Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, took to Twitter today, sparking conversations across the WordPress community. In his tweets, Matt touched on WordPress’s relationship with businesses built around it and the growing competition from platforms like Shopify. What Matt Said? Matt used a park analogy to explain the WordPress ecosystem. He tweeted: [...]
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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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The third and final major new WordPress release of 2024 was released on November 12, bringing with it further improvements and a raft of exciting new features. From a brand new theme to upgrades for both front-end creation and back-end development alike, WordPress 6.7 presents a plethora of upgrades designed to create what product lead [...]
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Matt Mullenweg is set to present his State of the Word address live from Tokyo, Japan on December 16, 2024, and if the last few months are anything to go by, it’s likely to be his most explosive and talked-about yet. Source: Wikimedia CommonsAttiribution: Cmichel67, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Why 2024 Will [...]
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What we know so far about Matt Mullenweg’s issues with WP Engine, the WordPress hosting provider’s response, and our personal take on the whole messy situation. On Friday evening, September 20, WordPress founder and Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg took to the stage for a hotly anticipated Q&A session at WordCamp US, the biggest WordPress community [...]
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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 [...]
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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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If you’re a regular WPLift reader, you’ll know that there’s nothing we love more than talking about WordPress. Driven by an unwavering passion, we spend every day learning as much as possible about the latest developments across the platform’s rich ecosystem and sharing what we’ve learned about the best themes, the most useful plugins, and [...]
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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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