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Henry Zhu Launches New Maintainers Anonymous Podcast
Maintainers Anonymous is a new podcast created by Henry Zhu, who has been the primary maintainer of Babel for the past two years. Babel is a JavaScript compiler used by Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, …
Celebrate Earth Day by Learning about Environmentally Friendly Web Development on WordPress.tv
Today is Earth Day, a worldwide annual event first celebrated in 1970 that focuses on addressing environmental concerns. Earth Day Network coordinates 192 countries with more than a billion people …
AMP Plugin for WordPress 1.1 Adds Experimental PWA Plugin Integration, Pre-release of…
Version 1.1 of the AMP Plugin for WordPress was released this week after four months in development and 125 merged pull requests from contributors. It includes CSS tree shaking improvements that re…
WordPress 5.2 Will Add 13 New Icons to the Dashicon Library
Dashicons, the WordPress admin icon font, will be getting its first update in three years when WordPress 5.2 ships. The library will be updated to use WOFF2 (Web Open Font Format 2), replacing the …
WooCommerce 3.6 Released with New Product Blocks and Major Performance Improvements
WooCommerce 3.6 was released this week after six months in development. Store owners with sites running on WordPress 5.0+ will now have access to eight new product blocks, including hand picked pro…
Gutenberg 5.5 Adds New Group Block for Nesting Child Blocks
Gutenberg 5.5 was released with the long-awaited Group block, previously known as the Section block. It was renamed to avoid confusion with the HTML5 section element and prevent potential overlap w…
PluginVulnerabilities.com is Protesting WordPress.org Support Forum Moderators by Publishing Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
A security service called Plugin Vulnerabilities, founded by John Grillot, is taking a vigilante approach to addressing grievances against WordPress.org support forum moderators. The company is pro…
WordCamp Europe Publishes 2019 Speaker Lineup, Contributor Day Registration is Now Open
WordCamp Europe 2019 is 66 days away. The event will be held in Berlin on June 20-22, occupying 13,000m² of the Estrel Congress Center. More than 2,266 tickets have been sold so far, roughly 100 ti…
WordCamp for Publishers is Coming to Columbus, OH, August 7-9, Call for…
The third edition of WordCamp for Publishers will be held in Columbus, OH, August 7-9, 2019, at the Vue Columbus. This unique event is a niche-specific WordCamp for professionals working in the pub…
New GPL-licensed Quirk App Open Sources Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Quirk is a new GPL-licensed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) app for iOS and Android built in React Native/Expo. The app helps users challenge their “automatic thoughts,” a term that …
WPGraphQL Project Gains Momentum with Growing Library of Extensions for Popular WordPress…
The WPGraphQL project, a plugin that provides an extendable GraphQL schema and API for WordPress sites, has been gaining momentum over the past several months. Creator and maintainer Jason Bahl put…
WordSesh Returns May 22, 2019, Speaker Application Deadline is April 19
The next edition of WordSesh is scheduled for Wednesday, May 22, 2019, from 10am-8pm EDT (UTC-4) – just a little over one month away. For the past six years, the virtual conference for WordPr…
WooCommerce 3.6 RC2 Removes Marketplace Suggestions from Product Listing, Adds Setting to…
WooCommerce 3.6 RC2 was released today with changes to the planned Marketplace Suggestions feature after core developers received overwhelmingly negative feedback on its implementation. This RC rem…
GoDaddy Acquires ThemeBeans, CoBlocks, Block Gallery, and Block Unit Tests
GoDaddy has acquired CoBlocks, ThemeBeans, Block Gallery and Block Unit Tests, one of the leading Gutenberg product lines in the WordPress ecosystem. Founder Rich Tabor is joining GoDaddy as Senior…
Gutenberg Team Publishes RFC Document on Widget-Block Interfaces
The Gutenberg team has published a Blocks in Widget Areas RFC (request for comments) document, detailing a technical approach that brings blocks to the wp-admin/widgets.php screen and the Customize…
Pipdig Under Investigation, Company is Refusing Customers’ Refund Requests
In the wake of last week’s Pipdidg scandal, the WordPress blogger and developer communities have been working together to help the company’s customers get on new themes and ensure the safety …
Jetpack 7.2.1 Removes Promotions for Paid Upgrades from the Plugin Search Screen
Earlier this month, Jetpack 7.1 added suggestions to the plugin search screen, a controversial change that has sparked debate this week. When users search for a plugin that matches a term for an ex…
WPWeekly Episode 350 – Don’t Touch My Plugin Search Results
In this episode, John James Jacoby and I discuss a controversial feature in Jetpack 7.1 that adds feature suggestions to plugin search results. We also talk about extension suggestions that are com…
WooCommerce 3.6 to Add Marketplace Suggestions, Despite Overwhelmingly Negative Feedback from Developer…
In one of the most unpopular changes in the history of the WooCommerce open source project, version 3.6 will introduce “Marketplace Suggestions.” The update adds suggestions to the prod…
Jetpack Is Promoting Paid Upgrades on Plugin Search Screen, WordPress Plugin Team…
Yesterday the discussion surrounding Jetpack’s implementation of feature suggestions in the plugin search screen became heated after developers pointed out that Automattic is also using these…
Pipdig Updates P3 Plugin after Reports Expose Vendor Backdoors, Built-in Kill Switch,…
Over the weekend, Pipdig, a small commercial theme company, has been at the center of a scandal after multiple reports exposed a litany of unethical code additions to its Pipdig Power Pack (P3) plu…
Jetpack 7.1 Adds Feature Suggestions to Plugin Search Results
Jetpack 7.1 was released earlier this month with new blocks for WordAds, Business Hours, Contact Info, Slideshows, and Videos. This release also quietly added suggestions to the plugin search scree…