Gutenberg 12.1 Fixes Block Appender Layout Shift, Adds Template List Views, and Enhances Global Styles

9 Dec 21
Earlier today, Gutenberg 12.1 landed in the WordPress plugin directory. The latest release was heavy on improvements to the user experience, including a fix for the block appender layout shift, new ...

Ask the Bartender: Is There a Starter for Building Block Themes?

8 Dec 21
I read some posts from “Ask the Bartender,” and I appreciate it a lot! Thanks. I have a question now. 🙂 I want to refine my WordPress theme development process, which ...

Vizio Responds to Software Freedom Conservancy’s GPL Compliance Lawsuit: Will Not Release Source Code, Files to Move Case to US Federal Court

7 Dec 21
In October 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) initiated a lawsuit against Vizio, an American TV manufacturer, for shipping products with copyleft licenses but refusing to provide the source code after ...

Gravatar Says It Was Not Hacked After “Have I Been Pwned” Service Notifies Users of a Breach

7 Dec 21
Gravatar is fielding questions today after “Have I Been Pwned,” a data breech checker service, tweeted “New scraped data: Gravatar had 167M profiles scraped in Oct last year via an enumeration ...

Videomaker Block Theme Targets Film Directors and Video Creators

7 Dec 21
Automattic’s latest Blockbase child theme landed in the WordPress.org directory today. Videomaker is aimed at film directors and video creators. I have put it through its paces in the last week ...

FSE Outreach Round #11: Going on a Site Editing Safari

4 Dec 21
Anne McCarthy announced Round #11 of the FSE Outreach Program on November 11. The latest test, dubbed Site Editing Safari, calls on volunteers to run through a step-by-step list to find ...

Open Source Initiative Launches New Free Membership Level, Opens 2022 OSS Usage Survey

3 Dec 21
Open Source Initiative, the organization that stewards the Open Source Definition, has launched a new survey on the usage of open source, in collaboration with OpenLogic by Perforce. The survey takes a ...

PHP Foundation Gains Momentum with $280K Estimated Annual Budget on Open Collective

3 Dec 21
At the end of November, prominent members of the PHP community formed a new PHP Foundation as a non-profit organization, “to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language.” ...

Hello Charts Launches a Native Chart-Building Experience for the Block Editor

3 Dec 21
Luke Carbis and Rob Stinson, two of the three-person Block Lab team that WP Engine picked up in 2020, are back together on a new project. This time, they are joined ...

#10 – What’s in WordPress 5.9, and What Is Openverse?

2 Dec 21
About this episode. On the podcast today we have something new. Until now I’ve interviewed one person at a time, but today there’s three people on the call, Birgit Pauli-Haack, Marcus ...