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Some highlights and an overview of WCUS 2021, from Courtney Robertson.... Read more

The GiveWP team announced an extension of its flagship donation plugin for allowing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising in late September. The … Continue reading GiveWP Launches Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Add-On →... Read more

There’s a lot of tolerance in open source software for shipping slightly imperfect work. And that’s good. When we ship software that’s a little bit imperfect, it makes it clear how everyone can participate, how everyone could participate, if they could find this WordPress community that supports the CMS. That... Read more

Meet Shahjahan Jewel! He is the Founder and CEO at WP ManageNinja LLC.... Read more

This week: WordPress-themed podcasts, creating Gutenberg blocks, WordCamp US, and much more. Upcoming Events:... Read more

Facebook, Workplace, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down today for roughly six hours due to a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configuration … Continue reading Facebook Outage Rekindles Push for a Free and Open Web →... Read more

Last week, under its news section, The Next Web published what could only be described as a hit piece: Developers … Continue reading The Next Web Publishes Storyblok-Sponsored Hit Piece on WordPress →... Read more

In episode 17 of the WordPress Briefing, Josepha Haden Chomphosy reflects on her WordCamp US keynote and digs into how participating in open source projects can help you learn 21st Century Skills.  Have a question you’d like answered? You can submit them to wpbriefing@wordpress.org, either written or as a voice... Read more

Launched by Ralph Morris and Steve Burge in June this year, Logtivity is a plugin and service that allows site … Continue reading Logtivity: A WordPress Activity Log Service With Customizable Charts, Alerts, and CSV Exports →... Read more

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, the largest WordCamp event in North America kicks off. This one-day virtual event features speaker sessions, question and answer time, workshops, and more. Check out the schedule here.  Beyond that,  Gutenberg 11.6 landed... Read more

Gutenberg 11.6 was released this week with a new API for managing lock control at the block-type level. When defining … Continue reading Gutenberg 11.6 Introduces New API for Locking Blocks →... Read more

Gutenberg 11.6 landed yesterday. Contributors added dozens of enhancements and bug fixes. Admittedly, there was not a whole lot that … Continue reading Gutenberg 11.6 Improves the Global Styles UI, Adds Child Theme Support →... Read more

On this 30th day of September, it is International Podcast Day and the folks over at HeroPress are celebrating it in style by launching WP Podcasts. WP Podcasts is part of the HeroPress network and is essentially a directory of ... Read More The post HeroPress Launches WP Podcasts on... Read more

To coincide with International Translation Day, we feature the story of a developer and translator Yordan Soares from South America.... Read more

Andrew Starr, the owner of UXL Themes, has cobbled together a new project around block patterns. His new site, aptly … Continue reading Preview WordPress Block Pattern and Theme Combinations via New Site →... Read more

Chris Wiegman has a great post on his site where he outlines and defines four types of communities in WordPress. The four communities are Idealists, Personal Brands, Workers, and Users. These communities overlap and form the Global Community. Upon reading ... Read More... Read more

In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been diving into and learning more about NFTs or Non-fungible tokens. NFTs can be pretty much anything but the majority of them are digital art pieces that are individual or part of a ... Read More... Read more

WordCamp US, WordPress’ largest flagship event in the Western Hemisphere, is set to kick off on Friday, October 1, at … Continue reading WordCamp US 2021 Kicks Off Online in 48 Hours →... Read more

Member Spotlight: David Smith, Founding Wizard at Gravity Wiz... Read more

Estela Rueda from Bratislava, Slovakia writes about how the WordPress community rallied around her when Covid struck and work ran out.... Read more