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WordPress Contributor Teams Seek to Curb Spam Pledges in Five for the Future Program
Posted by WP Tavern on September 17, 2021 at 7:11 pm

WordPress Contributor Teams Seek to Curb Spam Pledges in Five for the Future Program

The Five for the Future program, an initiative Matt Mullenweg proposed in 2014, may soon be addressing the problem of spam and…
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Tove: A Block-Based WordPress Theme by Anders Norén
Posted by WP Tavern on September 17, 2021 at 6:19 pm

Tove: A Block-Based WordPress Theme by Anders Norén

I have been secretly keeping tabs on Anders Norén over the past couple of weeks, awaiting the moment he pushed his first…
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Gutenberg 11.5 Adds Widget Grouping, Iterates on the Block Gap Feature, and Updates Nav Menus
Posted by WP Tavern on September 16, 2021 at 6:10 pm

Gutenberg 11.5 Adds Widget Grouping, Iterates on the Block Gap Feature, and Updates Nav Menus

Gutenberg 11.5 landed earlier today. It is a hefty release that includes extensive changes to the Navigation block, a new way for…
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Gravity Forms Launches INPUT YouTube Channel and Podcast
Posted by WP Tavern on September 16, 2021 at 2:00 pm

Gravity Forms Launches INPUT YouTube Channel and Podcast

Gravity Forms has launched a new YouTube channel and podcast called INPUT, which will focus on sharing the stories and experiences of…
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WP Engine Launches Faust.js, a New Headless WordPress Framework
Posted by WP Tavern on September 15, 2021 at 9:36 pm

WP Engine Launches Faust.js, a New Headless WordPress Framework

WP Engine has launched Faust.js, a new headless framework that is open source and designed to work in any Node hosting environment….
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Newsletter Glue Pro, My First Foray Into Journalism, and New Ideas
Posted by WP Tavern on September 15, 2021 at 5:54 pm

Newsletter Glue Pro, My First Foray Into Journalism, and New Ideas

As a teen, I would visit my Uncle David’s house every other week or so. He was the only family member with…
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Konstantin Kovshenin Launches Sail, a CLI Tool for Deploying to Digital Ocean
Posted by WP Tavern on September 14, 2021 at 3:21 pm

Konstantin Kovshenin Launches Sail, a CLI Tool for Deploying to Digital Ocean

Last week, Konstantin Kovshenin launched Sail, a CLI tool for deploying WordPress applications to the DigitalOcean cloud. The project is free to…
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WordPress Opens Applications for In-Person WordCamps
Posted by WP Tavern on September 13, 2021 at 8:35 pm

WordPress Opens Applications for In-Person WordCamps

photo credit: Huasonic – cc WordPress is restarting its in-person WordCamp program after more than six weeks of discussion on a proposal…
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Theme Author Survey Results: Uploading via ZIP Files Preferred, SVN Access Forthcoming
Posted by WP Tavern on September 13, 2021 at 3:56 pm

Theme Author Survey Results: Uploading via ZIP Files Preferred, SVN Access Forthcoming

Earlier today, Dion Hulse announced the results of a six-week survey on the WordPress.org theme upload process. The goal was to figure…
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Theme Authors Should Be Able To Opt Out of Any Design Feature
Posted by WP Tavern on September 10, 2021 at 6:13 pm

Theme Authors Should Be Able To Opt Out of Any Design Feature

As I debugged issues with the new block gap feature added in Gutenberg 11.4 last week, I found the ticket introducing it….
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