On Wednesday, Anne McCarthy announced Round #12 of the FSE Outreach Program. As always, everyone is free to join by testing features and providing direct feedback on problem areas with the design tools in WordPress. Anyone interested should respond by March 16. For this round, volunteers are tasked with testing some oldies but goodies. Early […]
Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, Elementor released Elementor Cloud, an all-in-one website solution that includes built-in hosting. Their announcement video has drawn mixed feedback. What do you think about this new offering? Beyond that, there’s a new WordPress maintenance release featuring 82 bug […]
Automattic’s Skatepark landed in the WordPress.org theme directory on Monday. It was designed for modern events and organizations, but it should work well for many sites with a small amount of customization. For those keeping count, it is number 52 on the long path toward the 3,000 themes project lead Matt Mullenweg hopes for before […]
The third edition of WordFest Live is coming up on March 4, 2022. The online event will feature more than 60 sessions over the course of 24 hours, as well as workshops, socials, and celebrations. Sessions will be focused on WordPress, remote working, and mental wellbeing. Topics include leadership, freelancing, website performance, podcasting, WooCommerce, dealing […]
The core WordPress blocks like button and group all share a global color palette. This saves a lot of time because you don’t have to style many variations of each block – every block with a class of .has-secondary-background-color will have the same background color. If you’re using theme.json, this becomes even more powerful because you […]
There is not much I miss about the classic editor. It was dead to me when the block system became the new normal. However, there might be a feature or two that I miss. The biggest of those features? The “Add New” button at the top of the post editor. “Add New” button in the […]
Today we are continuing on with our new Building with Blocks series, where we demonstrate some fun things you can create with blocks. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to build a simple vCard website with a video background in under five minutes. I wanted to build a website like this […]
After being involved in web design for almost 19 years now, there are grinding days where nothing feels fresh. However, there are also moments where you look at another web developer’s approach to problems and feel like there is a whole world of possibilities that you have yet to step into. And, it is rarely […]
UpdraftPlus, a plugin that allows users to backup to various cloud providers, has patched a severe security vulnerability that would allow logged-in users to download a site’s latest backups. The patched version (1.22.3) was sent out via a forced auto-update, a measure reserved for severe vulnerabilities that affect a large number of users. UpdraftPlus is active […]
Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress News got a fresh new look. According to the team, this is the first small step to modernize and improve the site. Meanwhile, there was a vulnerability found in the popular UpdraftPlus plugin, which Wordfence detailed on its […]