Google Concludes FLoC Origin Trial, Does Not Intend to Share Feedback from Participants
Google quietly concluded its FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) origin trial this week. The trial was part of Google’s Privacy...
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Automattic Acquires Pocket Casts
Automattic has acquired Pocket Casts, a popular podcast listening, search, and discovery app for Android and iOS. Australian co-founders Russell...
WordPress.org Meta Team Fixes Search Snippet Issue with Download Page Promoting WordPress.com
Yesterday evening Chris Klosowski, Sandhills Development Partner and Director of Technology, tweeted out a problem with the way WordPress.org’s Download...
Query Loop: The Ins and Outs of One of WordPress 5.8’s Most Powerful Features
WordPress 5.8 is on deck for July 20, just a mere 10 days from now. The release is geared up...
Awesome Motive Acquires SearchWP
Awesome Motive, the company behind MonsterInsights, OptinMonster, WPForms, and several other popular products, has acquired SearchWP, a commercial plugin that...
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...
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...
