WordPress Opens Applications for 2023 Community Summit
The WordPress open source project will be hosting a Community Summit as part of WordCamp US this year. It will take place prior to the main conference on August 22-23, 2023, ...
WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 Released and Ready for Testing
WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 was released on time today, and can be tested by using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or downloaded directly. In just seven weeks, the upcoming major release will roll ...
BuddyPress 12.0 to Focus on Merging BP Rewrites Into Core, Moving Legacy Widgets Into BP Classic Plugin
During the most recent BuddyPress development meeting, contributors decided to focus the upcoming 12.0 release on merging the BP Rewrites feature plugin into core. This plugin is the result of a ten-year-old ...
WordPress Plugin Developers Alerted Ahead of Twitter API Changes
Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering “a paid basic tier” with more details coming next ...
New Proposal Calls for Automated Performance Monitoring for WordPress Core
WordPress Core Committer Adam Silverstein has published a proposal for adding automated performance tooling that would offer continuous monitoring for performance issues so they can be resolved before major regressions are ...
WordPress Training Team Seeks Feedback with Individual Learner Survey
In 2020, WordPress began prioritizing education as critical to the project’s future, launching Learn.WordPress to support beginners to advanced learners with free educational content. Over the past two years, WordPress’ Training ...
WordPress.com Introduces Browse Mode, Style Book, and Push to Global Styles Features
WordPress.com users are getting early access to some of the major new features that are shipping with the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release. The platform rolled out Browse Mode today, describing it ...
#61 – Robert Rowley on Securing Your WordPress Website
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 ...
5 Visual Regression Testing Tools for WordPress
Prioritizing User Experience (UX) on your WordPress website is important. Otherwise, you might witness high bounce rates and shorter time on site. However, it can be difficult to identify user-facing problems ...
A Look Under the Hood at Engine Awesome, a Laravel-based SaaS App Using Gutenberg
During the 2022 State of the Word, Matt Mullenweg highlighted a few examples of how Gutenberg adoption is growing beyond WordPress and how he believed it could become “bigger than WordPress ...