First, I’d like to repeat my comment to Sarah: Sarah, you are amazing. Your insightful writing and journalism has been a gift to the WordPress world, and shaped how the project has evolved for the better. It’s a key and major contribution to the community. Thank you, deeply, and I can’t wait to see what… Continue reading What’s Next?
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Last Call
This has been an emotional, bittersweet morning for me, reading through old posts, as I close the book on my time at this beloved publication. Today is my last day before moving on to embrace a new challenge in the world of tech. In 2013, the year I started writing at the Tavern, just 17.4%… Continue reading Last Call
WooCommerce 8.3 Makes Cart, Checkout, and Order Confirmation Blocks Default on New Installations
WooCommerce 8.3 was released today, featuring Cart, Checkout, and Order Confirmation blocks as the default checkout flow for new installations. This is a major milestone in moving WooCommerce towards a block-first checkout experience. Version 8.3 was slightly delayed, as core developers worked to ensure it would be compatible with the latest changes in WordPress 6.4… Continue reading WooCommerce 8.3 Makes Cart, Checkout, and Order Confirmation Blocks Default on New Installations
Elementor Pro Pricing Update Slashes Features in the Essential Plan for New Customers
Elementor, the most popular website builder plugin for WordPress with more than 5 million active installations, has announced major changes coming to the features included in its Elementor Pro Essential subscription plan. The plan will still include the Theme Builder along with access to 50+ Pro widgets, basic marketing tools, and the Form widget, but… Continue reading Elementor Pro Pricing Update Slashes Features in the Essential Plan for New Customers
WordCamp Asia Extends Sponsor Application Deadline
The WordCamp Asia organizing team has extended its call for sponsors until Thursday, November 30, 2023. In an update on the official website, organizers explained that they received feedback from multiple potential sponsors regarding why they had been unable to apply before the original deadline. Some of the reasons included the following: The availability of… Continue reading WordCamp Asia Extends Sponsor Application Deadline
Brainstorm Force Invests in LatePoint Bookings and Appointment Scheduling Plugin
Brainstorm Force, makers of the popular Astra theme, has invested in LatePoint, a commercial booking and appointment scheduling plugin for WordPress. LatePoint is used on 21,000 websites to enable bookings for small businesses, such as salons, therapists, doctors, spas, and fitness studios. It also supports a growing library of add-ons for further customizing the booking… Continue reading Brainstorm Force Invests in LatePoint Bookings and Appointment Scheduling Plugin
ElmaStudio Releases Moog: A Free Block Theme for Blogs
Moog is one of the latest free block themes to be released on WordPress.org. It features a minimal and bold layout with a responsive, masonry style grid on the homepage. Moog is well suited to blogs or even small magazine websites, with options to radically change the style with the click of a button. Moog’s… Continue reading ElmaStudio Releases Moog: A Free Block Theme for Blogs
WordPress 2024 Roadmap: 3 Major Releases with a Focus on Collaboration Features
WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy has published a proposed schedule for 2024 that includes three major core releases. The dates have not yet been set in stone but have been planned to avoid major holidays and WordPress events. The first release of the year, WordPress 6.5, is scheduled for March 26, followed by 6.6… Continue reading WordPress 2024 Roadmap: 3 Major Releases with a Focus on Collaboration Features
Wordfence Launches Bug Bounty Program
Wordfence launched a bug bounty program today to provide financial incentive for security researchers reporting high risk vulnerabilities to the company’s program. After researchers disclose vulnerabilities to Wordfence, the company triages them and confidentially discloses them to the vendors to fix. When the fix is released, the vulnerability will be included in Wordfence’s public database,… Continue reading Wordfence Launches Bug Bounty Program
WordPress 6.4.1 Fixes a Critical cURL/Requests Bug
WordPress contributors have worked quickly over the past 24 hours to prepare a 6.4.1 maintenance release after a critical bug emerged from a change in the Requests library, causing problems with updates on servers running older versions of cURL. Hosting companies began reporting widespread impact of the bug. Tom Sommer, from one of Denmark’s largest… Continue reading WordPress 6.4.1 Fixes a Critical cURL/Requests Bug