a look back at WordPress at 20 and Yoast’s involvement in that history.

AI is the world’s most popular two-letter word right now. With all the recent news headlines about whether AI will take our jobs away, we wanted to know… can ChatGPT actually develop a functional and useful WordPress plugin without having to write code from scratch? And does the plugin meet best coding practices? Fortunately, WPMU DEV […]

WordPress is celebrating 20 years this month. I’ve lived in the world of WordPress for 18 of those years and as I reflect back, several highlights stand out.

Launched in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, WordPress has grown from a simple blogging platform to a powerful CMS that powers more than 40% of all websites on the internet today. As WordPress celebrates its 20th birthday, it remains the driving force behind the democratization of the web and the empowerment of creators […]

As WordPress turns 20 this year, join us and see the evolution of WordPress over the years in this recap of the past two decades.

Learn about the recent AI integration for the Crocoblock JetEngine Plugin for WordPress. Discover how to use the power of Chat GPT to develop a dynamic website more efficiently.

Overview During the 6.2 Release Cycle, members of the WordPress Performance Team performed a performance analysis in order to identify the biggest opportunities to target for future performance enh…

As WordPress celebrates its 20th anniversary, website agency WebDevStudios honors the event by participating in Five for the Future.

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As I celebrate my own birthday today, many more than 20, I am reflecting on the years WordPress has been there for me. Oddly, I’m not sure where to begin except the beginning. And if I was to write a post to publish on the 20th anniversary of WordPress, it’s gotta be done here on […]

A new release has begun, and this time @richtabor and I are collaborating on the design leading. In order to kick things off, we are holding an open zoom session . The Zoom link will be shared in #…

With the worldwide growth of WordPress as a CMS comes a greater demand for websites with multiple languages. Hence the development of multilingual plugins.

WordPress is the world’s most popular Content Management System (CMS), running more than 43% of all websites on the internet. However, its widespread use makes it a common target for hackers. Brute force attacks, file upload vulnerabilities, and cross-site scripting attacks all contribute to the ongoing threat. Fortunately, there are multiple ways to make your […]

In this comprehensive guide to command injections, you will learn how attackers can circumvent the defenses that separate the website and server environments and how to minimize the risk of falling victim to this type of cyber attack.

WordPress is a global community. This directory aims to show just how simultaneously big and small the WordPress community is!

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,486 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. The kid is at home with a cold, and the weather is not getting any better. However, I feel the end of the winter is around […]

  We are excited to have a keynote speaker who shares our commitment to making the web a more inclusive place for all and will help us place accessibility in the spotlight for the WPCampus 2023 keynote presentation.

The @wordpress/data and @wordpress/core-data packages are extremely useful for fetching and working with data in your block development projects, but they are not exactly intuitive to use. This tutorial introduces you to useEntityRecords which is a custom React hook that makes fetching data a great deal easier for the developer.

Learn how to curate the Editor experience like never before using a new client-side filter introduced in WordPress 6.2.

Discover how to create a website using React.js and Headless WordPress with our step-by-step guide on how headless CMS work.

In a previous blog post, I gave an overview of the CloudFest Hackathon. At this event my team created a plugin for WordPress which added additional health checks for MariaDB. … Continue reading

Daniel Schutzsmith put together a WordPress website that is a presentation using the Slacks (new) theme.

Part of good web design is informed decision-making for WordPress accessibility. Focusing on accessibility will enhance your website’s UX and improve SEO.

How to limit access to your entire online learning platform exclusively for internal training and other 100% private eLearning scenarios.

In recent weeks, you may have seen a redesigned Stats page on your WordPress.com dashboard. This all-new Stats experience enhances your ability to analyze and optimize your site’s content. We’ve restructured the layout in a friendlier way, introduced new modules that reveal crucial data points, and revamped the overall look of this powerful analytics tool.

With the latest version of Yoast SEO Premium, we have introduced a new feature that simplifies finding and improving your content in WordPress. You’ll now notice an additional column in the post overview, represented by a heart in a speech bubble icon. Different colors signal if a post needs work on the inclusive language part. […]

Instantly access global styles, tidy up scattered snippets across your site, and leverage an editor with features designed for professional developers who move fast and sweat the details.

The latest update includes Google Analytics 4 (GA4) support, added features, more data, and graphs for better visualization, empowering you with unparalleled

AB Split Test plugin has introduced AI content feedback and suggestions features to help you optimize your website content.

In my work as a sponsored contributor to Learn WordPress, I often need to consider the environment that developers are working on. Are they using macOS, Windows, or a Linux distro? Do they use a specific local development environment? Which code editor are they using? I figure the only way I’ll find this out, is […]

As a developer, it’s frustrating to constantly deal with configurations, install various libraries, and commercial licenses. We enjoy writing code, building things, and shipping products that help people. Code is poetry. wp-now is a new, zero-config development environment we recently contributed to the WordPress Playground. Currently in its alpha stage, wp-now is already the fastest […]

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…

Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. Cleaner results layout After updating most UI components with the new button styles, we made use o…

Want to make your WordPress Blogging engaging but also easy and quick? Here’s how to add ChatGPT to WordPress and automate your content.

Shufflehound made a big splash in March when it released Lemmony, a free WordPress block theme with more than 30 patterns. This was the company’s first block theme on WordPress.org and it is …

The experimental “command center” is coming to WordPress core. What do I think of it? And what does it mean for my own “command palette” product, Turbo Admin?

So, as promised, a blog post on how to—or rather, one way to—set up IndieBlocks. (I will eventually move this site to WordPress proper, and a block theme, and so on. Maybe I should’ve done that instead. Anyway, this is quicker.)

Do we go with a battle-tested classic theme or opt for a newfangled block theme? Do we embrace the Block Editor or stick with the trusty Classic flavor?

This was a fun, and challenging project that made extensive use of Underpin. It felt good to utilize the library in this context, and it was exciting to see it reliably work in-action.

For a specific condition I needed to customize the result of WordPress’ get_posts. Since I struggled with it, I want to make sure that never happens again.

Yes, WordPress really is free. However, there are other costs to running a WordPress websites that we are exploring here.

A race condition vulnerability has been discovered in the popular WordPress TotalPoll plugin. The vulnerability allows attackers to generate votes for their favorite streamers by exploiting a race condition in the plugin’s voting logic. The vulnerability exists in the TotalPoll plugin’s voting logic. When a user votes for a poll, the plugin calls a function […]

If you are using WordPress 6.2, you should at least use PHP 8.1. If you keep your WordPress, plugins and themes up to date, everything should work fine.

Join us for an online party as we celebrate 20 years of WordPress.We’re building the event and will post more soon…but know this – you don’t want to miss it!

Jamstack is out for a while. For most of us (developers) statically pre-rendered React websites are no wonder: page routing in the browser, “blazing-fast” (as they usually call it) experience, etc. Try Gatsby or Next.js and you’ll have it. If you are a web developer, you know React and probably know to do something with […]

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 …

The 6.2.2 minor release addresses 1 bug and 1 security issue. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately. All versions since WordPress 5.9 have also been updated.

WordPress is not just software, however. WordPress is an open-source community that continues to strive for innovation, inclusivity, and the democratization of publishing. It’s a global ecosystem of products and services that anyone can join by creating with WordPress. From freelancers and small businesses to agencies and large enterprises, WordPress is the way we make […]

WP Vulnerabilities is an open-source, free API by Javier Casares with contributions from other open-source, freely available databases and many manual hours from moderators and security officers from other plugins, including our own security officer. Really Simple SSL mirrors the free database with its own instance to secure stability and deliverability, but of course provides […]

The plugin Hello Dolly comes bundled with every WordPress installation and adds a line of the famous to the top of the WordPress dashboard. And it’s not always appreciated. This is the most u…

Just like that, YoastCon 2023 has come and gone. But what fun we had! Months of preparation went into providing visitors, speakers, and sponsors with the best single conference day of the year. YoastCon was a resounding success, with many in-person attendees and more joining our free live stream. In this post, we’ll take a […]

📚 How and why to use WordPress hooks in plugins and how to effectively register hooks with php attributes.

WordPress 6.3 is set to be released on August 8th, 2023, bringing a cohesive site editing experience thanks to expanded functionality, richer interfaces, and a dedicated focus on polish. This culmi…

Read about use cases for JetEngine Relations feature. Find out what are the common mistakes users make in WordPress relations and how to avoid them.

How does malware go unnoticed for 4 years? The harrowing tale of a WordPress website infected by undetected malware and injected SPAM content. Learn how to prevent a similar fate.

How did Crocoblock start, and what makes it so great? Learn more about the people behind the project, its key milestones, achievements, and innovations.

This WordPress Plugin introduces advanced citation capabilities to the WordPress Block Editor.

Following the planning proposal, this post summarizes the release schedule and squad composition for the next major WordPress release – 6.3. The proposal saw an overwhelmingly high number of …

This is a quick post following from the latest redesign of my WordPress plugins website, Plugin Planet. There, I make use of WordPress great query functionality to display archives of multiple categories.

Right now I’m working on a Google Analytics 4 integration that needs some data and views. To get the clicks/views I’m using the Selenium IDE Firefox Extension which records my clicks and the replays them. But to even have content for those clicks, I need to generate a bunch of it. Enter WP CLI Random […]

The A11Y Collective is the e-learning platform for anyone who wants to learn more about web accessibility. We offer IAAP approved courses on accessibility basics, accessible design, code and content and we offer masterclasses and advanced coding courses. On Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) we want to give everyone the chance to enroll in one […]

Do you want to set up automated tax calculation in WordPress? You don’t have to spend a dime. Learn how to automate e-commerce tax calculations for FREE!

Do you need to translate your site built with Elementor? Polylang and Polylang Connect for Elementor can be one of the best options available out there! Technically, Polylang did not develop any specific compatibility with Elementor, the credit goes to the team behind the “Polylang Connect for Elementor” plugin. It’s a powerful tool that allows […]

We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 7.7.0. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version. This release contains: 448 commits from 55 contributors in WooCom…

Hello, here‘s the third post of our series about the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. In our first post we shared with you our new purpose « Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress »; in our second post we talked about how we think we can better organize the BuddyPress plugin. Let’s see how […]

As the Site Editor and WP-Admin get more and more features, the need to navigate quickly and efficiently across them is becoming increasingly important. Visual editors and code editors alike are ad…

Ericka Barboza from Costa Rica writes about finding that her beloved WordPress communtiy is truly global.

If you’re considering Webflow vs. WordPress, we can help you decide which one works best for building a website.

#WordPress 6.2.1 has seemingly broke shortcodes in Gutenberg themes.

This is a list of the WP CLI commands. As I test it out, I am updating the lists here.

WordPress is approaching its 20th anniversary, and for the majority of those years, contributors have cranked out a new default theme. Even though the structure and supported features of default th…

WordPress 6.2.1 is now available! This minor release features 20 bug fixes in Core and 10 bug fixes for the block editor. You can review a summary of the maintenance updates in this release by read…

In the ever-evolving world of WordPress, sometimes less is more. More and more site administrators and content creators are seeking ways to streamline their websites, focusing on their core content without the distractions or complications of extraneous features. For those seeking a more focused, comment-free experience, we have the perfect solution: “Simply Disable Comments“. What […]