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Each and every WordPress release day is an acknowledgment of the collective efforts from every single contributor in the community that helped to make that release possible. The State of the Word has historically also been festive in nature, calling… Continue Reading →
The next WordPress Developers Chat will take place on Wednesday, November 26, 2025, at 15:00 UTC in the core channel on Make WordPress Slack. The live meeting will focus on the discussion for upcoming releases, and have an open floor section. The various… Continue Reading →
Building a WordPress store often means balancing speed against functionality. Most themes force you to choose one or the other, as you’ll see from this Blocksy discovery, it doesn’t have to be that way. It offers a different approach by… Continue Reading →
We’re excited to share that Kinsta is sponsoring WordCamp Brazil 2025, one of our last WordCamp appearances of 2025, and there’s no better place to wrap this eventful year than Rio de Janeiro. Before the festive season kicks in, join… Continue Reading →
The third Release Candidate (“RC3”) for WordPress 6.9 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead,… Continue Reading →
This guide outlines major developer features and breaking changes in 6.9 and is published in the Release Candidate phase to help inform WordPress extending developers, Core developers, and others. There are more than 400 Core Trac tickets included in WordPress… Continue Reading →
Block Variations: Have getActiveBlockVariation fall back to default variationCore-data: Media Entity DeprecationWhat is being deprecated?Why is this being deprecated?How to update your code to use the attachment entityReplacing API callsChanges to the caption property when using the getEditedEntityRecord selectorBlock Editor: Support passing updater function to setAttributesSelectControl: Moved class… Continue Reading →
The Divi Black Friday Sale 2025 is live! It’s our biggest event yet — featuring huge discounts, free prizes, and a brand-new Divi 5 Design System. Get massive savings on Divi, Divi AI, Divi Cloud, Divi Teams, Divi VIP, and… Continue Reading →
If you want to offer web hosting but don’t want to manage your own server infrastructure, white-label web hosting could be the solution. In this post, you’ll learn what white-label hosting is and some of the benefits that it can… Continue Reading →
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With the Loop Builder feature in Divi 5, you can easily create a responsive grid using the free version of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF). In this post, we’ll demonstrate how to configure ACF, set up CSS Grid, and use the… Continue Reading →
The FastPixel plugin consolidates caching, image optimization, Critical CSS generation, and CDN delivery into a single cloud-based solution with great UX. This FastPixel discovery post takes a quick look at your next potential performance partner! The post “Discovering FastPixel: The… Continue Reading →
The post 7 WordPress Black Friday / Cyber Monday Deals for 2025 is written by Devesh Sharma and appeared first on WPKube. It’s that time of year again when people start revving up their shopping lists, hunting down the best… Continue Reading →
As a website grows, small styling differences, such as a border radius on a button or spacing in a heading, begin to appear across pages. Fixing them means repeating the same changes over and over. We introduced Presets a while… Continue Reading →
Every website owner wants an accessible website, but it often takes work and some research. While the average user can navigate a website without supporting technologies, many people, including potential customers and fans, rely on an unseen layer of your… Continue Reading →
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WordPress 6.9 brings an abundance of quiet improvements to the HTML API. Updates in this release mostly represent applications of the HTML API to existing code in Core; these updates increase WordPress’ reliability, improve its security hardening, and reduce maintenance… Continue Reading →
Last month in October 2025, the Wordfence Bug Bounty Program received 486 vulnerability submissions from our growing community of security researchers working to improve the overall security posture of the WordPress ecosystem. These submissions are reviewed, triaged, and processed by… Continue Reading →
Building layouts in Divi continues to become more advanced and intuitive. You can now place modules inside other modules with Nested Modules. You can also put rows inside rows; these are called Nested Rows. Both give you more design freedom,… Continue Reading →
PHP 8.5 was released on November 20th. Contributors to WordPress have been busy in recent months preparing for this version and we’re happy to report that all issues reported against PHP 8.5 have been addressed in WordPress 6.9 RC2. Compared… Continue Reading →
Building responsive sites in WordPress’ Block Editor can feel limited when you hit walls with mobile layouts and visual polish. This Better Block Editor review will show you how additional responsive controls, animations, and pre-made templates sit within a typical… Continue Reading →
Tourfic is a platform that can help you build travel marketplaces where multiple vendors can list properties and services. For this Tourfic discovery for Black Friday, the post will look at how the plugin handles aspects such as multi-vendor operations,… Continue Reading →
Congratulations, David, Fran, and everyone in the team, for your ongoing efforts and your long-term vision.
Most WordPress site owners believe they are protected. They install a trusted security plugin like Solid Security, keep it updated, and assume that is enough. But recent research from WeWatchYourWebsite.com paints a different picture. In September 2025, the company analyzed… Continue Reading →
Digital presence is more than just a marketing channel. It’s often the primary driver of revenue, customer experience, and competitive differentiation. This critical asset demands enterprise-grade performance, rigorous security, and seamless scalability. When scaling business-critical WordPress sites, choosing to self-host… Continue Reading →
On November 19th, a group of community members from the #content-creators channel to talk about content creation across different mediums (Twitch, YouTube, Podcast, News/Newsletter). We covered a wide range of topics from short form content to how to stay close… Continue Reading →
Form submissions can pile up fast and handling them can be a time drain. WordPress has a plugin for that! This post will show you what the Bit Form plugin can do to help automate the workflow within Google Sheets…. Continue Reading →
A common misconception about web hosting is that it is an expense for agencies and website owners. However, the truth is quite different. Choosing premium hosting is a real investment, rather than a passive item for an agency or online… Continue Reading →
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