Month: June 2022

  • Athens to Host WordCamp Europe 2023

    Athens to Host WordCamp Europe 2023

    WordCamp Europe 2022 concluded last weekend in Porto, Portugal. The event sold 2,746 tickets and had 2,304 people attend. It kicked off with a record-setting Contributor Day that coordinated the efforts of 800 participants giving back to WordPress and its related projects. WCEU featured 70 speakers across 26 sessions and 18 workshops, made possible by…

  • Gutenberg Editor Now In Testing On Tumblr and Day One Web Apps

    Gutenberg Editor Now In Testing On Tumblr and Day One Web Apps

    One of the most thought-provoking statements to come out of WordCamp Europe 2022, was when Matt Mullenweg said, “I believe that Gutenberg can be a bigger contribution to the world than WordPress itself.” This isn’t the first time Mullenweg has cast this vision of Gutenberg’s preeminence as an open source project. In the Q&A following…

  • Elementor Acquires Strattic

    Elementor Acquires Strattic

    Elementor, a popular website builder plugin that is active on more than five million websites, has acquired Strattic, a static and headless WordPress hosting company. Strattic will continue operating as “Strattic by Elementor” and the team will remain as its own unit within the company. Elementor founders Yoni Luksenberg and Ariel Klikstein met Strattic founder and…

  • rtCamp Launches WordPress Plugin Compare Project

    rtCamp Launches WordPress Plugin Compare Project

    If you have been navigating the WordPress plugin ecosystem for years, you may instinctively know how to examine and compare two or more plugins’ details pages to select the right solution for your needs. This task can be a big hurdle for newcomers to the platform. The prospect of narrowing down the right plugin from…

  • Five for the Future Program Set To Adopt Official Definition for Pledges and Contributions

    Five for the Future Program Set To Adopt Official Definition for Pledges and Contributions

    WordPress’ Five for the Future program, an initiative that encourages organizations to contribute five percent of their resources to WordPress development, is poised to adopt an official definition for what constitutes pledges and contributions. Two weeks ago, WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy proposed the program make a clear distinction between ecosystem contributions and core…

  • InstaWP Gets Seed Funding From Automattic

    InstaWP Gets Seed Funding From Automattic

    InstaWP has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Automattic. The service launched in July 2021 as a quick way to set up testing or disposable WordPress sites and users frequently commented on remarkable speed of the tool, which spins up a site in less than a second. Founder Vikas Singhal said the investment gives…

  • WP Engine Acquires 5 Plugins From Delicious Brains

    WP Engine Acquires 5 Plugins From Delicious Brains

    Delicious Brains, a WordPress product company founded in 2012 by Brad Touesnard, has sold five of its plugins to WP Engine: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), WP Migrate, WP Offload Media, WP Offload SES, and Better Search Replace. Over the past four years, WP Engine has been scooping up developer tools through acquisitions, including StudioPress and the…

  • Jetpack Goes Modular With More Features Now Available as Individual Plugins

    Jetpack Goes Modular With More Features Now Available as Individual Plugins

    Jetpack announced today that it is splitting out six of its most popular features into individual plugins. Automattic reports that the company received feedback from developers and site owners asking for the ability to use specific components of Jetpack as part of their own “tech stack” of plugins. The six features that are now available…

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