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A feature request to allow developers…

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A feature request to allow developers to modify and extend the Site Health tabs in core has been implemented in WordPress 5.8. This allows developers to add their own interfaces to the Site Health part of the WordPress admin with…

Matt Danner announced this week that…

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Matt Danner announced this week that iThemes has acquired Kadence WP and the team behind Kadence Blocks, a page-builder style block package. The acquisition also includes Kadence Theme, a WordPress theme "built for performance and easy development." 💨 Matt admits…

Harmony Romo shares a general overview…

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Harmony Romo shares a general overview of the financial health of the WordPress Foundation and its subsidiary, WordPress Community Support (WPCS), as of the beginning of 2021: "Due to the many cancellations in 2020, the program did lose money. However,…

WordPress 5.7 — What you need…

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WordPress 5.7 — What you need to know A lot of information aimed at developers was shared this week about the upcoming release of WordPress 5.7, which is scheduled to be released on March 9, 2021. 📅 The most important…

Michelle Frechette is holding a fundraiser…

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Michelle Frechette is holding a fundraiser for Big Orange Heart: "Once we get to $1000 in donations raised, I will get the Big Orange Heart logo tattooed on my wrist." 🧡 Big Orange Heart (formerly WP&UP) supports and promotes positive…

The WordPress Community Team has new…

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The WordPress Community Team has new handbook pages that give guidance to meetup organizers who want to host in-person meetups in 2021. In the announcement about this update, Angela Jin writes: "As more people get vaccinated and regions are able…

🧪 WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 is…

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🧪 WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 is now available for testing. It includes several enhancements such as lazy-load iframes, ongoing cleanup after the update to jQuery 3.5.1, and a new Robots API. Improvements to the block editor are in there too,…

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin…

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Mika Epstein explains why the plugin emails sent to developers (who have plugins in the WordPress.org repo) are anonymous. The bottom line: plugin reviewers were finding themselves targeted in rather terrifying ways, including death threats and credible threats against their…

Cory Miller brought this article to…

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Cory Miller brought this article to my attention. It's about the late Tony Hsieh of Zappos, one of Cory's entrepreneurial heroes. In the article, Lindsay Blakely delves into hard topics, like Tony's battle with depression and substance abuse. 😫 "How…

📅 Conference and Event Updates WordFest…

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📅 Conference and Event Updates WordFest Live 2021 is a 24-hour festival, celebrating all that is WordPress. Registration is now open, as well as a call for speakers and sponsors. Organized by Dan Maby, Michelle Frechette, Hauwa Abashiya, Paul Smart,…

Entrepreneurship and mental health may have…

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Entrepreneurship and mental health may have a lot of overlap. Dr. Sherry Walling is working with Dr. Michael Freeman to understand the mental health needs of entrepreneurs in a new research project you can help them with. 🧡 They have…
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