Category: External News
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WP Briefing: Episode 49: Everything You Need to Know About the Community Summit!
From wordpress.org Source: Read More Episode forty-nine of the WordPress Briefing explores the What, Why, and Who behind the upcoming Community Summit in National Harbor, DC, USA, August 22-23, 2023.…
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WordCamp Asia is Almost Here!
From poststatus.com Source: Read More As I type this I’ve just finished packing to fly to Thailand in less than 24 hours. I’m excited! I’m thrilled! I’m honored to have…
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WooCommerce to Launch WC Blocks Extensibility Monthly Chat
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce is calling on its developer community to join a new monthly chat focused on WooCommerce block extensibility. The chat is being run as a…
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Gutenberg 15.1 Adds Openverse Integration
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 15.1 was released this week with Openverse integration in the Media tab. The Openverse library of openly licensed and public domain works has also moved…
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Member Spotlight: Michele Butcher-Jones
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Michele Butcher-Jones is a lover of all things Open Source, a WordPress Core Contributor, an international speaker, and an avid campaigner to leave the world…
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Community Roundup February 10, 2023
From poststatus.com Source: Read More WordCamp Asia Are you going to WordCamp Asia? It’s next week! (February 17-19 in Bangkok, Thailand.) With more than 60 speakers contributing to 2 days…
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The WP Agency Journey with Vova Feldman of Freemius — Post Status Draft 140
From poststatus.com Source: Read More In this episode, Vova Feldman of <a href="http
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WordPress.com Is Testing AI-Generated Images and Content
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More 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…
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Business Roundup Week Ending February 10
From poststatus.com Source: Read More https://domainnamewire.com/2023/02/09/godaddy-announces-layoffs/ GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain registrar, announced layoffs yesterday. This move affected hundreds of employees who had relied on the company for their livelihoods.…
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Tech Roundup Week Ending February 10
From poststatus.com Source: Read More https://wptavern.com/wordpress-6-2-beta-1-released-and-ready-for-testing WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing! This exciting new version has improved auto-updates and a brand new Site Health Check feature.…
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Twitter Outage Uncovers More Details on Upcoming API Access Changes, Giving the Fediverse a Shot in the Arm
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Twitter experienced a major outage today lasting several hours, which left most users unable to tweet or send private messages to each other. Some reported…
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WP Community Collective Names Alex Stine as First Accessibility Fellow
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress Accessibility contributor Alex Stine – photo credit: The WP Community Collective The WP Community Collective (WPCC), a newly formed nonprofit organization dedicated to funding…
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WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 • Phase 2 Finale • Creating a Mentorship Program • Apply for Community Summit
From poststatus.com Source: Read More This Week at WordPress.org (February 6, 2023) WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 is out now and you can help test it before final release on March…
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WordPress Opens Applications for 2023 Community Summit
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The WordPress open source project will be hosting a Community Summit as part of WordCamp US this year. It will take place prior to the…
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WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 Released and Ready for Testing
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 was released on time today, and can be tested by using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or downloaded directly. In just seven weeks,…
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WordPress 6.2 Beta 1
From wordpress.org Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or…
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BuddyPress 12.0 to Focus on Merging BP Rewrites Into Core, Moving Legacy Widgets Into BP Classic Plugin
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More During the most recent BuddyPress development meeting, contributors decided to focus the upcoming 12.0 release on merging the BP Rewrites feature plugin into core. This…
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WordPress Plugin Developers Alerted Ahead of Twitter API Changes
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering “a paid basic…
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Community Wrap-up February 2, 2023
From poststatus.com Source: Read More WordCamps in 2023 Are you going to WordCamp Asia? It’s coming up soon! (February 17-19 in Bangkok, Thailand.) With more than 60 speakers contributing to…
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Member Spotlight: Taco Verdonschot
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Taco joined Yoast back in 2013, after his first real experience with WordPress about 6 months before. At Yoast, Taco became the first full-time support…
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The Month in WordPress – January 2023
From wordpress.org Source: Read More Welcome to the first 2023 edition of The Month in WordPress! January kicked off with an overview of WordPress’ big goals for 2023 and new…
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The WP Agency Journey with Bradford Campeau-Laurion of Alley Interactive — Post Status Draft 139
From poststatus.com Source: Read More Bradford Campeau-Laurion
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New Proposal Calls for Automated Performance Monitoring for WordPress Core
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress Core Committer Adam Silverstein has published a proposal for adding automated performance tooling that would offer continuous monitoring for performance issues so they can…
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WordPress Training Team Seeks Feedback with Individual Learner Survey
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In 2020, WordPress began prioritizing education as critical to the project’s future, launching Learn.WordPress to support beginners to advanced learners with free educational content. Over…
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WordPress.com Introduces Browse Mode, Style Book, and Push to Global Styles Features
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress.com users are getting early access to some of the major new features that are shipping with the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release. The platform rolled…
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When Gutenberg Phases End • Priorities in Onboarding Contributors • Redesign Roll Outs
From poststatus.com Source: Read More This Week at WordPress.org (January 30, 2023) What happens when we reach the end of a phase in Gutenberg? Josepha shares what this means for…
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People of WordPress: Daniel Kossmann
From wordpress.org Source: Read More This month we feature Daniel Kossmann, a software engineer from South America who shares his enthusiasm for WordPress at every opportunity. The People of WordPress…
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A Look Under the Hood at Engine Awesome, a Laravel-based SaaS App Using Gutenberg
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More During the 2022 State of the Word, Matt Mullenweg highlighted a few examples of how Gutenberg adoption is growing beyond WordPress and how he believed…
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WordCamp Netherlands
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More On Thursday the 7th and Friday the 8th of September 400 WordPress specialists, users and entrepreneurs will gather in the Safari Meeting Centre of Burgers’…
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WordPress Contributors Work Towards Removing Site Editor Beta Label for 6.2 Release
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Will WordPress be ready to remove the Beta label from the Site Editor in the upcoming 6.2 release? The project’s Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy…
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WordPress Origin Stories, Week 3
From poststatus.com Source: Read More This is part of our ongoing celebration of the 20th Anniversary of WordPress. Dean Burton When I first discovered WordPress, I was messing around trying…
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WordPress Launches Old Tickets Trac Triage Sessions
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More As part of the big picture goals for WordPress in 2023, the project is embarking on an effort to work through old tickets that are…
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WP Briefing: Episode 48: What Does Concluding a Gutenberg Phase Really Mean?
From wordpress.org Source: Read More On episode forty-eight of the WordPress Briefing podcast, Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflects on the closing of Gutenberg phase two, and what that means…
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WordCamp Jinja 2023
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More WordCamp Jinja 2023 is being planned under the theme: ‘There is always more to learn!’ Hands on and minds-on workshops will be organized for students…
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Contributing to WordPress
From poststatus.com Source: Read More There are many ways to contribute to WordPress, the Open Source Project. And to be honest, most of them have nothing to do with coding.…
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Open Source Initiative and OpenLogic Release 2023 State of Open Source Report
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More OpenLogic, a company that provides technical support for enterprise open source infrastructure, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the nonprofit stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD) have…
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WordPress Project to Evaluate Replacing Slack with Matrix Open Source Chat
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress and Matrix contributors are proposing a new Meta team subproject that would explore replacing Slack communication with Matrix, an open source federated chat system.…
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SQLite Database Integration Now Available as a Plugin for Testing
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress’ Performance Team is working on unbundling the Performance Lab plugin after feedback from Matt Mullenweg who requested large features become their own community plugins…
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WordCamp Paris
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More Sun is rising again on WordCamp Paris for it’s 12th edition. More motivated than ever, organizers and volunteers are offering 3 different kind of speech…
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Yoast SEO 20.0 Introduces New Admin Interface
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Yoast SEO version 20.0 was released today with a new admin settings interface that also reorganizes the menu to into four main sections: General, Content…