Tag: wptavern.com
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The Perils of Hiring: A Cautionary Tale from A WordPress Business Owner
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More After being in the WordPress world for 15 years, I’ve made some incredible friendships and I’ve heard some crazy stories in regards to their WordPress business. Recently one of those friends reached out to share his latest experience, and I’m here to say it is one of the crazier ones.…
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WordPress Photo Festival 2024, A Five Part Retrospective, Part 2, Volunteers
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More From February 3-10 the Kerala, India WordPress community hosted an International Photos event, to both boost the number of photos at https://wordpress.org/photos as well as increase the number of contributors. In this series we’ll talk with organizers, volunteers, and participants about how the event went as well as the community…
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FSE Outreach Experimental Loses Two Words, Gains New Life
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Sometimes success means having to say goodbye. That’s sort of what happened to the FSE Outreach Program, newly launched as plain Outreach. The longtime facilitator of this initiative, Automattic Product Wrangler Anne McCarthy, announced the upcoming changes in September 2023: What started as an experimental program in May 2020 with…
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WordPress Photo Festival 2024, A Five Part Retrospective, Part 1, Organizers
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More This article is available in Video, Audio, and transcribed text. Audio Edition Transcription [Music] Hello, my name is Topher DeRosia. This episode begins a five-part series on the WordPress Photo Festival 2024 that took place February 3 through 10. We’ll talk to organizers, volunteers, and participants about how the event…
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Proposal: Host 3rd-Party Blocks in Gutenberg’s GitHub Repository
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Matias Ventura, Gutenberg’s Lead Architect, recently made a pitch to incorporate some 3rd-party blocks in the Gutenberg GitHub repository: “There’s a growing subset of blocks that we may contemplate creating that are either more niche or—for various reasons—not necessarily an immediate fit for the bundled library in core. This would…
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WooCommerce Releases 8.6 & 8.6.1
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More tl;dr WooCommerce 8.6, delayed due to an Order Attribution Tracking issue, has been released. It features a new Product Details block style, six new layouts for the Product Collection block, and a sales column for marketing analytics. For developers, it offers improved logging, a notice on Legacy REST API removal,…
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Navigating the Nexus: A Chronicle of Recent WordPress Acquisitions
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Over the past four months, some exciting developments have been bustling in the dynamic mergers and acquisitions arena of WordPress. To catch everyone up let’s grab a beverage of choice and take a stroll down the calendar of memories. In the last four months, the WordPress mergers and acquisitions scene…
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WordPress 6.5 Is Around the Corner; Test Beta 2
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.5 Beta 2 was released yesterday, featuring exciting capabilities and dozens of updates and bug fixes. The first major release of 2024, WordPress 6.5 will officially launch on March 26, 2024. Now’s the best time to start poking around, see what’s new, make sure your project(s) are ready, and…
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WordPress 2023 Survey: Block Editor on the Rise, Positive Feeling about Contributing Drops
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The results of the 2023 WordPress Annual Survey are in, revealing a steady growth in the adoption of the Block Editor, along with a lukewarm response to upcoming Gutenberg enhancements. Automattic-sponsored contributor Dan Soschin posted a breakdown of the results: “Overall, awareness and/or use of block-based features is up year…
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Freenginx’s Stand Against Corporate Limits: Potentially A New Era for WordPress Hosting
From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The LatestIn a recent development within the world of web servers, the highly regarded service Nginx has undergone a significant transformation. Russian developer Maxim Dounin has made waves by announcing a new fork of the Nginx web server and caching proxy. The new fork is called freenginx. This move is…