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Google announced this week that it will be delaying the rollout of the new page experience ranking signal to mid-June … Continue reading Google Delays Page Experience Ranking Signal Rollout until June 2021, Adds New Report to Search Console →

For much of WordPress’s history, the foundational elements of building a theme have been slow to change. Every so often, … Continue reading Themes Set Up for a Paradigm Shift, WordPress 5.8 Will Unleash Tools To Make It Happen →

WordPress contributors are proposing the project take an active position on Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). This particular mechanism … Continue reading WordPress Contributors Propose Blocking FLoC in Core →

Patchstack, which recently rebranded from WebARX, released its 2020 security whitepaper. The report identified a total of 582 security vulnerabilities. … Continue reading Patchstack Whitepaper: 582 WordPress Security Issues Found in 2020, Over 96% From Third-Party Extensions →

I simply do not understand it. For at least the better part of a decade, theme authors have asked for … Continue reading Recreating the Classic Wedding WordPress Theme Homepage With the Block Editor →

The Jetpack team has been quietly testing a new plugin called Jetpack Boost, which addresses website owners’ performance and SEO … Continue reading Automattic Launches Jetpack Boost: A New Performance Plugin →

The latest release of the Gutenberg plugin (10.4) brings block widgets into the Customizer. When customizing widget-enabled areas, a new … Continue reading Gutenberg 10.4 Introduces Block Widgets in the Customizer →

Sometimes a theme’s description is so moving that one must install, activate, and test the project. I often rail against … Continue reading Enō: ‘Probably This Is the Best Blogging Theme Ever’ →

Today, Josepha Haden Chomphosy announced the results of yesterday’s “go/no-go” demo and decision on whether Full Site Editing (FSE) would … Continue reading Full Site Editing Is Partly a ‘Go’ for WordPress 5.8 →

Zerodium, one of the most well-known security vulnerability brokers, announced that it is tripling payouts for remote code execution exploits … Continue reading Zerodium Temporarily Triples Payout to $300K for WordPress Exploits →

The Full Site Editing (FSE) outreach program is chugging along. Since December, it has called for and completed four rounds … Continue reading FSE Outreach Round #5: Venturing out a Query Quest →

WordCamp Europe 2021 will be taking place online, June 7-10. This will be the second year in a row that … Continue reading WordCamp Europe 2021 Opens Call for Speakers and Workshops →