The WordPress Repository has always been a great place to find powerful and free tools to extend your WordPress site. You can find plugins, blocks and themes, and you can even sort by features such as block compatible. One of the newest of which is Frost and my guest today is Brian Gardner, a Principal Developer Advocate at WP Engine and the creator of Frost Theme.
Happy 20th birthday, WordPress!
Advanced Custom Fields is a popular plugin designed to enable WordPress developers to have more control over their custom field data. And it’s also a two time Plugin Madness winner. Recently Advanced Custom Fields released version 6.1. To talk about these new features in ACF 6.1, we’re joined by Iain Poulson.
On May 27, 2003, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little forked b2/cafelog creating the next, best blogging platform. 20 years later WordPress powers over 40 percent of the web, a number that is growing steadily. It’s been used by the likes of the New York Times and Beyoncé. It has outlasted MySpace, the iPod, and a global pandemic. But most importantly, it is the reason why we are all here. We as a community, as an ecosystem, would not exist without that spark of inspiration back in 2003. This is a love letter to 20 years of WordPress and a toast […]
Is WordPress really free? One of the reasons the platform is the most widely used CMS in the world is that it’s open source. That means, anyone can use it for any purpose, without paying an upfront licensing fee. This fact has enabled hundreds of thousands of people with no development skills to run their own website. But does that mean every website built with WordPress is free? No. While you can use the software powering it without paying a dime, there are still costs involved with getting a site online, and promoting it. For that reason, in this post, […]
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