Plugins

What comes as a surprise to few, Google has updated its content guidelines for its Web Stories format. For users … Continue reading Using the Web Stories for WordPress Plugin? You Better Play By Google’s Rules →

Created by Donna Peplinskie, a Product Wrangler at Automattic, the Book Review Block plugin is nearly three years old. However, … Continue reading Diving Into the Book Review Block Plugin →

Two weeks ago, the Gutenberg team put out an open call for block-based widgets feedback. I had already written a … Continue reading Are Block-Based Widgets Ready To Land in WordPress 5.6? →

Ari Stathopoulos released his new Local Gravatars plugin last week. The goal of the plugin is to allow site owners … Continue reading Privacy-Conscious WordPress Plugin Caches and Serves Gravatar Images Locally →

Munir Kamal shows no signs of slowing down. He continues to push forward with new features for his EditorPlus plugin, … Continue reading EditorPlus 1.9 Adds Animation Builder for the Block Editor →

Jetpack’s highly anticipated 9.0 release has landed, introducing some of the new features the team has previewed over the past … Continue reading Jetpack 9.0 Introduces Loom Block, Twitter Threads Feature, and Facebook and Instagram oEmbeds →

I have been eagerly awaiting the moment when I could install a theme and truly test Gutenberg’s full-site editing feature. … Continue reading Exploring Full-Site Editing With the Q WordPress Theme →

Gutenberg 9.1 was released to the public on Wednesday. The team announced over 200 commits from 77 contributors in its … Continue reading Gutenberg 9.1 Adds Patterns Category Dropdown and Reverts Block-Based Widgets in the Customizer →

Jetpack 9.0, coming on October 6, will debut a new feature that allows users to share blog posts as Twitter … Continue reading Jetpack 9.0 to Introduce New Feature for Publishing WordPress Posts to Twitter as Threads →

I am often on the hunt for those hidden gems when it comes to block-related plugins. I like to see … Continue reading Supercharge the Default WordPress Theme With Twentig, a Toolbox for Twenty Twenty →

Facebook and Instagram are dropping unauthenticated oEmbed support on October 24. WordPress will be removing both Facebook and Instagram as oEmbed providers in … Continue reading Coming in Jetpack 9.0: Shortcode Embeds Module Updated to Handle Facebook and Instagram oEmbeds →