Sarah Gooding

Wordfence has published two vulnerabilities that affect users of the Redux Framework plugin, which has more recently come to be … Continue reading Extendify Patches Vulnerabilities in the Redux Framework Plugin →

WordPress Translation Day kicked off today, and the event has been expanded to run from September 1-30 this year. WordPress … Continue reading WordPress Translation Day 2021 Kicks Off September 1, Expanded to Month-Long Event →

The block-based Navigation editor screen got a status check last week as part of a Hallway Hangout meeting aimed at identifying what needs … Continue reading Gutenberg Contributors Get Organized to Move Block-Based Navigation Forward →

Automattic has acquired Frontity, the company behind an open source framework for building WordPress themes with React. The acquisition comes … Continue reading Automattic Acquires Frontity, Founders to Work Full-Time on Gutenberg →

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has released version 5.10, the first major release since the plugin was acquired by Delicious Brains. … Continue reading ACF 5.10 Introduces Block API v2 Support, Block Preloading, and Security Improvements →

Google announced today that it has completed its rollout of the link spam update, which was started a month ago. … Continue reading Google Search Completes Rollout of Link Spam Update →

WordCamp US 2021 will be held online this year on October 1. The free, one-day event will be packed with … Continue reading Get Your Free Tickets to WordCamp US Online 2021 →

Jeremy Keith, a web developer and contributor to the web standards movement, has resigned from the AMP Advisory Committee. Keith … Continue reading Jeremy Keith Resigns from AMP Advisory Committee: “It Has Become Clear to Me that AMP Remains a Google Product” →

Many in the WordPress developer community were surprised to learn that WordPress.org is rejecting plugins with the “WP” prefix in … Continue reading WordPress.org Experiments with Rejecting Plugin Submissions with the “WP” Prefix to Mitigate Potential Trademark Abuse →

Alex Standiford, a WordPress developer at AffiliateWP, has released a boilerplate for what he is calling a “nearly headless” WordPress … Continue reading New Boilerplate Speeds Up Building “Nearly Headless” WordPress Themes →

WPScan is on track to post a record-breaking year for WordPress plugin vulnerabilities submitted to its database, according to a … Continue reading Wordfence and WPScan Publish Mid-Year WordPress Security Report →

Google published an update to its Site Kit plugin for WordPress this afternoon with a hot fix for a critical … Continue reading Google Site Kit Plugin Ships Hot Fix for Critical Error That Caused Broken Websites →