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Hello and welcome to another round of Snaps from the WooCommerce Store Editing team! 🎇 Every couple of weeks, we give an update on all the work being done on WooCommerce Blocks from behin…

A note about my experience working with WordPress and Gutenberg since late 2018.

WordPress is turning 20 so the project commissioned a book. At this stage your feedback will ensure that it will be published with the most accurate way possible. Learn how you can help.

Last updated – April 13, 2023You might think of artificial intelligence (AI) as the technology that enables machines to perform their functions. Generally, humans use their intelligence to complete these jobs. Examples of them include suggestion systems, as seen on shopping websites, as well as the self-driving automobiles to which the majority of people are […]

We are pleased to announce the release of WooCommerce 7.6.0. This release should be backwards compatible with the previous version. This release contains: 485 commits from 47 contributors in W…

WPForms can integrate with ChatGPT to produce useful, fully automated results for your business. This step-by-step guide shows you how (no coding needed).

A step-by-step guide of using the “template types” feature of the Patterns API to build multiple homepage design options

Inspiro Blocks PRO is our premium portfolio block theme intended to help creatives build an impactful portfolio with minimum effort.

In this guide, we’ll discuss what bots are (the good and the bad) and how to stop the bad ones from hurting your WordPress website.

WordPress Playground was recently used at a hackathon to prototype three different ways of building WordPress plugins with very little setup and directly in the browser: WP-CLI and PHPUnit in the b…

The third edition of a monthly series that cuts through all the noise of a busy development cycle and brings you the latest features, updates, and fixes you need to know about to build on top of WordPress.

Are you planning on organizing or attending a WP20 Celebration? If so, you can download and print one or more of the many images to add some pizzazz to your WordPress celebration photos. Whether attending in-person or virtually, adding a prop to show your spirit is a fun way to celebrate!

Extension for Visual Studio Code – Embeds a WordPress installation in your your VS Code

Do you remember what made WordPress 5.6 so historic? It was the first version of the software produced by an all-woman and non-binary release squad. And it looks like history is about to repeat itself. WordPress 6.3 is scheduled to be released in July and will once again feature an…

When you first see WordPress Playground, it seems like an ordinary site–maybe except for the colorful background. It’s anything but. What you’re actually looking at is an entire WordPress tech stack, including PHP and a database, running directly in your browser. In this post, Adam Zieliński (lead of WordPress Playground) and Thomas Nattestad (Product Manager […]

This week, 79 vulnerabilities may affect over 6.6 million WordPress sites. There are 55 plugin vulnerabilities and 5 themes with security patches available, so run those updates if you use these plugins! Additionally, there are 19 plugin vulnerabilities with no patch available yet. At least three of these have been closed and dropped from the […]

In this post, I’m going to cover how to import a programmatically defined ACF group. Next, I’ll talk about solutions for migrating data into its own table.

Wordfence has published a security advisory about a severe unauthenticated stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the Limit Login Attempts plugin, which is active on more than 600,000 WordPre…

The latest version of WooCommerce Blocks, version 10.0.0, is now available for download on WordPress.org and GitHub. Notable Changes Updated Shopper Notices In this release, we intro…

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,500 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. I’m about to release 4 WooCommerce mini-plugins in the next few days, and I’m really excited about this new phase for Business Bloomer. I’ve studied this […]

When you organise a WordCamp you get to a point where you need to issue coupons for speakers, organisers, volunteers and sponsors. Usually, coupons are “shared” with others from that group: volunteers will share a coupon code, speakers will share a different coupon code, and so on. Using a shared coupon code also means that […]

WordPress Playground public API allows you to run and control an entire WordPress stack in your browser. In this post, you will learn how to get started.

Phishing scams and social engineering are techniques often used by hackers to gain access to unauthorized data, websites, and other online accounts. In order to better prevent against both phishing and social engineering attacks, Google has recently begun a campaign to better manage the “personal data” previously saved in Google Search.

However, with many Jetpack-specific features now removed, we’re ready to look to the future of the WordPress app. One of the goals behind refocusing the app was always to enable larger involvement from the community, and we look forward to seeing all the great contributions and developments that will come from this decision.

Bring the power of Git to your WordPress site! We’ll show you how to integrate WordPress with GitHub for a seamless development experience.

Dealing with security issues for your WordPress plugin can be hard and even a bit scary, certainly when it’s happening to you for the first time. In this post I try to outline all the steps you should take as a plugin developer. So, let’s dive in. This isn’t a short post, so here’s a […]

This is a Friday long-read, so grab a warm cup of something and kick back because we’re going to take our time on this. The world is about to profoundly change. I know you’re nervous – perhaps excited and optimistic, but if you’ve been paying attention and have been watching the trajectory of this thing, […]

The latest Convoworks WP update (0.20) includes the WP Core package (convo-wp-core), which in its very first version includes several post orientated components. These components will enable you to read the post data in a quite familiar way, using the WordPress loop in a slightly adjusted, conversational manner.

Give your leaders the answers they don’t know to ask for. Most companies in the WordPress industry struggle to effectively gather feedback from their employees, which can leave you feeling frustrated and unheard. The Team Experience Index provides your leaders with the insights they need to make your team and culture experience better.

Yoast SEO 20.5 comes with several improvements and fixes. For one, we’ve updated the Google preview to the current styling of the SERPs.

20.5 April 11, 2023 Yoast SEO 20.5 includes a host of exciting improvements and fixes. One of the most noteworthy updates is the improved Google SERP preview that aligns with Google’s current styling for mobile and desktop. For more information about these updates, please read all about our latest release. Find out more about what’s […]

Need to translate a theme or a plugin? Find out how to do it step by step with the Loco Translate plugin, directly on the WordPress admin.

In the previous event, we made note of having exceeded the 12 million Elementor websites mark. Since then, Elementor and its community has continued to grow, in large thanks to you – the web creators who put their trust and build beautiful websites using Elementor. In the first quarter of 2023, Elemntor has grown to […]

During the recategorization of the documentation, the team removed several articles that were developer-focused or included a lot of developer-jargon. All these articles are now part of the Advance…

Exploring different ways to change the default color of the Separator block in WordPress, including using regular CSS, scoped CSS, theme.json, and block-specific stylesheets.

As more WordPress plugins for AI-generated content and images, chatbots, and assistants, are landing in the official directory, developers are beginning to explore even deeper integration with the block editor. Moving beyond the prototypical content generators that are cobbled together into a plugin, the tools developers are experimenting with today will provide a more deeply […]

Summary: Balada Injector has been compromising WordPress sites since 2017, exploiting theme and plugin vulnerabilities.

If you’re a developer, you’re going to love the new 2.7 features that significantly benefit your experience when building on Gravity Forms.

During the recategorization of the documentation, the team removed several articles that were developer-focused or included a lot of developer-jargon. All these articles are now part of the Advance…

The Museum of Block Art (MOBA) is a WordPress website that features unique artistic works created using Gutenberg, the WordPress block editor. The site is currently running a call for submissions for block art themed on “20 years of WordPress”.

It’s time for another update on the WordPress.org Redesign project and plan its next steps and approximate timing. Though redesign development work by the Meta team has been mostly paused since Mar…

The “freemium” model is popular among WordPress product makers. They provide us with a free version of a plugin or theme, with the option of a commercial upgrade. Users can get a taste of what the product has to offer. And if they need more features or robust support, they…

Key suggestions from our latest industry report to help digital publishers & content creators navigate shifting market dynamics.

Choosing a translation solution for your website can be tricky. That’s why we’re reviewing 5 of the best translation plugins for WordPress!

I’ve been playing a bit with ChatGPT for some time now and I’m not the first to say it’s amazing if not mind-blowing. AI can just write you a blog post and you don’t even have to worry one bit. No …

Want to use OpenAI to create content for your WordPress site? Here is a complete guide on the best ways to use OpenAI on your WordPress website.

The chicannery at Twitter continues apace, with our beloved WP mothership being among the latest victims of no-API-for-you. Elon Musk’s idea of developer relations is a Japanese vending machine that spits out chaos instead of used underwear. But let us not despair. As my pappy used to say, behind every paper rich douche nozzle and […]

Advanced Custom Fields version 6.1 is now available! 🚀🎉 ACF 6.1 elevates the plugin further as an essential part of making WordPress a true content

WordPress Full-Site Editing, aka the Site Editor, offers a lot of features, not all of which you might be familiar with. That’s because it’s not only a relatively new addition to the WordPress platform but also under constant development with new features coming out regularly. As a consequence, it’s easy to miss out on some […]

This is a summary of a Hallway Hangout that was wrangled in the #fse-outreach-experiment channel as part of the FSE Outreach Program. Thank you to everyone who joined in! Attendance: @elblakeo31 @b…

GitHub is probably the most popular software repository in the world. One important feature on GitHub is the ‘pull request’: we often contribute to a piece of software by proposing changes to a piece of code.The number of pull requests is not, per se, an objective measure of how much one contrib

I would like to propose that WordPress 6.4 be run entirely by a women and nonbinary squad, a reprise of the historic WordPress 5.6 release, “Simone”, and training cohorts offered during 6.3 are an excellent opportunity for new contributors to prepare for the 6.4 release.

When I started GapScout in August 2022, I wanted to try something different. I had success with LearnDash, but my motivation for that business, and the online education industry as a whole, was different. I landed on building in public.

An estimated one million WordPress websites have been compromised during a long-lasting campaign that exploits “all known and recently discovered theme and plugin vulnerabilities” to inject a Linux backdoor that researchers named Balad Injector.

Gutenberg 15.5 was released this week with more new features and refinements to WordPress’ full-site editing capabilities. The project will soon be moving on to Phase 3 with real-time collabo…

One of the questions we get asked most often is, “Which is better, Shopify or WooCommerce?” While we use and love both, we pride ourselves on being WooCommerce experts. We recommend both platforms but find ourselves recommending WooCommerce more often. But newly announced Shopify features could make it a better option for some online stores. […]

Support for the WordPress mobile apps is moving to the WordPress.org forums. Previously, users were routed to WordPress.com, even those who were self-hosted, and Automattic employees handled suppor…

WordPress will integrate with both the Fedi and Webmentions very easily. So I knew that wouldn’t be a problem. I also know WordPress fairly well, having used it for many years. So being in control of the stack wouldn’t be an issue either. Ironically, my issue would be the posting workflow. I won’t be having […]

Learning Pathways for Learn WordPress Learning pathways are a structured sequence of educational experiences or courses that are designed to help individuals acquire knowledge and skills in a speci…

In order to better explain the methodology, I thought I might just do another similar kind of analysis that I would go over in this post. Last week, WordPress 6.2 was released, so no better opportunity than to measure how updating my website from WordPress 6.1 to 6.2 affects its performance! I created a spreadsheet […]

Copy-pasting paragraphs between ChatGPT and WordPress only goes so far, while having the tools directly embedded in the editor for block layout generation, auto-linking, formatting, translation summarization and more open up a world of possibilities and productivity wins for content creators.

Want to offload WordPress media to S3 but not sure where to get started? This post will show you exactly how to set it up using two different methods. One method literally just takes a few clicks, while the other method is a little more involved but gives you more options for customization.

Matt shares why WordPress releases are named after jazz musicians. The FSE block theme explores functionality gaps and gathers feedback on the Site Editor experience. WordPress 6.2 improves load times and server-side performance for block and classic themes. The Interactivity API proposal standardizes frontend interactivity for Gutenberg blocks.

Discover how WP Squared by cPanel is revolutionizing WordPress Managed Hosting with its centralized dashboard, one-click updates, automated backups, and security & performance monitoring features. Learn more about this game-changing platform.

“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 reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with Gutenberg and the Site Editor project (formerly called Full Site Editing). Decorative image that reads: […]

Recent improvements to caching in WordPress Core can provide a serious boost to your website performance—but for now they’re opt-in only.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,494 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. This month we welcome 2 brand new sponsors – say hello to Staggs Product Configurator for WooCommerce and Nexcess Managed WooCommerce Hosting. Also, let’s not forget about GoDaddy, which has […]

The earlier reported outage has been resolved. Twitter is working again for Jetpack Social and all other functionalities that depend on Twitter. All Jetpack Social connections to Twitter, Tumblr, F…

With the latest WordPress release out in the world, this post seeks to recap the performance improvements available for all sites. According to this analysis done by @flixos90 that you’re encouraged to dig into, WordPress 6.2 loads 14-18% faster for block themes and 2-5% faster for classic themes. Server-side performance is seeing a major boost […]

Do you want to speed up your website? In this post, we’ll show you how your site can make fewer HTTP requests and start loading faster!

Back in 2012, I was a media and communications student at Umeå University in northern Sweden. The overall state of the newspaper business had convinced me not to pursue a career in journalism, and I had figured the second best thing would be to work with media relations for a business or organization I’d feel […]

Learn about WordPress Playground, its features and benefits, see examples. Try a web tool that allows you to fully run and test a WordPress site in a browser.

This article is part 1 of a 2-part series written by the founders of Divi Den. Look out for part 2 coming soon. Let’s start at the beginning and go over how it all started! On May 16, 2017, we launched our first Divi product, The Unicorn Bundle. The Unicorn was a huge success and […]

The WordPress Theme Handbook has a lot of great content from numerous contributors over the years. It is filled with wisdom and experience learned from their trial, error, and work. For everyone wh…

On April 3rd, Twitter suspended our access to the Twitter API without warning. As a result of this, Jetpack Social connections to Twitter are currently not working, and it is not possible to share a post on Twitter. Other Jetpack functionalities that depend on Twitter are also affected.

This tutorial is the fourth part of the WordPress block development series. The first three parts of the series covered creating a simple block using . We then customised the block to display an…

ACF 6.1 elevates the plugin further as an essential part of making WordPress a true content management system. Taking WordPress beyond just posts and pages is now possible with ACF, streamlining the workflow of registering custom post types and then adding custom fields.

I’m glad to announce the release of Form Block, a dedicated block for the WordPress block editor to create highly customizable (contact) forms with ease. This first iteration has a basic feature set…

Since the last update on the Preferred Languages feature plugin, a lot of work has been accomplished both on the plugin side and in core to make the solution more robust in a variety of ways. Today, I want to provide a bit more details on these accomplishments, which resulted in the recent release of […]

If you want to learn how to build production-ready WordPress Block Themes for yourself or for your clients, this guide is for you.

iThemes is becoming SolidWP. Learn why, when, and how the new brand is going to market.

Not all commercial WordPress plugins are created equal. We’ll help you evaluate whether a commercial plugin is worth the investment.

If you appreciate the power of Algolia search, wait until you discover the premium version of WP Search with Algolia.

Post Status Slack on April 2, 2023: “Okay y’all: Forever ago I told you companies could be built in a remote and distributed fashion, and it’s amazing to see most WP companies operate in this way, impacting thousands of people’s lives. In 2015 I told you to learn Javascript deeply. I don’t have a catchy […]

March saw the arrival of the first major release of 2023, WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy.” Planning for the project’s 20th anniversary continues with new celebratory updates and commemorative swag. Re…

These stats were generated after the last Release Candidate of WP 6.2. Thanks to Jon who collected the props list for the release squad. These statistics only relate to Core contributions (= props gained for source code contributions) of WordPress. There is a lot of other types of contributions, not listed here: marketing, communication, translation, […]

Why I choose Drupal over static site generators for my website.

A year ago I did that analysis, so it was time for an updated version. If you want some background and information of how it works, just check the 2022 edition. Before the start, there is also for this year an analysis of 6.2 contribution stats by AudrasJB. This article already lists that the most […]

Member Spotlight: Robby McCullough

This post introduces the 50+ new pieces of content published on Learn WordPress in March 2023. It also gives an overview of the projects the Training Team has been working on recently.

As per the title, what’s the one thing that really “grinds your gears” when it comes to plugins and themes? What should developers stop doing?

I’m trying to make some changes to one of my WordPress plugins and, for reasons that I’m finding maddeningly frustrating, it’s not working. So, I thought I’d try ChatGPT to …

For a holistic perspective on performance, we need to track user-perceived performance (LCP) and add client-side metrics to the mix (LCP-TTFB).

Mark your calendars for April 19th, 2023, because WooCommerce is hosting a virtual Contributor Day! We’re inviting the Woo community to join our internal engineering teams for a full day of contrib…