ACF joins the ranks of all-time championship dynasties, securing its third Plugin Madness trophy since the event’s inception in 2016.
Advanced Custom Fields is Your 2024 Plugin Madness Champion!
Voting is Now Open for Plugin Madness 2024!
Get your brackets set and pick your favorites to win it all—Plugin Madness 2024 is now in full swing!
While the last few weeks were all about nominating the best WordPress plugins, it’s now time to shift focus as the competition truly begins.
Nominations Now Open For Plugin Madness 2024!
March is just around the corner and you know what that means—it’s time to dust off those brackets and get sharp on the best WordPress plugins as we gear up for this year’s Plugin Madness! Plugin Madness is a bracket-style competition in which 64 WordPress plugins compete against one another through weekly voting rounds—and the 2024 competition has officially kicked off. Nominations for Plugin Madness 2024 are now open! Nominations for Plugin Madness 2024 are now closed. Check back on March 4 when voting begins! This year marks the ninth annual Plugin Madness, and your nominations are key to tipping […]
Do More With WordPress: Registration Now Open for DE{CODE} 2024!
Discover new tools, enhance your skills, and expand your network at this year’s must-attend WordPress developer event! As the WordPress ecosystem continues to grow and change, it’s brimming with innovative tools that are transforming the web. If you’re looking for a great way to dive into this evolving world of WordPress, look no further than DE{CODE} 2024, WP Engine’s flagship virtual developer conference. Now returning for its fifth year, DE{CODE} 2024 is scheduled for March 19 in the U.S. and APAC and March 21 in EMEA. You can find more details and register for this year’s event, for free, here. […]
What’s New in Gutenberg: The Latest Version (February 2024)
Editor’s Note: This article was last updated February 14, 2024 with the most recent version of Gutenberg (17.7). When WordPress 5.0 was released in late 2018, it came with a brand-spankin’-new block editor known as Gutenberg. In contrast to the Classic Editor, which was far more reliant on manual code, the block editor offers a modular approach to page and post editing making each piece of content in the editor—from a paragraph to an image gallery to a headline— its own editing block. WordPress presents a larger barrier to entry for some, and the Gutenberg Editor was created to make […]
Envisioning the Future of WordPress: State of the Word 2023
WordPress Co-Founder Matt Mullenweg delivered his 2023 State of the Word from Madrid, Spain on Monday, marking the first-ever international delivery of his annual keynote address. Streamed worldwide, the event offered a comprehensive view of WordPress’s 2023 milestones and accomplishments, as well as the exciting prospects awaiting WordPress users in 2024. Some of the biggest takeaways from this year’s presentation included significant progress with regard to collaborative editing features in upcoming versions of WordPress, performance enhancements for faster site-building experiences, and the announcement of Portland, Oregon as the host city for WordCamp US for the next two years. Check out […]
WordPress 6.4 “Shirley” Leans Into Smooth, Seamless Content Creation
WordPress 6.4, “Shirley,” was released today, marking the third major WordPress release of 2023 and a significant leap forward for the world’s most popular content management system. Named for iconic jazz singer and pianist Shirley Horn, WordPress 6.4 has an impressive suite of enhancements and new features that further streamline the editor experience while offering greater creative flexibility. In the following sections, we’ll unpack some of the most transformative additions found in the 6.4 release, from new editor enhancements to the “Twenty Twenty-Four” theme and everything in between. Let’s get started! Note: In addition to testing 6.4 using a staging or […]
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