WordPress Contributors Work Towards Removing Site Editor Beta Label for 6.2 Release
Will WordPress be ready to remove the Beta label from the Site Editor in the upcoming 6.2 release? The project’s Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy addressed this question in her latest ...
WordPress Launches Old Tickets Trac Triage Sessions
As part of the big picture goals for WordPress in 2023, the project is embarking on an effort to work through old tickets that are stuck due to no consensus, missing ...
Open Source Initiative and OpenLogic Release 2023 State of Open Source Report
OpenLogic, a company that provides technical support for enterprise open source infrastructure, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the nonprofit stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD) have published the 2023 State of Open ...
WordPress Project to Evaluate Replacing Slack with Matrix Open Source Chat
WordPress and Matrix contributors are proposing a new Meta team subproject that would explore replacing Slack communication with Matrix, an open source federated chat system. Matrix already powers a variety of ...
SQLite Database Integration Now Available as a Plugin for Testing
WordPress’ Performance Team is working on unbundling the Performance Lab plugin after feedback from Matt Mullenweg who requested large features become their own community plugins with the possibility of becoming canonical ...
#60 – Mike Demo, Tracy Apps and David Wolfpaw on LGBTQ and WordPress
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 ...
Yoast SEO 20.0 Introduces New Admin Interface
Yoast SEO version 20.0 was released today with a new admin settings interface that also reorganizes the menu to into four main sections: General, Content types, Categories and Tags, and Advanced. ...
Create a Customer Feedback Survey for WordPress
Every business wants to know what their customers think about them. That too not just for vanity. It’s actually an actionable customer metric that tells you what’s right and what’s not ...
Awesome Motive Acquires Thrive Themes
Awesome Motive has acquired Thrive Themes, its second acquisition of 2023 following the Duplicator plugin deal that was announced earlier this month. Thrive’s premium plugin suite reports more than 200,000 users. ...
WP Migrate 2.6 Introduces Full-Site Exports and Import to Local
WP Migrate, formerly known as WP Migrate DB and recently acquired by WP Engine, has long since expanded beyond its initial release as a database migration tool. Users may be familiar ...