WordPress.com is now offering new annual plans at 25% off as part of their year-end promotion. The offer includes a free domain for the first year. This exclusive deal ends on December 31st, 2024. To claim the offer, use the coupon code DREAM25 at checkout. Please note this offer is only for new annual plan…
After removing the mandatory WordPress.org login checkbox and the WP Engine Tracker CSV file, Automattic has reinstated WP Engine’s WordPress.org repository access and control over the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin repository. This follows a court ruling that required Automattic to restore these rights within 72 hours. In October, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg announced the…
After the court issued a preliminary injunction in favor of WP Engine, Automattic has begun complying with the orders. The mandatory login checkbox in WordPress.org website has been removed, and the WP Engine Tracker website has been updated, including removing the controversial domains.csv files. The mandatory login check box in WordPress.org, introduced in October this…
The CEOs of Barn2Plugins, Patchstack, and LayerWP have announced plans to expand their businesses beyond WordPress. While none of them are leaving the WordPress ecosystem, they are branching out into new territories to diversify their offerings and drive growth. Barn2Plugins: Entering the Shopify Ecosystem Katie Keith, CEO of Barn2Plugins, revealed on Twitter that the company…
WPExperts has acquired the Advanced File Manager plugin from Modal Web. WPExperts (formerly WooExperts) is a leading WordPress development company with an extensive portfolio of WordPress and WooCommerce plugins. The Advanced File Manager plugin has over 100,000 active installations on the WordPress Plugin Repository with a 4.8-star rating. CEO of WPExperts, Saad Iqbal, emphasized the…
Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the Northern California District Court has granted WP Engine’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Automattic and Matt Mullenweg. The ruling follows a November 26, 2024, hearing where the judge expressed an inclination to approve WP Engine’s request for injunction. Both parties were directed to collaborate on a stipulated order, but…
Automattic has announced that it has acquired WPAI, a company specializing in AI-powered tools for WordPress. Founded two years ago, WPAI has developed innovative products like CodeWP (an AI IDE for WordPress developers), AgentWP (an AI agent for WordPress), and WP.Chat (a ChatGPT alternative for WordPress). No financial details of the deal have been disclosed.…
Awesome Motive’s WP Forms plugin has patched a Missing Authorization to Payment Refund and Subscription Cancellation vulnerability. This issue allowed authenticated attackers with Subscriber-level access or higher to refund Stripe payments and cancel subscriptions without proper authorization. Wordfence reports that “The WPForms plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized modification of data due to a…
Jessica Lyschik, a WordPress Developer at GREYD, has won the highly anticipated WordPress Speed Build Challenge, defeating WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg. Jessica announced that she would donate her $5,000 prize money to Girls Who Code. The showdown was set following Jessica’s public challenge to Matt during WordCamp Europe. The challenge hosted by Jamie Marsland, required…
The WordPress Core team is gathering consensus around integrating the WP Consent API into Core. The WP Consent API feature plugin was originally introduced in early 2020 to standardize the communication of accepted consent categories between plugins. Automattician Brian Alexander has placed two options before the community: add this feature to Core or make it…
WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg will deliver his annual State of the Word (SOTW) address on December 16 at 18:00 JST / 09:00 UTC, live from Tokyo Node Hall in Tokyo, Japan. This marks only the second time the event will be held outside North America, following last year’s address in Madrid, Spain. A select group…
WordCamp Asia has unveiled its official Wapuu mascot for the 2025 edition: Tahopuu. Designed by Andrew dela Serna, a talented graphic designer from the Philippines, the mascot was chosen from 10 submissions by designers from India, Malaysia, Nepal, Lithuania, the Philippines, and Ukraine. Tahopuu pays homage to Filipino street culture, drawing inspiration from the iconic…
Gravatar, or “Globally Recognized Avatar,” now offers its users more free domain options and Bluesky integration for a limited time. These domains, featuring extensions like .bio, .link, .social or .contact, can be used across the Gravatar profile, email signature, or business cards and seamlessly integrate with Bluesky, the decentralized social network that’s gaining traction. Bluesky…
BuddyPress Lead Developer Mathieu Viet has announced his departure from the WordPress community, marking the end of a long-standing association that began with BuddyPress 2.0. In a statement shared on his WordPress profile, he said, “I’ve decided to stop involving into the #WordPress community following the way WordPress leadership decided to prevent some users to…
ClikIT has announced its acquisition of the Infinite Uploads and Big File Uploads plugins from UglyRobot, LLC, owned by Aaron Edwards, the former CTO of WPMU DEV. The financial details of the deal have not been disclosed. Infinite Uploads is a versatile WordPress plugin offering cloud storage, video hosting, and CDN delivery to enhance media…
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