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WordPress 5.9 is starting to take shape as Josepha Haden Chomphosy published a planning roundup at the end of last … Continue reading WordPress 5.9 Proposed Scope: Major Push Towards Full-Site Editing, Plus a New Default Theme →

In July, Termly announced its acquisition of the GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner plugin. The new direction was an overhaul of … Continue reading Termly Responds to Feedback, Updates Its Cookie Consent Banner Limits →

Automattic is organizing its 2nd annual Worldwide WordPress 5K during the month of October this year. Registration for the race … Continue reading Worldwide WordPress Virtual 5K Set for October 1-30, 2021 →

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 →

What if WordPress developers lived in a world where we could create PHP-based templates that would output data on the … Continue reading A World Where (Some) Block Development Is Merely a Templating System With No Build Process? →

Another two weeks have flown by, and another Gutenberg plugin update is in the books. I always look forward to … Continue reading Gutenberg 11.4 Overhauls Galleries, Adds Axial Padding for Buttons, and Lays Groundwork for Global Spacing →

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 →

In December 2020, WordPress launched its new “Learn” platform with free courses, workshops, and lesson plans. Since then, the Training … Continue reading Proposal for Adding Badges and Other ‘Learner Achievements’ to WordPress Profiles →

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 →

Earlier this week, websevendev released its fourth WordPress plugin to the official directory named Block Attributes. The extension allows end-users … Continue reading Adding Custom HTML Attributes With the Block Attributes Plugin →