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WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” Includes Improved Editor, New Blocks, and Developer APIs

April 14, 2020design tips

WordPress 5.4 “Adderley”, named in honor American jazz musician Nat Adderley, was released today and is now available for download. …

Gutenberg 7.7 Ships Refreshed UI and First Iteration of Block Patterns

March 31, 2020design tips

Last week, version 7.7 of the Gutenberg plugin shipped to users. In what is one of the more visually-striking updates …

BracketSpace Releases Library of Reusable Code for Plugin and Theme Development

March 23, 2020design tips

BracketSpace, a WordPress-centric software development company based, released Micropackage a few weeks ago. The project is a collection of open-source …

The International WordPress Community and WordCamps Amid COVID-19

March 17, 2020design tips

With the rising numbers of people who have contracted COVID-19, a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus …

Automatic Theme and Plugin Updates Slated for WordPress 5.5

March 12, 2020design tips

Today, Jean-Baptiste Audras announced the WordPress Auto-updates feature plugin. The project seeks to bring automatic plugin and theme updates to …

Publishing Break

March 8, 2020design tips

The Tavern is taking a break for the week as both of its authors are out. We’re happy about expanding …

WooCommerce Partners With Square to Expand Services for CBD Merchants

March 5, 2020design tips

WooCommerce, the open-source eCommerce platform developed and supported by Automattic, announced a partnership with Square payment solutions yesterday. The partnership …

Ahmad Awais Launches Script to Automatically Deploy WordPress Plugin Updates

February 23, 2020design tips

Today, Ahmad Awais launched WP Continuous Deployment, a continuous deployment pipeline for updating plugins hosted on WordPress.org via GitHub actions. …