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The San Diego Boogie

Editor’s note: How I imagine the background music to WordCamp US 2022 News The new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Three, will be a stripped-down base theme with many style variations built by the WordPress design community. This theme is being released to make theme development exciting again. Jump over to the Gutenberg times to read about…

Client & agency collaboration tool Atarim raises angel round
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Client & agency collaboration tool Atarim raises angel round

You’d be hard pressed to find a business, both online and brick-and-mortar, that didn’t invest in their website over the last three years. With WordPress marketshare showing only a sliver of marketshare decline since pandemic heights, it’s still a force to be reckoned with. Putting page builders and coding tools to the side: The client…

Why WebP Image Conversion in WordPress Is Controversial

Why WebP Image Conversion in WordPress Is Controversial

The WebP image format has been a popular topic in the WordPress space of late. Created by Google, WebP supports both lossy and lossless compression techniques. It can result in smaller file sizes than older formats like JPEG and PNG. As it relates to WordPress, our favorite content management system (CMS) has taken a while…

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Where is WordPress headed?

News  WordPress continues to work on core template changes to refine the creation experience. Many more options will be released with WordPress 6.1 that will continue to improve website building. You can explore the enhancements now in the Gutenberg plugin.  Sarah Gooding over at WPTavern wrote an article about how the WP-Optimize plugin was being…

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Cloudways with a chance of Digital Ocean

News  WordPress 6.0.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing. Testing is so important with this release so please go over to make.wordpress.org to help. There are also a lot of exciting things happening with the block editor. Birgit Pauli-Haack shared that there is a new call for testing by Anne McCarthy for Full-site…

Why Freelancers Shouldn’t Become Consumed with #WPDrama
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Why Freelancers Shouldn’t Become Consumed with #WPDrama

At its best, the WordPress community is truly amazing. In my experience, it is both giving and nurturing. People from all over the world have come together to build software and an ecosystem that benefits us all. That’s pretty special. But like any community, we aren’t perfect. Differences of opinion can turn ugly. Kindness and…

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Speed it up please

News  A new WordPress homepage and download page is live but was it done quickly enough? Mullenweg’s perception of how long a layout should take started a lot of discussion about the timing of the release, the number of volunteers on the project…to well…you name it. The comments to the controversy ran the gamut. Mullenweg’s…

Sponsor Underrepresented & Minority WordCamp Speakers

Sponsor Underrepresented & Minority WordCamp Speakers

This week we bring you a guest post by Winstina Hughes. Read on as she shares about a very important movement. The WordPress community has expressed tremendous support for the call to action to sponsor underrepresented/minority WordCamp speakers by removing the financial burden of their travel and lodging expenses. But who made the call, and…

Dog days of WordPress summer

Dog days of WordPress summer

Gutenberg News Last week there was a bunch of new stuff with Gutenberg 13.8.0. Birgit Pauli-Haack discusses all the new features with Grzegorz Ziolkowski over on the changelog podcast. You can hear about Fluid Typography, updates to Block APIs, and WordPress 6.1 Planning. The Gutenberg Editor is testing On Tumblr and Day One Web Apps. Sarah…

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