WordPress.com Launches Newsletter Product

20 Dec 22
WordPress.com has launched a newsletter product just in time to capture those escaping Gumroad’s price increase and editors displaced by Revue shutting down. Newsletters, which were already booming as a communication ...

Drupal Gutenberg 2.6 Released with Drupal 10 Compatibility

16 Dec 22
Drupal Gutenberg, the Gutenberg module for Drupal that was created by Frontkom, has released version 2.6 with compatibility for Drupal 10. The module offers Drupal users a better authoring experience using blocks, allowing ...

State of the Word 2022: Matt Mullenweg Highlights Gutenberg’s Progress, Announces New Community Tools

16 Dec 22
State of the Word (SOTW) watch parties kicked off around the world this afternoon as Matt Mullenweg delivered his annual address to the WordPress community. A small group of people gathered ...

Performance Lab Plugin to Add New Experimental SQLite Integration Module in Upcoming 1.8.0 Release

15 Dec 22
WordPress’ Performance Team contributors have merged a new experimental SQLite integration module that is on track to be included in the upcoming version 1.8.0 of the Performance Lab plugin. (This is ...

#55 – Dennis Dornon on How Partnerships Have Helped Grow His WordPress Plugin Business

14 Dec 22
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 ...

Mailchimp for WordPress Plugin for Sale in the Ballpark of €1.6M

13 Dec 22
Danny van Kooten, creator of the Mailchimp for WordPress plugin, has indicated that he is interested in selling his plugin for somewhere in the ballpark of €1.6M. It is the most ...

Gutenberg 14.7 Introduces Color Coding for Template Parts and Reusable Blocks, Adds Media Tab to Inserter

13 Dec 22
Sometimes Gutenberg introduces features that you never knew you needed. Such is the case with the new color coding system in the Site Editor. The latest 14.7 release adds color to ...

WooCommerce Blocks 9.1.0 Introduces Products Block in Beta

9 Dec 22
WooCommerce Blocks version 9.10 was released today, hitting a major milestone for the development of its new Products Block. The plugin serves as a place to iterate and test new blocks, ...

New WordPress Sandbox Project Demos: Test-Drive Themes and Plugins in the Browser

9 Dec 22
WordPress Sandbox, an experimental project that uses WebAssembly (WASM) to run WordPress in the browser without a PHP server, has been chugging along steadily since Automattic-sponsored core contributor Adam Zieliński introduced ...

Course: A New Free Block Theme Compatible with Sensei LMS

8 Dec 22
Sensei LMS, Automattic’s teaching and learning management plugin, has released a new free block theme called Course. In February 2022, version 4.0 of the plugin introduced support for full-site editing with ...