Automattic has acquired Tumblr, a long-time friendly rival company, for an undisclosed sum. Just six years after Yahoo acquired Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the company is said to have been acquired for “a nominal amount” from Verizon, who indirectly acquired Tumblr when it bought Yahoo in 2017. Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg declined to comment on the financial deals of the …
WooCommerce 3.7 Introduces New Blocks, Updates Minimum WordPress and PHP Requirements
WooCommerce 3.7 was released today after four months in development. This minor release is backwards compatible with previous versions. Despite containing more than 1,290 commits, 3.7 is smaller than previous releases, as the WooCommerce team is working towards delivering more frequent releases to improve the stability of the platform. WooCommerce 3.7 bundles updates from the WooCommerce Blocks feature plugin version …
3 Reasons Why I Gladly Welcome Competition
When it comes to facing the crowded field, I say: Bring it on. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Super Safe & Secure Single Sign On Surprise!
As more and more of you manage more and more sites via The Hub we’ve got some super big things in the works, starting with single sign on (SSO) goodness. Take a look through the documentation now or read on for a more narrative version, to ask any questions and all that jazz. Essentially, if you choose to opt-in, you can …
BuddyPress 5.0 to Add Category for Storing BuddyPress Blocks
BuddyPress 5.0 will include a way for developers to organize their blocks under a BuddyPress blocks category. Mathieu Viet shared a code example on the BuddyPress Dev Updates blog, demonstrating how to set the category property of a block to BuddyPress when registering a block type. The blocks registered with this category will appear under the BuddyPress panel in the …
Jetpack 7.6 Improves AMP Compatibility, Adds Preview and Upgrade Nudge for Blocks Only Available on Paid Plans
Jetpack 7.6 was released this week with several improvements to the plugin’s AMP compatibility. Automattic was one of the earliest publishing partners on Google’s AMP project, as well as the original author of the official AMP plugin for WordPress. This release makes three more Jetpack features compatible with AMP: Related Posts now display on AMP views. AMP images are now …
4 Tips for Launching a Successful Rebrand
A break with the past can be just what the doctor ordered. View original post at Entrepreneur…
EditorsKit 1.9 Introduces Block Styles, Utility Classes, and Full Height Editor Screen
EditorsKit 1.9 was released this week with a new Block Styling feature for the image and cover blocks. It allows users to change these blocks to be displayed as circular, diagonal, inverted diagonal, rounded corners, or with a shadow. It also adds a “full screen height” display option to the Advanced block settings panel. This makes it easy to turn …
O’Reilly Partners with Netlify to Publish Free E-Book: Modern Web Development on the JAMstack
If you are following the JAMstack (JavaScript, APIs, and markup) craze and want to learn more about the history and best practices of the architecture, O’Reilly has published a short book called Modern Web Development on the JAMstack that is now available as a free download. Netlify CEO Mathias Biilmann, who coined the term “JAMstack” and pioneered hosting for it, …
All Vodka Is the Same. So Why Is Some More Expensive Than Others?
It’s about what people are really paying for. View original post at Entrepreneur…