Introducing WPBeginner SEO Analyzer: Free SEO Audit Tool to Boost Rankings

Do you want to optimize your website for search engines? Ever wished there was any easy way to perform an SEO (search engine optimization) audit to find critical errors on your site WITHOUT the high costs? If you’re like me and most other smart website owners, then you have at least wished for this solution a couple of… Continue reading Introducing WPBeginner SEO Analyzer: Free SEO Audit Tool to Boost Rankings

WordPress Turns 20

WordPress is 20 years old today, an estimable milestone for open source software running on the web. Parties are happening all over the world – in Geneva, Los Angeles, Istanbul, Bangkok, Lahore, Jakarta, Mumbai – in over 150 different locations. The software has been downloaded more than 2.8 billion times but the most impressive stat… Continue reading WordPress Turns 20

WordPress and Drupal Co-Founders Discuss Open Source, AI, and the Future of the Web

WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary tomorrow and recently its co-founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, joined Drupal founder Dries Buytaert together on stage at a private event for the first time on May 17. They discussed how their lives were influenced by open source and how they built their projects around the freedoms it… Continue reading WordPress and Drupal Co-Founders Discuss Open Source, AI, and the Future of the Web

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WordPress 6.2 Core Performance Analysis Finds Improving Template Loading for Classic Themes Could Make a Major Impact

WordPress’ Performance Team has published a summary of a core performance analysis they completed in order to identify and prioritize areas for improvement. As part of this process, contributors created a methodology with a standard set of tools that can be used to collect and share profiling data for various components of the application. The… Continue reading WordPress 6.2 Core Performance Analysis Finds Improving Template Loading for Classic Themes Could Make a Major Impact

MariaDB Health Checks Plugin Now Available on WordPress.org

A new MariaDB Health Checks plugin is now available on WordPress.org, thanks to the efforts of contributors involved in the 2023 CloudFest Hackathon which took place in Germany. MariaDB is a popular open source database used by those looking to further scale their websites, as it is generally faster than MySQL with better support for… Continue reading MariaDB Health Checks Plugin Now Available on WordPress.org

Automattic Releases wp-now: A Local Development Environment Powered by WordPress Playground

Automattic has published a new project called wp-now that creates a local development environment in seconds. The tool is a NodeJS app that is powered by WordPress Playground, an experimental project that uses WebAssembly (WASM) to run WordPress in the browser. wp-now allows developers to quickly spin up a new WordPress site with their chosen theme… Continue reading Automattic Releases wp-now: A Local Development Environment Powered by WordPress Playground

Announcing WPBeginner’s Blog Post Idea Generator – Create Your Yearly Content Calendar in a Second

Do you want to quickly generate content ideas for your blog? Ever wished there was any easy way to create a year’s worth of content ideas without having to spend hours if not days for researching and mind mapping? If you’re like me and most other smart bloggers, then you have at least wished for… Continue reading Announcing WPBeginner’s Blog Post Idea Generator – Create Your Yearly Content Calendar in a Second

Gutenberg 15.8 Adds Pages Menu to Site Editor, Revisions UI to Global Styles

Gutenberg 15.8 was released with some exciting features that were included in the tentative WordPress 6.3 roadmap. Users are getting closer to a more unified content editing experience with the addition of the Pages menu to the Site Editor. Clicking on Pages will load the ten most recently updated pages with a link to “Manage… Continue reading Gutenberg 15.8 Adds Pages Menu to Site Editor, Revisions UI to Global Styles

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Shufflehound Releases Free Lemmony Child Theme for Agencies

Shufflehound made a big splash in March when it released Lemmony, a free WordPress block theme with more than 30 patterns. This was the company’s first block theme on WordPress.org and it is already active on more than 1,000 websites. Building on the success of this theme, Shufflehound has created a child theme for agencies.… Continue reading Shufflehound Releases Free Lemmony Child Theme for Agencies

WordPress 6.2.2 Restores Shortcode Support in Block Templates, Fixes Security Issue

WordPress 6.2.2 was released early this morning as a rapid follow-up to 6.2.1, which introduced a bug that broke shortcode support in block templates. Version 6.2.1 was also an important security release, but due to the catastrophic breakage for those using shortcodes in block templates, some users were implementing insecure workarounds or simply downgrading to… Continue reading WordPress 6.2.2 Restores Shortcode Support in Block Templates, Fixes Security Issue