If there was a question that ever made me start feeling old, it might be this one. Last week, Marcel Bootsman asked via Twitter, “Why did you start to use WordPress?” WordPress community members chimed in with all sorts of reasons for hopping aboard, and Jeff Chandler of WP Mainline shared his journey on his […]
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A Free User Registration, Form Builder, and Profile Plugin for WordPress
For the past few years, ProfilePress has carved out a reputation as one of the leading tools for creating WordPress membership sites by tackling a simple yet important problem: Building a fully functioning site that is easy to manage, gives you full control, and doesn’t look like every other membership site on the planet. This […]
Continue readingGallery Block Refactor Expected To Land in WordPress 5.9 – WP Tavern
Last week, a GitHub pull request I had been watching since October 2020 on the Gutenberg repository was finally merged into the codebase. It changes the structure of the WordPress Gallery block to be a container for nested Image blocks. The new format is expected to land in WordPress 5.9. For those who want to […]
Continue readingA Free User Registration, Form Builder, and Profile Plugin for WordPress
For the past few years, ProfilePress has carved out a reputation as one of the leading tools for creating WordPress membership sites by tackling a simple yet important problem: Building a fully functioning site that is easy to manage, gives you full control, and doesn’t look like every other membership site on the planet. This […]
Continue readingWordPress Contributors Actually Do Listen to Feedback and Engage With the Community – WP Tavern
I am a writer. That gives me a license — not to be overused — to steer into hyperbole once in a while. I get to be critical, sometimes overly, because I can come back the next day and shower the WordPress project with praise. Perhaps, at times, I forget to be as fair or […]
Continue readingNew Boilerplate Speeds Up Building “Nearly Headless” WordPress Themes – WP Tavern
Alex Standiford, a WordPress developer at AffiliateWP, has released a boilerplate for what he is calling a “nearly headless” WordPress theme. It uses Underpin ,Nicholas, and AlpineJS to provide an app-like experience for a website while providing the flexibility for rendering specific pages using PHP instead of Javascript. In a post titled “Headless WordPress is Overrated: A Case […]
Continue readingWordPress Learning Curve in 2021 • WPShout
There’s been some worthwhile discussion of the WordPress learning curve lately. My “main link” here is the article from Courtney Robertson. Though I’d also point to the one of the topic from Justin Tadlock at WP Tavern. I thought Courtney’s summary rang true: While the block editor experience has improved the content creation and even […]
Continue readingWordfence and WPScan Publish Mid-Year WordPress Security Report – WP Tavern
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 on […]
Continue readingWordPress vs Blogger: Which One Is Better? 2021 Comparison
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 that […]
Continue reading#6 – Cory Miller on the WordPress Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape – WP Tavern
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 said […]
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