Tag: wptavern.com
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Navigating the New Era of AI-Assisted Code Generation in WordPress
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The world is learning new ways of moving faster with the help of AI, as the increased availability of the technology is poised to transform…
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The Mercantile Reopens with Limited Edition 20th Anniversary WordPress Swag
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Mercantile, WordPress’ official swag store, was closed for updates but has relaunched with the highly anticipated limited edition 20th anniversary swag. In celebration of…
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Admin Menu Tree Page View 2.8 Now Supports All Public Post Types
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Admin Menu Tree Page View plugin, which adds a tree-view layout of content in the WordPress admin, has been refactored to support more content…
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CloudFest Hackathon 2023 Kickstarts Innovative WordPress Projects: VS Code Extension for In-Browser Development, WapuuGotchi Gamification Plugin, and More
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More More than 6,000 people are attending CloudFest in Europa-Park, Germany, this week. A strong contingent of WordPress developers and contributors are among them. During the…
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WordPress Launches Wapuu Coloring Giveaway to Celebrate Upcoming 20th Anniversary
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Wapuu lovers who are looking for a relaxing weekend activity will want to check out WordPress’ recently launched Wapuu Coloring Giveaway. The challenge is to…
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Equalize Digital Raises Pre-Seed Funding for Expanding Accessibility Checker Plugin Development
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Equalize Digital, a WordPress accessibility products and consulting company, has received an undisclosed amount of pre-seed funding from Emilia Capital, the investment company owned by…
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Local 6.7.0 Adds Long-Requested Site Grouping Feature
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WP Engine’s Local development app has released version 6.7.0 with Site Grouping, a highly requested feature that will greatly improve users’ workflows. It allows users…
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WooCommerce 7.5.0 Introduces 3 New Blocks, Expands Support for Global Styles
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce 7.5.0 was released this week with three new blocks for the Product Archive templates. These include a new Store Breadcrumb block, Product Results Count…
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Gutenberg 15.3 Adds New “Time to Read” Block
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 15.3 was released this week with a new “Time to Read” block that calculates the estimated reading time for the post or page using…
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WordPress 6.2 RC 2 Drops Navigation Panel from Site Editor
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 RC 2 was released today on schedule. The new Navigation section in the Site Editor was dropped from the upcoming release in a…
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Patchstack Tracks 328% More Security Bugs Reported in WordPress Plugins in 2022
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Patchstack, a WordPress security maintenance and management tool, has published its “State of WordPress Security” whitepaper for 2022, tracking a few key metrics on publicly…
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Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress from German developer Matthias Pfefferle, who will be joining the company to continue improving support for federated…
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Toot the Word Survey Finds Mastodon Increasingly Important to WordPress’ Community of Tooters
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More More than 200 users on Mastodon who consider themselves part of the WordPress community, responded to the recent Toot the Word 2023 Survey, which was…
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WordPress 6.2 RC 1 Released and Ready for Testing
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 RC 1 was released today, marking the hard string freeze and readiness for translation ahead of the official release on March 28. There…
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Lemmony: A Free WordPress Block Theme with 30+ Patterns
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Lemmony is a new WordPress block theme designed by the team at Shufflehound, a theme development company based in Europe with commercial products on Themeforest.…
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Jetpack 11.9 Adds Sharing Button for Mastodon, Updates Stats Dashboard Design
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Jetpack 11.9 was released this week with support for sharing posts to Mastodon. The new button allows readers to click an icon to launch a…
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WP Engine Pattern Manager Plugin Now in Beta
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WP Engine is beta testing its new Pattern Manager plugin for creating and maintaining patterns. The plugin is intended for WordPress professionals – developers, agencies,…
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WordPress’ Legacy Default Themes Updated to Bundle Google Fonts Locally
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress contributors have updated the legacy default themes to bundle Google Fonts locally in the theme folder, instead of loading them from Google’s servers. In…
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WordPress 6.2 Product Demo Video Now Available
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More If you’re not yet excited about the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release, you will be after watching the new live demo product video that was recorded…
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WordPress Themes Team Proposes Community Themes Initiative
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Representatives of the WordPress Themes Team are looking to carry forward the momentum contributors found in creating the Twenty Twenty-Three theme’s style variations by launching…
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WordPress Community on Mastodon Launches “Toot the Word” Survey
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Last month’s Twitter outage gave Mastodon a boost, as the company also announced unpopular changes to its API access. People from the Wor
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MonetizeMore Acquires Advanced Ads Plugin
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More MonetizeMore, an ad revenue optimization company, has acquired the Advanced Ads plugin and will be hiring the team behind the products. The plugin’s ad management…
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All In One SEO Patches Multiple Stored XSS Vulnerabilities in Version 4.3.0
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Wordfence has published the details of two stored XSS vulnerabilities the company responsibly disclosed to the developers of the <a href="https://wordpress.org/
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WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Updated to Upload Inserted Images
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2’s Openverse integration is getting some last minute changes after contributors expressed concerns about it hotlinking images by default. The new feature allows users…
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Gutenberg 15.2 Introduces Revisions for Template Editing
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 15.2 is now available with support for revisions when editing templates and template parts. The Site Editor can be an intimidating place if you’re…
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WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Hotlinks Images, Contributors Propose Uploading to Media Library as a Better Default
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 is set to introduce an integration with Openverse that allows users to quickly insert free, openly-licensed media into their content. It was not…
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Prison Journalism Project Launches Prison Newspaper Project on WordPress
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit organization founded in April 2020, trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories with the goal…
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Automattic Releases Bibimbap, a Free Block Theme for Restaurants
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has a new theme in the WordPress Themes Directory. Bibimbap, named for a beloved Korean comfort food, is a restaurant theme. It is described…
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Museum of Block Art Calls for Submissions Celebrating WordPress’ 20th Anniversary
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Museum of Block Art (MOBA), a project launched in 2022 featuring art created using the block editor’s design tools, is calling for submissions celebrating…
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WordPress 6.2 Beta 3 Released, Contributors to Host Live Product Demo on March 2
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 Beta 3 was released this week, another small milestone towards the official, more polished version that is expected in under five weeks on…
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New Proposal Seeks to Update WordPress Release Process for Merging Gutenberg Features After Beta 1 Feature Freeze
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress lead developer Andrew Ozz has published a proposal for the addition of a new “gutenberg-merge” ticket type that would formalize the latitude Gutenberg contributors…
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Meetup.com Follows Through on Commitment to Improve Website Accessibility
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In November 2022, Meetup.com raised concerns with the WordPress community (and the broader community of accessibility professionals) after it added an accessibility overlay to its…
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WordCamp London In Early Planning Stages for September 2023
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The organizers of WordCamp London are in the early planning stages for an event that would take place in September 2023. It has been nearly…
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Industry-Wide Tech Layoffs Impacting WordPress Professionals
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Most WordPress professionals managed to escape 2022’s round of tech layoffs, which primarily affected venture capital-funded startups and larger companies that had overhired during the…
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WordPress Unveils Commemorative 20th Anniversary Wapuu
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The global WordPress community is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the software’s first release on May 27, 2023. Two decades ago, WordPress made its debut…
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WordPress 6.2 Beta 2 Released with Fixes for 71 Issues and Important Performance Improvements for Block Themes
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 Beta 2 was released today and is now available for testing, one week after Beta 1. Testers can easily download the latest beta…
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Watch WordCamp Asia 2023 via Livestream February 17-19
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress enthusiasts from around the world are beginning their journeys to attend the inaugural WordCamp Asia, which is happening in Bangkok, Thailand, February 17-19. Organizers…
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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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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…