WordPress.com Drops Over 100 Block Patterns, Carving a Path the Design Community Should Follow
Automattic released over 100 block patterns to its users on WordPress.com last week. Patterns are a set of blocks that...
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Frontity Inks Partnership with 10up
photo credit: Matt Moloney Frontity has launched a partnership program to support the maintenance of its open source framework for...
Gutenberg 9.3 Provides Indicator of Where Full-Site Editing Is Going, a Future Without Widgets and Customizer Screens
Version 9.3 of the Gutenberg plugin dropped earlier today. It is the first version of the plugin during the WordPress...
Log Into WordPress By Touch or Face ID Via the Passwordless WP Plugin
Last week, WP Busters released its first plugin titled Passwordless WP. It is a project from full-stack developer Ilya Zolotov...
Twenty Twenty-One Blocks Theme Launching as a Separate Project
Twenty Twenty-One in the Gutenberg site editor. Last Friday, Themes Team representative Carolina Nymark announced the Twenty Twenty-One Blocks theme...
WordPress Contributors Discuss Launching an Official Block Pattern Directory
Block patterns were one of the most exciting and transformative features introduced in WordPress. 5.5, giving users a giant head...
EditorPlus Introduces Its First Blocks and Adds a Custom Block Creator
In what seems to be a never-ending onslaught of new features, Munir Kamal has released some major new features to...
WordPress Contributors Explore Adding Dark Mode Support to Upcoming Twenty Twenty-One Theme via a Plugin
WordPress 5.6 is set to include a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-One, designed to give users a blank canvas for...
ESLint Maintainers Share Challenges of Funding Open Source Utilities through Sponsorship
ESLint, one of the most popular JavaScript linting utilities, quickly eclipsed more established early competitors, thanks to its open source...
Gutenberg 9.2 Adds Video Tracks, Improvements to Columns and Cover Blocks
Gutenberg 9.2 was released this week and is the last release of the plugin to be rolled into WordPress 5.6....
Yext Launches a WordPress Plugin To Connect To Its Answers Platform
Last week, Yext launched its Yext Answers plugin to the WordPress community. The goal was to bring a platform that...
Q: First FSE WordPress Theme Now Live
Q WordPress theme screenshot. Themes Team representative Ari Stathopoulos is now officially the first theme author to have a theme...
Loginizer Plugin Gets Forced Security Update for Vulnerabilities Affecting 1 Million Users
WordPress.org has pushed out a forced security update for the Loginizer plugin, which is active on more than 1 million...
Using the Web Stories for WordPress Plugin? You Better Play By Google’s Rules
Web Stories dashboard screen in WordPress. What comes as a surprise to few, Google has updated its content guidelines for...
Stripe Acquires Paystack for $200M+
The big news in the world of e-commerce today is Stripe’s acquisition of Paystack, a Nigeria-based payments system that is...
Diving Into the Book Review Block Plugin
Created by Donna Peplinskie, a Product Wrangler at Automattic, the Book Review Block plugin is nearly three years old. However,...
WooCommerce 4.6 Makes New Home Screen the Default for New and Existing Stores
WooCommerce 4.6 was released today. The minor release dropped during WooSesh, a global, virtual conference dedicated to WooCommerce and e-commerce...
The Future of Starter Content: WordPress Themes Need a Modern Onboarding and Importing Tool
Image credit: picjumbo.com on Pexels. Starter content. It was a grand idea, one of those big dreams of WordPress. It...
