The Automattic Theme Team Announces Blockbase, Its New Block Parent Theme

Blockbase WordPress theme as seen from the site editor. Any WordPress company that builds and maintains themes worth its salt is already doing at least some preliminary work as WordPress inches ever closer to bundling its upcoming block theme system. Automattic’s Theme Team is no exception. Ben Dwyer announced the team’s new Blockbase parent theme on the Theme Shaper blog …

Happy 18th Birthday, WordPress

WordPress is celebrating 18 years today since the first release of the software to the general public. That release post, titled, “WordPress Now Available,” kicked off an exciting era in the history of the blogosphere where WordPress emerged as an unofficial successor to the abandoned b2/cafelog software. Reading the comments on the first release, you can feel the energy of …

Joomla Blocks FLoC by Default, Drupal Moves to Block FLoC in Upcoming 9.2 Release

Joomla has announced plans to block Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) by default going forward. The 3.9.2.7 security update, released yesterday, added a Permissions Policy header to disable FLoC. Users can now find a new setting in Global configuration on the Site tab in the Site Settings area, where they can toggle FLoC on if desired. This change will …

Create Amazing Free Frontend Tables, Graphs, and Charts with Forminator and wpDataTables

Turning form data into insightful tables, graphs, and charts just got easier with the introduction of wpDataTables Integration for Forminator Forms. This add-on to our popular 5-star Forminator plugin will allow you to create responsive, sortable tables & charts based on Forminator’s form, quiz, and poll submissions from your WordPress site’s frontend. This feature is great for: Public Directories –  …