Have you heard the news? The WordPress Community Team is rallying local WordPress communities to ‘celebrate, empower, and inspire women’ ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8. In a post shared on the Make WordPress Community blog, contributor Pooja Derashri called for community organizers to establish women-focused events where women and gender minorities can [...]
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What It Means for Your WordPress Business It’s rare that the words ‘WordPress’ and ‘Drama’ are ever uttered in the same sentence. Over the last few weeks, however, the ongoing WP Engine vs Automattic legal battles have dominated the conversation within the WordPress community. The whole unfortunate situation has been covered by countless bloggers, news 
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Just weeks after Gutenberg 19.4 was officially released earlier this month, there’s already a new version of the WordPress block builder available for download. Launched on October 23rd, 2024, Gutenberg 19.5.0 improves on the 19.4 version by adding greater stability to existing features. However, the exciting news is that it also brings a few new 
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As a brand that prides itself on serving as your trusted source for WordPress news, it’s not every day that we get to share a little news about ourselves. Today’s different. Today, we get to proudly announce that WPLift is now an official part of the E2M Solutions family. This is an exciting step forward