Automattic Acquires Pocket Casts
Automattic has acquired Pocket Casts, a popular podcast listening, search, and discovery app for Android and iOS. Australian co-founders Russell Ivanovic and Philip Simpson are staying on to continue leading Pocket ...
Google Concludes FLoC Origin Trial, Does Not Intend to Share Feedback from Participants
Google quietly concluded its FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) origin trial this week. The trial was part of Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative, a suite of new technologies designed to replace third-party ...
Edupack Is Tackling Higher Ed With WordPress, Looking for Development Partners
“We’re basically building the Jetpack for Higher Ed,” said Blake Bertuccelli as he pitched me on the idea of Edupack, a project still in its early stages. He and his team ...
WordPress 5.8 Media Library Changes You Should Know About
It is hard not to look through a list of upcoming WordPress 5.8 changes and not find at least a little something to whet your appetite. With so many enhancements headed ...
WooCommerce Patches Critical Vulnerability, Sending Forced Security Update from WordPress.org
WooCommerce has patched an unspecified, critical vulnerability identified on July 13, 2021, by a security researcher through Automattic’s HackerOne security program. The vulnerability impacts versions 3.3 to 5.5 of the WooCommerce ...
#5 – Robert Jacobi on Why He’s Putting Gutenberg First
About this episode. On the podcast today we have Robert Jacobi. Robert is Director of WordPress at Cloudways. He’s been working with open source software for almost twenty years, and has ...
InstaWP Launches New Service for Disposable WordPress Testing Sites
Competition in the sandboxing products space is heating with the entrance of InstaWP, a new service for setting up disposable WordPress testing sites. Founder Vikas Singhal created the tool to provide ...
Duotone Filters: WordPress 5.8 Puts a Powerful Image-Editing Tool Into Users’ Hands
Features such as the upcoming block-based widgets system, the template editor, theme-related blocks, and others have taken up much of the spotlight as of late. However, one of the best user-focused ...
UK State of Open Report Finds 97% of UK Businesses Surveyed Use Open Source Software
OpenUK, a WordPress-powered not-for-profit company, has released its State of the Open report with data from the UK in 2021. The company advocates for open source software, open source hardware, and ...
Contributing to Open Source Is ‘Better Than Any College Degree’
A week ago, I published my thoughts on the block system from a developer’s perspective. Taking a weekend-afternoon deep dive into creating custom block types meant learning some tough lessons and ...