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The Create Block Theme plugin was created to streamline block theme development by adding to the power of the Site Editor with theme specific goodies and workflows. The plugin aims to be a modern quick start tool for the world of block themes, allowing you to create your own or build upon existing themes without…

In the Spotlight: Derek Ashauer, the lead developer of Conversion Bridge, Sunshine Photo Cart, and Confetti.

WordPress Community News: hot takes, upcoming events, quick links, and our meetup info. Got a tip? Message Michelle!

WordPress 6.5 brings significant performance enhancements, maintaining or surpassing performance compared to previous versions. Key improvements include faster loading translations, a speedier edit…

This post is a follow-up to the initial WP 6.6 call for volunteers. Relevant Updates Triage Leads: After some discussion and feedback, the proposal to experiment with merging the Core Triage and Ed…

Beaver Builder celebrates 10 Years in business! We share all the memories from the past and look forward to exciting things in the future.

If you want to experiment with AI plugins for WordPress, you’ll want to check out these recommendations. Let’s talk about how to use AI tools!

Today we are featuring Anyssa Ferreira, from São Paulo, Brazil. Anyssa is a Product Designer with broad experience in business and academia. In this series, we highlight members of the BlackPress Slack channel who are doing amazing things with WordPress.

We’re happy to announce the third ever WP-CLI Hack Day! 🤓🎈 On 🕓 Friday, 26th April 2024 we’ll officially kick off the WP-CLI Hack Day at 🕗 . From that point on, @schlessera, @swissspidy, and I will…

I’ve written before about how to protect WordPress XML-RPC and why it’s important. In this quick post, I explain three easy ways to to disable WordPress XML-RPC to help improve the security of your WordPress-powered site.

This is a bi-weekly update of work the design group contributed to. Work happens in overview issues, and in needs design, or needs design feedback issues. If you have updates you’d like to include in the next Design Share, drop a note in the #design channel. If you have questions, you can also ask them […]

The Forminator WordPress plugin used in over 500,000 sites is vulnerable to a flaw that allows malicious actors to perform unrestricted file uploads to the server.

Let’s do a post WordCamp India thought experiment on how the world be like after we achieve some goals around the community and organise an event like WordCamp India

The new email delivery plugin for WordPress supports popular third-party services like SendGrid and makes sending email from sites more reliable.

This is my first issue of Shaping WordPress, where I share every two weeks on what’s top of my mind and what’s shaping up…

Why the Interactivity API was the wrong solution to the right problem in bringing interactivity to WordPress blocks

Howdy, Greetings from WordCamp Leipzig! I didn’t get much time to work on this week’s edition, but I didn’t take a break either as I found some great articles, videos and tutorial, I wanted you to know about right away. WordCamp Leipzig was a great no-frills WordCamp. I arrived after a workday on Friday night,…

What’s harder: winning the Masters Tournament or re-creating its website in under 30 minutes? Watch the video and find out.

What options do we have for integrating GraphQL with WordPress in 2024? Leonardo Losoviz describes the developments that have taken place in this space over the last three years.

Let’s discuss: What if you could register custom post types and custom fields directly in the WordPress admin?

Nathan Wrigley is a full-time podcaster – and almost all about WordPress. (With a few other projects here and there.) Founder of WP Builds, podcaster at the WP Tavern Jukebox, and all-around delightful human, Nathan brings a wonderful sense of humor to all he does, while still focusing on the things that matter. It was […]

ChatGPT Gets Smarter Again, US DOJ Publishes Standards for Government Web Accessibility, 2024 Web Professionals Survey Results, and More!

A follow up to yesterday’s post: Getwid-Megamenu WPML I ran into an issue that the Previous & Next buttons in my single-post template were not translatable in WPML. The first step was to take a look…

Background The biggest risk for a site owner when updating plugins is encountering a PHP fatal error that crashes their website. While Core updates are protected by automatic rollbacks since WordPr…

This Week at WordPress.org (April 14, 2024) News How WordPress Is Creating a Faster Web WP Briefing: Episode 77: Let’s Talk About Data Liberation

When contributing to WordPress core or related projects, a lot of the time is spent between WordPress Trac and GitHub. You typically open a new Trac ticket to propose an enhancement, then submit a pull request on GitHub with the necessary code changes. You may then even use Slack to discuss the change with fellow […]

1,144 freelancers and agency owners with an average of 11 years experience, 73% of whom run their business full time with an average team size of 2 from the USA (475), UK (134), Australia (83), Canada (82) and beyond.

The Gender Equality in WordPress Businesses Survey aims to gain critical insights into the gender composition of leadership teams, the experiences of women and gender-diverse leaders and employees, and the challenges and barriers to their career success.

Over the past few weeks, the Meta team has been working on a new theme for the Pattern Directory as part of a broader effort to establish a consistent design language across WordPress.org.

We updated the ONLYOFFICE Docs plugin for WordPress to version 2.0.0. It supports the multisite feature, PDF form filling and annotating, brings file embedding as a link and access for anonymous users on public posts. Read on to explore all the improvements.

In this part of the series, we will dive into two very important things – data modeling (AKA custom fields in WP) and collections (AKA post types in WP).

But I want to render that with code highlighting. I was using the Prismatic Plugin. It is excellent and very customisable. But it uses JavaScript to do the code highlighting. I want to respect my readers’ time and battery life; so I’m trying to reduce my dependency on Client-Side rendering. I’ve switched to a modified […]

Last week’s version 1.10.1 release of Accessibility Checker was a big win as the ARIA Hidden check got much smarter. Find out what changed!

Rebecca Gill talks about moving from being a social chameleon to a more open, vulnerable, and rewarding life in the WordPress community.

I became a founder when I started Yoast. However, I did not feel like a founder until I left Yoast. If you work in the company you founded, then your job

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available WordPress site from scratch. Now we’re going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. We’re at the final part and now we’re going to wrap up with round-robin DNS, Let’s Encrypt, and a test of the HA setup.

WordPress is an open-source project. As such, the software isn’t marketed the same as its proprietary competitors. Meaning you won’t see ads for it during your favorite TV programs. It’s a key differentiator. Site builders like Wix and Shopify are more traditional companies. They have marketing budgets and professionals to…

Ivailo Hristov is a co-founder and CTO of NitroPack who says he enjoys the supportive community at Post Status.

Today we are featuring Gary McPherson from London, England. Gary is a digital tech founder, consultant and speaker. Black people in WordPress are consistently building, designing, and moving the open source project forward. In this series, we highlight members of the BlackPress Slack channel who are doing amazing things with WordPress.

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available WordPress site from scratch. Now we’re going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part six, we’re setting up MariaDB multi-master replication using Galera.

This round of new, free WordPress plugins gave me some nostalgia! Softaculous!? Also see my summary of the design updates to the forums and plugin directory.

Building websites is no longer straightforward. We analyze the increased complexity of web design for freelancers and its impact on their work.

Groundhogg 3.3.3 is here! This new update comes with some new features that are meant to make our product’s usability even smoother. What can you expect? Column Preset Buttons have been added to make toggling groups easier and we have a new tool for generating fake data. 🏛️ Presets for managing columns in the list […]

This new WordPress dashboard feature includes settings like privacy, site tools, and domain management for your blog My posts tells you where to find it.

Each week, we report the latest vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins and themes. Vulnerable WordPress plugins and themes are among the reasons WordPress sites get hacked.

WordPress 6.5.3 is scheduled to be the next maintenance release for the 6.5 version. Its release will follow the following preliminary schedule: 2 May 2024 – Release Candidate made available …

Hello and welcome to another round of Snaps from the WooCommerce Store Editing team! 🎇 Every month, we give an update on all the work being done on WooCommerce Blocks from behind the scenes. This is a shift from our previous bi-weekly posts. We made this decision to more closely align with the timing of […]

This round of new, free WordPress plugins gave me some nostalgia! Softaculous!? Also see my summary of the design updates to the forums and plugin directory.

About the event WPCampus 2024 will take place at Georgetown University from July 31 – Aug 2 for the WPCampus community, a gathering of web professionals, educators, and people dedicated to the confluence of accessibility and WordPress in higher education. WPCampus 2024 will be our eleventh conference. Visit the WPCampus conferences page to learn more […]

Many enhancements are available out of the box, with no configuration required. They improve the website frontend’s performance—the part visitors see—and various parts of the administrative experience, such as the editor. Here’s a partial list of performance upgrades from the past year:

Three years ago, we published a series on building a highly-available WordPress site from scratch. Now we’re going to refresh the technology stack and bring it up to date for 2024. In part three, we’ll leverage Ansible to make our setup fast and easy.

Howdy, Don’t forget to save the date for the Hallway Hangout: Let’s chat about what’s next in Gutenberg on April 24 at 11 pm UTC / 7pm EDT / 4 pm PDT / 1 am CEST Rob Cairns and I chatted on his podcast about WordPress 6.5 and beyond. Spring is back in Munich and…

This is not something you won’t find elsewhere on the web, but it is my take on making Caddy and WordPress play nice. Assuming an Ubuntu 22.04 VM, we follow the site instructions to install C…

In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we look at the latest and greatest features in WordPress 6.5, how DE{CODE} 2024 surpassed previous attendance records, how ACF made documentation easier… Read more

We ranked the top Cookie Banners (Consent Management Platforms or CMPs) based on our own ranking criteria. The top CMPs are Cookiebot, Cookie Script and OneTrust. Read the ranking of all analyzed CMPs and the criteria in this article.

Details of our schedule release, changes to programming for 2024 and information on WordPress Connect and our engaging Workshops

We put together this collection to bring back the most captivating highlights and stories from the event by media partners, sponsors, speakers, organizers, and attendees. If you’d like to be featur…

The #1 tool for locating WordPress block across your site

I’d describe Texts.com as having not just a similar mission as Beeper, but the exact same mission. I’ve been using Texts on my Mac as my primary interface to Twitter/X DMs for over a year (since Twitter shut down third-party clients like Tweetbot and Twitterrific). I don’t get a ton of Twitter DMs, and I […]

Discover the latest WPBakery 7.6 update, featuring the new Element Auto-Save mode. Say goodbye to lost work and hello to seamless editing!

WordPress Playground is a serverless version of WordPress that runs entirely in the browser. In this article, we’ll discuss the trio of APIs that form the backbone of how you…

This is a working document where I’ll keep you up to date with the most exciting features coming in WordPress 6.6. WordPress 6.6 is scheduled for a final

We recently welcomed Aldo to our Automattic Design team. Enjoy this short interview with him.

So why is everybody trying to fix it? I’ll try to explain.A few of months ago I started working on a new open source project called Sail, which is a CLI tool to provision WordPress servers on Dig

A walkthrough of my experiment building a WordPress plugin completely with AI. It’s made me a believer.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials handpicked for you (and the other 18,794 subscribers), so that you can learn something new. Super busy week down here, trying to catch up with work I left behind last week. Two big projects have now been completed so I’m going to have some free […]

Over the past few weeks, the Meta team has been working on a new theme for Forums as part of a broader effort to establish a consistent design language across WordPress.org. The updated site launch…

“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…

Automattic welcomes Beeper to the family. At Automattic, our core belief is that communication is a fundamental human right; it should be accessible, encrypted, and open source where possible.

It only happens once in a blue moon: You’ll tweak one single thing in your messaging, your check-out, or your email list and that change is the trick. It

Leo Gopal, who is a WordPress Community Team rep, recently published a call for help. Leo asked the community for financial assistance to help ensure that his mother would continue to receive cancer treatments without interruption. When I came across … Read More

Introducing the MainWP Post SMTP Extension: Revolutionizing Email Management

The columns block is a great way to create cool layouts for your page. But it can be a bit tricky. So let’s learn more about how to use it.

The WordPress Performance Team recently published a new plugin called “Speculative Loading” which enables a new technology of the same name to automatically prerender certain URLs on the page, whic…

Welcome to another edition of the Training Team’s Contributor Spotlight! In this series, the Training Team introduces you to one of our many valued contributors, and you can learn more about their …

Note: Due to an issue with the initial package, WordPress 6.5.1 was not released. 6.5.2 is the first minor release for WordPress 6.5. This security and maintenance release features 2 bug fixes on C…

There’s a right and a wrong way to fork code, and a right and a wrong way to handle it when you’re called out about a fork.

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, bought Beeper in an effort to build a system that works across Android and Apple devices.

Focusing on Discoverability and Adoption, I go step by step to GLAM the readme of Simple Giveaways.

Today, I’m excited to share with you a fresh feature that just rolled out on The WP World – Presser Notes! Imagine turning this information-dense directory into a lightweight CRM where you can jot down your thoughts, reminders, or any tidbit about the Pressers you come across. Let’s dive into what this new feature offers […]

Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.

The wizards behind AI have been busy lately providing meaningful employment for digital nonpersons.

Support for PHP 7.0 and 7.1 will be dropped in WordPress 6.6, scheduled for release in July 2024. The new minimum supported version of PHP will be 7.2.24. The recommended version of PHP remains at 7.4 or greater.

This change is based on data showing a decrease in the use of PHP 7.0 and 7.1. According to WordPress’s monitoring, the combined usage of these versions has fallen to just 2.45% of all WordPress installations as of April 2024. Historically, the WordPress maintainers have used a 5% usage threshold as the point at which […]

One of the things that will help with the long-term sustainability of the Support Team is to start getting more contributors involved at different levels. Currently we have a situation where the Su…

Almost 2,000 hacked WordPress sites now display fake NFT and discount pop-ups to trick visitors into connecting their wallets to crypto drainers that automatically steal funds.

Discover the workaround to activate the Font Library for classic themes in WordPress. Unlock new font options for a stylish website.

Back in early February the security researcher Calvin Alkan asked which page builders allow one to write PHP/JS/HTML from inside the editor. At that time I commented to several friends that I expected to see some security alerts.Vulnerability reports and fixes for Bricks and Cwicly came right away. Today reports…

Looking for a powerful WordPress form builder plugin? Check out the features and history milestones of Crocoblock’s JetFormBuilder plugin.

WordPress 6.5 launch was nice, fairly uneventful. I didn’t notice anything break on my sites, and I’m happy that I can finally select Google fonts for the block-based themes I’m running, like Twenty Twenty-Four. The community is already looking ahead to 6.6 (and versions beyond) with Anne McCarthy leading the…

If you visit WordPress.org, you will notice a few changes. This is not a complete reenvisioning of the homepage but rather a quick initial iteration that aims to accomplish a few things.