Wordpress

WordPress 6.1, scheduled for November 2022, will feature a “massive improvement to database performance” thanks to new post query caching. This new feature promises to make WordPress websites perform faster. The exact caching improvement is…

Matt Mullenweg, developer of WordPress and CEO of Autommatic, proposed no longer adding new features to the WordPress, pivoting instead to a plugin-first policy. This new approach to the future of WordPress has already resulted in a new…

Yoast SEO WordPress plugin version 19.7 was discovered to contain a conflict with other plugins which resulted in websites experiencing fatal errors. This marks the third time this year that a conflict with another plugin caused a Yoast…

WordPress announced a three month warning that it is halting all security updates for older installations, versions 3.7- 4.0. The affected installations will display a permanent notice that cannot be dismissed. Out of Date WordPress…

Bluehost announced a new point and click solution that makes it easy for virtually anyone to create an eCommerce store with WordPress. This is an opportunity for businesses for whom complexity of technology was a barrier to entry. It’s also…

WordPress released an update containing bug fixes and security patches to address three vulnerabilities rated as severe to medium severity. The updates may have been downloaded and installed automatically, so it’s essential to check if the…

What is headless CMS? Why are more companies looking into it nowadays? Powered by greater flexibility and scalability, it might be the next generation of content management systems. Lidia Infante, Senior SEO Manager at Sanity.io, joined me…

Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, questioned why a revamp of the WordPress homepage and download page took weeks to almost finish when the same project would take one person only hours to complete using a website builder platform…

Publishers who updated to Yoast SEO 19.5 may have experienced more than they expected. Reports of fatal errors caused by the update soon began surfacing. Interestingly, the error appears confined to specific situations and not across the…

WordPress Gutenberg 13.8 is here, unpacking further incremental improvements to the Gutenberg block editor. Some of the improvements are relatively trivial additions, like adding a WhatsApp icon to the Social Icon Block. But others are more…