The Week in Review

BusinessThe Week in Review

WordPress 6.2 "Dolphy" The latest version of WordPress, 6.2 "Dolphy," has now been released. This new version includes various updates and improvements designed to enhance the user experience for developers and website administrators. One of the most significant additions is…

Business Roundup Week Ending March 31

Mike Demopoulos

April 1, 2023

Web Developer Services Market 2023 Size and Forecast to 2031 Market Watch reports on a new report by Industry Research. -(Powered by Absolute Reports) on the state of the web developer market. It also talks about how COVID-19 and the…

Community Roundup Week Ending March 31

Michelle Frechette

March 31, 2023

The Wayback Machine Do you ever use any of the mechanisms in place for looking back over time? Whether it's the Wayback Machine, Facebook Memories, or simply scrolling back through the photos in your phone, our histories make us who…

WordPress 6.2 “Dolphy” • Gutenberg Phase 3 • Test Plugin Dependencies

Courtney Robertson

March 29, 2023

🥳 WordPress 6.2 is now available! If you haven't started testing yet, now is the time.

Gutenberg is a 4 phase approach to nearly all areas of WordPress. Phase 1 was Posts and Pages. Phase 2 included Themes. Matias Ventura shares what we could see in Phase 3.

Andy Fragen has posted a call for testing on the Plugin Dependencies plugin.

Community Roundup Week Ending March 24

Michelle Frechette

March 23, 2023

Today I'm acknowledging all of your hard work and efforts to be where you are and have achieved what you have achieved.

WordPress 6.2 RC4 • Code Generators and GPL

Courtney Robertson

March 22, 2023

We're just one week away from WordPress 6.2. Have you tested it and read the field guide yet? If you write code for a plugin that is in the WordPress Plugins Repo, you'll want to ensure the code is GPL compatible.

Community Roundup Week Ending March 17

Michelle Frechette

March 17, 2023

Events are back! As of today there are eighteen upcoming WordCamps on the schedule, and more are in the beginning planning stages.

Tech Roundup Week Ending March 17

Mike Demopoulos

March 17, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

GPT-4: Everything we know so far GPT-4 is the latest in a series of natural language processing models created by OpenAI, one of the world's leading AI research organizations. The model is designed to generate human-like text and can be…

Business Roundup Week Ending March 17

Mike Demopoulos

March 17, 2023

Equalize Digital Receives Pre-Seed Investment from Emilia Capital Equalize Digital recently received a pre-seed investment from venture capital firm Emilia Capital. (Partners Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt from Yoast fame) The investment will help accelerate their mission…

WordPress 6.2 RC2 • Plugin Review Team Retirement News • WP20 Giveaway

Courtney Robertson

March 16, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

Discover WordPress 6.2's new features, accessibility enhancements, and developer updates. Contribute to the community by joining the Contributor Working Group. Explore new block theme template. Engage in discussions on mentorship programs. Celebrate WP20 and participate in the Wapuu Coloring Giveaway.

Business Roundup Week Ending March 10

Mike Demopoulos

March 10, 2023

Google Optimize Sunsetting Google recently announced it would shut down its Optimize and Optimize 360 services. These tools were designed to help website owners optimize their content and user experience through A/B testing and personalization features. The decision to shut…

Tech Roundup Week Ending March 10

Mike Demopoulos

March 10, 2023

6.2 Live Video Demo Anne McCarthy and Rich Tabor (moderated by Nathan Wrigley) give a video demo on WordPress.tv State of WordPress Security In 2022 Patchstack released a retrospective whitepaper on 2022 and the state of WordPress Security. Pattern Manager…

Community Roundup Week Ending March 10

Michelle Frechette

March 10, 2023

Community Roundup Week Ending March 10, including layoffs, resources, upcoming events, Leo Gopal in the spotlight, and other quick links.

WordPress 6.2 RC1 • Dev Notes • Learning Path for WP Devs

Courtney Robertson

March 8, 2023

WordPress 6.2 Beta 5 is out now, and RC1 will ship on Thursday, March 9. We're just a few weeks away from the final release on March 28. Have you been able to start testing yet? Read the latest from the DevNotes in our WordPress 6.2 section.

A proposed learning pathway for beginning WordPress developers has been proposed. Weigh in with your feedback.

Tech Roundup Week Ending March 3

Mike Demopoulos

March 3, 2023