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The latest version of WooCommerce Blocks, version 9.9.0, is now available for download on WordPress.org and GitHub. Notable Changes This release includes many exciting changes and bug fixes. Below …

This security advisory is written about an Elementor Pro vulnerability. that was originally disclosed by NinTechNet. Patchstack users have received a virtual patch to protect their site against this vulnerability. Vulnerability Information On March 22, 2023, Elementor Pro released version 3.11.7 of its plugin which fixes a critical vulnerability that in combination with the WooCommerce […]

React, the JavaScript framework we use in the WordPress editor uses hooks. The new React documentation has a lot of exam

A few folks have asked me why myself and many in the WordPress community are drawn to jazz musicians as what we promote with each release, with the wild Hello Dolly events idea, and now starting to…

Consumers have become accustomed to optimized mobile experiences. Billions use popular apps — WhatsApp, Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Gmail, and Twitter — to perform small acts of publishing, like sharing content, editing photos, uploading videos, and inserting URLs. These applications deliver carefully constructed user experiences focused on a narrow set of specific content creation […]

Gutenberg has evolved a lot over the past few years, though most of the improvements have focused on the block developer experience within the block editor. Today, we’d like to update you on the Interactivity API, which aims to be a standard way to allow developers to add interactivity to the frontend of their blocks.

If you’re looking to revalidate a Next.js page automatically after a WordPress post update, read on! The technique can be applied to any back-end using Next.js for the front-end, hosted in a Kubernetes cluster.

Hello, Gutenberg users! 👋 We are delighted to announce the launch of the GutenbergHub Shop 😍, a specialized platform tailored to address your WordPress Gutenberg editor needs. Our goal is to provide you with the essential tools 🔨 and resources 🧰 to make the most of the Gutenberg editor, regardless of your technical expertise. At […]

Discover the benefits of AI and how to achieve them with the best WordPress AI plugins and ChatGPT plugins. Bring AI to your site today.

Mario Peshev from Sofia, Bulgaria discusses the hardships and successes of growing a business in Europe with WordPress.

ThriveDesk’s WPPortal & API is the perfect tool for connecting your WordPress site to your customer service & help desk. So what are you waiting for?

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,482 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. A little late today, as I’ve spent all day with the builders at home trying to fix a few things. I’ve also had to deal with […]

Introduction to the Site Editor and Template Editor.

Say hello to WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy,” named for the woodwind jazz wiz, the multi-instrumentalist—Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. Dolphy is acclaimed for having brought the bass clarinet to prominence in the jazz scene, creating a place for the flute and extending the lexicon of the alto saxophone. In a career that spanned continents, his artistry was […]

With all the talk about ChatGPT and other AI bots, did you know that there is an OpenAI ChatGPT bot and it respects the robots.txt protocol? So if you want, you can block OpenAI’s ChatGPT bot from cra

Thanks to all the great feedback on the contents of this proposed syllabus, I am able to update this list to include all the topics relevant to the beginner WordPress developer. At the same time, I have linked any existing Learn WordPress tutorials I am aware of, or any tutorials that are in progress, that […]

Learn how to raise prices without losing customers and increase revenue and customer loyalty in the process! Get actionable tips and tools you need.

Free WordPress accessibility plugin identifies issues across entire site

We are seeking basic workflow feedback for the Plugin Dependencies feature. Testing should be very straightforward. The testing plugin was chosen because it fulfilled the following criteria: Plugin…

It’s easy to think of the web as a green medium. After all, it allows us to explore the world without boarding a car, boat, or plane. And online platforms like Zoom now routinely replace in-person meetings. But the reality is more complicated. The web’s infrastructure consumes large volumes of…

WP Engine’s Pattern Manager is now available in the WordPress Plugins Directory. The plugin gives WordPress professionals a dedicated interface for browsing, designing, and organizing pattern…

The repository provides a lot of services for the developers at no cost and their code will be searchable directly in every WordPress installation. You would be crazy not to think that is a good deal for the plugin developers.

WordPress 6.2 was scheduled for release today, but contributors discovered a bug with date formats during the 24-hour freeze that they believe could have a significant impact on functionality like …

wp-env is a tool that allows developers to create a WordPress development environment from the command line with zero configuration. Learn how to install and use wp-env, and discover the benefits that it provides over other local development environments.

John Hughes

TL;DR For the past few months the mobile team has been working on refocusing the WordPress App to provide a closer-to-core experience. As part of this effort, we saw an opportunity to rethink how w…

Performance Lab Performance Lab plugin updates are released monthly on the third Monday of the month. March’s release 2.1.0 includes a few enhancements and interoperability fixes for the Server-Tim…

Want to take your WordPress site to the next level? Learn how to go headless with SvelteKit and GraphQL.

Selena Jackson of Automattic’s Engineering Development team talks to us from her home in New York.

WPForms is 7 years old! Let’s look at some highlights from the past year, including new addons and form fields to improve functionality.

Check out the limited edition WordPress 20th Anniversary merchandise now available at the official WordPress Mercantile store. Show off your WordPress passion with one or more of these special items, available while supplies last.

Back in September, I started a project to learn more about pricing practices by WordPress plugin companies. At the time of my initial article, When is a discount not really a discount?, plugin creators were accusing each other of using “fictitious” pricing — for example, advertising a sale that is not really a sale, or […]

Automattic, the company behind the WordPress content management system, is force installing a security update on hundreds of thousands of websites running the highly popular WooCommerce Payments for online stores.

WordPress Settings API is a robust API but it’s not a framework to easily create fields within your WordPress admin area. Let’s build a simple framework utilizing the Settings API. We’ll create an abstract class that will hold all the […]

WordPress 6.2 makes it easy to customize blocks globally or individually faster than ever before with internal previews and a Style Book.

Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. Mercantile Social Kit A few are working with marketing on a social kit for Mercantile Swag Store. …

How to add a chatbot for WordPress with a fine-tuned model, easily!

In attendance: @adityakane @nao @oglekler @yoga1103 @leonnugraha @mikeschroder @st810amaze @onealtr @carl-alberto @tobifjellner @kcristiano @javiercasares @webtechpooja @sz786 @meher @webcommsat @c…

Fun & flexible software for online communities, teams, and groups

Open Source 101 2023 took place recently and it was yet another amazing experience!

The WordPress Hub is the latest project focused on making WordPress news, content, and tutorials more easily accessible.

WordPress contributor and developer Nick Diego has released version 3.0.0 of his Block Visibility plugin, which allows users to conditionally display blocks based on specific user roles, logged in/…

Turbo Admin features to be in WordPress core! 🙌 The WordPress Gutenberg Phase 3 announcement is very interesting for me. Why? Because it will be disruptive for my Turbo Admin plugin/browser extension. An admin redesign is in the works which, especially if done in React, may make Turbo Admin impossible to run. Fortunately they are also considering […]

We are now planning its third phase, which is going to be centered around fostering seamless collaboration, tying together the user experience, and streamlining the content management flows to improve the way creators and teams work together within WordPress.

Update to iThemes Security Free 8.1.5+ and Pro 7.3.1+ We have patched a vulnerability in our Security Pro plugin, as well as the free version

Introduction The Training Teams’ vision for 2023 is to “empower users to achieve their goals with WordPress through actionable and practical learning experiences that bring the community toge…

Hello everyone!  Here we summarised the key creatives by us, WordCamp Asia 2023 design team. We also included some behind-the-scenes stories, so we hope you enjoy reading it.  At the end …

Learn how to use AVIF WordPress images to speed up your site’s load time while still serving high-quality images. Full step-by-step guide.

On March 22, 2023, a vulnerability was discovered within WooCommerce Payments that, if exploited, could permit unauthorized admin access to impacted stores. We immediately deactivated the impacted …

I recently converted one of my blocks from RichText to InnerBlocks. It wasn’t easy, but I thought I’d share my experience with the conversion.

Discover my unforgettable journey at the Cloudfest Hackathon, where our talented team brought the open-source project WapuuGotchi to life! A gamified WordPress experience with a personalized Wapuu assistant, WapuuGotchi adds fun and customization to your site. Dive into our exciting adventure and the inspiring connections made along the way!

Upcycled Found Objects or UFOAI is a WordPress plugin that uses AI to help you write blog posts. UFOAI uses a variety of AI techniques to help you write better blog posts. For example, it can analyze your blog post topic and suggest potential topics for further research. It can also help you identify the […]

Block Visibility 3.0.0 is a major milestone. The Pro add-on has been merged into the main plugin, and all functionality will now be free.

Welcome to the annual Year in Review for WP Fusion 👋 2022 wraps up our eighth year in business. In the spirit of open-sourcey-ness, I’ve been publishing these Review posts for the last five of them. You can check out previous years below: 2021 in Review 2020 in Review 2019…

A website backdoor allows hackers to keep coming back and doing more damage over time. Learn how to remove backdoors from a WordPress site.

There are more of these plugins coming – where a person need only dream up the idea and prompt their chosen AI tool for the code. These will more than likely be simple plugins for the time being, but it’s not too early to establish some best practices for using code generators. WordPress is navigating […]

Demystifying the WordPress core feature and when to use it on the Pantheon platform WordPress Multisite is widely used to power some of the largest WordPress sites on the internet. From being the

Is your brand considering building an official plugin? WordPress plugin development requires more than you think. Read this to find out why,

Customer support can be an area that makes or breaks your success in selling a WordPress plugin. An effective support system not only addresses user issues but also empowers them to find solutions on their own saving you time and energy to focus on other things like marketing. Customers will always find issues with anything […]

A tutorial that walks through configuring global space settings and styles and provides tips, tricks, and workarounds for custom use cases.

“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…

I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on at GoDaddy for the past several months: a super fast, mobile focused, headless checkout for WooCommerce. This is not a new checkout page template, it’s a completely new experience built from scratch to load faster and help customers checkout faster, especially on mobile.

Thinking of a career as a remote WordPress developer? Freemius CEO Vova Feldman & other development leads weigh in on what it takes to get hired in 2023.

With much activity happening in the WordPress development space every day, keeping up-to-date with the latest updates can be challenging. The new WordPress Developer Blog is a developer-focused res…

Welcome to Women of Datamattic—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to build, maintain, and explore Automattic’s data landscape and make the web a better place…

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 17,467 subscribers) so that you can learn something new. I’m back to marketing and sales, as traffic and revenue is down after the incredible ecommerce growth of the last 3 years. I’m sure it’s the […]

There is no denying that PHP took a great leap forward in the last years. The transformation is so generalized that “the PHP experience”…

Looking to learn more about WooCommerce dynamic content? Discover its meaning, benefits, specifics, and most popular use cases like WooCommerce dynamic pricing.

Writing is an unavoidable part of a developer’s role, but with these writing skills resources you’ll be penning prose like a pro in no time.

“No guideline AGAINST generated code.. .you have to verify that all the code used is GPL compatible and not a copy… nothing’s changed.”

Learn about Microsoft’s WordPress on Azure App Service, as well as an interesting alternative from WP Engine.

WP Engine is currently seeking beta testers for an exciting new developer tool called Pattern Manager. This plugin helps WordPress creators “build and manage pattern designs for the WordPress block editor” so “users can easily create, edit, duplicate, and delete WordPress patterns all within a familiar WordPress core experience.”

Chat GPT WordPress is here & so is the MemberPress ChatGPT integration! Learn how to do posts, create courses & more in WordPress with ChatGPT in our guide.

WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 3 is now available for download and testing. This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPre…

Does the core development team really think that end-users understand concepts around styling a page, implications around layout when thinking about block styles, padding, margins, grids?

Matthias Pfefferle und ActivityPub

WOW! I made a properly “magic method” WordPress plugin that allows you to just write a function name, and have that function created for you by an AI. It just works! (Some of the time).

We take a look at a few common tasks that ChatGPT can perform for web developers. You might be surprised at some of its capabilities.

At the CloudFest Hackathon over the weekend, we embedded WordPress directly into VS Code. Forget spending hours setting up a local development environment at your next Contributor Day. Simply insta…