Bing Launches URL Submissions Plugin for WordPress

Bing has launched its first official plugin for WordPress aimed at helping site owners get their content indexed immediately. Instead of waiting for a bingbot to crawl the site, the plugin notifies Bing of any new or updated content automatically using its Submit URL API. “Bing believes that the future for search engines is less about crawling to discover content and …

Shipper, Now Much Less Sh**ter (1.1.5)

When we first set out to build a migration plugin, we reached for the stars. We probably shouldn’t have. We didn’t want to build your regular ‘zip this up and transfer it across’ plugin that failed on most shared hosts or any sort of decent sized site. And we wanted 100% success rates. Something brand new. File by file. Heck …

Develop, Test, and Showcase Blocks in Isolation With BlockBook

Riad Benguella released BlockBook, a project that promises to overhaul how developers build blocks and more, on Tuesday. It is a development environment that allows creators to work with blocks in isolation, outside of WordPress. Developers can view individual block properties and test output from a defined block library. BlockBook is available as an npm package. Developers can also contribute …