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WordPress Community Team Updates COVID-19 Safety Guidelines to Relieve Volunteers of Enforcement Burden
Earlier this month the WordPress Community Team proposed stricter guidelines for hosting in-person events, as the pandemic continues to warrant vigilance and…
WordPress.org Gets New Global Header and Footer Design
Posted by WP Tavern on February 9, 2022 at 2:57 pm

WordPress.org Gets New Global Header and Footer Design

If you happened to be browsing WordPress.org on Sunday, you might have been in for a shock. The website got a bit…
If This Is Modern WordPress Theme Development, Sign Me Up
I have had a block theme idea rattling around in my brain for a while. For months, I have considered building a…
WordPress 5.9 “Josephine” Released, Introduces Full Site Editing and New Twenty Twenty-Two Default Theme
After a short delay, WordPress 5.9 “Josephine” has finally arrived with the long-awaited full-site editing features that give users more control over…
Google Abandons FLoC in Favor of New Topics API, a Replacement for Third-Party Cookies
Google is burying FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) in its sea of abandoned experiments. FLoC’s proposed mechanism for replacing third-party cookies grouped people…
Blog posts page as shown via the Alara theme.  It has a black header with blue, pink, and purple dashes across the bottom border.  Following that is a two-column grid of posts with their featured images.
It seems that Andrew Starr is quietly building a legion of block themes. He is the sole developer behind UXL Themes and…
Looking Ahead to WordPress 6.0: The Early Roadmap
Posted by WP Tavern on February 9, 2022 at 9:52 am

Looking Ahead to WordPress 6.0: The Early Roadmap

With WordPress 5.9 only just stepping its toes out the door and greeting the world, the lead developers seem to have hardly…
New Proposal Aims for 3 Major WordPress Releases in 2022
WordPress 5.9 has already been downloaded nearly 12 million times since its release earlier this week. Millions of WordPress users are discovering…
#13 – Chris Lubkert and Rich Tabor on Building Sites With Extendify
About this episode. On the podcast today we have Chris Lubkert and Rich Tabor, from Extendify. Extendify is a library of block…
Block Protocol Project Aims to Create Universal Block System, May Collaborate with Gutenberg
Block Protocol is a new project that aims to build a block system for embedding interactive blocks in any web application. The…