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BlackPress Meetup To Host Meet and Greet Mixer on January 27
Posted by WP Tavern on January 21, 2022 at 3:11 pm

BlackPress Meetup To Host Meet and Greet Mixer on January 27

Established this year by Destiny Fox Kanno and Joe A. Simpson, Jr, the BlackPress Meetup group will host its first event next…
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Create Todo and Checklists in the WordPress Editor With New Plugin
Posted by WP Tavern on January 21, 2022 at 2:07 pm

Create Todo and Checklists in the WordPress Editor With New Plugin

Todo lists. Checklists. While there are differences in their purposes, their output is essentially the same. They are lists of items with…
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BuddyPress 10.0.0 Released, Introduces Site Membership Requests and Visual Improvements to Activity Logs
Posted by WP Tavern on January 21, 2022 at 1:05 pm

BuddyPress 10.0.0 Released, Introduces Site Membership Requests and Visual Improvements to Activity Logs

BuddyPress 10.0.0 “La Pino’z” was released today, named for a popular pizza chain in India with more than 350 restaurants. This major…
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WordPress post editor as shown before publishing. In the right panel, the pre-publish checklist is shown. The highlighted area shows a tab with the suggestion of selecting a category.
Posted by WP Tavern on January 19, 2022 at 6:25 pm

Gutenberg 12.4 Includes Accessibility Improvements, Categories Reminder, and a Tag Cloud Outline Style

Gutenberg 12.4 landed in the WordPress plugin directory earlier today. With the push to get WordPress 5.9 out the door next week,…
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What Aren’t More WordPress Theme Authors Creating Block Themes?
Posted by WP Tavern on January 19, 2022 at 1:13 pm

What Aren’t More WordPress Theme Authors Creating Block Themes?

Block themes are trickling into the official WordPress Themes Directory at a slow rate ahead of full-site editing’s debut in WordPress 5.9….
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Ask the Bartender: Are There Any Compact and Personal Block Themes?
Posted by WP Tavern on January 18, 2022 at 5:36 pm

Ask the Bartender: Are There Any Compact and Personal Block Themes?

All the block themes seem to have something similar in how they look. Although unique in their own ways, being generally wide,…
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WooCommerce Aims to Produce MVP of Custom Tables for Orders by Q3, 2022
Posted by WP Tavern on January 17, 2022 at 8:02 pm

WooCommerce Aims to Produce MVP of Custom Tables for Orders by Q3, 2022

The WooCommerce development team announced today that they have started working on an implementation of custom tables for orders, a long-awaited improvement…
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Nick Diego Forks Core WordPress Block, Creates Social Sharing Plugin
Posted by WP Tavern on January 17, 2022 at 4:58 pm

Nick Diego Forks Core WordPress Block, Creates Social Sharing Plugin

Raise your hand if you have seen this before. Yet another social sharing plugin. But, with the block system, all things are…
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Wicked Plugins Launches UI-Based WordPress Block Builder
Posted by WP Tavern on January 14, 2022 at 6:43 pm

Wicked Plugins Launches UI-Based WordPress Block Builder

Last week, Wicked Plugins launched version 1.0 of its Wicked Block Builder. I have kept my eye on this plugin since its…
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WordCamp Birmingham Updates COVID-19 Protocols Amid Omicron Surge, WordCamp Europe Still Planning for In-Person Event
Posted by WP Tavern on January 14, 2022 at 5:41 pm

WordCamp Birmingham Postponed Due to Rising Local COVID-19 Infection Rates

WordCamp Birmingham’s organizers announced today that the in-person event planned for the first week in February is now postponed until April or…
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