Taking on the Major Players, Plausible Analytics Offers an Alternative, Privacy-Conscious Stats Service
Plausible Analytics is not new on the scene. The two-person, EU-based team behind the company has been trying to carve...
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WordPress.org Removes Fake Reviews for AccessiBe Plugin
After noticing suspicious review activity for the AccessiBe plugin, accessibility consultant Joe Dolson reported the fake reviews to WordPress.org’s plugin...
WordPress Contributors Discuss Scaling Back Releases: “4 Major Releases Is Not a Viable Plan in 2021”
WordPress contributors are considering scaling back the planned number of releases in 2021. In a post titled “Making WordPress Releases...
Design Lab Releases Artpop, a Block-Ready WordPress Theme
Perhaps the fates have stepped in to prove a point. After I wrote a 2,000-word piece on the lack of...
Elementor to Roll Out Significant Pricing Hike for New Customers
Earlier this week, Elementor announced a significant pricing hike coming in March 2021 for new customers: On March 9th, 2021,...
Gutenberg 9.9 Adds Color Options for Social Icons, Includes Rounded Borders for Images, and Changes the Theme JSON Format
Version 9.9 of the Gutenberg plugin landed earlier today. While it includes several minor UI improvements, the biggest user-facing change...
Newspack Publishes Showcase with 60 Newsrooms Launched
Newspack, a project funded by the Google News initiative and WordPress.com, has published a showcase of 60 news sites running...
Call for Feedback on Theme Review Action, a New Automated WordPress Theme Testing Project
GitHub output of Theme Review Action. Automation. It is one of those dreams in the minds of many reviewers from...
Upsells, Barriers, and the End/Beginning of the Quality $free Themes Era
The WordPress.org theme directory is becoming little more than a crippleware distributor. I suppose it was inevitable given its reach,...
GitLab Drops Bronze/Starter Tier in Pricing Update
This week GitLab announced a pricing change that eliminates its Bronze/Starter tier in favor of a three-tier subscription model. The...
WP Lookout Lets WordPress Users Track and Receive Notifications for Their Preferred Plugins and Themes
Should WordPress notify users of plugin ownership changes? That was the question that Ian Atkins asked two months ago. WP...
Ask the Bartender: How To Bulk Convert Classic WordPress Posts To Blocks?
I was wondering if you could help me. I want to convert all of my old posts (about 600) to...
TasteWP Spins Up Free WordPress Testing Sites in Seconds
TasteWP is a newcomer among online WordPress sandboxing solutions. The site allows users to spin up a new WordPress instance...
Gutenberg 9.8 Brings Rounded Borders To the Group Block and Moves the Site Editor Canvas Into an Inline Frame
Gutenberg 9.8 launched yesterday with a few minor UI improvements. The development team added an initial implementation for border-radius support...
MapLibre Launches as Official Open Source Successor to Mapbox GL JS
In December, Mapbox shocked its open source contributor community with the news that Mapbox GL JS version 2.0 would be...
A Multi-Theme System, the Decade-Long Wait for Grandchild Themes, and Themeless Templates
Around 2010, child theming had finally caught its stride. Bigger theme shops were starting to take note, and some were...
New Local Blueprint Enables One-Click Setup for Testing Full Site Editing
If you haven’t yet tested the Gutenberg team’s progress on the full site editing (FSE) project, WordPress developer Carrie Dils...
WordPress Community Team Proposes Using a Decision Checklist to Restart Local Events
photo credit: Glenn Carstens-Peters WordPress’ Community Team has been discussing the return to in-person events since early December 2020, and...
