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New Boilerplate Speeds Up Building “Nearly Headless” WordPress Themes
Alex Standiford, a WordPress developer at AffiliateWP, has released a boilerplate for what he is calling a “nearly headless” WordPress theme. It…
A Second Look at ElmaStudio’s Aino Theme and Companion Block Plugin
I am about a month away from my second anniversary writing for WP Tavern. There has been one project that I have…
Early WordPress 5.9 Look: The Road Toward Deeper Responsive Block Design
Gutenberg project lead Matías Ventura announced the Preliminary Road to 5.9 on the Make Core blog earlier today. He covered several big…
Wordfence and WPScan Publish Mid-Year WordPress Security Report
WPScan is on track to post a record-breaking year for WordPress plugin vulnerabilities submitted to its database, according to a collaborative mid-year…
Yoast Joins Newfold Digital, Team To Stay in Place
Posted by WP Tavern on August 12, 2021 at 1:25 pm

Yoast Joins Newfold Digital, Team To Stay in Place

Earlier today, Yoast CEO Marieke van de Rakt announced the company had been acquired by NewFold Digital. Yoast and its SEO-related business…
FSE Outreach Round #9: Building a Higher Ed Header
Posted by WP Tavern on August 11, 2021 at 8:38 pm

FSE Outreach Round #9: Building a Higher Ed Header

It feels like it has been ages since the WordPress community has had a call for testing Full Site Editing (FSE) features….
Google Launches Search Console Insights, a User-Friendly Content Performance Overview
Google published an update to its Site Kit plugin for WordPress this afternoon with a hot fix for a critical issue affecting…
#6 – Cory Miller on the WordPress Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape
About this episode. So on the podcast today we have Cory Miller. Cory is likely well known to many of you, he’s…
Elastic Hits Back at OpenSearch, Making Client Libraries Incompatible with Amazon-led Open Source Fork
After Elastic, makers of the search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, re-licensed its core product so that it was no longer open source, Amazon…
Emoji Toolbar Plugin Brings an Emoji Picker Back to the WordPress Editor
Earlier today, theme.es released its Emoji Toolbar project to the plugin directory. It is a simple picker that integrates with the WordPress…