The HeroPress Network Launches Find It WP, a Cooperative Resource Archive for WordPress
Two weeks ago, Cate and Topher DeRosia launched the HeroPress Network, a centralized website that would host various projects for helping people with WordPress. Today, the duo announced the opening of ...
Software Freedom Conservancy Takes On Vizio in Lawsuit Alleging GPL Violations
Inside of a Vizio TV – Model V435-J01 – photo credit: Software Freedom Conservancy The Software Freedom Conservancy announced that it is suing Vizio, an American TV manufacturer, for what it ...
Tidying the Media Library With WP Ninjas’ Remove Unused Media Plugin
A few weeks ago, WP Ninjas announced it was stepping into the media optimization plugin market. The team released its Remove Unused Media plugin as a commercial project for tidying storage ...
Build Notification Banners With ElmaStudio’s Latest Block Plugin
A friend and I were discussing the need for more one-off block plugins earlier today. He had mentioned that WordPress has this powerful block search feature that rarely turns up anything ...
Gutenberg Contributors Propose Renaming Reusable Blocks
WordPress’ Reusable blocks may soon be getting re-named, as the feature’s distinct capabilities are less recognizable from its name following the introduction of patterns. When the Gutenberg project first took off, ...
Ask the Bartender: What Happens to the Customizer When a Block Theme Is Active?
Something on my radar right now is third-party plugins that have settings in the Customizer. What I gather of friends who are the devs working on Customizer and front-end stuff within ...
WordPress 5.9 Go/No-Go Update: All Proposed Features Are Moving Forward
The go/no-go deadline for deciding on features for WordPress 5.9 was set for October 12 but the conversation was pushed back two days. Today, the core leadership for this release announced ...
WP Fastest Cache Patches Authenticated SQL Injection and Stored XSS Via CSRF Vulnerabilities
The Jetpack Scan team has published a summary of two issues recently discovered in the WP Fastest Cache plugin – an Authenticated SQL Injection vulnerability and a Stored XSS Via CSRF vulnerability. ...
Gutenberg 11.7 Iterates on Global Styles, Improves Adding Navigation Links, and Adds Column Spacing
Released yesterday, Gutenberg 11.7 is one of the more exciting releases we have had in a while. The Global Styles system iterations continue to impress. The lighter nav experience makes adding ...
Yoast and Google-Sponsored Core Contributors Propose New WordPress Performance Team
Yoast and Google-sponsored WordPress core contributors are proposing the project add a Performance team to improve core performance as measured by Google’s Web Vitals metrics. “Users expect and prefer fast experiences ...