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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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Awesome Motive has acquired Thrive Themes, its second acquisition of 2023 following the Duplicator plugin deal that was announced earlier this month. Thrive’s premium plugin…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WP Migrate, formerly known as WP Migrate DB and recently acquired by WP Engine, has long since expanded beyond its initial release as a database…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Although GitHub is primarily used for code collaboration, WordPress’ Community team is considering adopting the platform to standardize their project management tools. Contributing to open…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 15.0 was released this week with some exciting new features for working with blocks and an improved UI for managing controls in the inspector…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce Blocks maintainers are asking the developer community to share feedback on any performance issues they are experiencing with the Cart and Checkout blocks. “We’re…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordCamp Europe announced the first batch of tickets on sale for the 2023 event that will be hosted in Athens, Greece, June 8-10. General tickets…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce Blocks version 9.4.0 was released with support for a new block-powered Local Pickup option under shipping settings. The feature plugin offers users early access…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy published a summary of the project’s “big picture” goals for 2023. The goals fall into three major categories: CMS,…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More When Automattic launched a mobile app for Jetpack in June 2021, it was targeted mainly at users who were on a paid Jetpack plan, as…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce 7.3 was released this week with the new Products block now in beta. In December 2022, the Products block went into testing in WooCommerce…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has published its Lettre theme to WordPress.org. The company launched its newsletter product at the end of December 2022 using Lettre as the default…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 5.9 “Josephine” was released in January 2022, but that seems like ages ago when you compare the advances made in site building over the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic is bringing Tumblr’s Blaze ad tool to WordPress sites with its launch today on WordPress.com and Jetpack. Blaze made its debut in April 2022,…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In December 2022, the ClassicPress community voted on whether to re-fork WordPress or continue on with the project as-is. As WordPress continues to evolve, ClassicPress…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress’ Performance Team met this week with the express purpose of responding to Matt Mullenweg’s recent request to stop adding functionality to the Performance Lab…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg Times will be hosting a live Q&A webinar titled “Layout, Layout, Layout” on January 11, 2023, at 05:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)…