WordPress.com Secures $2.4 Million in Funding from Google and Partners to Build a Publishing Platform for News Organizations
WordPress.com has announced plans to create a new, open source publishing platform that caters to [...]
WooCommerce Blocks is Now a Feature Plugin, Version 1.3.0 Introduces 6 New Blocks
WooCommerce Blocks 1.3.0 was released yesterday with six new blocks. Previously, the plugin allowed users [...]
CoBlocks Adds Row and Columns Page Building Blocks for Gutenberg
CoBlocks, one of the earliest block collections for Gutenberg, has added new page building blocks [...]
WordPress Support Forums Add @mentions with Auto-complete
The WordPress Support forums have been updated to include Twitter/GitHub style auto-completion for usernames. As [...]
WPCampus Selects Tenon LLC for Gutenberg Accessibility Audit, Completed Report Expected in February
WPCampus announced that Tenon LLC, a leading accessibility firm founded by Karl Groves, has been [...]
WordPress 5.1 to Introduce New White Screen Protection Feature, Beta 1 Now Available for Testing
WordPress 5.0.3 was released this week with more than a dozen fixes related to the block [...]
Jetpack 6.9 Introduces New Blocks for Subscriptions, Related Posts, and Tiled Galleries
Jetpack 6.9 was released today with three new blocks for the editor. Subscriptions, Related Posts, [...]
Google Launches Opensource.dev as an Introduction to Open Source
Google has launched a new educational site at opensource.dev that offers a succinct and approachable [...]
Elementor Acquires Layers WP to Expand Compatible Theme Options for Users
Elementor has acquired Layers WP, a WordPress site builder that was previously marketed as an [...]
WordPress 5.1 to Replace “Blogging” References with “Publishing”
WordPress 5.1 will replace the “Happy blogging” language in wp-config-sample.php with “Happy Publishing.” The next [...]
GitHub Announces Free, Unlimited Private Repositories
GitHub users no longer have to pay to keep code private. The company is now [...]
WordPress Governance Project Flagged as Unsanctioned, First Meeting Set for January 15
The WordPress Governance Project is a new community initiative, led by Rachel Cherry and Morten [...]
Beaver Builder Doubles Down on Serving Power Users in Response to Gutenberg
At WordCamp US I had the opportunity to chat with Beaver Builder co-founder Robby McCullough [...]
WP Storybook: A Handy Reference for WordPress React UI Components
LUBUS, a web design agency in Mumbai, has published a site called WP Storybook that [...]
WordPress.com Launches New “Do Anything” Marketing Campaign
Hilde Lysiak reports on local news in her community on her WordPress.com-powered Orange Street News [...]
WordPress Designers Explore Ideas for Moving Navigation to a Block Interface
Creating a block for navigation menus is one of the nine projects Matt Mullenweg identified [...]
9 Year Old Shares her Journey Learning React
If learning React is among your New Year’s goals, here’s some inspiration from nine-year-old Revel [...]
WordPress 5.0.2 Released with Performance Gains of 330% for Block-Heavy Posts
WordPress 5.0.2, the of first of two rapid releases following 5.0, is now available. Sites [...]
Gutenberg-Inspired Jenga Game “Gutenblox” Now Available for Sale
photo credit: XWP XWP’s Gutenberg-inspired Jenga sets were arguably the most innovative swag at WordCamp [...]
Introduction to the WPGraphQL Project with Jason Bahl and Ryan Kanner
At WordCamp US 2018 I had the chance to sit down with Jason Bahl and [...]
