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Last week, I published an opinion piece on the barrier to entry in the modern WordPress era. The article followed a tweet and post by Chris Wiegman that stated the current learning curve was extremely high, regardless of past experience. Members of the community responded with a flurry of articles, podcasts, and videos. Because modern…
Castos, a WordPress-powered podcast hosting provider, announced a $756K pre-seed fundraising round today from Automattic, Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, and other individuals. The company raised money from all the investors in this round via a SAFE note, which founder and CEO Craig Hewitt said is a fairly standard investment vehicle for companies…
The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode, we talk with Brian Gardner about the Frost theme for WordPress. Find out about Brian’s experience submitting the theme to the WordPress theme repository and why he waited for WordPress 6.2 before releasing this new version of the Frost…
We can all agree that WordPress has come a long way since its beginning and that it grew into something a lot more than blogging software. At its core, it’s still a content management system (CMS), but with over 59,000 plugins in the wordpress.org directory, you can customize it to be much more. The reason…
On May 5, Patchstack published a security advisory about a high severity reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ACF (Advanced Custom Fields), potentially affecting more than 4.5 million users. WP Engine patched the vulnerability on May 4, but the Akamai Security Intelligence Group (SIG) is reporting that attackers began attempting to exploit it within 24…
WooCommerce is a wildly popular plugin. This eCommerce solution provides a simple yet powerful base for your custom online store. However, while millions of storeowners trust it with their sales, you might not know about one of its best built-in tools: WooCommerce blocks. Fortunately, these hidden gems don’t have to remain in the shadows. By…