ClassicPress On the Rocks: Directors Resign, New Leadership Installed

27 Jun 22
Recent turbulence in the ClassicPress community has resulted in the directors resigning and new leadership installed. The WordPress fork is run under a non-profit organization called the ClassicPress Initiative. It supports ...

Help Test the Rollback Update Failure Feature Plugin Ahead of WordPress 6.1

27 Jun 22
“Life-buoy in harbour” by Ashley Coates is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. The developers of the Rollback Update Failure feature plugin put out a call for testing over the weekend, with the aim of ...

GoDaddy Responds to Mullenweg’s Accusations: “We All Have the Same Goal”

25 Jun 22
In a recent Twitter storm, Matt Mullenweg characterized GoDaddy as “a parasitic company,” that is “an existential threat to WordPress’ future.” In a series of tweets that were subsequently deleted, Mullenweg ...

Awesome Motive Acquires WP Charitable Plugin

24 Jun 22
Awesome Motive, makers of popular plugins like OptinMonster, WPForms, and MonsterInsights, acquired WP Charitable this week. The plugin is used by more than 10,000 non-profits for creating fundraising campaigns and collecting ...

Matt Mullenweg Identifies GoDaddy as a “Parasitic Company” and an “Existential Threat to WordPress’ Future”

24 Jun 22
On Thursday Matt Mullenweg responded to an inquiry on Twitter from Jeff Matson, a Pagely employee, about whether Automattic’s Newspack platform had all open open source components or some proprietary elements. ...

How To Add CAPTCHA Protection to WordPress

24 Jun 22
Even if you are confident in the security of your WordPress site, you should still take precautions. A security breach can wreak irreparable damage to your online business. Hackers frequently use ...

Gutenberg 13.5 Adds Featured Image Placeholder Support for Cover Block, Cleaner Pasting to Other Apps

23 Jun 22
Gutenberg 13.5 is now available. The release comes two weeks after the plugin introduced support for button elements in theme.json, axial spacing in the Gallery block, and a redesigned Publish popover ...

WordPress Appears In NYT Crossword

22 Jun 22
At the risk of spoiling the answer to a clue included in the image below, WordPress made an appearance in the New York Times crossword puzzle today. Likely nobody reading this ...

GitHub Makes Copilot Available to the Public for $10/month, Free for Students and Open Source Project Maintainers

22 Jun 22
GitHub has announced that Copilot, its new AI pair programming assistant, is now available to developers for $10/month or $100/year. Verified students and maintainers of open source projects will have free ...

#31 – Milan Ivanovic on the Importance of Real World Versus Online

22 Jun 22
On the podcast today we have Milan Ivanovic. Milan is a WordPress Developer at Valet.io, and is a WordCamp volunteer, speaker, and organizer. He’s the WordPress.org global translation editor, WordPress Serbia ...