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From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress from German developer Matthias Pfefferle, who will be joining the company to continue improving support for federated…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More More than 200 users on Mastodon who consider themselves part of the WordPress community, responded to the recent Toot the Word 2023 Survey, which was…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 RC 1 was released today, marking the hard string freeze and readiness for translation ahead of the official release on March 28. There…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Lemmony is a new WordPress block theme designed by the team at Shufflehound, a theme development company based in Europe with commercial products on Themeforest.…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Jetpack 11.9 was released this week with support for sharing posts to Mastodon. The new button allows readers to click an icon to launch a…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WP Engine is beta testing its new Pattern Manager plugin for creating and maintaining patterns. The plugin is intended for WordPress professionals – developers, agencies,…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress contributors have updated the legacy default themes to bundle Google Fonts locally in the theme folder, instead of loading them from Google’s servers. In…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More If you’re not yet excited about the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release, you will be after watching the new live demo product video that was recorded…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Representatives of the WordPress Themes Team are looking to carry forward the momentum contributors found in creating the Twenty Twenty-Three theme’s style variations by launching…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Last month’s Twitter outage gave Mastodon a boost, as the company also announced unpopular changes to its API access. People from the Wor

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More MonetizeMore, an ad revenue optimization company, has acquired the Advanced Ads plugin and will be hiring the team behind the products. The plugin’s ad management…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Wordfence has published the details of two stored XSS vulnerabilities the company responsibly disclosed to the developers of the <a href="https://wordpress.org/

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2’s Openverse integration is getting some last minute changes after contributors expressed concerns about it hotlinking images by default. The new feature allows users…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 15.2 is now available with support for revisions when editing templates and template parts. The Site Editor can be an intimidating place if you’re…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 is set to introduce an integration with Openverse that allows users to quickly insert free, openly-licensed media into their content. It was not…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Prison Journalism Project (PJP), a non-profit organization founded in April 2020, trains incarcerated writers to be journalists and publishes their stories with the goal…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has a new theme in the WordPress Themes Directory. Bibimbap, named for a beloved Korean comfort food, is a restaurant theme. It is described…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Museum of Block Art (MOBA), a project launched in 2022 featuring art created using the block editor’s design tools, is calling for submissions celebrating…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 Beta 3 was released this week, another small milestone towards the official, more polished version that is expected in under five weeks on…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress lead developer Andrew Ozz has published a proposal for the addition of a new “gutenberg-merge” ticket type that would formalize the latitude Gutenberg contributors…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In November 2022, Meetup.com raised concerns with the WordPress community (and the broader community of accessibility professionals) after it added an accessibility overlay to its…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The organizers of WordCamp London are in the early planning stages for an event that would take place in September 2023. It has been nearly…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Most WordPress professionals managed to escape 2022’s round of tech layoffs, which primarily affected venture capital-funded startups and larger companies that had overhired during the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The global WordPress community is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the software’s first release on May 27, 2023. Two decades ago, WordPress made its debut…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 Beta 2 was released today and is now available for testing, one week after Beta 1. Testers can easily download the latest beta…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress enthusiasts from around the world are beginning their journeys to attend the inaugural WordCamp Asia, which is happening in Bangkok, Thailand, February 17-19. Organizers…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce is calling on its developer community to join a new monthly chat focused on WooCommerce block extensibility. The chat is being run as a…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Gutenberg 15.1 was released this week with Openverse integration in the Media tab. The Openverse library of openly licensed and public domain works has also moved…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress.com is currently testing two new blocks for generating images and paragraph content using AI. The blocks, which are currently labeled as experimental, were first…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Twitter experienced a major outage today lasting several hours, which left most users unable to tweet or send private messages to each other. Some reported…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress Accessibility contributor Alex Stine – photo credit: The WP Community Collective The WP Community Collective (WPCC), a newly formed nonprofit organization dedicated to funding…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The WordPress open source project will be hosting a Community Summit as part of WordCamp US this year. It will take place prior to the…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 was released on time today, and can be tested by using the WordPress Beta Tester plugin or downloaded directly. In just seven weeks,…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More During the most recent BuddyPress development meeting, contributors decided to focus the upcoming 12.0 release on merging the BP Rewrites feature plugin into core. This…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering “a paid basic…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress Core Committer Adam Silverstein has published a proposal for adding automated performance tooling that would offer continuous monitoring for performance issues so they can…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More In 2020, WordPress began prioritizing education as critical to the project’s future, launching Learn.WordPress to support beginners to advanced learners with free educational content. Over…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress.com users are getting early access to some of the major new features that are shipping with the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release. The platform rolled…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More During the 2022 State of the Word, Matt Mullenweg highlighted a few examples of how Gutenberg adoption is growing beyond WordPress and how he believed…

From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Will WordPress be ready to remove the Beta label from the Site Editor in the upcoming 6.2 release? The project’s Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy…