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Here it is! Named “Adderley” in honor of Nat Adderley, the latest and greatest version of WordPress is available for download or update in your dashboard. Say hello to more and better. More ways to make your pages come alive. With easier ways to get it all done and looking better than ever—and boosts in speed you can feel. Welcome to WordPress 5.4 Every major release adds more to the block editor. More ways to make posts and pages come alive with your best images. More ways to bring your visitors in, and keep them engaged, with the richness of embedded media from the web’s top services. More ways to make your vision real, and put blocks in the perfect place—even if a particular kind of block is new to you. More efficient processes. And more speed everywhere, so as you build sections or galleries, or just type in a line of prose, you can feel how much faster your work flows. Two new blocks. And better blocks overall. Two brand-new blocks: Social … [Read more...] about WordPress 5.4 “Adderley”

WordPress 3.1.3 is available now and is a security update for all previous versions. It contains the following security fixes and enhancements: Various security hardening by Alexander Concha . Taxonomy query hardening by John Lamansky . Prevent sniffing out user names of non-authors by using canonical redirects. Props Verónica Valeros . Media security fixes by Richard Lundeen of Microsoft , Jesse Ou of Microsoft , and Microsoft Vulnerability Research . Improves file upload security on hosts with dangerous security settings. Cleans up old WordPress import files if the import does not finish. Introduce “clickjacking” protection in modern browsers on admin and login pages. Consult the change log for more details. Download WordPress 3.1.3 or update automatically from the Dashboard → Updates menu in your site’s admin area. WordPress 3.2 Beta 2 also available In other news, our development of WordPress 3.2 development continues right on schedule. We … [Read more...] about WordPress 3.1.3 (and WordPress 3.2 Beta 2)

Hello Everyone, Syed Balkhi here. On July 7th, we launched our 5th birthday giveaway . We also did a fundraiser to raise $50,000 to build two schools. We successfully met our goal and raised $50,584. I have already been communicating with the folks at Pencils of Promise charity, and I will be taking a trip to see the schools next year. Just like last year, I will definitely post updates and photos here. I want to thank all of you guys for your continuous support that you have shown over the years. I also want to thank all of our sponsors who helped made this possible by giving away awesome prizes and contributing towards the fundraiser. We had a total of 169 prizes with a combined value over $28,000. I want to give a special shout out to our platinum sponsors who each donated $5,000 to the fundraiser along with donating prizes: Sunil Saxena from InMotion Hosting and Web Hosting Hub – He donated a combined $10,000 to the fundraiser and entered prizes for the … [Read more...] about WPBeginner Giveaway Winners + We Built 2 Schools

Hello Everyone, Syed Balkhi here. On July 4th, we celebrated our 4th birthday with the largest WordPress giveaway . We also did a fundraiser to raise $25,000 to build a school, and we were successful. I want to thank all of you guys for your continuous support that you have shown over the years. I also want to thank all of our sponsors who helped made this giveaway possible. We had 200+ prizes with a combined value over $25,000. I want to give a special shout out to the top sponsors: MaxCDN , StudioPress and the Copyblogger family, ManageWP family with SEO Smart Links and last but not least HitTail. Thank you all sponsors (friends): iThemes and BackupBuddy , Sucuri , Bluehost , Themify , Elegant Themes , Headway , Soliloquy, Gravity Forms , Standard Theme , InMotion Hosting , Web Hosting Hub , Pippins Plugins , SeedProd, WPValet , WPZoom , Michael Hyatt , Page.ly , ZippyKid , Yoast , RaffleCompter , Themefuse , PixelKit , … [Read more...] about We Built the School + WPBeginner Giveaway Winners

Real quick, WordPress post formats are meta information (or ‘tags’) that can be used by themes to customize presentation of a post. Urgh! Meta what? For those not well-versed in developer-speak, we can think of post formats as a feature that allows you to present your posts in different styles. There you have it private, you can put your guns away now. Post formats expand the micro-blogging face of WordPress as you can create your post as an aside, a status update, a quote, a gallery, a video, a link or an image, and style each to your heart’s content. Bottom line: The post formats feature makes WordPress a more complete blogging platform. Think of it this way. You can share an external link that befits your readers, create Twitter-like updates, build amazing galleries, and share unforgettable quotes among other things with a single click . Suffice to say, if your theme supports WordPress post formats, you can customize how each format looks even if the developer has done that … [Read more...] about WordPress Post Formats Guide: What They Are & Why To Use Them