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Can Five for the Future Fund WordPress Research?
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Can Five for the Future Fund WordPress Research?

ByJordi Cabot

How can WordPress attract and retain more contributors? How can we assess and improve contributors, leaders, governance, transparency, discourse, and diversity in this dynamic community? Jordi Cabot proposes making research into these areas as a part of WordPress.org’s Five for the Future program.

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Gutenberg 3.5 is out with another long list…

ByDan Knauss

Gutenberg 3.5 is out with another long list of features, but the clear majority of items are improvements that refine and polish the user experience, like styles for checkbox components and states for buttons. About 50% of all Gutenberg downloads have happened in the past week since the callout in WordPress 4.9.8. There are over 100,000 active…

Decisions have consequences

ByDavid Bisset

Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudos to Craft CMS. I haven’t had a chance to give it a try yet, but…

Simple changes, big results

ByBrian Krogsgard

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