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The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the first meeting and is set to take place on 8 September. Meeting Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, September 8 2026, 15:00 UTC… Continue Reading →
In July, students at two campuses in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, built 108 websites. In eastern Uganda, a workshop that arrived to find no electricity at the school ran anyway, for more than 100 learners, because a former student had asked for… Continue Reading →
Instagram just redesigned its iconic wordmark—but there’s a problem: a surprising number of people think it says “Instagzam.” The controversy offers a perfect lesson in what happens when brand personality collides with one of design’s most basic rules: people still… Continue Reading →
The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion. Date: August 25, 2025 Time: 15:00 UTC Location: #themes channel Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda Agenda Prepared by: @bijayyadav Meeting facilitator – @bijayyadav Full transcript – #themes channel Attendees: Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. @bijayyadav… Continue Reading →
A form that loads slowly or asks for more information than necessary can cost you responses. Forms are more than just a way to collect data. When configured well, they can support conversions, engagement, and business growth. Whether you’re running… Continue Reading →
Imagine for a moment an agency that manages more than 30 client websites. Late on a Friday afternoon, one of its WooCommerce stores returns intermittent 503 errors. The site never fully goes down, which makes the issue even harder to… Continue Reading →
We’re super excited to bring you a new release of WP Offload Media. Version 3.4.0 delivers full support for WordPress 7.1, performance improvements and bug fixes, along with foundational changes that unlock future features and further performance improvements. WordPress 7.1… Continue Reading →
Welcome to DEV, your monthly WordPress deep dive. Before you clock off and lie in a rectangle of sunlight, let’s see what’s been happening in WordPress. Stick around to the end to see the hamster who’ll absolutely annihilate your fitness… Continue Reading →
When someone wants to know whether a brand is trustworthy, searching the brand name up isn’t the first option anymore. They ask an LLM to compare it against alternatives, check Reddit, look at some review aggregators, or even see whether… Continue Reading →
Ever noticed that signing in takes one tap, but logging feels like solving a puzzle?That’s not bad design. It’s a business strategy. The modern internet has quietly turned “leave” into the hardest button to find—and most people never realized it… 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 Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released on August 19th as scheduled!… Continue Reading →
What if your WordPress site could help visitors find the content they need, and help you figure out what to write about next? The secret to a successful WordPress blog is creating content that’s highly useful and relevant to your… Continue Reading →
With: new and updated documentation, an explanation of the accessibility-ready program, a complete sitemap for users, our plans for September. New and updated documentation Standards and best practice section: New topic: Disappearing toast notifications in Design patterns to avoid. Proud… Continue Reading →
You’re updating a service page, swapping out a few paragraphs, and you hit Save. Ten minutes later, someone spots that the original copy had an approved legal disclaimer. Suddenly, you need that earlier version back. This is exactly the kind… Continue Reading →
We’re proud to announce that WordPress has signed Open Weights and American AI Leadership, an open letter asking US policymakers to not place early restrictions on open weight AI models. These are artificial intelligence models that anyone can download, inspect,… Continue Reading →
Most credibility advice focuses primarily on your content. This values real experiences, credentialed authors, original research, and relying on humans across anything AI-assisted. All of that is correct and should already be on your checklist. What it misses is that… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the bi-weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Thursday, August 27, 2026 15:00 UTC Announcements Help shape the Accessibility Lab plugin WordPress 7.1 “Mary Lou” was released on August 19th as scheduled! A call for volunteers was published for WP 7.2…. Continue Reading →
Let’s set the scene. Your new WooCommerce chatbot passes every test. It answers product questions, helps shoppers compare options, and responds quickly enough that nobody gives performance a second thought. The problem doesn’t surface until the store has a busy… Continue Reading →
The infinite scroll was never a UX feature—it was a slot machine disguised as code. Now, as Meta faces a historic trial over algorithmic addiction, web designers must finally confront the ugly truth: we sacrificed basic usability and human willpower… Continue Reading →
The Themes Team holds meetings on the second and fourth Tuesdays every month. For this month, this is the second meeting and is set to take place on 25 August. Meeting Details: Date and Time: Tuesday, August 25 2026, 15:00 UTC… Continue Reading →
It can take a few hours to launch a WordPress landing page and several years for it to completely disappear. It’s easy to miss that imbalance. Whenever there are product launches, promotions, events, or paid campaigns, there is pressure to… Continue Reading →
Where Can I Watch? started as a way to answer one question: Where can I actually stream the title I want to watch? But over the last few releases it slowly turned into something else, too. Once you can save… Continue Reading →
The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion. Date: August 11, 2025 Time: 15:00 UTC Location: #themes channel Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda Agenda Prepared by: @bijayyadav Meeting facilitator – @bijayyadav Full transcript – #themes channel Attendees: Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. @bijayyadav… Continue Reading →
Introducing the Accessibility Lab plugin! The plugin aims to offer a combination of Core related experiments and practical tools that solve shared problems for all to benefit from. The goal is not to move accessibility fixes out of Core and… Continue Reading →
When someone types in your main domain, your WordPress homepage is the first thing they see. Depending on how you set it up, WordPress can greet visitors with your latest blog posts or showcase a specific Page you’ve chosen as… Continue Reading →
Open ten Product Hunt launches in a row this week. Same gradient hero. Same rounded card grid. Same badge with the little pulsing dot. Same font. You could swap the logos on half of them and nobody browsing quickly would… Continue Reading →
Type almost any question into Google today and there’s a good chance you’ll get your answer before you ever see a blue link. An AI-generated summary sits at the top of the page, pulling from a handful of sources, and… Continue Reading →
Every WordPress site I have worked on in the last decade shares the same accessibility gap, and it is rarely the one people expect. The people involved care about accessibility. The problem is where their tool lives: a separate platform,… Continue Reading →
There’s a conversation we have regularly with growing businesses. It usually starts with a client request that WordPress can’t quite handle cleanly. Maybe it’s a complex procurement workflow that needs to talk to an ERP. Maybe it’s a high-volume API… Continue Reading →
