WordPress News

The sixth call for testing has…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

The sixth call for testing has been issued as part of the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. This time there's a focus on landing pages. If you haven’t been able to participate yet, now is a great time to do…

StudioPress announced some changes this week.…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

StudioPress announced some changes this week. They are making the Genesis Framework and its Sample Theme available for free. StudioPress-made themes will no longer be sold individually, and "to prepare for Full Site Editing themes," all but the top ten…

Robert Jacobi has joined Cloudways as…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

Business

Robert Jacobi has joined Cloudways as Director of WordPress. We've included a lot of his insights from his blog and Post Status Slack over the past few months. Robert will be leading the WordPress business unit with "strategic partnerships, building…

This week the formal announcement was…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

This week the formal announcement was made that CC Search (now Openverse) is part of the WordPress open source project. You can follow along with Openverse on its own Make page at make.wordpress.org/openverse. 🪐

John James Jacoby has created a…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

John James Jacoby has created a utility called Persistent Dismissible. Here's how he describes it, in his words: "How many times have you written some WordPress code to help you with storing the state of whether-or-not a logged-in user clicked…

Yoast Readability Analysis is celebrating its…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

Yoast Readability Analysis is celebrating its 5th anniversary. In just five years they have made readability analysis available in over 15 languages! 🙌 Camille Cunningham has posted an interview between CEO Marieke van de Rakt and Irene Strikkers that explains…

Congrats to WebDevStudios which has been…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

Congrats to WebDevStudios which has been named a WordPressVIP Gold Agency Partner. They are one of only 14 partners in the group and the first agency in several years to be added. 🥇 Speaking of WebDevStudios, a recent interview was…

According to W3Techs: Nginx is now…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

According to W3Techs: Nginx is now the most popular web server, edging out Apache with just over one-third of the webserver market. 📈 Apache is close but declining. The gap between the two was 6.6% a year ago. 📉

Kellen Mace explains how to use…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

Kellen Mace explains how to use WPGraphQL with Gravity Forms to send and receive form data to/from a headless WordPress application. There's also

WP Rocket shared some good SEO…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

WP Rocket shared some good SEO tips and best practices to get ready for Google's Page Experience Update and Core Web Vitals. 🔍

People of WordPress shares the story…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

People of WordPress shares the story of Fike Komala from Indonesia. Fike used WordPress to create content and build a career where she can work remotely from different locations around the world. 🌏

Avi Goldman has a new project,…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

Avi Goldman has a new project, emailresourc.es. It houses a collection of email resources to help you through your email workflow steps. 📧

🐦 Here are some worthwhile Twitter…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

🐦 Here are some worthwhile Twitter threads (including some non-WordPress material) that I wish were blog posts: Emily Triplett Lentz shared her 10 best tips for improving your writing skills. Eric Karkovack got a lot of replies to his question…

Upcoming Events 📆 WordSesh 2021 was…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

Upcoming Events 📆 WordSesh 2021 was announced with sessions on May 25 – 27 and workshops from May 28 – June 1. Registration is free. 🆓 WPCampus 2021 Online is a free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in…