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From WPTavern.com Source: Read More There has always been some confusion and overlap between reusable blocks and patterns. The difference was that reusable blocks can be created and edited in…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Really Simple SSL, a popular plugin used on more than five million sites for installing SSL certificates, handling website migrations, mixed content, redirects, and security…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More If you haven’t visited the WordPress Pattern Directory lately, it may look very different from when it launched two years ago. At first there was…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress.com has been known to experiment with its pricing from time to time, and the platform announced another major change today. Users on the Free…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Up until yesterday, the Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) blog lay dormant for nine years, the last post chronicling how the team set out to create…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Blocknotes is a new experimental app that runs WordPress natively on the iPhone. It was created by WordPress core committer Ella van Durpe and is…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More A lively discussion is happening on the Gutenberg repository about renaming the Command Center. This new feature, designed to be an extensible quick search and…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In May 2023, WordPress’ Community Team announced that it would be evolving the WordCamp format to promote adoption, training, and networking for professionals, leaving the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Drupal Gutenberg, the Gutenberg module for Drupal that was created by a Norway-based agency called Frontkom, has received a €20,000 donation from Automattic to fund the next phase…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In 2005, Timothy “Wolf” Bishop was serving time in an Iowa prison for charges related to a gambling addiction. “When I was 25, I made…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 16.0 was released today with page management now available inside the Site Editor. This is the first step towards a more unified experience of…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Patchstack is reporting an Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR) vulnerability in WooCommerce Stripe Gateway, the most popular WooCommerce Stripe payment plugin with more than 900,000…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress Accessibility Day, an independent 24-hour virtual conference, will return in 2023 – this time under an official non-profit status. The first edition of the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More During the 2022 State of the Word, Matt Mullenweg announced a plan to add new “Community” and “Commercial” taxonomies for the theme and plugin directories…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Q&A segments at a live event are a valuable point of connection where attendees have the opportunity to gain the undivided attention of the speaker…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress is 20 years old today, an estimable milestone for open source software running on the web. Parties are happening all over the world –…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow and recently its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, joined Drupal founder Dries Buytaert together on stage at…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress’ Performance Team has published a summary of a core performance analysis they completed in order to identify and prioritize areas for improvement. As part…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More A new MariaDB Health Checks plugin is now available on WordPress.org, thanks to the efforts of contributors involved in the 2023 CloudFest Hackathon which took…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has published a new project called wp-now that creates a local development environment in seconds. The tool is a NodeJS app that is powered…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 15.8 was released with some exciting features that were included in the tentative WordPress 6.3 roadmap. Users are getting closer to a more unified…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Shufflehound made a big splash in March when it released Lemmony, a free WordPress block theme with more than 30 patterns. This was the company’s…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2.2 was released early this morning as a rapid follow-up to 6.2.1, which introduced a bug that broke shortcode support in block templates. Version…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The WordPress 6.3 development cycle has begun and work is already underway on an ambitious list of features that will debut in the upcoming major…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordCamp Europe 2023 is just under three weeks away from happening in Athens on June 8-10. More than 2,700 tickets have been purchased and 527…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress may soon be getting a Command Center, which would function as a quick search component for navigating to other areas of the admin, and…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2.1 was released yesterday and rolled out to sites with automatic background updates enabled. The update included five important security fixes. Ordinarily, a maintenance…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2.1 was released today. Those with automatic background updates enabled should see a notice in their email, as updates rolled out earlier today. This…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress is approaching its 20th anniversary, and for the majority of those years, contributors have cranked out a new default theme. Even though the structure…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Themeum, a WordPress theme and plugin company founded in 2013, has acquired the Kirki Customizer Framework plugin from its former developer, David Vongries. In April…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WP Engine has launched an annual survey for Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), one of the plugins it acquired from Delicious Brains in 2022. ACF reports…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Essential Addons for Elementor, a plugin with more than a million active installs, has patched an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability in version 5.7.2. The vulnerability was…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordCamp US 2023, which is being held August 23-25 in National Harbor, has opened its call for speaker applications. If financial considerations are preventing anyone…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The WordPress Themes Directory is now hosting more than 300 block themes, a milestone for the dedicated theme developers who have persevered through the growing…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce 7.7.0 was released this week with Multichannel Marketing now out of beta. This is the first thing store owners see when they visit the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress’ Community Team hailed a new era of WordCamps in its recent announcement outlining a significant shift in the purpose for the events. In the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More As AI-powered technology is rapidly evolving to exponentially extend human capabilities, WordPress contributors do not want the platform to get left behind. AI-powered website creation…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has patched a reflected XSS vulnerability that affects versions 6.1.5 and below of ACF and ACF Pro, potentially impacting more than 2+…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 15.7 was released this week, adding Site Logo upload and replacement from the inspector controls sidebar. This feature is still available in the block…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Caseproof, makers of MemberPress, has acquired WishList Products, the parent company of WishList Member and CourseCure. The Wishlist team, with the exception of co-founder Tracy…