Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, the WordPress 5.8 Beta 2 is out and ready for testing. Over 25 bugs have been fixed since the first beta release of this update. Beyond that, Automattic acquired a popular journaling app. We also have some amazing [...]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, the first beta for WordPress 5.8 is officially out. While the software is still in development, you can start testing the new version. The current target for the final release is July 20. Beyond that, the WordPress.org blog [...]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, there were a couple of acquisitions in the WordPress space. Iconic has been acquired by the Liquid Web Family under their new software brand, StellarWP. Meanwhile, Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) joins Delicious Brains. For the people that are [...]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, ProfilePress turned WP User Avatar, a single-purpose custom avatar solution into a full-fledged membership management plugin. The unexpected change has drawn criticism from the community and the plugin users. The surge in one-star ratings knocked the plugin’s 4.4 ratings [...]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. In big news this week, Matt Mullenweg announced that Creative Commons Search will be joining WordPress. The vision is to make quality royalty-free content accessible to WordPress users through their dashboard. With over 500 million royalty-free images, audio, and videos [...]
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Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WP Media, the startup behind tools like WP Rocket, Imagify, and RocketCDN, announced that they are joining group.ONE. Beyond that, Google announced a delay in rolling out page experience as a new search ranking factor. They also shared [...]
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Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, a decision was made on whether Full Site Editing (FSE) would land in WordPress 5.8 release. While site editor and global styles will not be landing in this release, other FSE-related features are expected to ship. Beyond that, [...]
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Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, Wix launched a negative marketing campaign that takes direct aim at WordPress. The campaign titled ‘You Deserve Better’ involved sending a package to well-known WordPress community members. Beyond that, iThemes announced its acquisition of popular WordPress theme, KadenceWP. [...]
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Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, Wix launched a negative marketing campaign that takes direct aim at WordPress. The campaign titled ‘You Deserve Better’ involved sending a package to well-known WordPress community members. Beyond that, iThemes announced its acquisition of popular WordPress theme, KadenceWP. [...]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress.com released a design update that makes managing your website more intuitive. We also get a first look at the initial designs for the WordPress block pattern directory. Beyond that, there were vulnerabilities found in the popular Patreon [...]
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