2024 WordPress Vulnerability Report Shows Errors Sites Keep Making

[ad_1] WordPress security scanner WPScan’s 2024 WordPress vulnerability report calls attention to WordPress vulnerability trends and suggests the kinds of things website publishers (and SEOs) should be looking out for. Some of the key findings from the report were that just over 20% of vulnerabilities were rated as high or critical level threats, with medium […]

Reflections on My 2 Weeks Writing for The Tavern – WP Tavern

[ad_1] As my 2 weeks as a guest writer at The Tavern wind down, I thought y’all might be curious to hear some of my reflections on the experience. As James wrote, bringing 7 writers in for 2-week stints is kind of like The Hunger Games – many go in, two get the job. That […]

Learning Pathways and Website Redesign – WP Tavern

[ad_1] Knowledge and training for WordPress has traditionally been very decentralized. There’s the official documentation, the developer documentation, the support forums, WordPress.tv, and then the wide array of community blogs, tutorials, and YouTube videos. Resources like documentation and support forums exist to answer questions and explain features, but their purpose is not to teach a […]

Surprising Tech Trends in WordPress and Beyond – WP Tavern

[ad_1] As you likely know, WordPress software powers 46% of all websites on the Internet. I thought it would be fun to dive a bit deeper and note some trends that affect the WP community. WordPress powers 46% of all websites on the Internet WordPress usage remains dominant and steady Antiquated software is still used […]

Which WP Theme is Best? Fun With Theme Download Stats – WP Tavern

[ad_1] Today I embarked on a mission to figure out which WP.org themes are used the most and why. As you likely know, “Top 5” lists, as a rule, are generally very opinionated and based on fuzzy assumptions and non-standard use cases. I want to assure you – this article is no exception to that […]

WordPress Developer Docs Shows Off a New Block-Based Redesign – WP Tavern

[ad_1] Over the years, WordPress’s developer documentation, originally the Codex but now the WordPress Code Reference, has served the project well. However, there’s been a sense in the community that much of the more recent documentation- for example, the JavaScript APIs and packages coming out of Gutenberg- has been inconsistent and harder to read and […]

February 29, 2024
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You Don’t Need to Know Code to Build a Successful WP Plugin Business. – WP Tavern

[ad_1] With all the consolidation happening in the WordPress plugin ecosystem, it’s easy to think that it’d be futile to start your own WP plugin business. But the reality is that there are many small plugin developers making a living flying under the radar of the big dogs. As Valuable as 1 Big Project Per […]

February 23, 2024
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Host non-bundled Blocks in Gutenberg’s GitHub Repository – WP Tavern

[ad_1] Matias Ventura, Gutenberg’s Lead Architect, recently made a pitch to incorporate some single-block plugins in the Gutenberg GitHub repository: “There’s a growing subset of blocks that we may contemplate creating that are either more niche or—for various reasons—not necessarily an immediate fit for the bundled library in core. This would include blocks that have […]

February 22, 2024
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WooCommerce Releases 8.6 & 8.6.1 – WP Tavern

[ad_1] tl;dr WooCommerce 8.6, delayed due to an Order Attribution Tracking issue, has been released. It features a new Product Details block style, six new layouts for the Product Collection block, and a sales column for marketing analytics. For developers, it offers improved logging, a notice on Legacy REST API removal, simplified customer history calculation, […]

February 22, 2024
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