#37 – Jonathan Wold on How Partnerships Might Help Your WordPress Business
On the podcast today we have Jonathan Wold. Jonathan joined the WordPress community seventeen years ago, and he’s been here ever since. He likes to think about WordPress as an operating ...
Gutenberg Contributors Experiment with Custom Labeling of Blocks in List View
It’s easy to get lost among a sea of Cover, Group, and Paragraph blocks while navigating the block editor’s List View. Clicking around wildly will generally surface the block you’re seeking, ...
WebP by Default Merged Into Core for WordPress 6.1
WebP, an image format developed by Google, which is intended to replace JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats, will soon be generated by default for new JPEG image uploads in WordPress ...
WordPress Theme Authors Are Moving to Host Fonts Locally
The WordPress Themes team is poised to change its guidelines on remote hosting Google Fonts and is once again strongly urging theme authors to host their fonts locally. Yoast-sponsored contributor Ari ...
WordPress Contributors Consider Renaming Full-Site Editing
WordPress Executive Directory Josepha Haden Chomphosy is proposing contributors rename the terms “full-site editing” and “full-site editor” to something more user friendly. The terms came into use as WordPress moved into ...
Automattic Is Removing WordPress.com Features from the Official WordPress Mobile Apps
The WordPress mobile team announced today that it will be pulling all the Jetpack and WordPress.com features from the official WordPress mobile apps. They will be moved into the Jetpack app ...
#36 – Sean Blakeley on Transitioning a Large Agency Over to Gutenberg
On the podcast today we have Sean Blakeley. Sean works for a large agency called American Eagle, a platform agnostic organisation working with enterprise clients on a wide variety of projects. ...
Akismet 5.0 Adds New Spam Detection Feature That Analyzes How Comments Are Posted
For years, the vast majority of Akismet releases have been centered around bug fixes and improving compatibility with various plugins. Version 5.0 was released today, following 4.2.5 earlier this month, with ...
Review Signal Publishes 2022 WordPress and WooCommerce Hosting Performance Benchmarks
Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal has published the 2022 WordPress and WooCommerce hosting performance benchmarks. These benchmarks are some of the most trusted review sources in the hosting industry due to ...
SiteCare Acquires Maintainn from WebDevStudios
More consolidation is happening in the WordPress maintenance services space, as SiteCare announced it has acquired Maintainn, a long-time competitor, from WebDevStudios. “As we’ve grown and our clientele has grown ...