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The WordPress Community Isn’t Ready to Leave Twitter
Posted by WP Tavern on February 3, 2023 at 7:13 pm

WordPress Plugin Developers Alerted Ahead of Twitter API Changes

Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering…
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New Proposal Calls for Automated Performance Monitoring for WordPress Core
Posted by WP Tavern on February 2, 2023 at 7:15 pm

New Proposal Calls for Automated Performance Monitoring for WordPress Core

WordPress Core Committer Adam Silverstein has published a proposal for adding automated performance tooling that would offer continuous monitoring for performance issues…
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WordPress Training Team Seeks Feedback with Individual Learner Survey
Posted by WP Tavern on February 2, 2023 at 10:59 am

WordPress Training Team Seeks Feedback with Individual Learner Survey

In 2020, WordPress began prioritizing education as critical to the project’s future, launching Learn.WordPress to support beginners to advanced learners with free…
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WordPress.com Makes Major Unannounced Pricing Changes, Slashes Free Storage Limits
Posted by WP Tavern on February 1, 2023 at 8:01 pm

WordPress.com Introduces Browse Mode, Style Book, and Push to Global Styles Features

WordPress.com users are getting early access to some of the major new features that are shipping with the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release….
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#61 – Robert Rowley on Securing Your WordPress Website
Posted by WP Tavern on February 1, 2023 at 7:44 am

#61 – Robert Rowley on Securing Your WordPress Website

Transcript [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which…
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A Look Under the Hood at Engine Awesome, a Laravel-based SaaS App Using Gutenberg
Posted by WP Tavern on January 31, 2023 at 3:52 pm

A Look Under the Hood at Engine Awesome, a Laravel-based SaaS App Using Gutenberg

During the 2022 State of the Word, Matt Mullenweg highlighted a few examples of how Gutenberg adoption is growing beyond WordPress and…
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WordPress Contributors Work Towards Removing Site Editor Beta Label for 6.2 Release
Posted by WP Tavern on January 30, 2023 at 3:15 pm

WordPress Contributors Work Towards Removing Site Editor Beta Label for 6.2 Release

Will WordPress be ready to remove the Beta label from the Site Editor in the upcoming 6.2 release? The project’s Executive Director…
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Commercial and Community Categorization Is Live on WordPress.org Theme and Plugin Directories
Posted by WP Tavern on January 30, 2023 at 11:10 am

WordPress Launches Old Tickets Trac Triage Sessions

As part of the big picture goals for WordPress in 2023, the project is embarking on an effort to work through old…
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Open Source Initiative and OpenLogic Release 2023 State of Open Source Report
Posted by WP Tavern on January 26, 2023 at 8:46 pm

Open Source Initiative and OpenLogic Release 2023 State of Open Source Report

OpenLogic, a company that provides technical support for enterprise open source infrastructure, and the Open Source Initiative (OSI), the nonprofit stewards of the Open Source…
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WordPress Project to Evaluate Replacing Slack with Matrix Open Source Chat
Posted by WP Tavern on January 26, 2023 at 6:40 am

WordPress Project to Evaluate Replacing Slack with Matrix Open Source Chat

WordPress and Matrix contributors are proposing a new Meta team subproject that would explore replacing Slack communication with Matrix, an open source…
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