[ad_1] Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WooCommerce 5.6 release candidate 2 is out and available for testing. The update is on track for the planned August 17th release date. Beyond that, Gutenberg 11.2.0 is released with some new features, and we have some […]
Continue readingWordfence and WPScan Publish Mid-Year WordPress Security Report – WP Tavern
[ad_1] WPScan is on track to post a record-breaking year for WordPress plugin vulnerabilities submitted to its database, according to a collaborative mid-year security report the company published with Wordfence. In the first half of 2021, WPScan has recorded 602 new vulnerabilities, quickly surpassing the 514 reported during all of 2020. The report is based […]
Continue readingYoast Joins Newfold Digital, Team To Stay in Place – WP Tavern
[ad_1] Earlier today, Yoast CEO Marieke van de Rakt announced the company had been acquired by NewFold Digital. Yoast and its SEO-related business are expected to continue operating as usual with its current team and maintaining its product line. Newfold Digital is a global web solutions provider that serves small-to-medium businesses. The company has many […]
Continue readingWordPress vs Blogger: Which One Is Better? 2021 Comparison
[ad_1] Trying to decide between WordPress vs Blogger to make a blog in 2021 or beyond? That’s the question we’re going to answer in depth in this post. But first, a spoiler alert – in 2021, WordPress is almost always a better choice to start a blog or website. But to understand why we say […]
Continue readingGoogle Site Kit Plugin Ships Hot Fix for Critical Error That Caused Broken Websites – WP Tavern
[ad_1] Google published an update to its Site Kit plugin for WordPress this afternoon with a hot fix for a critical issue affecting an unknown number of users. Reports of broken websites were popping up on Twitter and in the plugin’s support forum on WordPress.org. Users affected by the issue reported having a critical error […]
Continue readingBuilding a Higher Ed Header – WP Tavern
[ad_1] It feels like it has been ages since the WordPress community has had a call for testing Full Site Editing (FSE) features. The FSE Outreach Program was on a small hiatus. However, the WordPress 5.8 launch was also underway last month. The program is an open call for testing various components of FSE. Thus […]
Continue readingHonest Review of WPX Hosting (2021)
[ad_1] A fast website is vital to your online success. No matter what the purpose of your website, from blogging for fun to selling products online, your site will benefit from quick loading times. Improving website speed can help you get more visitors thanks to an increased visibility in the search engines. Faster websites also […]
Continue reading#6 – Cory Miller on the WordPress Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape – WP Tavern
[ad_1] So in 2016 or so I started to think, what does the future look like? It feels like one day somebody at all the hosting companies goes, I wonder how much this thing called WordPress, what kind of footprint is it in our customer base, in our stack and somebody came back and probably […]
Continue readingElastic Hits Back at OpenSearch, Making Client Libraries Incompatible with Amazon-led Open Source Fork – WP Tavern
[ad_1] After Elastic, makers of the search and analytic engine Elasticsearch, re-licensed its core product so that it was no longer open source, Amazon led a community effort to fork it. In July 2021, contributors to the project announced the first general availability (GA) release of OpenSearch 1.0, an Apache 2.0-licensed fork of Elasticsearch 7.10.2 and […]
Continue readingEmoji Toolbar Plugin Brings an Emoji Picker Back to the WordPress Editor – WP Tavern
[ad_1] Earlier today, theme.es released its Emoji Toolbar project to the plugin directory. It is a simple picker that integrates with the WordPress Rich Text toolbar, allowing users to insert emoji directly from the editor interface. After Nick Hamze pulled his Emoji Conbini plugin from WordPress.org last year, there has been an emoji-sized hole in […]
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