Your Hosting Backups Are Automatically Safe With WPMU DEV…100% Guaranteed!

Fire, flood, rain, or shine, WPMU DEV’s managed WordPress hosting keeps your backups safe and fine. If you follow IT-related news, you may recall the March 2021 fire that destroyed one of Europe’s largest hosting provider’s data centres in Strasbourg, France, knocking out major websites around the world. Does your website disaster recovery plan include total hosting backup redundancy? Source: …

Chrome Canary Adds Flag for Disabling FLoC Testing

Google’s controversial Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) experiment now has a feature flag within Chrome Canary (the nightly build of Chrome for developers) that allows users to opt out. In January 2020, Google announced its plans to discontinue support for third-party cookies in Chrome within two years. The first bits and pieces of the company’s Privacy Sandbox initiative started landing …

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 …