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Immediately available is BuddyPress 11.2.0. This maintenance release fixes 6 bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 11.2.0 release notes. Update to BuddyPress 11.2.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository.

WordCamps have long served as a point of connection within the WordPress community. Those who attend these worldwide events gain knowledge. But they also find kinship and opportunity. Thus, the importance of WordCamps can’t be overstated. They’re vital to the growth of both the software and the community. We missed…

Local teams, such as [es.wordpress.org] will be able to have their Handbook for a complementary use of the global Handbooks, but adapted to the particularities of the local culture instead of relyi…

This blog post is about the Essential Addons for Elementor plugin vulnerability. If you’re a Essential Addons for Elementor user, please update the plugin to at least version 5.7.2. Patchstack Developer and Business plan users are protected from the vulnerability. You can also sign up for the Patchstack Community plan to be notified about vulnerabilities […]

Introducing “Better YouTube Embed” – the WordPress plugin that enhances page performance while providing flexible customization options.

The WordPress Foundation will once again offer the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship for travel to WordCamp US 2023. At each in-person WordCamp US, the WordPress Foundation honors Kim’s commitment and valuable contributions to the WordPress open source project. The Foundation’s goal is to further the efforts of contributors who demonstrate Kim’s spirit, by helping to […]

Website design and development agency WebDevStudios is celebrating 15 years of WordPress experience. Keep reading to learn more.

Suffice to say, WordCamps and Music Festivals share much more in common than you’d think on first glance. Within a day I had found my home.

Themeum, a WordPress theme and plugin company founded in 2013, has acquired the Kirki Customizer Framework plugin from its former developer, David Vongries. In April 2023, Vongries announced he was…

Adds highlighting on hover with a distraction-free experience for the Gutenberg/Block Editor.

No idea, I’d been messing with WordPress for a few months. I had set up a little comedy blog with some mates in 2003 on WordPress. So when it came to building my blog I decided to use WordPress (I might have had a blogger prior to that). Completely forgotten where I had heard of […]

Split tests help improve conversions and optimize user experience. Learn how to do A/B testing in WordPress with the help of a plugin now.

Generative AI tools can be useful for small businesses. But it has its drawbacks. Have we truly considered the implications of using AI?

These powerful projects and groundbreaking builds were recognized for their excellence at the 2023 Webby Awards

Our favourite CMS WordPress is turning 20 years old and this feels like the perfect occasion to express our undying love!

Essential Addons for Elementor, a plugin with more than a million active installs, has patched an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability in version 5.7.2. The vulnerability was discover…

I’ve long used automation to auto-publish from my WordPress sites to Twitter. I used to work with Automattic as a sponsor for ages, and I’d talk up Jetpack, a WordPress plugin, that handled this social media automation nicely. The Jetpack Blog, 10 days ago: The End of Twitter Auto-Sharing We have attempted to work with Twitter […]

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.

WPCS, the pioneering cloud solution provider that combines the power of multitenancy and Kubernetes to transform WordPress into a scalable and efficient WaaS and SaaS platform, has announced a new investment from Emilia Capital, the holding company of Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt, founders of Yoast.

WooCommerce 7.7.0 was released this week with Multichannel Marketing now out of beta. This is the first thing store owners see when they visit the Marketing page in the dashboard. It allows users to connect additional sales channels, such as Google, Amazon, and eBay, and automatically manage inventory across storefronts. This addition makes WooCommerce more […]

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The fourth edition of a monthly roundup that brings you all the latest features, updates, and fixes you need to know about for extending WordPress.

Position your site for success by learning how to migrate Squarespace to WordPress now.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,473 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. Life’s good, maybe I’m working a bit too much so I spent some time in the last few days to think about possible holiday destinations. Also, […]

On May 27, 2023, WordPress will celebrate its 20th birthday. It’s hard to fathom that the software has been around for so long. Yet some of us may struggle to remember what the web was like without it. Just think of the designers, developers, and users that have come along…

📚 Learn about autoloading, coding standards, and file structure in WordPress plugin development. Find out how to optimize your plugins. Read now.

Discover my WordPress Origin Story: from stumbling upon open-source software to becoming a Developer Advocate, all while teaching & learning.

Welcome to the first day of #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks! We are so happy to be celebrating WordPress and the incredible WordPress community as we approach the 20th anniversary of WordPress on May 27…

I find myself using the WP CLI option to change the WordPress Admin email address more and more, but I keep forgetting the format, so I’m logging it here just for me. But, feel free to use it as well 😉

LifterLMS just released the most modern and fast WordPress theme for online courses: Sky Pilot

Our round-up of our reviews of WordPress event calendar plugins. We share what we liked, what we didn’t like, and what you should consider using.

Over the last weeks, we have shipped a number of improvements to the Translation Playground: (Here is an example link to the Friends plugin’s playground which is shown in the screenshots belo…

Now that users are diving deeper into block themes, one of the first hurdles they’re seeing is the lack of responsive controls in the WordPress UI.

To that end, let’s embrace these challenges and modernize our events by making some big shifts to why and how we meet.

WordPress Icons Library project from Gutenberg Icons package, Stacks is the first community block based theme, discussion AI powers in WordPress core, SkyPilot theme launched, new developer plan for PatchStack users, and speak at WordPress Accessibility Day 2023 event.

WordCamp US returns to the east coast at the end of August. That’s only 3 months away! This is the big yearly WordPress community conference open to everyone.

Quick recap, mostly just for me: In the classic editor, you have a custom meta box. You hit “Save,” “Publish,” “Update,” etc., it will submit the page; on the back end, you now have access to the various $_POST variables and can use them to update, e.g., (custom) post meta (“custom fields”). Easy peasy. With […]

Click to go to the latest update. Over the years, I’ve watched a bunch of rad people create products in […]

With Google recently announcing The beginning of the end of the password I started thinking about WordPress and what plugins are available that allow for passkey support for authentication. Using only your username you can use the passkey system to use your computer or mobile device to perform the rest of the login sequence. Google […]

Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. Document title Work in progress on a unified document title interface, that contains the most comm…

I find myself using the WP CLI option to change the WordPress Admin email address more and more, but I keep forgetting the format, so I’m logging it here just for me. But, feel free to use it as well 😉

Inside, you will learn about the common causes of the WordPress internal server error 500 and how to remove the error from your website.

WordPress still, to an extent, rules the blogging world. Its longevity is testament to…something about it 😉 However, it’s not my favourite platform in which to write a blog by a long way. It doesn’t support Markdown to the extent that I want. Yes, I’ve tried the plugins; no, they didn’t do what I needed. […]

In the process of working on these courses I realized that while I understood the theory behind developing a block theme, I’ve not had the practical experience of developing one based on a specific design. In fact, it had been about 6 years since I’d worked on a custom WordPress theme!

Using a local development site lets you design your site privately. This post will show you how to install WordPress on localhost!

WordPress contributors are having a still ongoing discussion about how AI might fit into the WordPress ecosystem, whether in the core or as a plugin. There are no plans at this point to add AI to the WordPress core, these discussions are just the starting point, turning on the light so to see what there’s, […]

The WPCampus 2023 program selection committee is proud to announce the program for this summer’s 3-day event at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gutenberg 15.7 was released this week, adding Site Logo upload and replacement from the inspector controls sidebar. This feature is still available in the block toolbar but it feels like a natural addition to the inspector, as it was previously available in a similar fashion in the Customizer. Here users can easily adjust the logo […]

Explore the ChatGPT effect on SEO content’s homogenization and the growing challenge of standing out – and uncover strategies to win.

There’s a number of reasons you may want to manipulate incoming WordPress REST API requests before they begin interacting with the core application.

The people have spoken! Congratulations to Haris Rauf for their popular kid-friendly website that captured the hearts of the public!

WordPress Icons Library- A searchable guide to the complete #WordPress icon library from Gutenberg.

Our travel grants are back and better than ever. Learn how to apply for a grant or contribute as a company.

Today I bodged a transitioning image into WP-Bakery Page Builder’s Team Member element using ChatGPT-4

“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 remi…

Hi, here‘s the second 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 », let’s see how the feedback you shared with us here & there […]

This aims to make the update process more reliable and ensures that if a plugin or theme update fails, the previous version can be safely restored. When updating a plugin or theme, the old version is moved to a temporary backup directory: wp-content/upgrade-temp-backup/plugins/[plugin-slug] for plugins wp-content/upgrade-temp-backup/themes/[theme-slug] for themes. If the update fails, then the backup […]

Each year, members of the WordPress community (users, site builders, extenders, and contributors) provide valuable feedback through an annual survey. For 2022, the survey received a comprehensive update, the first in six years… These updates were intended to increase the completion rate of the survey, enable a more efficient and structured analysis of these data, […]

The first WordPress community theme is now live in the Themes Directory. It’s called Stacks. This theme is designed specifically to create slide decks that can be used as a presentation.

Freedom in announcing events. The WordPress Event Federation plugin allows events created in WordPress with the most popular event plugins to be seamlessly published to Fediverse via ActivityPub. The core problem is that events need to be discoverable, listable and subscribable by potential visitors. Since organisers’ personal websites do not meet this requirement, most of […]

As we approach the 20th anniversary of WordPress on May 27, 2023, the Make Marketing team is excited to announce #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks, a campaign to celebrate WordPress and the incredible Wor…

With preparations for the next major releases already underway, the community is gearing up to celebrate WordPress’ 20th anniversary, which is just around the corner. This month has also seen some …

It’s unreasonably difficult to find information about working with custom taxonomies and their terms in the WordPress REST API. It would be easy to conclude that it’s not possible or that one has to create a custom endpoint to achieve that functionality. It ends up being fairly straightforward, so I’m sharing what I learned here […]

Each week, we report the latest vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins and themes. Vulnerable WordPress plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress sites get hacked.

We want to hear from you! Tell us how you use ACF, how you build sites with WordPress, and what needs to be improved to make ACF even better.

With its clean, minimal design and powerful feature set, Frost enables agencies to build stylish and sophisticated WordPress websites.

We are attempting to put an end to the “Competition of Competitions,” in order to concentrate on the collective goals of this community. We are targeting experienced, seasoned, professional speakers at the top of their industries who are not currently active members of our unique community to speak at this year’s WCUS program. There are […]

Here’s a function that makes it exceptionally easy to ensure that we run custom functionality once in multiple plugins.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,512 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. Business Bloomer’s WooCommerce Mini-Plugins have now reached the 9 products mark this week with the latest 4 releases (redirect to custom thank you page, hide payments by country, […]

The Events Calendar is a very powerful WordPress plugin for managing events. However, the way its templates and CSS are implemented—especially the v2 templates—leave much to be desired. This gist contains all the files and a check list of changes I make on every project that uses The Events Calendar. I wish it weren’t so […]

As the WordPress community dives into the world of AI, the responsibility and role the Core WordPress software has in this journey has come into question. This post attempts to build clarity around how Core aims to function during this evolving time, while encouraging folks to share what would be helpful for them to integrate […]

We have just launched the new Developer plan, which lets you protect and manage up to 50 WordPress sites under one subscription.

This post proposes adding the fetchpriority=”high” attribute to LCP images in WordPress core to enhance LCP performance. The proposal was created as a collaboration between members of the Core Perf…

We are not talking about WordPress “user roles” and capabilities, but generally about tasks and what goes into building a WordPress site. For the purpose of this article, a “developer” is someone who writes code. A “designer” is someone who uses HTML, CSS, and maybe a bit of JavaScript to create the visual “look and […]

WordPress.com staging sites enable you to clone your site and test any new changes in a safe environment before going live.

As we approach the 20th anniversary of WordPress on May 27, 2023, the Make Marketing team is excited to announce #WP20 From Blogs to Blocks, a campaign to celebrate WordPress and the incredible Wor…

Michelle Frechette, Director of Community Engagement at StellarWP, has launched a new independent project called WP Speakers that helps event organizers find available speakers for WordPress meetup…

Twitter’s new API pricing is exorbitant, starting at $42,000/month for 50 million tweets. I get the feeling that there are a lot of “enterprise” Twitter API users whom Elon Musk believed would definitely pay these prices, who instead are saying “We are definitely not paying these prices.” Musk thinks Twitter is indispensable. Doesn’t seem like […]

Over 60‘000 WordPress plugins have been contributed to the WordPress.org Plugin Directory. Millions of websites are powered by these plugins, developed and maintained by an amazing open-source community around the globe. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of WordPress, this table showcases the 108 most popular WordPress plugins in a unique way.

Many labels describe compatibility with Gutenberg, such as “works with Gutenberg” or “Gutenberg ready”. However, they often mean that the product can function with Gutenberg. It’s vital to embrace Gutenberg and utilise its features fully, as this can significantly enhance the quality of what you create in terms of interface and workflow. What does it […]

When it comes to accessibility, the most common errors are contrast errors. And with a auto-contrast function in SCSS they seem to be fixed easily.

As we have noted in the past, the GoDaddy owned security provider Sucuri keeps writing blog posts about what has happened to their customers’ websites after they have been hacked. They seem uninterest

I thought it would be appropriate to look at how WordPress has made it this far. What are the secrets of its success? Here are a few factors that have led the software to incredible heights and longevity.

The Training Team’s efforts have historically been focused on creating content for Learn.WordPress.org in the English language. The Content Localization Foundations project was the team’s first efforts to onboard contributors who speak other languages and translate content into different locales. Over the course of 5 months, 28 volunteers created 36 pieces of localized content across […]

I’m writing this blog post on my new server. The old one will be shut down in about two hours. As it had quite a few WordPress sites and one Matomo instance hosted, migrating everything was quite a task. Migrating … Read more →

In April 2023, the Training team published the following resources on Learn WordPress.  Lesson Plans Lesson plans are teaching guides ideal for Meetup organizers and trainers to use when facilitati…

Article series on WordPress plugin development leveraging modern PHP Here you can find an overview of the series with all published and planned articles.The overview may change over time, with new articles being added and similar updates.

In the past, customizing the appearance of a WordPress site was limited to themes, custom CSS, and plugins or editor styling. However, things have changed, and now a more comprehensive approach is needed beyond just themes and styles. So what happens to the term ‘theme’? How do we function now and where do we look […]

Twitter recently notified Automattic that it was dramatically changing the terms and pricing of the Twitter API. The cost increase is prohibitive for us to absorb without passing a significant price increase along to you, and we don’t see that as an option. We have attempted to negotiate a path forward, but haven’t been able […]

WordPress is utilised by over 43% of all websites, resulting in a market share of a staggering 63% in 2023 according to W3Techs. But what makes the CMS the perfect solution for a powerful enterprise ecosystem, and how do global brands use the WordPress platform effectively? Designed to share meaningful insights and data on how […]