The header is one of the first elements to load for any Divi website you create. This means the header often makes the first impression anyone sees for a website, making header design a crucial part of every website. Fortunately,… Continue Reading →
The Site Tagline Block is one of many useful blocks that make WordPress so easy to use. With it, you can add your site’s tagline anywhere on your site and customize it using built-in style options. In this article, we’ll… Continue Reading →
The end of Phase 2 of the Gutenberg project is approaching! As we prepare to ship and wrap the final touches, I want to remind us all that this doesn’t mean work on customization is complete. In the same way… Continue Reading →
Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs. The company announced yesterday that it will be offering “a paid basic tier” with more details coming next week. Starting February 9, we will no longer support… Continue Reading →
tl;dr: Twitter will begin charging for API access, possibly as early as the 9th of February. If your plugin integrates with the API (be it v1.1 or v2), PLEASE make sure you look into the changes and how they might… Continue Reading →
The imposter syndrome is strong among WordPress freelancers. We get it, but keep repeating to yourself: “Freelancing is a real business. Freelancing is a real business.” Being a real business is a mindset. So, to feel like your freelance business… Continue Reading →
Following up on the prior hallway hangout on Performance Considerations for Block Themes, @flixos90 and I are running an additional one on performance improvements in WordPress 6.2. @flixos90 is the performance lead for the WordPress 6.2 release (a new role!)… Continue Reading →
When building JavaScript applications, you may encounter scenarios where you need to build objects in a certain, predefined fashion, or reuse a common class by modifying or adapting it to multiple use cases. It is, of course, not convenient to… Continue Reading →
Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away brand new freebies. We recently shared a brand new Streamer Layout Pack. To help you get your… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the first 2023 edition of The Month in WordPress! January kicked off with an overview of WordPress’ big goals for 2023 and new projects beginning to take shape. Moreover, work on the next major release, WordPress 6.2, continues… Continue Reading →
WordPress Core Committer Adam Silverstein has published a proposal for adding automated performance tooling that would offer continuous monitoring for performance issues so they can be resolved before major regressions are committed to core. “Similar to our unit test suite, automated performance… Continue Reading →
Once per month, contributors gather to discuss updates and topics for the WordPress Developer Blog on the #core-dev-blog Slack channel. The following are the notes for the February meeting. Attending live during the meeting were: @webcommsat, @milana_cap, @mburridge, and @greenshady. Meeting… Continue Reading →
In 2020, WordPress began prioritizing education as critical to the project’s future, launching Learn.WordPress to support beginners to advanced learners with free educational content. Over the past two years, WordPress’ Training team has been instrumental in building and expanding this… Continue Reading →
This is the proposed agenda for the weekly Accessibility Team meeting on Friday, February 3, 2023, 16:00 UTC. Updates from working groups: Design Documentation General Gutenberg Media Meta Themes Open floor If you want to have a topic added to… Continue Reading →
When you’re creating a website, your About Us page might seem like a bit of an afterthought. In fact, your About Us page is more important than you think – in fact, it’s vital. In this article, we’ll look at… Continue Reading →
Gathering performance metrics automatically is a way to track performance over time and ensure that WordPress continues to improve. Automated performance tooling will also help the core team identify issues and resolve them with less effort. Why add automated performance… Continue Reading →
Using WordPress and WooCommerce to host your online store is a powerful combo. But what if you sell products wholesale? You’re going to need a more robust solution. You need a WooCommerce B2B extension. The post “WooCommerce Wholesale: How to… Continue Reading →
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the most important aspects of any website. It works side by side with writing good original content, and keyword research, and is crucial to rank higher in search engine results pages (SERPs). While… Continue Reading →
In today’s digital age, the importance of web design in business success cannot be overstated. A website is often the first point of contact between a company and potential customers and as such, it needs to make a great first… Continue Reading →
WordPress.com users are getting early access to some of the major new features that are shipping with the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release. The platform rolled out Browse Mode today, describing it as “an easier way to navigate the Site Editor.”… Continue Reading →
Start of the weekly WordPress developers meeting in the core channel of the Make WordPress Slack. Agenda followed this week. Summary from Dev Chat, January 25, 2023 @ironprogrammer: It’s been a busy week preparing for Beta 1, and many thanks… Continue Reading →
These “Core Editor Improvement…” posts (labeled with the #core-editor-improvement tag) are a series dedicated to highlighting various new features, improvements, and more from Core Editor related projects. There are a variety of tools and methods for styling your site, from… Continue Reading →
As discussed in early December of last year, the Meta and Support teams have implemented the block editor in all international support forums, as well as in all plugin and theme forums/reviews. The overall feedback has been positive. Specifically, a… Continue Reading →
First released in 1995, Java is one of the world’s most popular and long-standing programming languages. As a result, Java developers enjoy a steady demand and job growth even as programming trends and paradigms continue to change. In fact, Statista… Continue Reading →
On January 16, 2023, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed several vulnerabilities in Quick Restaurant Menu, a WordPress plugin that allows users to set up restaurant menus on their sites. This plugin is vulnerable to Missing Authorization, Insecure Direct… Continue Reading →
Transcript [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in… Continue Reading →
Vulnerable plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes… Continue Reading →
Air WP Sync lets you import data from an Airtable base as actual WordPress posts, pages, or custom post types. Learn more in our hands-on Air WP Sync review. The post “Air WP Sync Plugin Review: Easy Airtable WordPress Integration”… Continue Reading →
WordPress runs on PHP, a programming language used to process the data needed to display your website to the world. Although PHP is rarely seen by the everyday user, it remains crucial to the life of your WordPress site. Keeping… Continue Reading →
WordPress runs on PHP, a programming language used to process the data needed to display your website to the world. Although PHP is rarely seen by the everyday user, it remains crucial to the life of your WordPress site. Keeping… Continue Reading →
