In nearly 1,000 days, the WordPress community has created 1,000 Block themes—coming together to use the full potential of the Site Editor and unleash new creative possibilities for everyone. First introduced in WordPress 5.9, Block themes have steadily evolved, improving flexibility and functionality for themers, users, and agencies alike. Now, design tools allow customizing almost every detail. With style variations,...
Tag: Updates
I’ve heard from WP Engine customers that they are frustrated that WP Engine hasn’t been able to make updates, plugin directory, theme directory, and Openverse work on their sites. It saddens me that they’ve been negatively impacted by Silver Lake‘s commercial decisions. On WP Engine’s homepage, they promise “Unmatched performance, automated updates, and bulletproof security ensure your sites thrive.” WP...
Any WP Engine customers having trouble with their sites should contact WP Engine support and ask them to fix it. WP Engine needs a trademark license, they don’t have one. I won’t bore you with the story of how WP Engine broke thousands of customer sites yesterday in their haphazard attempt to block our attempts to inform the wider WordPress...
WordPress 6.6 RC3 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, please evaluate RC3 on a test server or a local environment. Reaching this phase of the release cycle is a worthy achievement. While release candidates...
WordPress 6.6 RC2 is ready for download and testing! This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, please evaluate RC2 on a test server or a local environment. Reaching this phase of the release cycle is a worthy achievement. While release candidates...
Today, WordPress powers more than 40% of the web. That’s a massive reach—one that comes with a similarly large responsibility. With so many people using the CMS, the WordPress community should always consider strategies for improving the visitor experience. This is where website performance plays a crucial role. How fast a web page loads, how quickly a page reacts when...
On February 26, 2024, Mistral Large was released to the public. This advanced language model is a big step forward for text generation. CyberSEO Pro and RSS Retriever plugin users can now use Mistral Large through OpenRouter.ai, offering new opportunities for autoblogging. What really sets Mistral Large apart, beyond its advanced features, is its approach to content creation without censorship....
The latest versions of CyberSEO Pro and RSS Retriever are equipped with a new [or_text] shortcode that provides the ability to rewrite and enrich imported content, as well as create new text articles from scratch using all the AI language models available through OpenRouter.ai. For those interested in using special parameters of the [or_text] shortcode, detailed documentation is available. Why...
The WordPress Security Team is aware of multiple ongoing phishing scams impersonating both the “WordPress team” and the “WordPress Security Team“ in an attempt to convince administrators to install a plugin on their website which contains malware. The WordPress Security Team will never email you requesting that you install a plugin or theme on your site, and will never ask...
Some beginner webmasters complain that Google deindexes their pages created with AI. For some reason, they believe that Google is biased against any content created by artificial intelligence. This, of course, is not the case. You must understand that Google does not deindex pages simply because they were generated or rewritten using AI. It deindexes them for spam, duplicate content,...