• Karachi to Host First WordCamp in Pakistan Following Cancellation of WordCamp Lahore

    Karachi to Host First WordCamp in Pakistan Following Cancellation of WordCamp Lahore

    WordCamp Karachi is happening on August 4, 2018, and organizers are expecting more than 400 attendees. Karachi is the largest city in Pakistan with a population of more than 30 million people. Its airport connects the country to other international cities and smaller cities within Pakistan are available by rail or bus. Organizers behind the…

  • WordPress 4.9.8 Will Significantly Reduce Memory Leak

    WordPress 4.9.8 Will Significantly Reduce Memory Leak

    WordPress 4.9.8 Beta two recently shipped and although much of the focus will be on the “Try Gutenberg” call-out, there’s a patch included that addresses a memory leak that was quite a problem for some users. When WordPress 4.9.7 shipped, the WordPress.org support forums saw an increase in reports of memory exhausted errors due to the…

  • First Look at “Try Gutenberg” Prompt in WordPress 4.9.8 Beta 2

    First Look at “Try Gutenberg” Prompt in WordPress 4.9.8 Beta 2

    WordPress 4.9.8 Beta 2 was released today, featuring the new “Try Gutenberg” prompt that will appear in user dashboards when the official release drops at the end of the month. The prompt invites users to install Gutenberg if they want to try the new editor or install the Classic Editor to keep using the current…

  • Insight Into How North Carolina State Is Preparing for Gutenberg

    Insight Into How North Carolina State Is Preparing for Gutenberg

    Jennifer McFarland, the web services coordinator for the North Carolina State Office of Information Technology (OIT), recently did an interview with Technician, the official student newspaper of NC State University. Since Gutenberg’s announcement in December of 2017, McFarland has published a series of articles on the NC State Office of Information Technology website educating staff…

  • Meet Bernhard Kau, Local Lead Organizer of WordCamp Europe 2019 in Berlin

    Meet Bernhard Kau, Local Lead Organizer of WordCamp Europe 2019 in Berlin

    Bernhard Kau, a WordPress developer, meetup organizer, and four-time organizer of WordCamp Berlin, is the local lead organizer for the next WordCamp Europe. Kau will join Milan Ivanović, the global lead, at the helm of WordCamp Europe in Berlin next June. Kau submitted an application with his team to host WCEU and won out over…

  • WP-CLI Hack Day Friday, July 20th

    WP-CLI Hack Day Friday, July 20th

    WP-CLI or WordPress Command Line Interface has become an integral tool for developers to launch and manage sites. To encourage new contributors to the project, Alain Schlesser is organizing the first WP-CLI Hack Day, Friday, July 20th beginning at 08:00 CEST. Schlesser and other contributors will be available in the WP-CLI Slack channel all day…

  • iThemes Enters the Hosting Space

    iThemes Enters the Hosting Space

    iThemes is getting into the hosting business after launching three plans that take advantage of its relationship with Liquid Web. The plans are finely tuned around the company’s products and come with free SSL certificates. I reached out to Cory Miller, Founder of iThemes to figure out why they’ve entered the hosting space, what it…

  • WooCommerce Custom Product Tables Plugin Now in Beta, Boasts 30% Faster Page Loads

    WooCommerce Custom Product Tables Plugin Now in Beta, Boasts 30% Faster Page Loads

    WooCommerce is celebrating 10th years of Woo this week. Over the past several years WooCommerce has grown to become a dominant player among e-commerce solutions on the web. E-commerce Usage Distribution stats from BuiltWith currently rank WooCommerce as the most commonly used platform for stores in the top 1 million sites. Performance and scalability were…

  • New WordPress Feature Plugin Adds Support for Progressive Web Apps

    New WordPress Feature Plugin Adds Support for Progressive Web Apps

    WordPress contributors are working on getting support for Progressive Web Apps (PWA) into core. A new PWA feature plugin is now available on WordPress.org, spearheaded by the teams at XWP, Google, and Automattic. Progressive Web Apps are applications that run on the web but provide a speedy app-like experience inside a mobile browser. Google describes…

  • WordCamp Europe 2018 Draws 2,085 Attendees, Organizers Look Ahead to 2019 in Berlin

    WordCamp Europe 2018 Draws 2,085 Attendees, Organizers Look Ahead to 2019 in Berlin

    WordCamp Europe closed out a successful event in Belgrade with 2,085 attendees from 76 countries. More than 800 others joined via livestream for a total audience of nearly 3,000 participants. A record-setting Contributor Day kicked off the event, followed by two days of conference sessions and workshops from 65 speakers. A team of 54 organizers…

  • Array Launches Free Gutenberg-Ready Atomic Blocks Theme on WordPress.org

    Array Launches Free Gutenberg-Ready Atomic Blocks Theme on WordPress.org

    Mike McAlister and the team at Array Themes have fully embraced Gutenberg and are one of the first shops on the scene with a free WordPress theme designed specifically to work with the new editor. The Atomic Blocks theme is now available on WordPress.org with minimal styling and seamless support for all core content and…

  • WPWeekly Episode 323 – Recap of WordCamp Grand Rapids and A Gutenberg Road Map

    WPWeekly Episode 323 – Recap of WordCamp Grand Rapids and A Gutenberg Road Map

    In this episode, John James Jacoby recaps his trip to WordCamp Grand Rapids and shares his experience. WordCamp Grand Rapids had a strong focus on tools, plugins, and themes and by all accounts, was a successful event. We discussed Matt Mullenweg’s Summertime update, the roadmap for merging Gutenberg into core, and what comes after Gutenberg.…

  • WordCamp Ticket Sales Move from PayPal to Stripe for Default Payment Gateway

    WordCamp Ticket Sales Move from PayPal to Stripe for Default Payment Gateway

    The WordPress Community Team announced an update to the CampTix, the plugin used for selling WordCamp tickets, that makes Stripe the default payment method. The gateway was previously available as a beta plugin and could be enabled on a per-site basis but is now available to all WordCamps. When proposing Stripe as the default payment…

  • Video: Matt Mullenweg’s Summertime Update At WCEU 2018

    Video: Matt Mullenweg’s Summertime Update At WCEU 2018

    Sessions from WordCamp Europe 2018 are making their way onto WordPress.tv, including Matt Mullenweg’s Summertime Update. In the video, Mullenweg shares the progress that’s been made on Gutenberg, WordPress core development, a Gutenberg road map for including it into core, and what to expect after WordPress 5.0 is released. Be sure to watch the video…