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Two New WordPress Plugins Improve Block Editor Accessibility and WCAG Compliance
Posted by WP Tavern on December 1, 2022 at 8:02 pm

Two New WordPress Plugins Improve Block Editor Accessibility and WCAG Compliance

WordPress Core Committer Jb Audras, CTO of the France-based Whodunit agency, has released two new accessibility plugins in cooperation with Guillaume Turpin,…
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ElasticPress 4.4.0 Adds New Status Report Page and Instant Results Template Customization
Posted by WP Tavern on November 30, 2022 at 10:25 pm

ElasticPress 4.4.0 Adds New Status Report Page and Instant Results Template Customization

10up has released version 4.4.0 of ElasticPress, its enhanced search plugin that speeds up searching while reducing the load on WordPress sites….
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Looking Ahead to WordPress 6.0: The Early Roadmap
Posted by WP Tavern on November 30, 2022 at 1:12 pm

WordPress Versions 3.7-4.0 No Longer Get Security Updates

In September, WordPress’ Security Team announced it would be dropping support for versions 3.7 through 4.0 by December 1, 2022. Yesterday the…
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#53 – Matt Medeiros on the State of the WordPress Landscape
Posted by WP Tavern on November 30, 2022 at 7:06 am

#53 – Matt Medeiros on the State of the WordPress Landscape

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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Gutenberg 14.6 Adds List View for Editing Navigation Block, Introduces New Automatic Color Palette Generator
Posted by WP Tavern on November 29, 2022 at 7:49 pm

Gutenberg 14.6 Adds List View for Editing Navigation Block, Introduces New Automatic Color Palette Generator

Gutenberg 14.6 was released last week with a long list of small but impactful refinements to core blocks and the full-site editing…
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Meetup.com Raises Concerns with New Accessibility Overlay
Posted by WP Tavern on November 28, 2022 at 7:24 pm

Meetup.com Removes Accessibility Overlay In Response to WordPress Community’s Concerns

Meetup.com has removed its accessibility overlay, a recent addition to the company’s website that raised concerns with the WordPress community and the…
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Dig Into the Open Web
Posted by WP Tavern on November 23, 2022 at 1:32 pm

Dig Into the Open Web

As the American Thanksgiving holiday is coming up, I am so grateful for all of our Tavern readers and the people who…
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#52 – Hannah Smith on Why We Need To Be Making Websites More Sustainable
Posted by WP Tavern on November 23, 2022 at 7:19 am

#52 – Hannah Smith on Why We Need To Be Making Websites More Sustainable

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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BuddyPress 11.0.0 to Limit JavaScript and CSS Asset Loading to Community Pages Using a Filter
Posted by WP Tavern on November 22, 2022 at 4:59 pm

BuddyPress 11.0.0 to Limit JavaScript and CSS Asset Loading to Community Pages Using a Filter

BuddyPress will soon be improving the way it loads its JavaScript and CSS assets so that they are only loaded on community…
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WordPress.org Strongly Urges Theme Authors to Switch to Locally Hosted Webfonts
Posted by WP Tavern on November 22, 2022 at 2:37 pm

New Tool Checks If Google Fonts Are Hosted Locally

Earlier this year, WordPress’ Themes Team began urging theme authors to switch to locally hosted fonts after a German court case decision,…
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