Though the stream didn’t work as we hoped, the recording of this year’s State of the Word, which in many ways was our best one yet, is up now.
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Dec 02
What’s New in WordPress 6.9? (Features & Screenshots)
WordPress 6.9 is finally here 🥳, and it marks the final major release of 2025. After months of following the development, we are excited to see this update go live. This release focuses heavily on improving your workflow. You’ll find new ways to collaborate with your team, cleaner ways to draft content, and native blocks …
Dec 02
Matt: SoTW Eve
The State of the Word is tomorrow, and it’s so fun to see SF abuzz with WordPress open source energy. We’re doing a lot of firsts tomorrow, including the first release timed to the State of the Word, and we’ll have a good chunk of the release team there to push the button and bring …
Dec 02
Open Channels FM: The Modern Quest for the Perfect Tab Management Browser
Tab wars: Wrigley’s drowning in 45 tabs while BobWP casually guards two; they chat about browsers and the beauty of hitting “clear all”
Dec 01
Jake Spurlock: Introducing Placeholders: A WordPress Plugin for Ad Wireframing
I’m excited to announce the release of Placeholders, a new WordPress plugin that makes wireframing and prototyping ad layouts easier than ever. The plugin is now available on WordPress.org and ready for production use. The Problem If you’ve ever worked on a WordPress site that displays advertising, you know the challenge: during the design and …
Dec 01
Open Channels FM: Tech Doesn’t Die, It Transforms
Think about it, most ideas behind any tech never really went away, they have transformed.
Dec 01
7 Best WooCommerce Product Feed Plugins Ranked (My Experience)
Growing a WooCommerce store starts with getting your products in front of the right customers, but that part usually takes a lot of time and effort. That’s where product feed plugins help. They automatically sync your store catalog with platforms like Google Shopping, Facebook Marketplace, and price comparison sites, so you can reach people who …
Dec 01
Jonathan Desrosiers: Seven Years a Committer: My WordPress Commit-iversary
Today officially marks 7 years since my first changeset was committed to the WordPress open source project. Within WordPress, a committer is a contributor who has the ability to modify the main WordPress source repository. Since 2004, roughly 117 people have been given commit access, and 111 have made at least one commit. In previous …
Nov 30
Matt: Thanksgiving Sunday
It’s an interesting cultural moment right now: I think Bryan tweeted, many people are watching people catching balls, while others are watching Bryan Johnson tripping balls. Bryan Johnson, of Blueprint fame, is livestreaming taking a heroic dose of mushrooms. It’s been an interesting journey with the journalist Ashlee Vance, Naval Ravikant, David Friedberg, Marc Benioff, …
Nov 30
Gutenberg Times: Gutenberg Changelog #125 – WordPress 6.9, Gutenberg 22.1 and Gutenberg 22.2
The newest episode of the Gutenberg Changelog podcast, #125, features hosts Birgit Pauli-Haack and JC Palmes discussing a major trio of releases: WordPress 6.9, Gutenberg 22.1, and Gutenberg 22.2. JC highlights several exciting features in WordPress 6.9, focusing on significant developer and editor experience improvements, including the full iframe editor, routing, DataViews, the Interactivity API, pattern logic and content-only mode, and the Abilities …