Wordpress News

Welcome Back to Found, the TechCrunch podcast where we get the stories behind the startups. It’s rare we get to speak to someone who has been working at their company for 19 years so this conversation with Matt Mullenweg of Automattic and WordPress feels a little special. His journey to becoming a founder was grounded in a love for blogging and working on open source projects. Now WordPress is pretty much ubiquitous in the digital publishing world. While he was working on building WordPress into an undeniable force, parent-company Automattic has made strategic… More Info

WordPress security is serious business – and an essential consideration for anyone using the world’s most popular CMS (Content Management System).   While the WordPress team quickly addresses known security issues in WordPress’ core to protect the millions of website owners who rely and depend on the software, the reality is that the same cannot be said for all plugin and theme developers.   The added customization benefits that WordPress’ extensibility brings also comes with a steady stream of attacks exploiting a wide range of vulnerabilities. Continue reading Top 5… More Info

photo credit: Artsy Crafty Two weeks ago, WordPress theme author Rich Tabor tweeted, “Even with my theme developer hat on, I’m finding it easier and easier to create block themes ~ within ~ WordPress. I’m positive one day (soon) this will be the norm.” It looks like that day has arrived sooner than expected, as Automattic has had a team working on this capability for awhile. Today, a group of eight full-time sponsored Themes Team contributors released a plugin called Create Block Theme that can create standalone block themes and child themes inside the WordPress… More Info

After nearly a decade of managing more than 3,000 WordPress sites, it’s no surprise that countless website owners have written glowing WP Tangerine reviews to share their experiences with the award-winning WordPress help service. Taken together, these reviews reveal the immense value that WP Tangerine brings to its clients by taking care of all their WordPress needs, saving them time and money. WP Tangerine has been helping businesses and website owners manage their WordPress sites since 2014. The company’s client list includes businesses of all sizes, from enterprise companies to… More Info

WordPress continues to dominate the content management systems (CMS) market and is currently used by 64.2% of websites that have a CMS, according to data from W3Techs.com. Shopify is a distant second for June 2022 and accounts for 6.3% of the CMS market. Wix, Squarespace, and Joomla round out the top five with less than 3.5% market share each. CMS Market Share June 2022 is available to reprint with attribution; see Creative Commons license for details. W3Techs notes that 33.1% of websites do not use any of the content management systems they monitor. WordPress is therefore used by 43% of… More Info

New Jersey, United States – This Blogging Platforms Market research examines the state and future prospects of the Blogging Platforms market from the perspectives of competitors, regions, products, and end Applications/industries. The Worldwide Blogging Platforms market is segmented by product and Application/end industries in this analysis, which also analyses the different players in the global and key regions. The analysis for the Blogging Platforms market is included in this report in its entirety. The in-depth secondary research, primary interviews, and internal expert reviews… More Info

WordPress theme authors and contributors from the Themes team are exploring ways to make block themes more prominent on the official directory. These are themes that are specifically tagged with support for full-site editing. Despite WordPress having a block theme for its most recent default theme, authors have been slow to create more. There are currently only 86 themes that support the full range of WordPress site editing capabilities. A meta trac ticket opened five weeks ago proposes giving block themes priority in the directory. Themes Team contributor Sandilya Kafle kicked off… More Info

Rich Tabor’s new Wei theme is one of the most well-designed contributions to hit WordPress.org’s free themes directory this month. Wei is a minimalist block theme that keeps things simple while offering users a range of artfully selected accent color combinations. It also includes support for full-site editing and Global Styles for a wider range of site customizations. Wei joins WordPress.org’s collection of 86 full-site editing themes. The number of FSE themes is growing but it is a far sight behind the goal of 500 for 2022, which WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden… More Info

Morphii Pro and Pro+ Plugin “Moprhii makes the feedback experience a little more fun and interactive for our readers means more authentic, more actionable data for making content and marketing-related decisions that are tailored to our audience.” -Mike H., Thomas Hogan Travel CHARLESTON, S.C. (PRWEB) June 27, 2022 The Morphii for WordPress Plugin, released in March 2022, has received… More Info

Morphii Pro and Pro+ Plugin “Moprhii makes the feedback experience a little more fun and interactive for our readers means more authentic, more actionable data for making content and marketing-related decisions that are tailored to our audience.” -Mike H., Thomas Hogan Travel CHARLESTON, S.C. (PRWEB) June 27, 2022 The Morphii for WordPress Plugin, released in March 2022, has received… More Info