WordPress’ performance team has released a new feature plugin called Performance Lab that includes a set of performance-related improvements for core. The team, which formed just five months ago, is led by Yoast and Google-sponsored core contributors, and has had more than 250 people join its Slack channel, with many participating regularly in weekly chats.

This first release includes the following modules, which are in varying states of development:

The purpose of the plugin is to make it easy for users to test improvements in progress. Each of these modules can be enabled or…

Anne McCarthy announced the launch of the Museum of Block Art earlier today via the Gutenberg Times blog. The site’s goal is to showcase creative uses of blocks and inspire the WordPress community to push the limits of what is possible with the block editor.

The site showcases 22 pieces of block art from 11 people in the WordPress space. Ann McCarthy, Tammie Lister, Beatriz Fialho, Allan Cole, Rich Tabor, Nick Hamze, Brian Gardner, Javier Arce, Mel Choyce-Dwan, Channing Ritter, and Francisco Vera all contributed to this first outing.

The concept…

Tetsuaki Hamano released the Piano Block plugin for WordPress on Monday. It allows users to insert a piano-based interface into the editor for playing music. Mostly, it is just a lot of fun.

Hamano launched RichText Extension, his first submission to the WordPress plugin directory, in the spring of 2020. At the time, block-related plugins were still scarce, but he has continued contributing extensions since that initial release. Flexible Spacer Block is invaluable for responsive vertical spacing. Flexible Table does the same for table elements, and his Custom HTML Block Extension is…

Apps are crucial in enriching the average experience of an Android device owner. It is thus no surprise that brands across the board are trying to build and launch their own mobile apps.

The key challenge is finding the right development solution for your business. Building Android apps is a very big challenge because of the general complexity of the process. If you don’t already have an in-house development team, hiring an agency or a team of developers can be very expensive.

An easier way of building Android apps is choosing an automated solution for development. There are various…

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Microsoft Previews Revamped ‘WordPress on App Service’ on Azure

Microsoft is previewing a new and improved WordPress on App Service on its Azure cloud computing platform.

According to the site for WordPress on App Service, it “lets you quickly build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API apps running on any platform. Meet rigorous performance, scalability, security and compliance requirements while using a fully managed platform to perform infrastructure maintenance.”

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Microsoft Previews Revamped ‘WordPress on App Service’ on Azure

Microsoft is previewing a new and improved WordPress on App Service on its Azure cloud computing platform.

According to the site for WordPress on App Service, it “lets you quickly build, deploy, and scale enterprise-grade web, mobile, and API apps running on any platform. Meet rigorous performance, scalability, security and compliance requirements while using a fully managed platform to perform infrastructure maintenance.”

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WordPress is still in service since 2003 and is the most widely employed weblog software in the economy. It has increasingly become the content management platform of preference even for non-blogging business websites in recent times. WordPress holds regard as the best option for developers and company entrepreneurs seeking to enhance sales and promote a specific product on the internet. 

WordPress is a free-of-charge, open-source content management system that has quickly emerged as the most prominent instrument for…

Jessica Haworth

02 March 2022 at 14:48 UTC

Updated: 02 March 2022 at 14:50 UTC

Education institutions hit by more than 100,000 attacks in 24 hours

At least 30 Ukrainian university websites have been hacked in a targeted attack allegedly launched in support of Russia’s invasion of the European country.

In a report released last night (March 1), researchers from Wordfence said the company had witnessed a “massive attack” on Ukrainian education institutions by threat actors identified as the…

Thinking of changing hosts but not sure how to migrate a WordPress site from one host to another?

They say that moving house, getting married, and changing jobs are the three most stressful things in life… but I would argue that there’s another strong contender for the top three.

Migrating your WordPress website from one host to another!

Well, I have some good news and some bad news.

The bad news first… migrating a website to a new host will always make your heart race and your palms sweat, no matter how many times you’ve done it.

Good news: Migrating a WordPress site to a new host…

The journey toward a web fonts API in WordPress has been a rollercoaster of emotions for developers. After being punted from the WordPress 5.9 release, it was moved to the Gutenberg project, where it could be built alongside related features that relied on it.

The API has been merged into the Gutenberg plugin and should land in version 12.8. Theme authors who want to test it can clone the dev version of the plugin or download the nightly version from Gutenberg Times.

Jono Alderson opened the original ticket for a web fonts API in February 2019. However, it was not until late 2021…