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From newbie bloggers to established businesses, everyone loves WordPress. Since its inception in 2003, WordPress has grown by leaps and bounds. Today it powers more than 60 million websites and has left its other counterparts such as Joomla and Drupal far behind. Thousands of plugins, themes, and widgets add a great flexibility to the WordPress ecosystem. However, it may be overwhelming for you to find the right plugins and themes that are suitable for your business. Thus, if you use WordPress to run your blog or website, then you must subscribe to ultimate resources which help you gain more out […]

Registration for Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe is now open. The day-long event will take place before the conference in the Business Center of “Les Docks de Paris” — the same location as the conference — and will be held on Thursday, June 15 from 8:30 a.m – 5:30 p.m. “Unlike previous years, Contributor Day is going to happen the day before the conference, on Thursday, June 15th, 2017,” the official announcement said. Contributor Day is an opportunity for WordPressers to work alongside and learn from some of the best WordPress contributors in the community. In this setting, contributors can work within […]

We are excited to declare Smush Image Compression Torque’s 2017 Plugin Madness Champion! In the final championship round, Smush Image Compression defeated WordPress security plugin WordFence, making it Torque’s 2017 Plugin Madness Champion. Smush Image Compression’s journey to victory was not without challenges. Last year, the plugin made it to the exceptional 8 but was ultimately knocked out by powerhouse plugin WooCommerce. This year it faced off in some suspenseful matchups throughout the competition but held its own along the way. The plugin knocked out EWWW Image Optimizer in a nail-biting round 1 before going on to beat Autoptimize — optimization […]

The WordPress theme repository is the best place to find safe and beautiful themes. However, it has been plagued with long queues, fewer contributors, and a flawed contribution process. The theme repo is flooded new entries on a regular basis but, how many actually make it to the list? The answer is — very few. The future of the theme repository on WordPress.org has been in discussion for quite some time, but after the recent launch of the new plugin repo, I think that it’s high time to discuss the theme repo as well. Matt Mullenweg’s biggest dream for the […]

If you’re a plugin developer with multiple plugins in the repository, it can be hard to make sure they’re all up to date. If you aren’t regularly monitoring all of your plugins, you might get a notice like this: This plugin hasn’t been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress If a WordPress plugin isn’t updated regularly, it may be considered abandoned. Abandoned plugins can be a security threat and will eventually stop working as it loses compatibility. Plugin abandonment can happen […]