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GitHub Makes Copilot Available to the Public for $10/month, Free for Students and Open Source Project Maintainers
Posted by WP Tavern on June 22, 2022 at 1:27 pm

GitHub Makes Copilot Available to the Public for $10/month, Free for Students and Open Source Project Maintainers

GitHub has announced that Copilot, its new AI pair programming assistant, is now available to developers for $10/month or $100/year. Verified students…
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#31 – Milan Ivanovic on the Importance of Real World Versus Online
Posted by WP Tavern on June 22, 2022 at 7:14 am

#31 – Milan Ivanovic on the Importance of Real World Versus Online

On the podcast today we have Milan Ivanovic. Milan is a WordPress Developer at Valet.io, and is a WordCamp volunteer, speaker, and…
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Elementor Acquires Strattic
Posted by WP Tavern on June 21, 2022 at 1:45 pm

Elementor Lays Off 15% of Workforce, Citing Rising Inflation and Impending Recession

With inflation rising and the unemployment rate falling, economic forecasters are predicting an impending recession in 2023. A few major WordPress companies…
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WordPress.org Strongly Urges Theme Authors to Switch to Locally Hosted Webfonts
Posted by WP Tavern on June 20, 2022 at 4:05 pm

WordPress.org Strongly Urges Theme Authors to Switch to Locally Hosted Webfonts

In light of a recent German court case, which fined a website owner for violating the GDPR by using Google-hosted webfonts, WordPress.org’s…
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WordPress.org Forces Security Update for Critical Ninja Forms Vulnerability
Posted by WP Tavern on June 20, 2022 at 12:56 pm

WordPress.org Forces Security Update for Critical Ninja Forms Vulnerability

Late last week, Ninja Forms users received a forced security update from WordPress.org for a critical PHP Object Injection vulnerability. This particular…
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#30 – Matt Mullenweg on the Future of Technology and Where WordPress Fits In
Posted by WP Tavern on June 15, 2022 at 7:18 am

#30 – Matt Mullenweg on the Future of Technology and Where WordPress Fits In

On the podcast today we have Matt Mullenweg. Matt is the co-founder of WordPress, and as a result, he has been a…
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Athens to Host WordCamp Europe 2023
Posted by WP Tavern on June 10, 2022 at 3:20 pm

Athens to Host WordCamp Europe 2023

photo credit: Wikimedia Commons WordCamp Europe 2022 concluded last weekend in Porto, Portugal. The event sold 2,746 tickets and had 2,304 people…
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Gutenberg Editor Now In Testing On Tumblr and Day One Web Apps
Posted by WP Tavern on June 10, 2022 at 1:18 pm

Gutenberg Editor Now In Testing On Tumblr and Day One Web Apps

One of the most thought-provoking statements to come out of WordCamp Europe 2022, was when Matt Mullenweg said, “I believe that Gutenberg…
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WordPress 6.1 to Focus On Refining Full-Site Editing, Next Phase Collaboration and Multilingual Features Anticipated in 2023-2025
Posted by WP Tavern on June 9, 2022 at 1:32 pm

WordPress 6.1 to Focus On Refining Full-Site Editing, Next Phase Collaboration and Multilingual Features Anticipated in 2023-2025

Gutenberg lead architect Matías Ventura has identified refinements to experiences introduced in 5.9 and 6.0 as the main goal for the upcoming…
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Elementor Acquires Strattic
Posted by WP Tavern on June 8, 2022 at 12:31 pm

Elementor Acquires Strattic

Elementor, a popular website builder plugin that is active on more than five million websites, has acquired Strattic, a static and headless…
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