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Recorded on Monday 5th July 2021.
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The first release candidate for WordPress 5.8 is now available! Please join us in celebrating this very important milestone in the community’s progress towards the final release of WordPress… |
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With WordPress 5.8 slated to ship on July 20th, this post seeks to consolidate ways for those in the FSE Outreach Program (anyone can join!) to help test specific features… |
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 It is hard to believe that it was over a year ago — March 23, 2020, to be exact — that I wrote a post on why block patterns would be the future of WordPress. It has been a slow process as I have patiently waited for the feature to mature into a powerful tool for end-users. I am still as much a believer now as I was then… |
 Block visibility is powerful. A while ago I wrote (and created a video) about how I was creating and using dynamic content with Gutenberg. But it was based on Blocksy, the theme I use on this site. That’s great if you’re also using Blocksy. But what if you’re not…? |
 Building a WordPress custom application just got easier with Visual Views. Develop web apps from your dashboard with this low-code plugin. |
 The WordPress community team is removing the barrier to organizing in-person meetup events for fully-vaccinated people, in places where vaccines are freely available… |
 The Gatsby WP Themes project has launched a new marketplace for developers who are building WordPress-powered sites with Gatsby on the frontend. Originally founded by Zac Gordon and Alexandra Spalato, the commercial venture is now primarily managed by Spalato and Paulina Hetman… |
 Payments made simple, with no monthly fees – designed exclusively for WooCommerce stores. Manage transactions from the comfort of your store. |
 Automattic released a new plugin titled Sketch Block earlier today. It is a one-off block that allows end-users to draw directly in the editor. The plugin is marked as a beta release and requires Gutenberg to be activated to use… |
 WPCodeBox empowers you to enable only the code you need, where you need it, instead of bloating your site with limited-use plugins. Save your most-used WordPress Code Snippets to the cloud and have them available across all your WordPress installs… |
 Welcome back to another Fluent Forms release note. Since the last update, We got tons of positive feedback and based on that, we improved a lot of… |
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So in episode 353 we said bye bye to David Waumsley. Well, now is the time to own up to the fact that David...
This week's WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 4th April 2022.
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