In a significant move for the WordPress community, WordCamps are set to receive advertising funds under newly proposed changes. This initiative aims to boost the visibility and reach of these community-driven events, ensuring they continue to thrive and support WordPress enthusiasts worldwide. Read more! Stay tuned for more updates as this proposal progresses. Happy WordPressing 🚀 [...]

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July 18, 2024 – WP Engine, a global leader in web enablement, has acquired NitroPack, a renowned SaaS solution for site speed and performance optimization. This acquisition enhances WP Engine’s capabilities, offering customers advanced tools to improve site performance, including significant boosts in Google’s Core Web Vitals. NitroPack’s technology, known for its ease of use and powerful optimizations, [...]

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WordPress.com has made its monetization features available for free. This means that users on the Free plan can now use monetization features without upgrading. In the past, WordPress.com users who wanted to earn money on their websites by collecting donations, creating a newsletter, or selling items or subscriptions had to be on one of the paid [...]

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WordCamp Europe 2023 is a 3-day event that happens in a different European city each year that consists of sessions, workshops, networking, social events with the goal of sharing ideas, discussing all things WordPress and getting to know each other. This year’s event is being held in Athens, Greece from June 8 to 10. The [...]

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WordPress has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a blogging platform. Over the past 20 years, it has grown into the world’s most popular content management system, powering over 43% of sites on the internet. Its intuitive, flexible tools have made it the go-to choice for bloggers, independent creators, and small business [...]

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WordPress may soon be getting a Command Center, which would function as a quick search component for navigating to other areas of the admin, and would also be capable of running commands. The feature was introduced in Gutenberg 15.6 under the Experimental flag and currently has limited use in the Site Editor context while navigating [...]

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MasterWP, the WordPress newsletter and education platform, announced its 2023 WordCamp US Travel Grant program, which will provide more than $10,000 in grants for members of underrepresented groups who are accepted to speak at this year’s premiere WordPress community event in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C.  Potential speakers from groups that are underrepresented [...]

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WordCamp US is reimagining things this year by focusing on uniting the community and moving WordPress forward. WCUS is attempting to end the “Competition of Competitions,” to concentrate on this community’s collective goals. WCUS is targeting experienced, seasoned, professional speakers at the top of their industries who are not currently active members of our unique [...]

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