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Jetpack Revamps Mobile App, WordPress.com Users Must Migrate to Keep Using Stats, Reader, and Notification Features
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More When Automattic launched a mobile app for Jetpack in June 2021, it was targeted mainly at users who were on a paid Jetpack plan, as it enables access to features like backups, restores, and security scanning. Most importantly, the app gave Automattic a more direc
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WP Briefing: Episode 47: Letter from the Executive Director
From wordpress.org Source: Read More On episode forty-seven of the WordPress Briefing podcast, Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy shares her vision and current thinking for the WordPress open source project in 2023. Rather read it? The full letter is also available. Hav
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Letter from WordPress’ Executive Director, 2022
From wordpress.org Source: Read More Last month at State of the Word, I shared some opening thoughts about “Why WordPress.” For me, this is an easy question, and the hardest part is knowing which lens to answer through. The reasons that a solopreneur will choose WordPress are different than the reasons a corporation would. And…
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WooCommerce 7.3 Introduces New Products Block in Beta
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce 7.3 was released this week with the new Products block now in beta. In December 2022, the Products block went into testing in WooCommerce Blocks version 9.1.0. It’s based on the Query Loop block a
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Lettre Newsletter Theme Now Available on WordPress.org
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has published its Lettre theme to WordPress.org. The company launched its newsletter product at the end of December 2022 using Lettre as the default theme. The self-hosted version of this block theme is for those who want to publish a newsletter usi
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New Video Explores Site Building Progress from WordPress 5.9 to 6.2
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 5.9 “Josephine” was released in January 2022, but that seems like ages ago when you compare the advances made in site building over the past year. Anne McCarthy, an Automattic-sponsored contributor who heads up the
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WordCamp Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
From wordcamp.org Source: Read More WordCamp Bhopal is the city’s premier WordPress gathering, bringing together the vibrant WordPress community of Bhopal. As a voluntary organized local tech conference, our mission is to celebrate everything about our favorite platform, WordPress. No matter if you’re a student, developer, tech expert, small business owner, entrepreneur, blogger, or marketer,…
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Automattic Launches Blaze Ad Network for Jetpack and WordPress.com Sites
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic is bringing Tumblr’s Blaze ad tool to WordPress sites with its launch today on WordPress.com and Jetpack. Blaze made its debut in April 2022, to the delight of Tumblr users who will gladly shell out cash to get people to look at their cat or
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ClassicPress Community Votes to Re-Fork WordPress
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In December 2022, the ClassicPress community voted on whether to re-fork WordPress or continue on with the project as-is. As WordPress continues to evolve, ClassicPress fell behind in pursuit of PHP 8+ compatibility. The fork is based on WordPress 4.9 and users are increasingly limited in
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WordPress Performance Team Working Towards Unbundling Performance Lab Plugin
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress’ Performance Team met this week with the express purpose of responding to Matt Mullenweg’s recent request to stop adding functionality to the Performance Lab plugin which could otherwise work as a standalone plugin. At the end of December 2022, the Performance Team published instruct