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AI images are taking over stock libraries, but the human-made web isn’t dead yet. We found 25 places where designers can still find incredible free, real photography, art, and imagery for commercial use.
From generating qualified leads to boosting SERP rankings, a successful enterprise WordPress site must achieve a balance between driving sales and generating brand awareness. For corporations that want to take advantage of all WordPress has to offer, there are a… Continue Reading →
Chrome can now measure exactly how obnoxious a website’s ads are, from how much of your screen they swallow to how much data and CPU time they burn. Those ad-stuffed websites can finally be measured, and the results are public.
WordPress sites have always been designed with people in mind. When someone visits a page, they look around the site, complete a form, click a button, or sign up for an account. The browser is at the heart of this… Continue Reading →
Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training. After years of watching bots consume the web’s content, publishers finally have an easier way to tell AI companies where to… Continue Reading →
After 16 years, WordPress just killed one of its most recognizable traditions. The predictable “Twenty Something” default themes are history, and their replacement, Ipsum, signals a surprisingly different vision for what WordPress thinks a modern website should start with.
Photoshop Elements is getting a serious AI upgrade, with Generative Expand, AI upscaling and a new assistant that helps you edit simply by describing what you want.
Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question: Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch? Over the last few releases it grew into something more: a place to keep a watchlist, track… Continue Reading →
These is the bi-weekly notes for the Accessibility Team meeting that happens on alternate Thursday in #accessibility. You can read the full transcript here or see the full meeting schedule. Announcements WPAD 2026 Event is coming up! Register to attend WPAD 2026 Checkout the schedule and see what is coming… Continue Reading →
X-post from +make.wordpress.org/core: Introducing Ipsum, the new default theme
Apple moved key controls to the side of its new foldable iPhone to make them easier to reach — but easier for whom? The decision raises a surprisingly big UX question that every web and interface designer should be thinking… Continue Reading →
If you want your site to appear in AI search, allowing crawlers can seem like the obvious choice. But if automated traffic consumes too many server resources, blocking it seems just as reasonable. The problem is treating those two options… Continue Reading →
Figma is turning a wild idea into reality: instead of searching for the perfect plugin, you can just ask AI to build it. If this catches on, designers may stop choosing the tools in their software—and start inventing them on… Continue Reading →
The post Elegant Themes Review: Is it Still Worth The Money? (2026) is written by Devesh Sharma and appeared first on WPKube. These days, it’s not easy to find high-quality, original WordPress themes. And sometimes, when you think you have… Continue Reading →
After 53 years working with type, Pat Lightizer got the ultimate retirement gift: her own font.
Have you ever updated a plugin on your WordPress site and had the screen go white? You didn’t change any code, but the site goes pear-shaped right in front of you, all from one little plugin. Panicked, you try a… Continue Reading →
TikTok isn’t just hosting videos anymore—it’s quietly letting web-based experiences live inside the app. TikTok Minis could blur the line between social network, browser, and app platform, and web designers should be paying attention.
Google is quietly testing a way to bring Search outside Chrome and directly on top of whatever app you’re using. It’s called Project Loom, and this little floating search box could hint at a much bigger future where Google follows… Continue Reading →
Automation is taking over more of the WordPress operations that once required someone at a keyboard. Deployments, updates, security responses, and infrastructure changes can all now run without a person watching each step. However, the part that’s not yet solved… Continue Reading →
Everyone knows you can cache the hell out of a WordPress site. Stick a CDN in front of it, cache the pages, make enough of the site static and you can serve a frankly silly amount of traffic without WordPress… Continue Reading →
The Accessibility Lab plugin was announced on August 21st, and now that WordPress 7.1 is wrapped up, it’s time to start scoping out the first features to target for release. For an initial discussion, we’ll meet on Thursday, September 17,… Continue Reading →
Firefox is getting its biggest makeover in years—but Mozilla has already backed away from some of its boldest ideas. Project Nova reveals what happens when modern design trends, millions of opinionated users, and the internet’s unstoppable obsession with rounded corners… Continue Reading →
The post Systeme Review (Hands-on 2026): Launch Your Online Business Using an All-In-One Tool is written by Tom Rankin and appeared first on WPKube. Much like planting a seed, a fledgling business needs to be taken care of in order… Continue Reading →
Your website’s next visitor might not be human. Meta’s new Muse agent can navigate sites, fill out forms and take action for you—and it could force web designers to rethink exactly who they’re designing for.
We’re launching an automated security review for every plugin release. Before a release is distributed through the WordPress.org update API, it is analyzed for security issues and releases that are considered to pose a potential security risk (either intentional or… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, September 10, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements WPAD 2026 Event is coming up! Register to attend WPAD 2026 Checkout the schedule and see what is coming up! WordPress 7.1 Release Retrospective… Continue Reading →
Switching your WordPress site to a new host or domain doesn’t have to mean losing traffic or stressing out. Think of it like relocating to a new home, you want everything to arrive intact, from your furniture to your favorite… Continue Reading →
Adobe is quietly testing a mysterious new web-based design tool called Project Oasis—and designers can apply to get inside. Details are scarce, the beta is under NDA, and Adobe isn’t showing much yet… which only makes us want in more.
The ampersand is nearly 2,000 years old. yet designers still can’t agree on what it should look like. From ancient Roman *et* to hundreds of wildly different & designs, the story behind typography’s favorite squiggle is stranger than you might… Continue Reading →
Bots now generate more web traffic than humans, but what’s more interesting is the type of bot driving these interactions. In addition, studying what those bots do when landing on your site is a worthwhile pursuit. The typical AI traffic… Continue Reading →
