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Hi everyone! We have an important update regarding the release of WooCommerce 8.6. Originally slated for today, February 13, 2024, we’ve made the decision to postpone the release to Thursday,…

Overall, awareness and/or use of block-based features is up year over year, as well as resources such as Learn.WordPress.org. This reflects project-wide efforts to increase utilization of these respectively. However, positive sentiment about WordPress is down modestly, and more so among contributors.

I’ve got very exciting news to share with you today, but first, a question: If I said there was a simple way to grow your email list 600%, would you be interested in knowing what it is? Of course, because you’re a SMART marketer. Smart marketers know that one of the best ways to grow

Extensibility of WordPress through plugins and the Hooks API is one of its most beneficial features. There are many plugins that act purely as extensions of others, building functionality on top. The Plugin Dependencies feature aims to make the process of installing/activating addons (dependents) and the plugins they rely on (dependencies) consistent and easy to […]

What are some of the best practices and how can we enhance WordPress accessibility for all users? We are sharing some of our main steps and tips to do so.

Affiliates can now share coupon codes effortlessly, making shopping smoother for their audience with Affiliate Coupon Links in AffiliateWP 2.21.0. Transform your affiliate program with one-click discounts that make both affiliates and customers happier.

Lock My Site enforces maximum protection for your website while continuing to deliver your website, protecting it from even the nastiest exploits and break-ins

Gravity Wiz 3.0 is officially here! It’s pretty, and it’s fast. See how our brand new website reflects our sorcerous plans for the year to come.

Learn the issues and limits of WPGraphQL when working with ACF and meta queries in WordPress. This article sheds light on the inherent limitations, offering solutions for developers to query for meta data with more efficiency.

“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. Gutenberg 17.7 has been released and is available for download! This cycle is packed […]

There are a lot of marketers working in the WordPress community. We even have a dedicated WordPress marketing team. But most of the marketing budgets within the WordPress world are spent on our own brands. Hosting companies, plugin companies, and big agencies all work with WordPress, love WordPress, and market their own brands. For WordPress […]

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,679 subscribers), so that you can learn something new. My kid and the flu seem to be best friends these days – another unwelcome visit this week. Which means no sleep, no energy and lots of […]

There’s a growing subset of blocks that we may contemplate creating that are either more niche or—for various reasons—not necessarily an immediate fit for the bundled library in core. [Some examples.] This would include blocks that have enough appeal, demand, and where offering an endorsed implementation can significantly help both creators and viewers given best […]

Beaver Builder 2.8 introduces a new Box module, global styles, and integration with Popup Maker and NorthCommerce just to name a few.

Roundup of WordPress community news including a look at WordPress in 2024, links of interest, some commentary, and photo of the week.

WordPress 6.5 Beta 1 is ready for download and testing! This beta version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, you should evaluate Beta 1 on a test server or site.

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in Core. Let’s take a look at what changed on Trac between February 5 and February 12, 2024. 71 commits 245 contributors 82 tickets created 11 tickets reopened 8…

I detest boxes. I hate job titles and job descriptions. For a long time, I didn’t even want our employees to have a job title. I just wanted them to use their names. Erwin, Mijke, Louise, Taco. That was all the job title we needed. But my colleagues didn’t like putting down Louise or Erwin […]

Hi, all! Here are a few projects the Design Team has contributed to over the past couple of weeks. To the new design that optimizes local navigation, we applied new tweaks and documented the components specs and variants for the whole site. The implementation is already in progress and design QA will follow up.

Gain insight into the functions of user authentication in WordPress with a focus on login and registration processes and how to customize it.

WordPress 6.5 is just a month and a half away, and that means all cylinders are firing. Catch up with the latest changes in the past month.

Howdy, Justin Tadlock wrote: “WordPress 6.5 is just a month and a half away, and that means all cylinders are firing. ” Beta 1 will arrive on February 13, 2024, and that comes with a feature freeze.  Gutenberg 17.7 is available as Release candidate 1, which is the last plugin release to make it into WordPress…

The current total number of photos is 14,784. There are currently 1,711 contributors and 29 moderators.

Reflecting on the past year can be difficult because it was such an eventful year. Identifying the highs and lows isn’t straightforward at first glance. Like other years, there was a lot of travel, significant life events, and luckily… many more highs than lows.

Adrita Chakraborty’s unexpected journey with WordPress evolved from freelance writing to a fulfilling career and active community involvement.

There has been quite a bit of buzz in the WordPress community because during the Grammys red carpet Taylor Swift’s website went down and this is what everyone saw: Hey there! That looks famil…

These “Core Editor Improvement…” posts (labeled with the #core-editor-improvement tag) are a series dedicated to highlighting various new features, improvements, and more from Core Editor related p…

From 2019, everything happened so fast in my business and personal life. So I decided to start publishing yearly reviews and plans for every year. Reading these posts 10 years from now will be fun for me too. Table of contents Personal Highlights & Travel Business & Team Growth New…

Last year, I published a blog post requesting feedback from contributors on how to improve the contributor journey of WordPress. The post, which garnered insightful feedback, was followed up by an …

The roadmap covers feature projects and performance enhancements targeting WordPress core as well as separate tooling projects that facilitate performance measurement or ecosystem improvements. The roadmap is intentionally broad. Despite there being clear workstreams envisioned within the highlighted priorities, the team aims to support contributors with additional related ideas. The roadmap is intentionally incomplete or, […]

Hello! It’s one month to the event! I hope you’re as excited as we are! I thought I’d share some quick bite-sized bits of info. 38 sponsors are going to amaze you with their booth experiences The s…

The WordPress Foundation has recently released its 2023 Annual Report, highlighting the success of the programs and events supported by the non-profit organization over the year. WordPress Foundati…

This is a summary of a Hallway Hangout dedicated to exploring WordPress 6.5 and first announced in late November 2023. Thank you to @saxonafletcher and @isabel_brison for helping with the demos! This hallway hangout doesn’t cover everything in the Roadmap to 6.5 post but goes through many of the features that are ready for and […]

AI in your SEO Plan, A New Signal for Google’s Core Web Vitals, The Value of Repurposing Content, and More!

We were recently contacted by Wordfence and Patchstack regarding PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities related to the use of unserialize().

The show “The WordPress Way” is redefining the negative connotation of the traditional “WordPress way” with innovation and evolution.

As our work progresses on the Learning Pathways on Learn WordPress project, I’d like to start a discussion to help us address one of our 2024 team goals: Figure out a method to manage localized content translation While the WordPress project aims to have native multilingual features in Phase 4, with the understanding that this […]

Are you looking to get higher conversions on your landing page? Here are the essentials of a high-converting landing page from the co-founder of SeedProd.

As discussed at the forums team met on Slack on Feb. 8 and agreed to the change in the guideline regarding commercial reviews. The paragraph currently reads Reviews of plugins and themes are to be …

A new release of WP-CLI, WP-CLI v2.10.0, is now available. For this release, we had 63 contributors collaborate to get 233 pull requests merged. As always, big thanks to the WP-CLI sponsors that make the continued maintenance possible. This is a small release that fixes a lot of small and not so small bugs, but […]

We were recently contacted by Wordfence and Patchstack regarding PHP Object Injection vulnerabilities related to the use of unserialize() in Better Search Replace and WP Migrate, respectively. An additional internal review of all Delicious Brains plugins led to the security releases of the following five plugins and two-open sources libraries, which we recommend updating immediately. […]

Over the last year, a group of contributors has been working to improve the block development onboarding experience within the Block Editor Handbook. In this post, I wanted to take a moment and highlight the updates made, pinpoint areas for further refinement, and outline our focus for the next few months and ways you can […]

The WordPress Foundation (WPF) is approved for a grant from Google Ads. The primary aim of using the grant is to increase overall awareness and coverage of the foundation and topics related to its …

The Learning Pathways project was kicked off after an extensive survey of WordPress users and their needs. It was a step by the Training Team to pivot towards a more data-informed content planning strategy. In order for the team to continue a data-informed content planning strategy, let’s brainstorm what learner trends we should start observing […]

The Washington Post writes The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? This article has some good data, but I think misses the point with sub-heads like “Shine has come off the tech industry.” Really? How is that reflected in their stock prices? I think a few things are happening.

In 2019, I wrote a blog post titled Why your name should be your job title. At the beginning of Yoast, when we hired our first employees, I hated job titles. I also hated job descriptions. I found them so very limiting. We had a whole load of work that had to be done, and […]

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,647 subscribers), so that you can learn something new. This week I’m fully focused on this Thursday’s masterclass with yours truly – How to Avoid Timeouts When Running Millions of WooCommerce Tasks – which is going to be […]

Okay I have reviewed all the applications, and invited seven people to participate in a $25/hr trial contract where they will have full access to the site, and can post and participate however they like, they just need to log their hours. After a two-week trial, we’ll decide which two will receive full-time Audrey Capital […]

Discover why there has been a -37% decrease in work hours sold for WooCommerce development and the impact of market changes on client demands.

This Week at WordPress.org (February 5, 2024) News The Month in WordPress – January 2024 WP Briefing: Episode 72: Why Your Website Matters Zip uploads not

This People of WordPress features Sunita Rai, a content marketer and volunteer translator from Nepal.

After a while, I started using WordPress again and recognized that there are so many new plugins and a lot of plugins I used are not there anymore. It caught my interest, so I scraped all current and former WordPress plugins. The full dataset can be found on github for free and without any signup. […]

Deep dive into your subscription revenue with Recurring Payments v2.12’s new detailed breakdown report. Optimize pricing, boost growth, and conquer churn!

January kicked off with big plans for the WordPress project in the year ahead. Work on the WordPress 6.5 release is underway, with Beta 1 scheduled for next week and early testing opportunities. Let’s catch up on all the exciting updates from the past month.

“Shiny New Plugins” is a blog series where I cover some of the newest plugins on the WordPress Plugin Directory.

It’s been interesting to watch the big migration from Substack and realize that for most of these publications, WordPress isn’t even an option, relegated to a footnote. I’ve seen a few convincing theories, but the clearest reason may be that WordPress tries to be a lot of things to a lot of users (that’s the […]

Official WordPress Performance Team releases two plugins that use new technologies to speed up webpage performance

Everything’s a subscription. And it impacts web designers and their clients in numerous ways. Let’s look at what this means for our industry.

In the past 2 issues, we’ve talked about the different ways websites are taken over by compromising privileged accounts and by exploiting security vulnerabilities in the WordPress core, plugins and themes. Sometimes plugins and themes are not just vulnerable, but also intentionally malicious. This week, we’ll look into another common technique that hackers are using […]

Maarten and Katie discuss support response times, outsourcing, and personal involvement in handling customer inquiries and support.

There’s a lot of money in affiliate marketing. Here are some actionable tips from the founder of Pretty Links on how you can grow your affiliate revenue.

“Shiny New Plugins” is a blog series where I cover some of the newest plugins on the WordPress Plugin Directory.

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 …

The current guidelines for commercial products state that “Reviews of plugins and themes are to be limited to the functionality of the plugin or theme hosted on WordPress.org”. Therefor…

As we established last year, a regular check in with all Faculty members was conducted again this year to gain insight into their experiences and perspectives on the Faculty program. This also included asking their estimated amount of contribution hours they could dedicate to Faculty tasks, so we could determine if there is a need […]

Laurence Kampala, Uganda writes about Privilege. One never sees it unless they take time to meditate and be thankful for what they have.

I feel a particular class of plugins in the WordPress world should be more prominent. Plugins that help you do something, which you then delete when you’re done. There are a lot of these, and they’re super useful. I’d probably call them utility plugins. Let me explain with an example: say you’ve been bitten by the […]

Our goal is for the WordPress Photo Directory to be as accessible as possible, making it easy for anyone using a screen reader to understand what each photo is, as well as providing good alt text for those using any photos on their own sites and projects. Alt text provides a description of an image […]

I get asked all the time what my stack of solutions is in debugging performance problems. Apart from having a whole bunch of bespoke WP CLI / Bash scripts, the base stack is pretty simple: Those are my staples. And depending on the case, I’ll add a whole variety of bash scripts that tests a […]

Today is the day! The first day of my sabbatical. What an experience it has been. On Thursday I delivered my very first Ignite talk on the subject! Here it is. What am I going to do with all this free time? Blog a ton. So follow along if you want to see this journey. […]

Exciting Business Acquisition: Our Web Services Ltd Takes Over http://WPPluginsPlus.com and the Web Ace Plugin portfolio. Today marks a new milestone in the world of WordPress businesses as Our Web Services Ltd, led by growing entrepreneur Dave Grey, announces the successful acquisition of http://WPPluginsPlus.com from Andrew Palmer. http://WPPluginsPlus.com, a platform offering a diverse range of […]

In the Post Status spotlight this week: Vito Peleg is the founder & CEO of Atarim – the internet’s collaborative layer.

🚀WP 6.4.3 out, zip upload issue🔧Workaround plugin ready🛠️PHP autoloader could change the game💡Gutenberg’s new commit rules & Props Bot🌟WP Playground for Site Health tests🎮Curl 8.6.0 adds features & fixes bugs🔧

You don’t need AMP to crack the Top News carousel, but they still offer fast load times. We take a look at the major AMP plugins for WordPress.

A Content Security Policy (CSP) is an HTTP header that can be added to your website to ostensibly help prevent cross-site scripting

On Jan 9, 2024 we released WooCommerce 8.5.0. Quickly thereafter, we began receiving reports about issues, which brought into question the quality control for this release. We want to acknowledge and address the challenges and concerns raised by the community following the release of 8.5.0, and subsequently 8.5.1. The feedback is invaluable to us, and […]

In January 2022, a proposal was published on this blog to implement a new process within any GitHub repository under the WordPress organization to ensure anyone and everyone contributing to the project receives due thanks in the form of “props.” The post is still almost entirely accurate and it’s recommended you read that in full. […]

Discover the latest ACF plugin update that addresses potential security loopholes in WordPress. Learn how to ensure your website’s safety and keep your custom fields functioning smoothly.

Past discussions 8 years ago, a ticket was created in WordPress, suggesting a PHP autoloader for WordPress Core classes. In that ticket, many things were discussed regarding the concept of adding a…

Any zip file for a WordPress plugin created in macOS has stopped working in the latest version of WordPress 6.4.3, when I upload the zip file I get…

During development or troubleshooting I often find myself wanting to run something through WP CLI. These are some notes on running code through WP CLI.

Following the default Twenty Twenty-Four theme’s lead, learn how to add starter page and template patterns to your WordPress theme.

Gutenberg is the wide subject to learn. You will have look after all new features, improvements and WordPress Gutenberg updates.

An interview with Syed Balkhi (Awesome Motive CEO) about the 2024 investment in GrooveHQ. Learn how he turned from content creator to prolific business owner.

I am a huge fan of John Nash. Do you know him? The movie A Beautiful Mind was about his life. John Nash won a Nobel prize for his work on economics. His

The Better Search Replace plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 1.4.4 via deserialization of untrusted input. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to inject a PHP Object. No POP chain is present in the vulnerable plugin. If a POP chain is present via an […]

After three decades in the corporate world, Alan Fuller decided it was time to get out. Sixteen years later he’s the owner of Fullworks, a super successful plugin business. This is his story.

Hello there, Welcome back to WooWeekly, your weekly appointment with WooCommerce tutorials, tips and updates handpicked for you (and the other 18,619 subscribers), so that you can learn something new. Busy week at Business Bloomer HQ, and I started it without looking at my diary for the first time in ages. This means I’ve prioritized my products […]

In this short tutorial I’m going to show you two quick ways to spin up a testing site using ZipWP. ZipWP is an online service that allows you to create WordPress sites quickly. It includes a number of AI features for populating content, but in this tutorial I just want…

This security and maintenance release features 5 bug fixes on Core, 16 bug fixes for the Block Editor, and 2 security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update yo…

The annual tradition of composing a comprehensive WebDevStudios year-in-review blog post is a testament to the collective journey and achievements that

I am excited to announce that WPBeginner Growth Fund has taken an investment stake in Groove, a global WordPress services provider.

Tags are not used correctly in WordPress. Approximately two-thirds of WordPress websites using tags are using (way) too many tags. This has significant consequences for a site’s chances in the search engines – especially if the site is large. WordPress websites use too many tags, often forget to display them on their site, and the […]

WordPress by itself is very simple — what makes it compelling for most of its users is the wide array of plugins (and themes) available for WP. The average WordPress blog has about 5 plugins installed! Today we just passed 4,000 plugins available in our plugin directory. (Which is also embedded into everyone’s WordPress 2.7 […]

A focus keyphrase is a keyword you want to rank for in search engines. Don’t use a focus keyword over and over again!