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WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 is here and ready for download and testing. This version of the WordPress software is under development.

Often on Twitter, we’ll hear stuff like this: Best practices don’t actually work Or: TypeScript has won, and it’s only a matter of time you’re using it whether you like it or not. These may be true for a tiny minority of cases, such as in a code-factory: full of developers, independently working on small […]

It’s time for another big release! We’re excited to introduce 4 new integrations in the free version of Uncanny Automator, including OpenAI, Trello, ClickUp and Wholesale Suite. The 4.10 release also includes several new features and improvements. Why 4.10? Uncanny Automator 5.0 will be a huge update that will add huge new features that change […]

Organizers are expecting 1,500 attendees at this new flagship event. For those who cannot attend in-person, there will be a livestream broadcasting the sessions from the conference days after Contributor Day, which kicks off on Day 1.

This year we want to follow and build upon the formulas used in the past. We iterated this year by holding the call for topics before asking people to apply to participate.

This release sees the integration of Openverse through the Media tab, the addition of custom CSS per block via the styles sidebar and theme.json, navigation menus in the browse mode sidebar, and the facility to add shadow presets in global styles.

The WP Community Collective (WPCC), a newly formed nonprofit organization dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and community-led initiatives, has announced its first Accessibility Fellow. Alex Stine, a fully blind individual contributor who has been working with the WordPress Accessibility team since 2016, is the first recipient of the fellowship.

Welcome to the first edition of a new monthly series for developers. This post—and hopefully many more to come—will list all of the features, changes, and other vital items the WordPress extender community should know about.

I’ve been quietly working on my other blog for #the100dayproject. Today I got knocked off my chair while adding a new paragraph when I was presented with two new Jetpack block options

WordPress.com is currently testing two new blocks for generating images and paragraph content using AI. The blocks, which are currently labeled as experimental, were first spotted by Jen T of WPcomMaven who published a few examples on her blog this week.

I did an analysis about WordPress Core contributions by tickets numbers as I think that a OSS project is not healthy if had a long queue of stuff that no one sees, so I already tried in the past talking with Core Committers about more Triage sessions,

iThemes is pleased to announce we’re partnering with Patchstack to provide early warnings about potential vulnerabilities in WordPress sites protected by our security plugins, iThemes Security and Security Pro.

It would be a lot simpler for users and admins, and plugin developers, if there were a consistent way to handle dependencies in Core. Among other things, that approach would entail a clear method of determining when a plugin needs a dependency and what that dependency is.

Today, we are announcing a plan to reduce the size of our global team by about 8%. This will come as difficult news for many valued and respected GoDaddy team members.

This tutorial will show you how to update your GitHub profile on a regular schedule with your latest WordPress posts using Go.

Discover the power of AI powered NPCs in your 3D worlds with the latest 3OV release and learn how to create 3D AI experiences.

Luckily the solution was an easy one to fix, but I’ve gotten some question about how I found out where the issue was, so I thought I take you along on some performance debugging steps I always take.

I propose a project-wide WordPress contributor mentorship program that aims to empower new and aspiring contributors by helping them succeed in (and with) the project through mentorship.

According to Matrix themselves, “it is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache-licensed reference implementations.

As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to write a plugin that could save my wife some time with managing her website. I wrote a short description and ChatGPT wrote the whole thing: user interface, logic, and all. In less than five minutes.

The goal is to approach this final episode in the next two major releases of WordPress, 6.2 and 6.3. For the upcoming 6.2 release, these are some of the major highlights that will get covered…

Recently WordPress sites have been getting hammered with random-string comment spam. The attackers are clever, using random text strings for every vector except the payload, which usually is the URL used for the comment’s Name link. But for these weird comment spams, the apparent payload is the email address.

Twitter will no longer provide free access to the Twitter API from February 9th. As announced by the official Twitter Developer account late Wednesday night, Elon Musk’s social media hobby will stop supporting free access to the Twitter API and will instead provide a “paid basic tier.”

Steve Bruner, SlipFire agency owner and former CEO of Piklist, and WordPress developer and core committer Timothy Jacobs, joined forces in 2022 to create Engine Awesome.