Welcome to this month’s WPBeginner Spotlight! May has been a big month for the WordPress ecosystem. The headline is the long-awaited release of WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong,” but it’s far from the only news. This issue is also packed with a fresh wave of AI-powered tools designed to make managing your website easier than ever. Whether
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If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’ll probably know the WordPress.com Reader – a calm place to catch up on the blogs you follow, without an algorithm deciding what you see. This month, we added a new Social Feeds section to the Reader. Now you can bring in the people you follow on Bluesky
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Transcript [00:00:19] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress, the people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in this case, the future of WordPress plugins, AI, ethics, and new directory standards. If you’d
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One page. A blinking cursor. The formatting you need and nothing you don’t. That’s Write: a new, focused writing surface built into WordPress.com. In last year’s Creators survey, “simplify the editor” was the single most-requested improvement from the people already publishing on WordPress.com. So we built it. Write started as a plugin by Jamie Marsland
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WordPress 7.0 “Armstrong” has landed. This major release makes WordPress more connected and easier to shape around the way you work. WordPress 7.0 includes both immediate editor improvements and deeper foundational changes. Some improvements are visible right away, like visual revisions, responsive controls, and a cleaner dashboard. Others work behind the scenes are more foundational
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