WordPress Biratnagar Announces Plans for Ujwal Thapa Memorial Scholarship
Earlier this week, the WordPress Biratnagar Facebook group announced a WordCamp scholarship in honor of Ujwal Thapa. The goal is...
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Castos Picks Up $756K in Funding from Automattic and Joost de Valk to Expand Services in the Private Podcasting Market
Castos, a WordPress-powered podcast hosting provider, announced a $756K pre-seed fundraising round today from Automattic, Joost de Valk, founder of...
WordPress Green Lights In-Person Meetup Events for Vaccinated Attendees
After considerable discussion, the WordPress Community Team is lifting the requirements of the in-person meetup safety checklist for meetups that...
FSE Outreach Round #8: A Developer-Centric Call for Testing Theme JSON Configuration
Round #8 of the Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach Program began yesterday. Instead of the user-centric call for testing features...
Major Revamp Coming to GitHub Issues
This week GitHub unveiled new features that will be included in a total revamp of GitHub Issues, including project tables...
Gutenberg 10.9 Renames the Query Block, Adds Collapsible List View Items, and Rolls Out Rich URL Previews
Yesterday, Gutenberg 10.9 landed in the WordPress plugin directory. The update overhauls the Query and Query Loop blocks, allows users...
Google Launches Search Console Insights, a User-Friendly Content Performance Overview
Google Analytics is powerful if you know exactly what kind of metrics you want to investigate, it but can be...
MapLibre Project Gains Momentum with MapLibre GL Native Release
The MapLibre project is picking up speed with the release of MapLibre GL Native, an open source mobile SDK for...
Getting To Know the Upcoming WordPress 5.8 Template Editor
WordPress 5.8 is slated for release on July 20. In just over a month, many users will get their first...
Extendify Adopts EditorsKit, Increasing Its Block Plugin Collection
Extendify has been scooping up some successful block-related plugins in recent months. It acquired the Redux Framework in November 2020...
Gutenberg 10.8 Adds New Typography Controls and Block Previews
On Wednesday, Gutenberg 10.8 landed in the WordPress plugin directory. The release includes new typography options for controlling the Heading...
WordCamp Europe 2021 Gutenberg Demo: “The Block Editor Gets Ready to Become a Site Builder”
Matt Mullenweg and Matías Ventura joined WordCamp Europe to chat about what’s happening with the Gutenberg project and celebrate the...
Create Per-Post Social Media Images With the Social Image Generator WordPress Plugin
It was a bit of a low-key announcement when Daniel Post introduced Social Image Generator to the world in February...
Building Featured Boxes With the WordPress Block Editor
It is a new day with another chase for that elusive block plugin that will bring a little joy into...
The Automattic Theme Team Announces Blockbase, Its New Block Parent Theme
Blockbase WordPress theme as seen from the site editor. Any WordPress company that builds and maintains themes worth its salt...
Happy 18th Birthday, WordPress
WordPress is celebrating 18 years today since the first release of the software to the general public. That release post,...
Gutenberg 10.7 Integrates With the Pattern Directory, Introduces New Block Design Controls
Gutenberg 10.7 landed yesterday. Within a few hours, the development team also released version 10.7.1 of the plugin with a...
Google Aims to “Revitalize RSS” and Recapture Users’ Trust with Experimental Follow Button in Chrome
The internet was set abuzz yesterday after Google officially confirmed that it has been testing a Follow button for websites...
