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  • Gutenberg 3.6 Adds New Icons for All Core Blocks

    Gutenberg 3.6 Adds New Icons for All Core Blocks

    Gutenberg 3.6 was released today, featuring a design overhaul for the core icons in the block inserter. The blocks now use Material icons, which offer more options than the Dashicons. This update also improves the icons for the core embeds, which now display the corresponding icon for each embed service. Gutenberg testers logged an issue…

  • WordPress for iOS 10.6 Adds A Detailed Site Activity Log

    WordPress for iOS 10.6 Adds A Detailed Site Activity Log

    In the past few months, the WordPress mobile application for iOS has quietly received a steady round of improvements. Version 10.5 increased its compatibility with Gutenberg. Earlier this year, Gutenberg and the iOS app didn’t get along particularly well. About a month ago in 10.4, an activity log was added that allows users to see…

  • Yoast SEO 8.0 Introduces Gutenberg Sidebar Integration, Revamps Classic Editor Meta Box

    Yoast SEO 8.0 Introduces Gutenberg Sidebar Integration, Revamps Classic Editor Meta Box

    Yoast SEO 8.0, featuring the plugin’s first pass at integrating with the Gutenberg interface. This major update also revamps the classic editor’s meta box for those who do not have the Gutenberg plugin installed. In the past, the Yoast SEO meta box was displayed below the post editor. In the Gutenberg UI, the meta box…

  • Syed Balkhi Launches A WordPress-focused Growth Accelerator Fund

    Syed Balkhi Launches A WordPress-focused Growth Accelerator Fund

    Syed Balkhi, founder of WPBeginner, has announced a growth accelerator fund aimed at helping companies focused on WordPress prosper. The fund will provide between $100K-500K to a small group of selected companies. In addition to the funding, selected companies will be able to take advantage of Awesome Motive’s media presence, network of business associates, and…

  • Sami Keijonen’s Foxland Themes and Plugins are Now Available for Free

    Sami Keijonen’s Foxland Themes and Plugins are Now Available for Free

    WordPress theme designer and developer Sami Keijonen has made all of his theme and plugin products at Foxland available for free. Keijonen’s WordPress.org-hosted themes are active on more than 10,000 websites. During the past three years he began taking on more client work, which gave him less time for theme building and maintenance. Last month…

  • New BackYourStack Tool Drives Financial Support for Open Source Projects

    New BackYourStack Tool Drives Financial Support for Open Source Projects

    Open Collective launched in 2017 as a new organization that helps groups raise funds and manage them transparently. The service is now widely used by many open source projects. Webpack, one of the first major Open Collective success stories, was able to fund its first full-time developer through the service and is now operating on…

  • Ephox, Creators of TinyMCE, Rebrand to Tiny Technologies Inc.

    Ephox, Creators of TinyMCE, Rebrand to Tiny Technologies Inc.

    Ephox, the creators of the TinyMCE editor library that’s been used by WordPress for more than 10 years, has changed its company name to Tiny Technologies Incorporated. The new name provides an at-a-glance view of what the company does and establishes a tighter relationship with its flagship product. To make it easier for you to…

  • Yoast SEO Team is Testing Gutenberg Integration Coming in Version 8.0 Next Week

    Yoast SEO Team is Testing Gutenberg Integration Coming in Version 8.0 Next Week

    Joost de Valk tweeted a sneak peek of the Gutenberg integration the Yoast SEO team is currently testing. The plugin has more than 5 million active installations and is one that packs a lot into its wide meta box. Users have been curious about what compatibility with the new editor will look like for Yoast…

  • Advanced Custom Fields to Add Gutenberg Compatibility in Version 5.0, Slated for September

    Advanced Custom Fields to Add Gutenberg Compatibility in Version 5.0, Slated for September

    The Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) team published an announcement today, assuring users that Gutenberg compatibility is in the works and will be available in version 5.0 of the free version in September 2018. The plugin, created by Elliot Condon, makes it easy for developers to add custom fields to WordPress edit screens, including posts, users,…

  • Watch the Top 10 Sessions from WordCamp Europe 2018

    Watch the Top 10 Sessions from WordCamp Europe 2018

    The results of the WCEU 2018 Attendee Survey are in: 98% of the 566 respondents from 49 countries said they would recommend WCEU to a friend and 90% are very likely to attend the next event in Berlin. Of those who participated in the survey, 49% were attending WCEU for the first time and 37%…

  • First Look at Live Demo of the Gutenberg Content Editor for Drupal 8

    First Look at Live Demo of the Gutenberg Content Editor for Drupal 8

    Drupal Europe has just announced its program for the upcoming event in Darmstadt, Germany, September 10-14. The conference will host more than 1,600 Drupal professionals and enthusiasts for 162 hours of sessions and 9 in-depth workshops. Automattic is sponsoring the Open Web Lounge networking space and Matt Mullenweg will be joining Dries Buytaert and Barb…

  • Gutenberg Plugin Garners Mixed Reactions from New Wave of Testers

    Gutenberg Plugin Garners Mixed Reactions from New Wave of Testers

    WordPress 4.9.8 was released as an automatic update last week, featuring the “Try Gutenberg” callout. The goal of the prompt is to get more users testing the new editor and to raise awareness. Within the first 72 hours of the prompt going into user dashboards, sites with Gutenberg installed have shot up to more than…

  • WordPress.com Partners with Pexels to Offer Diverse, Free Stock Photo Library

    WordPress.com Partners with Pexels to Offer Diverse, Free Stock Photo Library

    WordPress.com has partnered with Pexels, a popular stock photo library, to offer convenient access to stock photos inside the post editor. Hundreds of high quality free stock photo sites have cropped up on the web over the past few years, but Pexels is differentiating itself with a commitment to hosting diversity-focused images and videos that…

  • Official Gutenberg Information Site Updated with Interactive Frontend Demo

    Official Gutenberg Information Site Updated with Interactive Frontend Demo

    The official Gutenberg information site has been updated to feature an interactive demo that can be manipulated on the frontend. It is based on Frontenberg, a site created by Tom Nowell, VIP Wrangler at Automattic. It loads an instance of WordPress with Gutenberg on the frontend so visitors don’t have to login or create a…