Patchstack Tracks 328% More Security Bugs Reported in WordPress Plugins in 2022

Patchstack, a WordPress security maintenance and management tool, has published its “State of WordPress Security” whitepaper for 2022, tracking a few key metrics on publicly reported vulnerabilities. The findings highlight the risk of using unmaintained themes and plugins along with developers’ need to keep pace with updates to libraries and dependencies included in their work.… Continue reading Patchstack Tracks 328% More Security Bugs Reported in WordPress Plugins in 2022

Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress

Automattic has acquired the ActivityPub plugin for WordPress from German developer Matthias Pfefferle, who will be joining the company to continue improving support for federated platforms. Pfefferle, who is also the author of the Webmention plugin, said his new role is to see how Automattic’s products can benefit from open protocols like ActivityPub. In 2021,… Continue reading Automattic Acquires ActivityPub Plugin for WordPress

Toot the Word Survey Finds Mastodon Increasingly Important to WordPress’ Community of Tooters

More than 200 users on Mastodon who consider themselves part of the WordPress community, responded to the recent Toot the Word 2023 Survey, which was conducted by the admins of five WordPress-oriented Mastodon instances. The purpose of the survey was to help those running these instances understand how important Mastodon is for the WordPress community… Continue reading Toot the Word Survey Finds Mastodon Increasingly Important to WordPress’ Community of Tooters

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WordPress 6.2 RC 1 Released and Ready for Testing

WordPress 6.2 RC 1 was released today, marking the hard string freeze and readiness for translation ahead of the official release on March 28. There are three weeks remaining for testing. WordPress contributors published the 6.2 Field Guide, which includes the dev notes – technical updates for many of the new features and changes included… Continue reading WordPress 6.2 RC 1 Released and Ready for Testing

Lemmony: A Free WordPress Block Theme with 30+ Patterns

Lemmony is a new WordPress block theme designed by the team at Shufflehound, a theme development company based in Europe with commercial products on Themeforest. This is the team’s first block theme on WordPress.org and it is a strong debut. Lemmony is a beautifully-designed multipurpose theme that would work well for businesses, agencies, and portfolio… Continue reading Lemmony: A Free WordPress Block Theme with 30+ Patterns

Jetpack 11.9 Adds Sharing Button for Mastodon, Updates Stats Dashboard Design

Jetpack 11.9 was released this week with support for sharing posts to Mastodon. The new button allows readers to click an icon to launch a sharing window that will ask the user to enter the full URL of the Mastodon instance where they want to share the post. Adding the URL will update the window… Continue reading Jetpack 11.9 Adds Sharing Button for Mastodon, Updates Stats Dashboard Design

WP Engine Pattern Manager Plugin Now in Beta

WP Engine is beta testing its new Pattern Manager plugin for creating and maintaining patterns. The plugin is intended for WordPress professionals – developers, agencies, and freelancers, who could benefit from having an interface and system for pattern management. “There are some plugins out there that provide an interface for creating patterns on a production… Continue reading WP Engine Pattern Manager Plugin Now in Beta

WordPress’ Legacy Default Themes Updated to Bundle Google Fonts Locally

WordPress contributors have updated the legacy default themes to bundle Google Fonts locally in the theme folder, instead of loading them from Google’s servers. In years past, loading fonts from the the Google CDN was the recommended practice for performance reasons, but new privacy concerns have emerged following a German court case, which fined a website… Continue reading WordPress’ Legacy Default Themes Updated to Bundle Google Fonts Locally

WordPress 6.2 Product Demo Video Now Available

If you’re not yet excited about the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release, you will be after watching the new live demo product video that was recorded last week. The demo was presented by Anne McCarthy and Rich Tabor, and moderated by Nathan Wrigley. The team used a beautifully customized version of the default Twenty Twenty-Three theme,… Continue reading WordPress 6.2 Product Demo Video Now Available