What Is a Blog? An Easy-to-Grasp Definition of Blogging, Plus How to Get Started
What is a blog? What is blogging? Should you become a blogger? These are common questions nowadays when it seems like everyone and their dog has their own blog. But if ...
Building a “Scotch Tape” Image Block Style
In today’s post, Tavern readers are in for something a little different than our regular stream of news and opinion. Welcome to the Building with Blocks series. It is a new ...
#14 – Dave Smith, Isabel Brison and Joen Asmussen on the New Navigation Block
On the podcast today we have three guests… Dave Smith, Isabel Brison and Joen Asmussen. They’re all employed by Automattic, and whilst, as you will hear, they’ve had a variety of ...
Yet Another Plugin Dependencies Discussion, Two Proposals This Time
It has been over nine years since the late Alex Mills opened a ticket on WordPress Trac titled Plugin Dependencies (Yet Another Plugin Dependencies Ticket). It is not the oldest of ...
BP Rewrites Feature Plugin Now in Beta
The ball is moving on a nine-year-old effort to migrate BuddyPress’ custom URI parser to use WordPress’ Rewrite API. BuddyPress currently requires sites to use pretty permalinks in order to be ...
How to Hire a Web Designer: The “All You Need to Know” Guide
If you want a high-quality website for your business and you don’t want to spend dozens or hundreds of hours learning design, your best bet is to hire a web designer. ...
Gutenberg Contributors Explore More Advanced Template Creation
Gutenberg design contributors are exploring how the template creation UI can be updated to expand the types of templates that user can create using the Site Editor. In WordPress 5.9 users ...
Clarity Ad Blocker for WordPress Announced, Receives Mixed Reactions
Stanislav Khromov announced Clarity, a plugin for hiding obtrusive banners, via Twitter and the Advanced WordPress (AWP) Facebook group today. It was first pushed to WordPress.org around a year ago, but ...
Block, FSE, Hybrid, Universal? What Do We Call These New WordPress Themes?
Ellen Bauer, developer and co-owner of ElmaStudio, posed the question on Twitter last week that many have been asking. What do we call these new types of WordPress themes made from ...
WordPress Photo Directory Gets Its Own Make Team
The WordPress Photo Directory is taking off, growing to more than 1,400 approved free photos in under two months. After a successful call for testers and volunteer photo moderators, the directory ...