Tag: wptavern.com

  • Add Icons to WordPress’ Core Button Block

    Add Icons to WordPress’ Core Button Block

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Nick Diego, a developer advocate at Automattic and core contributor, is the author of the popular Icon Block plugin that enables users to add custom SVG icons and graphics to the WordPress block editor. He is often asked if the plugin can add icons to the core Button block, but…

  • Wordfence CLI 2.0.1 Update Adds Free Vulnerability Scanning

    Wordfence CLI 2.0.1 Update Adds Free Vulnerability Scanning

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Wordfence CLI 2.0.1 introduced free vulnerability scanning this week. The new CLI product was launched at WordCamp US two months ago with malware detection capabilities, but the latest update brings in the most highly requested feature – vulnerability scanning at scale. Wordfence is most well-known for its Web Application Firewall,…

  • WooCommerce Rebrands as Woo

    WooCommerce Rebrands as Woo

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WooCommerce is rebranding to “Woo,” a shorter, more playful version of the company name that many customers are already using. Automattic acquired WooCommerce in 2015, along with WooThemes. The open source commerce platform now powers more than 4.4 million live websites, including 33% of the top 1 million online stores.…

  • WP Data Dashboard Tracks WordPress.org Themes Ecosystem

    WP Data Dashboard Tracks WordPress.org Themes Ecosystem

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Munich-based digital agency owner Hendrik Luehrsen has been tracking the usage of themes with the FSE tag (block themes) using a spreadsheet that pulls in data from the WordPress.org API. Wrangling the data in a spreadsheet became too cumbersome, so Luehrsen launched WP Data Dashboard over the weekend as a…

  • Gutenberg 16.9 Let’s You Rename (Almost) Any Block, Adds Experimental Form and Input Blocks

    Gutenberg 16.9 Let’s You Rename (Almost) Any Block, Adds Experimental Form and Input Blocks

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Delivering on an highly-requested feature, Gutenberg contributors have made it possible to rename almost any block in the List View. Version 16.9 was released this week with the new feature, which builds on Gutenberg 16.7‘s introduction of the ability to rename Group blocks. It works in a similar way to…

  • WordPress 6.4 Disables Attachment Pages for New Installations

    WordPress 6.4 Disables Attachment Pages for New Installations

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The upcoming 6.4 release, expected on November 7, will disable attachment pages for new installations. Up until now, WordPress automatically created attachment pages when users upload a file through the media upload system. It has been treated as a special post type that holds information about the file and each…

  • WordPress 6.4. RC2 Released and Ready for Testing

    WordPress 6.4. RC2 Released and Ready for Testing

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More WordPress 6.4 RC2 was released this week with more than 25 issues resolved since RC1. These include a few cherry-picked commits from the Gutenberg repository, additional closed Trac tickets since RC 1, and more than a dozen housekeeping commits for Twenty Twenty-Four. The 6

  • Automattic Acquires Texts, An All-in-One Messaging App

    Automattic Acquires Texts, An All-in-One Messaging App

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More Automattic has acquired Texts, an all-in-one messaging platform, for $50 million. Texts is a newer company founded in 2020 that creates a centralized inbox for all major messaging platforms, including iMessage, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal, Twitter, LinkedIn, Slack, and Discord. The proliferation of messaging apps and inboxes has made responding…

  • The 2024 State of Open Source Survey Is Now Open

    The 2024 State of Open Source Survey Is Now Open

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The Open Source Initiative (OSI), a non-profit organization that plays an important role in the open source ecosystem as stewards of the Open Source Definition (OSD), has opened its 2024 State of Open Source survey. This is the third year OSI has published the survey in collaboration with OpenLogic by Perforce, who…

  • LiteSpeed Cache 5.7 Patches XSS Vulnerability 

    LiteSpeed Cache 5.7 Patches XSS Vulnerability 

    From WPTavern.com Source: Read More The LiteSpeed Cache plugin, used on more than four million WordPress sites, has patched an XSS vulnerability in version 5.7. The plugin provides all-in-one site acceleration capabilities, server-level caching, and a collection of optimization features. It is compatible with WordPress multisite, and popular plugins like WooCommerce, bbPress, and Yoast SEO,…