WordPress
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Enhancing WordPress Development: Exploring Gutenberg Native AI Block and Content Assistants
Introduction As the world’s most popular content management system, WordPress continually evolves to meet the growing demands of its users. One of the most significant recent developments is Gutenberg, the block editor introduced in WordPress 5.0. Now, the WordPress community is taking innovation a step further by experimenting with Gutenberg Native AI Block and Content…
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WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Updated to Upload Inserted Images
WordPress 6.2’s Openverse integration is getting some last minute changes after some contributors expressed concerns about it hotlinking images by default. The new feature, which allows users to quickly insert free, openly-licensed media into their content, and also allows users to upload external images through a button in the block toolbar, but the problem with this…
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Museum of Block Art Calls for Submissions Celebrating WordPress’ 20th Anniversary
You can find the original article seen below here. The new Museum of Block Art (MOBA), a project that was launched in 2022 featuring art created using the block editor’s design tools, are calling for submissions celebrating WordPress’ upcoming 20th anniversary in May. In such a short amount of time, the museum has collected more than three dozen…
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New Proposal Seeks to Update WordPress Release Process for Merging Gutenberg Features After Beta 1 Feature Freeze
I read an article which can be found in full here. Below is an edited version of that article. WordPress lead developer Andrew Ozz recently published a proposal for the addition of a new “gutenberg-merge” ticket type that would formalize the latitude Gutenberg contributors have been given for committing code after the Feature Freeze during the release…
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Industry-Wide Tech Layoffs Impacting WordPress Professionals
The following article discussed here can be found in it’s original form here. Most of us WordPress professionals and some others in the tech industry managed to escape the 2022 tech layoffs, which mostly affected venture capital-funded startups and larger companies that had over-hired during the economic upswing that came with the pandemic precautions being…
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WP Community Collective Names Alex Stine as First Accessibility Fellow
The newly formed nonprofit organization WP Community Collective (WPCC), is dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and various community-led initiatives and now has announced its first Accessibility Fellow. The first Accessibility Fellow is Alex Stine, he is a fully blind individual contributor who has been working with the WordPress Accessibility team since 2016, and is…
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Yoast SEO 20.1: Mastodon and inclusive language improvements
After successfully introducing a new settings interface in Yoast SEO 20.0, the team at Yoast have more exciting news for users! They have built an integration with Mastodon, the decentralized and open-source social network that’s similar to the more mainstream Twitter. Yoast SEO’s Premium users can now verify the link in their Mastodon profile with…
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WordPress Project to Evaluate Replacing Slack with Matrix Open Source Chat
I read an article today at WPTavern about replacing Slack with a new opensource chat system. Both WordPress and Matrix contributors are proposing a new Meta team subproject that would explore replacing Slack communication using Matrix, an open source federated chat system. Matrix already powers a variety of communication tools, including Element, the most mature…
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WordPress Community Team Proposes Adopting GitHub to Improve Collaboration
Although GitHub is primarily used for code collaboration, which is how I use it to show you both the behind the scenes and client side of what I can do for you as a developer, WordPress’ Community team is considering adopting the platform to standardize their project management tools. Contributing to open source already is…
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New Video Explores Site Building Progress from WordPress 5.9 to 6.2
I came across an article by wptavern discussing a video on youtube about the progress that has been made with the site building features of WordPress. this video and article documents the advancements made from WordPress 5.9 to the upcoming WordPress 6.2. WordPress 5.9 (AKA “Josephine”) was released in January 2022, but that seems like…