Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress
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The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. On this week’s episode, we talk with Sé Reed and Courtney Robertson about the WP Community Collective, a group that aims to help fund WordPress contributors and community initiatives. This was a fun conversation about who open source contributions can get funded,…
The court floor has been polished, the gatorade coolers have been filled, and the announcer has finished their vocal warm up. That can only mean one thing, Plugin Madness has officially begun! The community has chosen the very best 64 plugins out there and now it’s time to put them to the test. Who will…
Gutenberg 12.8 landed in the WordPress plugin directory earlier today. I have been tinkering with many of the features as they were committed over the last couple of weeks. There are some things that I am excited about. The Web Fonts API is something I have patiently waited months for, but the ability to quickly…
Rich Tabor, the Senior Product Manager of WordPress Experience at GoDaddy, tweeted that he had an idea for a new block at the end of last week. Shortly after, the Markdown Comment Block plugin appeared on WordPress.org. The plugin is a one-off block. It allows users to enter notes directly into the post editor that…
The year is coming to an end, it’s time to look ahead. Besides guessing what the web design trends for 2024 are going to be, it also makes sense to see what we can expect from WordPress. Especially since Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy recently published a proposed WordPress roadmap for 2024. In this post,…
Over the weekend, WordPress.org meta contributors removed the active install growth charts for plugins, a key metric that many developers and a handful of services rely on for tracking. “Insufficient data obfuscation” is the cryptic reason cited for the charts’ removal, but the decision-making process was not transparent. In a ticket titled “Bring back the…