This our category for all our WordPress News where we bring you the weekly news from the WordPress universe.
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Hey, WordPress fans. Hopefully, the Americans among us have recovered from Turkey day because it’s officially Black Friday. That means some amazing deals on WordPress
If you were looking to build a business website, start an online store, or simply improve your existing website, there is no better time than
Hey, WordPress fans. This week, WordPress 5.6 gets ready for prime time with its first release candidate. The official release is currently scheduled for December
Hey, WordPress fans. This week, Envato, the company behind the popular ThemeForest and CodeCanyon marketplaces, officially passed $1 billion in community earnings since its launch
Howdy, WordPress friends. Last week, there was a problem with the WordPress auto-update system, which caused some sites to be mistakenly updated to an alpha
Hey, WordPress fans. There was a lot going on this week… First off, WordPress has a new security release, WordPress 5.5.2 – you should apply
Hey, WordPress friends. This week, we get our first look at WordPress 5.6 in the first beta release. However, there are no block-based widgets, which
Hey, WordPress friends. This week was fairly quiet in terms of WordPress news. Most notably, there was a vulnerability in the popular WPBakery Page Builder
Hey, WordPress friends. Last week, we told you about Cloudflare’s new web analytics tool. This week, Cloudflare launched something even cooler – affordable optimization specifically
Hey, WordPress friends. The biggest news this week is not WordPress-specific, though it’s definitely something of interest to WordPress users. Cloudflare, the popular free CDN/security
Hey, WordPress friends. This week, we got the first sneak peek of Twenty Twenty-One, the next default theme for WordPress. It looks pretty great, especially
Hey, WordPress fans. This week, there was another big acquisition in the WooCommerce space. GoDaddy acquired SkyVerge, the company behind over 60 different WooCommerce add-ons.
Hey, WordPress friends. This week, Gutenberg 8.9 (the plugin version) is out with a new block-based approach to widgets. Beyond that, Meta Box published an
Hey, WordPress friends. In big news this week, iThemes acquired the popular Restrict Content Pro plugin from Sandhills Development, the same company behind Easy Digital
Hey, WordPress fans… This week, Elementor, the most popular page builder and the one we use here at WPLift, released its latest major version. It
Hey, WordPress fans. Last week, WordPress 5.5 officially launched. It’s one of the bigger major releases in a long time in terms of features, which
Hey, WordPress fans. In the biggest news this week, WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine” is officially out with a bunch of new features and improvements. Give it
Hey, WordPress friends. Last week, we shared that WordCamp US 2020 was officially canceled (not just moved online). This week, things got even worse –
Hey, WordPress fans – big news this week. While WordCamp US 2020 had previously been scheduled to occur online, the event was officially canceled this
Hey, WordPress fans, Are you familiar with Google’s Core Web Vitals initiative? If you’re not, you’ll be hearing this term a lot more in 2021.
Hey, WordPress fans. This week, the WordCamp Europe team already made the decision to move the 2021 event online. For now, the plan is to
Hey, WordPress friends. ManageWP.org is no more (the news aggregator, not the multiple WordPress site management dashboard), but the WordPress community already has a replacement.
Hey WordPress fans, welcome to your weekly dose of WordPress news. This week, Awesome Motive acquired another popular set of WordPress plugins to add to
This week, we got one step closer to that neat image editing tool in the block editor – it’s now available as part of the
Hey WordPress fans… This week, WordCamp Europe 2020 Online was a big success, drawing over 8,600 registered attendees. Beyond that, Matt Mullenweg and Matias Ventura
Hey WordPress friends, this week WordCamp Europe kicked off. It started on June 4th and will run through the 6th. You can participate in all
Hey WordPress fans, this week, WordCamp Europe released the schedule for the 2020 online event. You can pin the events that you’re interested in and
Hey WordPress fans, if you have a WooCommerce store, the WooCommerce team is trying to make it easier for you to manage payments without leaving
Hey WordPress friends, this week, Wordfence released news of a vulnerability that they found in the official Google Site Kit plugin back in April. The
This week, WP Engine announced the release of Genesis Pro. It’s currently just for WP Engine customers, but it will be rolling out to the
Hey WordPress friends, we have bad news if you were holding out hope for an in-person WordCamp US 2020. As of yesterday, the event has
Hey WordPress friends… This week, Freemius has an interesting look at how COVID-19 is affecting WordPress theme and plugin shops (with some data). Brainstorm Force
Hey WordPress friends, it’s another quiet week as much of the world is locked down and not focused on WordPress. We hope you’re still healthy
Hey WordPress friends, if you were saddened by the cancellation of WordCamp Europe 2020, I have good news – the event will officially be moving
Hey WordPress friends, we hope that you continue to be safe this week. While much of the world has hunkered down, that didn’t get in
Hey WordPress friends, we hope you are all safe and staying indoors as much as possible. This week, we have some tips and tutorials to
Hey WordPress friends, we hope you’re staying safe with the pandemic. Sometimes (rarely), WordPress is not the most important topic in the world. But that
In the biggest news this week, WordCamp Europe 2020 in Porto has officially been canceled. The organizers used the term “postponed” because it will be
This week, we have a totally serious, not in any way satirical, tutorial on how you can slow down your WordPress website and create a
Big news in the WordPress business space – Elementor, the page builder plugin that we use here at WPLift, raised an impressive $15 million from
Hey WordPress fans, welcome to this week’s roundup of WordPress news. First, some good news – though WordCamp Asia’s inaugural 2020 event was canceled due
Bad news, WordPress fans – the inaugural WordCamp Asia event scheduled for February has been canceled due to concerns over the COVID-19 virus. Wordfence and
Hey WordPress fans, we’re checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, we had the first meeting on the “Future of
Hey WordPress friends, this week we learned that WordPress might have native lazy loading in the core as soon as WordPress 5.4 in March. Currently,
Hey WordPress friends, this week, GiveWP users reached an impressive milestone – they have collectively raised over $100 million via PayPal and Stripe. Beyond that,
Hey WordPress friends, welcome to your weekly dose of WordPress news. This week, Justin @ WP Tavern posed an interesting question about whether the WordPress
Howdy WordPress friends, we are back from the holidays with our first collection of WordPress news from the new decade. Since we’re coming off the
Howdy WordPress friends, we’re checking in with the last bit of WordPress news in 2019. We’ll be taking the next two weeks off for the
Howdy WordPress friends, this week brought us a brand new WordPress release. WordPress 5.3.1 is a maintenance and security release, so you’ll want to update
Howdy WordPress fans, hopefully you didn’t go too crazy with the WordPress Black Friday deals last week and you still have money for food this
This week, WordPress 5.3 was officially released on November 12. It’s a major update, so you’ll want to do some testing before updating. But in
This week, WordCamp US wrapped up. We’ll be seeing a flood of recap posts soon, and we’ll make sure to feature the best of them
Hey WordPress fans, we hope your Halloween celebration was a success and you didn’t eat too much leftover Halloween candy. This week, there are still some
This week, we have lined up some scary Halloween WordPress deals for you. Furthermore, there’s big moves in WordPress hosting as GoDaddy launched an eCommerce
This week, the core team released WordPress 5.2.4, which fixes a number of security issues. Because this is a security release, you’ll want to apply
This week, we got the latest beta of WordPress 5.3 as it chugs towards release. The US Supreme Court also opted not to hear the
If you’re using the Rich Reviews plugin, you’ll want to quickly find an alternative. A vulnerability in the plugin is being actively exploited, and the
Though WordPress 5.3 isn’t slated for release until November, we just got our first look at what’s on the way with WordPress 5.3 Beta 1.
This week, Automattic raised another $300 million in funding from Salesforce Ventures, bringing its valuation up to $3 billion. Automattic will use this money to
This week, we get a first look at the new Twenty Twenty theme that we mentioned in last week’s news roundup and you can also
This week, a hacker group is targeting WordPress sites running more than 10 separate plugins to create rogue admin accounts. On a lighter note, we
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
While no official decision has been made yet, it seems likely that WordPress will auto-update older sites to WordPress 4.7. Additionally, flush off its acquisition
In big news this week, Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, acquired Tumblr for pennies on the dollar (at least versus its previous acquisition price). We’ll
This week was fairly quiet in terms of WordPress news, but WP Tavern did report on the possibility of a new nomination-based advisory board for
This week, there was another big WordPress acquisition, with Ninja Forms’ parent company acquiring Caldera Forms, another popular WordPress form plugin. On the topic of
This week, we learned that WordCamp Asia is officially a go. It’s going to be in Bangkok, Thailand from February 21-23 in 2020 and the
Hey WordPress fans, it was a quiet week this week in terms of WordPress news, but we’ve got some posts about recently discovered plugin vulnerabilities,
Hey WordPress fans, it was a slow week in terms of WordPress news, but if you have a WooCommerce store, you’re going to love some
Unlike last week, there were no multi-million dollar WordPress acquisitions this week. But, now that people have had some time to think and recover, we
It’s the United States’ birthday. And while I certainly know that the international nature of our audience means that not all of you will be
In one of the biggest WordPress acquisitions ever, WP Engine announced that they’ve acquired Flywheel, another popular managed WordPress host. The numbers aren’t public, but
Can you sell CBD via WooCommerce? That was a big question this week. The answer is yes…kind of. You can use WooCommerce itself, but you
EasyThemePacks has gone through some huge changes. We’ve done a website overhaul, created 13(!) new templates and pricing has been simplified: $29 for access to
This week, Joost de Valk stepped down from his position as the WordPress Marketing lead, and CodeinWP also released the results for their 2019 WordPress
You know that we’re big fans of Elementor here at WPLift, even using it to design our site. That’s why our lede this week is
This week, Automattic made another big acquisition in the WooCommerce space, snapping up Prospress, the company behind the popular WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin. Beyond that, we
After the release of WordPress 5.2 last week, this week was a much quieter affair as far as WordPress news goes. Gutenberg 5.7 makes some
This week, we got a new major WordPress release – WordPress 5.2 “Jaco”. It includes fatal PHP error protection, recovery mode, some accessibility improvements, and
Hey WordPress fans, in case you missed it over the last few days, the release date for WordPress 5.2 was pushed back to May 7th,
Howdy, folks. It was a quiet week in the WordPress world. No new plugin vulnerabilities, no major releases… But if you’ve ever felt that WordPress’
Hey, WordPress fans. Nothing too big happened this week, but there are lots of small news drops, like WooCommerce 3.6, some #wpdrama with plugin vulnerabilities,
Last week, we briefly mentioned the malicious code found in pipdig theme’s Pipdig Power Pack helper plugin. This week, we have more news on that
Howdy, WordPress friends. This week, there was some controversy over the Jetpack plugin injecting itself into the in-dashboard WordPress.org plugin search results, including CTAs to
We got you! Don’t take this article too serious as this was an April Fools’ joke ;-) Since its initial release in WordPress 5.0, WordPress
Hey WordPress fans, this week we got a first look at the next major WordPress release – WordPress 5.2. The first beta is out, which
This week, WordPress officially ended its support for out-of-date PHP versions…kind of. You can still use PHP 5.6, but WordPress no longer supports anything under
This week, we got WordPress 5.1.1, a security and maintenance release that fixes a cross-site scripting vulnerability. If you haven’t updated yet, you should do
This week, we released an update to our huge collection of the best WooCommerce plugins. Beyond that, Elementor got even better with lots of new
The Gutenberg block editor is going mobile! Well, kind off… A stripped-down version of the block editor is now in beta testing for mobile apps,
In the biggest news this week, we got the next major WordPress release – WordPress 5.1 “Betty”. As we told you last week, Betty implements
This week saw the release of the WordPress 5.1 Release Candidate. The official release date for this version is scheduled for Thursday, February 21. Beyond
This week, we get a look at the latest version of Gutenberg (it adds some new blocks). Wordfence also launched a new product that will
This week, iThemes debunks 5 WordPress security myths (like hiding the WordPress version number…that doesn’t do anything!). Beyond that, beta 3 is out for WordPress
Howdy folks, let’s start with some housekeeping. If you participated in our Jupiter X theme giveaway last week, head here to see the winners (you
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
A few weeks back, we reviewed the latest version of the popular Jupiter theme – Jupiter X. Jupiter X brings an awesome approach based on
And we’re back! We hope you all had a great New Year, and we’re ready to start sharing WordPress news with you again. This week,
One of the things that bugged a lot of people about the new WordPress Gutenberg block editor is how it slowed down for long content
Howdy, WordPress friends. How are you faring with WordPress 5.0? Have you updated yet, or are you still holding off? Either way, you should pay
In the biggest news in a long time, WordPress 5.0, named “Bebo”, was officially released on December 6. As such, the new Gutenberg block editor
A little while ago, the core team pushed the expected WordPress 5.0 release date from November 19 to November 27. Well, as the fact that
When the core team announced the tentative WordPress 5.0 release date of November 19, they said that date could move by up to 8 days
The target release date for WordPress 5.0 is less than two weeks away and, well, some people are pointing out some reasons why it might
This week, WP Tavern covered an interesting new Gutenberg Cloud plugin. Basically, it acts as a connector that lets users install Gutenberg blocks straight from
The Freemius team had just announced (earlier today) that it is launching a special program, which they have named: “We Got Your Back” Club. So
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
Big news, everyone! We now have some official estimates for when WordPress 5.0 will be released…though they’re still a bit up in the air. The
The Gutenberg Editor is getting ready for prime time! WP Tavern reported that the first release candidate is only a few days away. That release
True to its roadmap, Automattic is starting to roll out the Gutenberg editor at WordPress.com. For now, it’s only available to a small segment of
This week, we rounded up some of the most essential WordPress plugins that all sites need. Beyond that, Hurricane Florence rained out WordCamp Wilmington, and
If you’re not hosting at WP Engine, you might feel a little jealous as all WP Engine customers now get access to Genesis and 35
Since launching the Try Gutenberg prompt, the Gutenberg plugin is now officially active on over 200,000+ sites, which is well over the 100,000 sites that Matt
It was kind of bound to happen – but Scott Bowler went ahead and hard forked WordPress into ClassicPress because of Gutenberg. Beyond that, there’s
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
This week, we get a look at the new Gutenberg prompt and a few other additions as WordPress 4.9.8 draws closer. There’s also been another
We may be past July 4th, but there are still plenty of WordPress Independence Day sales that are still running. You can snag some great
Big business news this week as WP Engine announced that they acquired Genesis Framework-maker, StudioPress. WP Engine plans to invest heavily in future development, as
As part of WordCamp Europe, Matt Mullenweg laid out the roadmap for Gutenberg over the next three months. In July, there will be a prompt
WordCamp Europe is officially in full swing! If you couldn’t make it to Belgrade but still want to watch the talks, you can snag a
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.
After the excitement of WordPress 4.9.6 , this week was a bit quieter. Kinsta has a good article on why you should never compete solely
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,
This week, we got the release of WordPress 4.9.6. True to the numbers, it’s technically a minor privacy and maintenance release. But because it adds
There’s something exciting about knowing a secret, right? And when it comes to business, what’s more secret than a private business’ income numbers? Most private
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
This week, we got news that WordSesh will be back on July 25th. You can learn more about it at the Post Status Draft podcast.
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
As far as WordPress news goes, this week was pretty quiet. WPTavern did spot some issues with using Gutenberg on iOS devices. And Ionut from
This week, Elementor, the page builder that we use here at WPLift, got a massive new feature. Elementer Pro now offers full theme building. You
In last week’s news, we shared that WordPress 4.9.5 was going to bring a new prompt for users to install Gutenberg. Well…that prompt got pushed
The Gutenberg Editor is getting closer to primetime – in WordPress 4.9.5, users will see a dashboard prompt that nudges them to Try the new editing
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
This week, TechCrunch launched a redesign in the “form of a single page style React app, decoupled from its WordPress backend.” A pretty cool look
This week, there’s a big post from Alexander Mat, the co-founder of MotoPress, about the challenges of running a WordPress plugin and theme business in
Like last week, there wasn’t very much WordPress news this week. We did find a neat post from Cloudways where they survived a bunch of
There wasn’t much WordPress core news this week – perhaps everyone was too busy with Valentine’s plans. We do have some good articles on offering
This week, we saw the release of WordPress 4.9.3…followed quickly by the release of WordPress 4.9.4 just hours later. WordPress 4.9.3 fixed 34 different bugs
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
Ever wondered how Pippin Williamson built a million dollar plugin business with offerings like Easy Digital Downloads, Restrict Content Pro, and more? Wonder no more
If you didn’t get an update notification from your host, here’s your warning that WordPress 4.9.2. is officially out! It’s a security and maintenance release
This week, we have two separate 2017 in review posts – one from ourselves and one from Pippin Williamson. Both are worth checking out! Beyond
A few days ago, I shared a recap of some of the biggest events that happened in the WordPress world in 2017. Now, I want
Happy new year, folks! As the slow train that is time chugs along, we’ve slipped across the barrier into a new year. And as we
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
This week, there was big news as a popular plugin at WordPress.org was found to have a backdoor. We also have some articles on starting
