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From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordCamp Asia, one of WordPress’s premier flagship events, is seeking a host city for its 2026 edition. Previous editions were held in Bangkok and Taipei,…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The highly anticipated preliminary injunction hearing in the WP Engine v. Automattic case took place yesterday at the Northern California District Court. Presiding Judge Araceli…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordCamp Asia 2025, in partnership with The WordPress Foundation and WordCamp Central, has announced two scholarship opportunities for the upcoming event in Manila, Philippines. These…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In the latest chapter of the ongoing dispute between Automattic and WP Engine, a new plugin “Secure Custom Fields” (https://wordpress.org/plugins/secure-custom-fields/) has been added to the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattician Héctor Prieto has revealed the schedule for WordPress releases in 2025. Similar to 2024, three major releases are planned: WordPress 6.8 – Beta 1…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has acquired Harper, a grammar checker tailored for developers. Its founder, Elijah Potter, will join Automattic as a Code Wrangler, contributing significantly to the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Matt Jaworski, Co-Founder of PeepSo.com, has announced that PeepSo is leaving the WordPress plugin repository. Moving forward, all updates for the plugin will be served…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More After Automattic launched the WP Engine Tracker website to monitor the number of websites departing WP Engine hosting, WP Engine updated its ongoing lawsuit against…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.7, code-named “Rollins,” was released on November 12, introducing a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Five, zoom out view, and new powerful APIs. The announcement…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The ongoing WordPress-WP Engine dispute has escalated with Automattic launching a new website – WP Engine Tracker, to track the number of websites leaving WP…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattician James Koster has announced the launch of a new WordPress Design System library for Figma, the popular tool the design team uses to create…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce is all set to roll out a new logo in early 2025. Tamara Niesen, Chief Marketing Officer at Woo told WP Tavern, “We saw…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More As announced at the 2024 WordPress Foundation Meeting, the Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship has been expanded to include WordCamp Europe and WordCamp Asia. Traditionally supporting…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordCamp Europe is now seeking a host city for its 2026 event. Teams with experience organizing one or more WordCamps in a European city are…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic and Matt Mullenweg have filed a response asking the court to dismiss counts 1-6 and 9-11 of  WP Engine’s lawsuit. WP Engine had filed…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WP Engine filed a motion on October 18, 2024 for a preliminary injunction in a Northern California court, seeking restored access to WordPress.org and a…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The WordPress Themes Repository has hit an exciting milestone of 1,000 block themes. As of today, the repository has over 12,000 free themes.  Block themes…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic’s Marketing Lead, Nicholas Garofalo, has announced that WordPress is adding a new element to the Community Code of Conduct: Publishing private messages without consent.…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has agreed to remove the WP Fusion Lite Plugin from WordPress.com following a Cease and Desist letter filed by the plugin’s creator Jack Arturo…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Following the recent ban and ACF to Secure Custom Fields fork/takeover incident, some plugin authors have announced their decision to remove their plugins from the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Jetpack 13.9.1, a critical security update, was released yesterday to fix a vulnerability in the Contact Form feature that had been present since 2016. This…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More HeroPress, launched by Topher DeRosia, has turned ten. Born from the idea of amplifying the voices of those who have overcome significant challenges, HeroPress has…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The 2024 State of Enterprise WordPress Survey is now open. This marks the second year Big Bite, a UK-based enterprise WordPress agency, is conducting this…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Yesterday, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg announced the forking of the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin into a new plugin called Secure Custom Fields. In the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The ongoing WP Engine-Automattic issue shows no signs of being resolved and has, in fact, increased in intensity. The conflict started last month with Matt…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Matt Mullenweg has announced that Mary Hubbard will take over as the new Executive Director of WordPress.org on 21st October, 2024, following the resignation of…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WPGraphQL, a popular plugin that provides an extendable GraphQL schema and API for WordPress sites,  is set to become a canonical plugin on WordPress.org. Its…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More When WP Engine was blocked from accessing WordPress.org, users were left wondering what the future holds for ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) and how this ban…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Josepha Haden Chomphosy has stepped down from Automattic, where she served as the Executive Director of the WordPress project. She was also leading Automattic’s open-source…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Social Web Foundation was officially launched on September 24, 2024, with a mission to foster a “growing, healthy, financially viable, and multi-polar Fediverse.” This…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More While the controversy between Automattic and WP Engine was unfolding, social media discussions surged about whether Automattic employees not agreeing with Matt were offered an…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Security Review Lead Chris Christoff has announced two new changes for the WordPress Plugin Directory, effective from October 1, 2024. These changes aim to enhance…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More As the Automattic-WP Engine controversy continues, Automattic published the term sheet delivered to WP Engine on September 20, 2024. “In the interest of transparency, we’ve…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More After a brief reprieve, WP Engine has been banned again from WordPress.org and the company took to X to share: “Thousands of WordPress community members…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More InstaWP, known for its innovative one-click WordPress sandbox launcher, has launched AnyoneCanWP, the world’s first online hackathon dedicated to WordPress development. Registrations are open now,…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Matt Mullenweg has announced that the restrictions on WP Engine will be temporarily lifted until October 1, 00:00 UTC, allowing them to access WordPress servers.…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The dispute between Automattic and WP Engine has intensified. Both companies have issued Cease and Desist orders to each other, leading WP Engine to remove…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Ajmer, a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, is all set to organize its first-ever WordPress event – WP Campus Connect. This month-long initiative…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More After the incidents at WordCamp US 2024, WP Engine sent a “cease and desist” letter to Automattic demanding that Automattic and its CEO, Matt Mullenweg,…