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Mark your calendars for the next major WordPress event coming up at the beginning of next week. WordCamp Europe is … Continue reading WordCamp Europe 2021 Online Schedule Announced →

Google’s controversial Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) experiment now has a feature flag within Chrome Canary (the nightly build of … Continue reading Chrome Canary Adds Flag for Disabling FLoC Testing →

“Here is my resume of professional Failures,” began his LinkedIn profile. On a site where most are apt to share … Continue reading Ujwal Thapa, Co-Founder of the WordPress Nepal Community, Passes Away →

Earlier today, the WPMarmite team released a massive study of 127 WordPress theme shops. It primarily focused on integration with … Continue reading Breaking Down WPMarmite’s 127-Shop Full Site Editing Study →

Any WordPress company that builds and maintains themes worth its salt is already doing at least some preliminary work as … Continue reading The Automattic Theme Team Announces Blockbase, Its New Block Parent Theme →

WordPress is celebrating 18 years today since the first release of the software to the general public. That release post, … Continue reading Happy 18th Birthday, WordPress →

Gutenberg 10.7 landed yesterday. Within a few hours, the development team also released version 10.7.1 of the plugin with a … Continue reading Gutenberg 10.7 Integrates With the Pattern Directory, Introduces New Block Design Controls →

Joomla has announced plans to block Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) by default going forward. The 3.9.2.7 security update, … Continue reading Joomla Blocks FLoC by Default, Drupal Moves to Block FLoC in Upcoming 9.2 Release →

Feedback for round #7 of the FSE Outreach Program opened today. Like round #6, the focus is once again on … Continue reading FSE Outreach #7: Building a Portfolio in the Upcoming Template-Editing Mode →

My Codeless Website is a new tool that detects if a site was built using a website builder. The app … Continue reading My Codeless Website App Detects Site Builder Tools →

GitHub, in partnership with Tidelift, has set aside June 7-12, 2021, as Maintainer Week, a time for open source maintainers … Continue reading Open Source Maintainer Week Begins June 7 with Activities, Events, and Resources →

The internet was set abuzz yesterday after Google officially confirmed that it has been testing a Follow button for websites … Continue reading Google Aims to “Revitalize RSS” and Recapture Users’ Trust with Experimental Follow Button in Chrome →