WordPress’ Themes Team has released a new block theme called Stacks as part of the Community Themes initiative proposed earlier this year. The goal is to bring together representatives of the team to build block themes year round, the same way that default themes are built and officially supported. Stacks was designed for one purpose…
WordPress’ Marketing team has launched a new campaign called “From Blogs to Blocks” in anticipation of the project’s upcoming 20th anniversary. The WordPress community is celebrating this major milestone through various activities and local meetups that are being held around the world throughout the month of May. “From Blogs to Blocks creates intentional moments for the…
Tickets for WordCamp US 2023 went on sale this morning and quickly sold out within a few hours, leaving many hoping for another opportunity in the next round. WCUS, WordPress’ flagship event in the Western Hemisphere, is happening August 24-26, 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Tickets cost $50…
Michelle Frechette, Director of Community Engagement at StellarWP, has launched a new independent project called WP Speakers that helps event organizers find available speakers for WordPress meetups, WordCamps, podcasts, and other events. The site offers a database of speakers that is free to join and free to search. When speakers sign up, they include a…
Jetpack and WordPress.com announced they will no longer support the Twitter API in their products. Last month Twitter suspended WordPress.com’s access to its API, which broke Jetpack Social Sharing – the mechanism that auto-tweets published posts. Although WordPress.com’s access to the API was reinstated for a few weeks, the company has now been priced out…
WordPress core committer Pascal Birchler has published a Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins to celebrate the software’s upcoming 20th anniversary. The table showcases 108 of the most popular free plugins on WordPress.org. Ten years ago Birchler created a website that showed the most popular plugins in a similar table layout, ranking them by number of…
Big Bite, a UK-based enterprise WordPress agency, has launched a new survey called State of Enterprise WordPress to gather data and insights on how the platform can best serve large-scale brands. The survey takes approximately 5-7 minutes to complete and covers budgets,publishing processes, platform strengths, user frustrations, custom functionality, infrastructure, architecture, and ongoing maintenance. It…
Human Made is organizing the community’s first ever AI for WordPress online conference on May 25, 2023. The time and schedule have not yet been announced but registration is open. Attendees can expect to see demos of Human Made’s current AI projects and highlights of what others are doing in the space. The organizers plan…
David Vongries, developer of the Kirki Customizer Framework plugin, announced he is sunsetting the product and will discontinue development and support. Vongries bought the plugin in 2020 from its original creator, Ari Stathopoulos, and grew its user base from 400K to 600K active installs. He launched Kirki PRO with additional extensions in March 2022. “When…
The WP Feature Notifications project, formerly know as WP Notify, is making progress towards creating a better way to manage and deliver notifications in the WordPress admin. Core contributor Jonathan Bossenger started the project in 2019 with a proposal to build a unified notification center in WordPress that would replace the chaos caused by developers…
WordPress developer Mike McAlister has launched Ollie, his first block theme, into public beta. McAlister, whose theme company Array Themes was acquired by WP Engine in 2018, along with the Atomic Blocks plugin, recently departed from his role at the company to pursue other projects. Ollie supports all the latest Site Editor features, including global…
CertifyWP has launched its first credentialing exam for a WordPress Management and Design Credential. The non-profit organization was founded by Talisha Lewallen with the goals of helping job seekers better demonstrate their skills to potential employers and giving businesses a way to understand prospective employees’ skills. The new credential costs $150 for the exam and…
Virtuozzo, the software company behind the virtualization and cloud management capabilities of many popular hosting service providers, has launched version 2.0 of its WordPress platform. The company’s 450+ customers include GoDaddy, IONOS, InMotion hosting, and other hosts. Virtuozzo’s WordPress platform enables service providers to sell containerized hosting as a service. The most recent update introduces…
WordPress contributors are making progress on officially supporting SQLite in core, a project that would benefit less complex sites (small to medium sites and blogs) that don’t necessarily require WordPress’ standard MySQL database. In a recent update, Yoast-sponsored core contributor Ari Stathopoulos said the SQLite Database Integration feature plugin has been rewritten, with the help…
Gutenberg 15.6 is now available with a new Details block tucked under the Experiments menu. Once enabled, it can be used to toggle the visibility of hidden content. This can be useful for presenting things like text transcripts for video blocks or simple spoiler alerts. By default the toggle is open in the block editor…