WordPress Performance Team Revises Proposal for WebP by Default
One year ago, WordPress 5.8 introduced support for WebP, allowing users to upload and use WebP images in their content. In March 2022, the Performance Team moved to expand core support for ...
WordPress Themes Team Releases New Plugin for Creating Block Themes
photo credit: Artsy Crafty Two weeks ago, WordPress theme author Rich Tabor tweeted, “Even with my theme developer hat on, I’m finding it easier and easier to create block themes ~ ...
WordCamp US 2022 Tickets Now On Sale: Limited to 650 Attendees
WordCamp US will be hosting its first in-person event since 2019 in San Diego this year. The three-day event will run from September 9-11 at Town and Country Resort. Tickets went on ...
WordPress Contributors Propose Improving Block Themes’ Visibility in the Directory
WordPress theme authors and contributors from the Themes team are exploring ways to make block themes more prominent on the official directory. These are themes that are specifically tagged with support ...
#32 – Daisy Olsen on Why You Should Try Out Block Themes
On the podcast today we have Daisy Olsen. Daisy works for Automattic as a Developer Relations contributor on the WordPress Project. She’s been working with WordPress since 2007 and during that ...
Wei: A Free Minimalist WordPress Theme from Rich Tabor
Rich Tabor’s new Wei theme is one of the most well-designed contributions to hit WordPress.org’s free themes directory this month. Wei is a minimalist block theme that keeps things simple while ...
ClassicPress On the Rocks: Directors Resign, New Leadership Installed
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
“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”
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
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 ...