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  • Gatsby Launches New WordPress Integration, Expanding Support for Headless Architecture

    Gatsby Launches New WordPress Integration, Expanding Support for Headless Architecture

    The Gatsby source WordPress plugin, Gatsby Cloud’s official WordPress integration, has been marked stable as of v4 and has been released to the public. The plugin sources data from WordPress for headless setups that use Gatsby on the frontend. It is a complete rewrite of Gatsby’s previous source plugin and works in combination with the…

  • WP Engine Invests in Headless WordPress, Hires WPGraphQL Maintainer

    WP Engine Invests in Headless WordPress, Hires WPGraphQL Maintainer

    WP Engine is deepening its investment in headless WordPress with the creation of a new team dedicated to furthering the technology developers rely on when opting for this architecture. The company has hired WPGraphQL creator and maintainer Jason Bahl as part of this new team and will be investing in more engineers and other roles…

  • Newspack Publishes Showcase with 60 Newsrooms Launched

    Newspack Publishes Showcase with 60 Newsrooms Launched

    Newspack, a project funded by the Google News initiative and WordPress.com, has published a showcase of 60 news sites running on the platform. WordPress.com announced its plans to build the Newspack CMS two years ago and successfully signed on more than 50 sites in the first year. The cloud-based platform is open source and highly…

  • New Report Estimates WordPress’ Market Share of US Higher Education Institution Websites at 40.8%

    New Report Estimates WordPress’ Market Share of US Higher Education Institution Websites at 40.8%

    A new report from eQAfy, a company that collects and analyzes data about higher education websites, has benchmarked which content management systems US institutions are using. The report is a snapshot of data from December 2020, sourced from the National Center for Education Statistics IPEDS database. After scanning a list of 4,000 active institutions, EQAfy’s headless browser…

  • FSE and WordPress Themes: What Does the MVP Look Like?

    FSE and WordPress Themes: What Does the MVP Look Like?

    Josepha Haden Chomphosy, the Executive Director of WordPress, posted a follow-up to her outline of the upcoming year. Questions mounted about what a minimum viable product (MVP) looked like for Full Site Editing (FSE), which is expected to be ready in the Gutenberg plugin in April. The core team is also shooting for a June…

  • WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 Is Ready for Testing

    WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 Is Ready for Testing

    WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 was released this week on schedule and is ready for wider testing. This release will introduce 68 new features and enhancements, dozens of bug fixes, and versions 9.3 – 9.9 of the Gutenberg plugin. A few of the highlights expected in 5.7 include the following: Lazy-load iframes: When WordPress 5.4 added…

  • Skinning the WordPress Admin, CSS Custom Properties on the Way

    Skinning the WordPress Admin, CSS Custom Properties on the Way

    Using CSS custom properties for the WordPress admin color scheme system is listed for the WordPress 5.7 milestone. It feels low-key enough that most would pass it over as a simple upgrade to keep up with the times. However, this feature can create ripples that spread and benefit the ecosystem in the years to come.…

  • WordPress 5.7 Will Make It Easier to Migrate From HTTP to HTTPS

    WordPress 5.7 Will Make It Easier to Migrate From HTTP to HTTPS

    The next major release of WordPress will make it much easier for users to migrate their sites from HTTP to HTTPS. It introduces new capabilities to detect if the user’s hosting environment has support for HTTPS and provides a one-click update process, handling mixed content rewrites where possible. “A major pain point in WordPress has…

  • Block Manager Redesign Coming Soon

    Block Manager Redesign Coming Soon

    WordPress’ block management interface was introduced in Gutenberg 5.3, released in March 2019, and is due for an update. In case you haven’t explored the editor’s Tools menu, the block manager setting allows you to select which blocks will be shown or hidden in the block inserter. Last week, Automattic engineer Nik Tsekouras opened a…

  • WordPress Launches WP Briefing Podcast, Episodes Expected Every 2 Weeks

    WordPress Launches WP Briefing Podcast, Episodes Expected Every 2 Weeks

    True to its name, the first WP Briefing podcast lasted just over 12 minutes. Josepha Haden Chomphosy, the Executive Director of WordPress, jump-started the second month of 2021 with a show that should arrive on the our doorstep every two weeks. With what seems to be overwhelming positive support on Twitter, the podcast was welcomed…

  • GitLab Drops Bronze/Starter Tier in Pricing Update

    GitLab Drops Bronze/Starter Tier in Pricing Update

    This week GitLab announced a pricing change that eliminates its Bronze/Starter tier in favor of a three-tier subscription model. The Starter tier, previously offered at $4/month, included features like single-team project management, next day business support, and 2,000 CI/CD minutes. GitLab’s updated pricing page shows the benefits that were included in the Starter plan are…

  • ElasticPress.io Service Considers Next Move after Elasticsearch Abandons Open Source Licensing

    ElasticPress.io Service Considers Next Move after Elasticsearch Abandons Open Source Licensing

    Elastic, makers of the search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, have re-licensed its core product so that it is no longer open source. The company is moving new versions of both Kibana and Elasticsearch from the Apache 2.0-license to be dual-licensed under the Server Side Public License (SSPL) and the Elastic License, which do not meet the Open Source Definition. In a…