Sarah Gooding

WordPress 5.8 beta 1 is ready for testing. This upcoming release makes major strides towards solidifying WordPress’ site building capabilities, … Continue reading WordPress 5.8 Beta 1 Released: New Blocks, New Widgets Screen, and Pattern Directory on Deck →

Matt Mullenweg and Matías Ventura joined WordCamp Europe to chat about what’s happening with the Gutenberg project and celebrate the … Continue reading WordCamp Europe 2021 Gutenberg Demo: “The Block Editor Gets Ready to Become a Site Builder” →

WebP support is coming to WordPress 5.8. This modern image file format was created by Google in September 2010, and … Continue reading WordPress 5.8 Introduces Support for WebP Images →

Kevin Ohashi has published his 2021 WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks report. The annual report is broken down into six different … Continue reading Review Signal Publishes 2021 Hosting Performance Benchmarks on New WordPress-Powered Site →

Jetpack 9.8 was released this week, introducing WordPress Stories as the headline feature. The Story block, which allows users to create … Continue reading Jetpack 9.8 Introduces WordPress Stories Block Alongside Forced Security Update →

Delicious Brains, the company behind WP Migrate DB Pro and SpinupWP, has acquired the Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin from … Continue reading Delicious Brains Acquires Advanced Custom Fields Plugin →

Mark your calendars for the next major WordPress event coming up at the beginning of next week. WordCamp Europe is … Continue reading WordCamp Europe 2021 Online Schedule Announced →

Google’s controversial Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) experiment now has a feature flag within Chrome Canary (the nightly build of … Continue reading Chrome Canary Adds Flag for Disabling FLoC Testing →

WordPress is celebrating 18 years today since the first release of the software to the general public. That release post, … Continue reading Happy 18th Birthday, WordPress →

Joomla has announced plans to block Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) by default going forward. The 3.9.2.7 security update, … Continue reading Joomla Blocks FLoC by Default, Drupal Moves to Block FLoC in Upcoming 9.2 Release →

My Codeless Website is a new tool that detects if a site was built using a website builder. The app … Continue reading My Codeless Website App Detects Site Builder Tools →

GitHub, in partnership with Tidelift, has set aside June 7-12, 2021, as Maintainer Week, a time for open source maintainers … Continue reading Open Source Maintainer Week Begins June 7 with Activities, Events, and Resources →