The WordPress Themes Directory is now hosting more than 300 block themes, a milestone for the dedicated theme developers who have persevered through the growing pains and evolution of block theming. WP Engine is one of the newest theme authors who helped put the directory over the 300 mark with its submission of Frost. With its clean, minimal design, 36 …
WordPress Community Team Evolves WordCamp Format to Promote Adoption, Training, and Networking for Professionals
WordPress’ Community Team hailed a new era of WordCamps in its recent announcement outlining a significant shift in the purpose for the events. In the past, WordCamps have had a mostly predictable format of presenting inspirational talks on exciting things people are doing with WordPress, business topics, and the latest trends, with short networking opportunities and a contributor day appended …
WordPress Contributors Discuss How Core Can Better Enable AI Innovation
As AI-powered technology is rapidly evolving to exponentially extend human capabilities, WordPress contributors do not want the platform to get left behind. AI-powered website creation could even become a threat to its existence, more than a competing CMS, if WordPress doesn’t ensure the platform is easily pluggable for AI-powered extensions. A new discussion on the Core developer’s blog asks what …
Advanced Custom Fields Plugin Patches Reflected XSS Vulnerability
Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has patched a reflected XSS vulnerability that affects versions 6.1.5 and below of ACF and ACF Pro, potentially impacting more than 2+ million users. It was discovered by Patchstack researcher Rafie Muhammad in May 2, 2023, and patched by ACF developers in version 6.1.6 on May 5, 2023. Patchstack published a security bulletin and Muhammad described the …
Gutenberg 15.7 Adds Site Logo Upload to Inspector Controls
Gutenberg 15.7 was released this week, adding Site Logo upload and replacement from the inspector controls sidebar. This feature is still available in the block toolbar but it feels like a natural addition to the inspector, as it was previously available in a similar fashion in the Customizer. Here users can easily adjust the logo width and set whether the …
Caseproof Acquires WishList Member
Caseproof, makers of MemberPress, has acquired WishList Products, the parent company of WishList Member and CourseCure. The Wishlist team, with the exception of co-founder Tracy Childers, will continue supporting and developing the products under the leadership of Caseproof founder Blair Williams. WishList Member is one of the longest running WordPress membership plugins with a 14-year history. The plugin has been …
#74 – Ahmed Kabir Chaion on How to Find Your Place in WordPress Even if You Don’t Code
Transcript [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case finding a place in the WordPress community as a non coder. If you’d like to subscribe to the …
First Round of WordCamp US 2023 Tickets Sold Out
Tickets for WordCamp US 2023 went on sale this morning and quickly sold out within a few hours, leaving many hoping for another opportunity in the next round. WCUS, WordPress’ flagship event in the Western Hemisphere, is happening August 24-26, 2023, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland. Tickets cost $50 and include access to 40 …
Priced Out of API Access: Jetpack and WordPress.com Discontinue Support for Twitter Auto-Sharing
Jetpack and WordPress.com announced they will no longer support the Twitter API in their products. Last month Twitter suspended WordPress.com’s access to its API, which broke Jetpack Social Sharing – the mechanism that auto-tweets published posts. Although WordPress.com’s access to the API was reinstated for a few weeks, the company has now been priced out of offering features that rely …
Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins Showcases 108 Most Popular Plugins
WordPress core committer Pascal Birchler has published a Periodic Table of WordPress Plugins to celebrate the software’s upcoming 20th anniversary. The table showcases 108 of the most popular free plugins on WordPress.org. Ten years ago Birchler created a website that showed the most popular plugins in a similar table layout, ranking them by number of active installations. This chart has …