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On the podcast today we have Destiny Kanno and Joe Simpson. Destiny and Joe are the key figures behind a new initiative called BlackPress. The goal of BlackPress is to bring more creators of Black African descent into the WordPress community, and also provide a community space for those already there to connect, learn from,…
As a WordPress beginner, you may have avoided building custom themes in the recent past, thinking it required a complicated coding process. Now you can customize your entire website with Full Site Editing (FSE), but there’s still the issue of exporting your custom designs. Fortunately, you can easily create a block theme with the Create…
Automattic has acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress from German developer Matthias Pfefferle, who will be joining the company to continue improving support for federated platforms. Pfefferle, who is also the author of the Webmention plugin, said his new role is to see how Automattic’s products can benefit from open protocols like ActivityPub. In 2021,…
WordPress 6.2.1 was released today. Those with automatic background updates enabled should see a notice in their email, as updates rolled out earlier today. This is a maintenance and security release that includes important fixes for five security vulnerabilities outlined by core contributor and release co-lead Jb Audras: Block themes parsing shortcodes in user generated…
Gutenberg 12.6 landed in the WordPress plugin directory yesterday. The update includes several transform-related enhancements and new Read More and Post Author Biography blocks. Users can now also show visible labels via the Social Icons block. Nothing seems to be broken with this release, which is always welcome. Gutenberg has not fundamentally wrecked something I…
Earlier this week, the WordPress Biratnagar Facebook group announced a WordCamp scholarship in honor of Ujwal Thapa. The goal is to honor the legacy left behind by one of Nepal’s leaders both inside and outside of the WordPress community. Thapa passed away a month ago at age 44 from complications with COVID-19. He was a…