group.one Acquires BackWPup, Adminimize, and Search & Replace Plugins

17 Aug 23
group.one, a European cloud hosting and digital marketing services provider, has acquired the BackWPup, Adminimize, and Search & Replace plugins from Inpsyde. Together the products have more than 1.1 million active installs and will ...

Should WordPress.org Support Threads Auto-Close After a Year?

16 Aug 23
WordPress.org’s support forums are a vital resource and communication tool for users supporting their own sites and developers extending the software. Visiting the forums often means users have gotten stuck somehow ...

#87 – Jonathan Wold on Guildenberg, What It Is and How It Aims to Help Product Owners

16 Aug 23
Transcript Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the ...

WordPress.org Adds New Page to Explain Blocks

16 Aug 23
What are blocks? WordPress has added a new resource to its website at wordpress.org/blocks that attempts to explain blocks visually with simple language. The landing page is aimed at those who ...

Crocoblock to Host WordPress Web Agency AI Summit, September 28-30, 2023

15 Aug 23
Crocoblock, a Ukraine-based company with plugins on WordPress.org as well as commercial products, is hosting a WordPress Web Agency AI Summit event on September 28-30, 2023. The company has a community of more ...

WordPress Themes Team Releases Blue Note, A Community-Supported Theme for Bloggers

14 Aug 23
WordPress’ Themes team launched its Community Themes initiative earlier this year with the goal of bringing together contributors to build block themes year round, the same way that default themes are ...

WordPress Kicks Off Admin Design Overhaul with Discussion on Initial Mockups

12 Aug 23
The monumental task of overhauling WordPress’ aging admin design is coming into focus, as contributors kicked off explorations of some initial mockups this week. Gutenberg’s Phase 3 is focused on Collaboration ...

WordPress Publishes 6.3 Release Video and Landing Page Demo

11 Aug 23
WordPress 6.3 “Lionel” was released earlier this week with an overview video that offers a beautiful, dizzying demo of the many new features packed into this update. It’s a two-minute guided ...

Gutenberg 16.4 Introduces Experimental Auto-Inserting Blocks

10 Aug 23
Gutenberg 16.4 has been released with a new auto-inserting blocks experimental feature. It allows developers to specify a location in which the block will be automatically inserted, such as before or ...

WordPress Plugin Review Team Addresses Backlog of 900+ Plugins, Implements Strategies to Improve Approval Process

10 Aug 23
WordPress’ Plugin Review team is wading through a backlog that was over 900 plugins awaiting approval earlier this week. The current count has 870 plugins sitting in the review queue, with ...