Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress.com introduced WordPress Pro, a single $15/month plan to replace all of its paid plans. The new pricing structure initially reduced the storage and imposed a traffic ceiling on the free plan. Automattic eventually increased the storage and [...]
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Hey, WordPress friends! Have you already taken WordPress 5.9 for a spin? This week, we learned about the general scope of the planned features to land in WordPress 6.0. According to this proposal, there will be two major releases this year – 6.0 in late May and 6.1 in mid-October. Meanwhile, the Gutenberg development team [...]
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Hey, WordPress friends! This week, WordPress 5.9 ‘Joséphine’ was released with the help of hundreds of contributors. This release is a remarkable milestone for WordPress as it comes with the long-awaited full-site editing features. WPTavern discusses all of the highlights of this release in their post. Beyond that, registration for WordFest Live, the 24-hour festival [...]
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Hey, WordPress friends! This week, WordPress 5.9 is getting its final touches and is almost ready to launch. Since RC2, testers have found and fixed two bugs along with 14 Gutenberg fixes. We’re only a week away from the official launch, mark your calendars. Beyond that, Gutenberg 12.4 landed in the WordPress plugin directory with [...]
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Hey, WordPress friends! We’re getting closer to WordPress 5.9’s monumental launch scheduled on January 25. But there’s still time to help test out the new features. There’s also a short-cycle security release this week that includes four security fixes. We recommend that you update your sites immediately. Beyond that, Microsoft released a plugin for WordPress [...]
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Happy New Year, WordPress friends! We are back with your latest dose of WordPress news after taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays. We enjoyed our break and we hope you did as well. Here’s to a better year for all of us! This week, WordPress 5.9 gets ready for prime time with [...]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress 5.9 Beta 3 is released and ready for testing, on track for January 2022 official release. Since Beta 2, 14 bugs have been fixed. If you want to help test the new features, here are some guidelines [...]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress 5.9 Beta 2 is released and ready for testing, on track for January 2022 official release. Since Beta 1, 24 bugs have been fixed. If you’re interested in trying out the new features, check out this detailed [...]
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Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, the core leadership announced that all the proposed features and updates for WordPress 5.9 will be moving forward. Users can expect UI improvements, block themes, the new default Twenty-Twenty Two block theme, and more. The proposed timeline puts the [...]
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