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President Joe Biden took office today and unveiled a new whitehouse.gov that has been relaunched on WordPress. The previous administration … Continue reading Biden White House Sticks with WordPress for Website Relaunch →

The Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach Program has now concluded its first round of testing. Its first focus area was … Continue reading First Round of the FSE Outreach Program Concludes, Identifies Template-Editing Mode Problems →

Ross Morsali, via his brand Code Amp, released the Custom Layouts plugin last week. The plugin’s goal is to provide … Continue reading Custom Layouts Plugin Creates a Posts Display System for Both the Classic and Block Editors →

WordPress users on Android may have noticed a new prompt in the mobile app for publishing Story posts. This feature … Continue reading WordPress for Android Previews New Story Posts Feature, Now in Public Beta →

Kinsta, a managed WordPress hosting company, announced its local development tool named DevKinsta earlier today. The tool allows developers to … Continue reading Kinsta Launches Free Local WordPress Development Tool →

In December, Mapbox shocked its open source contributor community with the news that Mapbox GL JS version 2.0 would be … Continue reading MapLibre Launches as Official Open Source Successor to Mapbox GL JS →

If you haven’t yet tested the Gutenberg team’s progress on the full site editing (FSE) project, WordPress developer Carrie Dils … Continue reading New Local Blueprint Enables One-Click Setup for Testing Full Site Editing →

Yesterday, Francesca Marano opened a proposal for changing the phases of the core WordPress release cycle. It was a recap … Continue reading WordPress Proposal To Align Release Cycle With Industry Standard →

WPScan, a security company that maintains a database of WordPress vulnerabilities, has been officially designated as a CVE (Common Vulnerability … Continue reading WPScan Can Now Assign CVE Numbers for WordPress Core, Plugin, and Theme Vulnerabilities →

Google has launched a new Search Console performance report for sites that appear in Google News. Publishers can now track … Continue reading Google Introduces Performance Report for Google News Publishers →

WordPress’ block editor, colloquially still widely known as Gutenberg, is making inroads into the segment of users who have heavily … Continue reading Gutenberg’s Faster Performance Is Eroding Page Builders’ Dominance →