How to Use SMTP to Send Emails From WordPress
WordPress has a native way of sending emails. It uses the PHP mail() function to deliver all those newsletters, password resets, or any other type of email you’re sending to your ...
WordPress Developers Are Experimenting With Gutenberg-Native AI Block and Content Assistants
As more WordPress plugins for AI-generated content and images, chatbots, and assistants, are landing in the official directory, developers are beginning to explore even deeper integration with the block editor. Moving ...
Gutenberg 15.5 Introduces Experimental Grid Layout Support
Gutenberg 15.5 was released this week with more new features and refinements to WordPress’ full-site editing capabilities. The project will soon be moving on to Phase 3 with real-time collaboration on ...
WordPress Mobile Apps Get a New Support Forum
Support for the WordPress mobile apps is moving to the WordPress.org forums. Previously, users were routed to WordPress.com, even those who were self-hosted, and Automattic employees handled support tickets related to ...
How to Hide WooCommerce Shipping Methods
Having multiple shipping and payment methods can be critical to increasing your WooCommerce store’s conversion rate. But with so many options you may sometimes need to restrict the availability of specific ...
Preferred Languages Feature Plugin Needs Testing
The Preferred Languages project is gaining some momentum with this week’s 2.0 release of the feature plugin. In 2017, WordPress Core Committer Pascal Birchler released a prototype that lets users select ...
ACF 6.1 Adds Support for Registering Custom Post Types and Taxonomies
ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) version 6.1 was released this week with support for creating Custom Post Types and Taxonomies. This is a long-awaited feature that users have been asking for since ...
#70 – Steve Persch and Brian Perry on How Hosting Is Changing
Transcription 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 ...
iThemes Rebrands to SolidWP
iThemes, one of the oldest brands in WordPress that originally launched around theme products nearly 15 years ago, is rebranding to SolidWP. Over the years, the company’s products became increasingly centered ...
Twitter Suspends WordPress.com’s Access to Twitter API, Breaking Jetpack Social Sharing
Twitter suspended WordPress.com’s access to the Twitter API without notice yesterday. Representatives at WordPress.com do not know why their access is currently blocked but are working to regain it. Our access ...