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WordPress 5.6 is set to include a new default theme, Twenty Twenty-One, designed to give users a blank canvas for...

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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...

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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....

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...

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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...

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,...

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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...

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...

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WordPress 5.6 to Introduce Application Passwords for REST API Authentication

In 2015, WordPress 4.4 introduced a REST API, but one thing that has severely limited its broader use is the...

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Navigation Screen Sidelined for WordPress 5.6, Full-Site Editing Edges Closer to Public Beta

The new block-based navigation screen is once again delayed after it was originally slated for WordPress 5.5 and then put...

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WP Agency Summit Begins Its Second Annual Virtual Event October 12

Jan Koch, the founder and host of WP Agency Summit, is kicking off his second annual event on October 12....

EditorPlus 1.9 Adds Animation Builder for the Block Editor

Munir Kamal shows no signs of slowing down. He continues to push forward with new features for his EditorPlus plugin,...

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Cloudflare Launches Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress