WordPress
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Twenty Twenty-Two theme is the first of the block theme era to be tagged accessibility-ready
After an amazing seven-month long effort across multiple contributor teams at WordPress, the Twenty Twenty-Two (also known as TT2) default theme will be tagged as “Accessibility-Ready” when WordPress 6.1 ships this coming November. It is the first block theme to meet the requirements for gaining this wonderful distinction for accessibility. During its development the theme was also…
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WebP by Default Pulled from Upcoming WordPress 6.1 Release
Last month, the plan was for WordPress to generate WebP images by default for new JPEG image uploads and that was put on hold for the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release after objections from lead developers. The original proposal had been merged into core at the end of July, despite significant feedback and concerns from WordPress’ developer community objecting…
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WebP by Default Merged into Core for WordPress 6.1 update
WebP, the new image format developed by Google, which is intended to replace JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats, will soon be generated by default for new JPEG image uploads in WordPress and used for website content. The main work was committed to core for inclusion in the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release. The initial proposal was revised after…
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WordPress Birthday 2022
I want to wish WordPress a Happy 19th Birthday today.
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WordPress Performance Team Puts WebP by Default Proposal on Hold After Feedback
The WordPress Performance team has put its WebP by Default proposal on hold after the community voiced some critical feedback and significant technical concerns of this proposal. The new feature that was proposed would generate WebP images on upload by default for new JPEG uploads and would use the WebP images by default for website content. WordPress’…
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Performance Team Proposes Enabling WebP by Default in WordPress 6.0
WordPress’ Performance Team has published a feature proposal that would enable WebP images by default in the next update to WordPress, expanding core support for the modern image format. In July, 2021, WordPress 5.8 introduced WebP support, which allows its users to upload and use WebP images in their content. If the proposal is eventually approved, version 6.0…
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Creative Commons Search Is Now Openverse
Now that the project has been completed, the Creative Commons search engine has been rebranded to Openverse and now redirects to its new home at openverse.org. Users will find the revamped interface maintains the ability to search the same collections, narrowing results by use case, license type, image type, file type, aspect ratio, and much more.…
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WordPress 5.8 WebP image format support
In the upcoming WordPress 5.8 update, scheduled to ship July 20th, WordPress is allowing its users to use a new image format. No, it is not SVG, which technically is not an image by the way. There are still security hurdles to jump for that to happen one day. However, WordPress is now supporting the WebP…
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WordPress Birthday 2021
Happy 18th birthday to WordPress. WordPress would be considered an adult now. Thank you to everyone that has contributed to this project over the years to create such a great platform to build a website on.
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Openverse: Why This Project Is Good for WordPress and the Web
In today’s episode of the WP Briefing podcast titled The Commons of Images, host Josepha Haden Chomphosy discussed the Openverse project with WordPress lead Matt Mullenweg. Automattic recently paid the non-profit Creative Commons organization for their Creative Commons Search engine to be hosted on WordPress.org, where there will be a community-run team taking over. They are…