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When it comes to adding a sense of adventure, whimsy, and excitement, a pirate font is a perfect choice for your designs. From Peter Pan to Sinbad and Pirates of the Caribbean, there are many pirate-themed movies, books, and cartoons loved by people of all ages. Mainly because we love to f… Source

What are the best things the WordPress community can do to better support plugin developers and founders? Recent discussions around the Active Install data being removed from WordPress.org forces us to respond to this question if we believe a healthy third-party plugin market is essential to WordPress, as I do. Source

WordPress 6.1 beta 1 was released today, and testing has begun with the general release expected in just under six weeks on November 1. Versions 13.1 – 14.1 of the Gutenberg plugin will be ro… Source

Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: A delicious developer's advanced guide to WP-Config, the WordPress 6.1 Field Guide, and Twenty Twenty-Three looks amazing! Brian Gardner released a new FSE theme, Powder. Cool Tool of the Week: Lorem Picsum by David…

Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) has announced the availability of version 6.0, an update that applies to both the free and pro versions of the plugin. This release introduces a refreshed admin UI that… Source

What if you could get time back in your day with better and more efficient meetings and design feedback sessions? Claap is designed with this solution in mind. Claap is an asynchronous video collaboration platform that can help design teams make better, faster decisions without endless mee… Source

Today WP Watercooler sought Solutions to the Active Growth Problem. In a pointed but respectful conversation moderated but Sé Reed, the Watercooler crew Source

PublishPress, a company that develops free and commercial publishing and permissions plugins for WordPress, has acquired MetaSlider from Extendify. The plugin is used on more than 700,000 sites to … Source

Finding a good WordPress theme to build a website is almost like a herculean task, especially with most marketplaces being populated with terrible and outdated themes. Oftentimes if you find a great-looking WordPress theme, it’s either no longer supported by the developer or it’s not o… Source

After a seven-month long effort across multiple contributor teams, the Twenty Twenty-Two (TT2) default theme will be tagged as “Accessibility-Ready” when WordPress 6.1 ships in November… Source