It’s that time in the release cycle when all the dev notes are rolling out ahead of the next major update. These notes include technical summaries of all the goodies coming in the next release. If you haven’t been paying close attention, there are always a few happy surprises in there that pop up as conclusions to tickets that contributors have been working on for years.

The new password reset feature coming in WordPress 5.7 allows administrators to manually send a password reset link to users, resolving a five-year old ticket. Instead of having to instruct a user about where…

Felix Arntz, a WordPress core committer and developer programs engineer at Google, announced upcoming support for lazy loading iframes. The feature is included in the latest WordPress 5.7 beta and will officially ship next month to the larger community.

WordPress has supported lazy loading for images since version 5.5. However, support for iframes was not included in the initial feature set. Browser support for iframes was widespread at the time. However, it had not yet been formalized as part of the HTML Living Standard. Soon thereafter, it was added to the HTML spec, and…

WordPress 5.6.2 is now available!

This maintenance release includes 5 bug fixes. These bugs affect WordPress version 5.6.1, so you’ll want to upgrade.

You can download WordPress 5.6.2 directly, or visit the Dashboard → Updates screen and click Update Now. If your sites support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process.

WordPress 5.6.2 is a small maintenance release focused on fixing user-facing issues discovered in 5.6.1. The next major release will be version 5.7, currently scheduled for release on March 9, 2021.

To see a full list…

Running your WordPress installation, plugins, and theme on the latest versions available is a key practice for using the platform. It is also recommended to use the most recent version of PHP. There are, however, some cases where this is not prudent or possible.

If you’re in such a situation, you may need to reverse the update and downgrade your WordPress site. Luckily, there are methods available using which you can roll back to every part of your website. In this article, we are going to discuss three ways using which you can safely downgrade to the older version…

Forums are a great way to build an online community and you can add this functionality to your website with little effort. Much better than merely comments, forums let you create topics, discussion boards, and much much more. A site designed around the website builder and web hosting solution that is WordPress has the ability to install a plugin that will do most of the heavy lifting for you. We’ve gathered five such plugins with different strengths and advantages, depending on what you’re looking for…

Forums are a great way to build an online community and you can add this functionality to your website with little effort. Much better than merely comments, forums let you create topics, discussion boards, and much much more. A site designed around the website builder and web hosting solution that is WordPress has the ability to install a plugin that will do most of the heavy lifting for you. We’ve gathered five such plugins with different strengths and advantages, depending on what you’re looking for…

• WordPress is a free-to-use content management system (CMS) that can help you build a website with minimal technical knowledge.
• WordPress has a wealth of features that allow users to make a wide variety of websites for different purposes.
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WordPress is a popular open-source content management system (CMS) that’s free to use. It lets you build your own website without needing to learn programming languages like JavaScript, Python, or C++. 

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Offering your content for free may be great, but it’s not going to put food on the table. Providing a subscription service so members can access what you’ve created for a fee is a popular – and necessary – way to earn money from your visitors, in a way that’s more reliable, and less obtrusive, than just advertising.

If your site is run using the website builder WordPress, then check out these five membership plugins which will turn your media into a steady revenue stream…

Offering your content for free may be great, but it’s not going to put food on the table. Providing a subscription service so members can access what you’ve created for a fee is a popular – and necessary – way to earn money from your visitors, in a way that’s more reliable, and less obtrusive, than just advertising.

If your site is run using the website builder WordPress, then check out these five membership plugins which will turn your media into a steady revenue stream…

Today, GT Basic became the second theme from GermanThemes to go live in the WordPress theme directory. Like the company’s previous theme, GT Ambition, it is built around the block editor. It also introduces several custom block patterns.

The theme will not knock anyone’s socks off with its artistic merit. GT Basic is very much business in the front and business in the back, so it will not immediately appeal to everyone. However, it has everything you need and none of the things you don’t for setting up a WordPress website.

Out of the box, it is an architecturally-sound…