WordPress News

If you missed our blog post about it, we’re giving away three copies of the flexible Jupiter X theme – you have until Tuesday to

Back in January 2019, we reviewed the Jupiter X theme, which is a super flexible theme powered by the WordPress Customizer and a detailed Elementor

Howdy, WordPress folks. We’re checking in a little late this week thanks to a fun few days with gastroenteritis, but we think the wait is

This week, you can check out a sneak peek of the upcoming Twenty Nineteen theme for WordPress 5.0. It looks pretty cool! We also put

This week, there’s a lot of news and articles about how accessibility has been handled in Gutenberg, including the resignation of the WordPress accessibility team

After a short hiatus for some much-needed vacation, we’re back with more great WordPress news! First up, EasyThemePacks just released two new premium Elementor templates

If you are looking for the trendiest WordPress themes that can be bought at the discounted price, then you have reached the right place. One

This week, Daan’s Elementor template site, EasyThemePacks, released 3 brand new premium templates to help you create a CV, portfolio, or arts and craft website.

Hopefully you’ve had a good week sorting through the thousands of privacy policy update emails you received as a result of the GDPR… This week,

Looking for some examples of big brands using WordPress? You can find a lot of these posts littered around Google. But one thing that I

You probably already know that WordPress is pretty popular. But just how popular is “pretty popular”? Have you ever wondered more about WordPress’ usage stats

This week, Pagely published the results of their survey about WordPress headaches. Performance issues took the lead as the biggest pain point. Weglot also published

This week, we have a call for developers to stop supporting legacy PHP versions, as well as tips to prepare your website for Google’s mobile-first

In the biggest news this week, Liquid Web, a huge hosting provider, purchased iThemes in an all-cash deal. This is big news, and congrats to

As you’d expect, this past week was fairly quiet on the WordPress news front. Wordfence did some good digging on three recently compromised plugins. And

In case you weren’t aware, WordCamp US went on this past weekend, which gives us lots of juicy WordPress stuff, including Matt’s 2017 State of

If you’re one of Netflix’s 104 million subscribers, you know that paying one fixed price for access to a huge library of content is pretty

WordPress.com and Jetpack users just got an awesome new feature. Now, you can use Google Photos directly from your WordPress dashboard (only with the WordPress.com

We finally did it! WPLift’s all new design is launched. I’d love if you told me what you think about the design. If you want to

Welcome to the brand new WPLift! I am excited to welcome you today with our new website design! I decided to freshen up the branding,

This week, Automattic passed a major milestone for its .blog domain acquisition – there are now over 100,000 .blog registrations. Envato is also spoiled for

We have some interesting articles in this week’s news. First up, you can get an inside, and critical, look at the WordPress theme review process.

This week, we got the location of WooConf 2017. Spoiler alert -it’s Seattle. There’s also an interesting article from James Laws on moving Ninja Forms to automatic renewals.

This week, tabs made a triumphant return to the WordPress plugin directory. There’s also an interesting plugin that runs your content through IBM’s Watson to gauge its emotional “feel”. And if you’re using Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10 (or your readers are), you’ll be out of luck starting with WordPress 4.8. Those browsers are getting kicked from WordPress’ target browser coverage.

As far as news goes, it’s been a fairly quiet week. We have an article discussing whether or not you need to make the switch to managed WordPress hosting. And if you’re interested in some bug fixes, WordPress 4.7.4 Release Candidate is out.

This week, Wordfence put out an interesting report detailing how hackers are using compromised routers to attack WordPress sites. The plugin directory also made some minor tweaks to the new layout, most notably bringing back plugin stats.

In the biggest news this week, the new WordPress plugin directory design went live. In addition to new aesthetics, it also boasts a much-improved search algorithm.

If you’ve been wanting to learn WordPress development but haven’t quite found the right resource, be sure to check out Colin’s review of the Second Edition of Up and Running, a recent release from the guys at WPShout. It takes you through everything you’ll need to finally get a grasp on WordPress development.

The Zerif Lite saga is over. What was once wordpress.org’s most popular theme has made its return to the theme directory. There’s also a nice discussion on WP Tavern of how to figure out how people actually use WordPress.