WordPress 6.4 Roadmap Includes Typography Management Features, New Blocks, and Twenty Twenty-Four Default Theme

23 Aug 23
Work on WordPress 6.4 is kicking off with a post from Editor Triage Co-Lead Anne McCarthy that highlights everything the team has planned for the release. This will be the third ...

#88 – Jo Minney on the State of the WordPress Community in Australia

23 Aug 23
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 ...

WordPress Coding Standards Maintainer Warns Maintenance Will Be Halted Without Funding: “This Is an Unsustainable Situation.”

22 Aug 23
WordPressCS 3.0.0 was released this week with what its maintainer, Juliette Reinders Folmer, says are significant changes to improve the accuracy, performance, stability, and maintainability of all sniffs, and its handling of ...

New Chrome Browser Extension Enables One-Click Plugin and Theme Testing with WordPress Playground

22 Aug 23
WordPress Playground, an experimental project that uses WebAssembly (WASM) to run WordPress in the browser, makes it possible for users to quickly test plugins and themes without having to set up a local ...

Equalize Digital Accessibility Checker Plugin Adds New Frontend Highlighting Feature Funded by NASA

18 Aug 23
Equalize Digital, a WordPress accessibility products and services company, has added a new frontend highlighting feature to its free accessibility checker plugin, which is used to perform audits on self-hosted sites. ...

WordPress Community Summit Travel Fund Contributes $48K in Assistance for Attendees

18 Aug 23
This year’s WordCamp US includes a Community Summit, an invitation-only contributor-focused event that will take place prior to the main conference on August 22-23, 2023, in National Harbor, Washington, DC. It ...

WP Community Collective Funds First Fellowship for Accessibility Contributor Alex Stine

17 Aug 23
The WP Community Collective (WPCC), a non-profit organization created to support individual WordPress contributors and community-led initiatives, has funded its first fellowship. Alex Stine, a fully blind individual contributor who has ...

group.one Acquires BackWPup, Adminimize, and Search & Replace Plugins

17 Aug 23
group.one, a European cloud hosting and digital marketing services provider, has acquired the BackWPup, Adminimize, and Search & Replace plugins from Inpsyde. Together the products have more than 1.1 million active installs and will ...

Should WordPress.org Support Threads Auto-Close After a Year?

16 Aug 23
WordPress.org’s support forums are a vital resource and communication tool for users supporting their own sites and developers extending the software. Visiting the forums often means users have gotten stuck somehow ...

#87 – Jonathan Wold on Guildenberg, What It Is and How It Aims to Help Product Owners

16 Aug 23
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 ...