https://wpshout.com/category/news/ A hub for advanced WordPress users, developers & savvy business owners. Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:09:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://iotvnaw69daj.i.optimole.com/cb:mLvy.66914/w:32/h:32/q:mauto/f:best/https://wpshout.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/cropped-main-icon1x.png https://wpshout.com/category/news/ 32 32 https://wpshout.com/wordpress-switches-to-one-major-release-per-year/ https://wpshout.com/wordpress-switches-to-one-major-release-per-year/#respond Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:09:00 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=148862 During the last week of March, nearly 30 WordPress core committers, project leaders, and team members gathered to discuss WordPress' release schedule. According to the meeting notes, the conversation was prompted by organizations reducing their contribution hours to the WordPress project. Ultimately, project leadership decided that WordPress 6.8 will be the only major release of 2025. In this post, we'll talk about what the implications of this are for your site(s) and how you can stay up to date in this new once-per-year world.]]> https://wpshout.com/wordpress-switches-to-one-major-release-per-year/feed/ 0 WordPress Shifts to Only One Major Release https://wpshout.com/automattic-lays-off-16-percent-of-workforce/ https://wpshout.com/automattic-lays-off-16-percent-of-workforce/#respond Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:38:20 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=148746 On Tuesday, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sent ripples throughout the WordPress community with a blog post announcing the layoff of 281 employees – representing 16% of Automattic’s workforce.]]> https://wpshout.com/automattic-lays-off-16-percent-of-workforce/feed/ 0 Automattic Lays Off https://wpshout.com/official-wordpress-in-2025-report/ https://wpshout.com/official-wordpress-in-2025-report/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:21:32 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=147571 You might have noticed a new report published on the official website of the WordPress project. I'm emphasizing the word "official" because the publication location is quite strategic, but let's not get ahead of ourselves here.]]> https://wpshout.com/official-wordpress-in-2025-report/feed/ 0 WordPress in 2025 https://wpshout.com/automattic-cuts-weekly-contributor-hours-to-wordpress/ https://wpshout.com/automattic-cuts-weekly-contributor-hours-to-wordpress/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2025 13:03:44 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=146729 Last week, Automattic announced that they'd be cutting their weekly contributor hours to WordPress.org from roughly 4,000 to a mere 45. This is a massive shift in how open-source WordPress has functioned for over a decade. Let's explore four possible implications of this major change.]]> https://wpshout.com/automattic-cuts-weekly-contributor-hours-to-wordpress/feed/ 2 Automattic-Cuts-Weekly-Contributor-Hours https://wpshout.com/wordpress-community-improvement-suggestions/ https://wpshout.com/wordpress-community-improvement-suggestions/#comments Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:16:28 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=145952 Last week, Riad Benguella, a key WordPress developer, asked the community about their "quick win" wishlist for the block editor / Gutenberg. He posed it as simple question on the social media platform Bluesky. In this article, I'm going to recap of all the suggestions that were made, starting with the those that have GitHub issues attached to them.]]> https://wpshout.com/wordpress-community-improvement-suggestions/feed/ 2 What's Next for Gutenberg https://wpshout.com/wp-engine-gets-preliminary-injunction/ https://wpshout.com/wp-engine-gets-preliminary-injunction/#respond Thu, 12 Dec 2024 09:59:55 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=146094 Matt Mullenweg’s crusade against WP Engine seems to have hit a roadblock as the case moved from the court of public opinion to the court of…well, the actual court. On Tuesday December 10, WP Engine won a preliminary injunction against Mullenweg and Automattic that seems to be aimed at preserving the status quo from before Mullenweg’s alleged attack, thus giving the case time to work through the court system while limiting the damage to WP Engine.]]> https://wpshout.com/wp-engine-gets-preliminary-injunction/feed/ 0 WP Engine Gets Its Preliminary Injunction Against Automattic https://wpshout.com/google-losing-market-share-in-europe/ https://wpshout.com/google-losing-market-share-in-europe/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2024 10:03:44 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=145838 Something you might not know about - at least I didn't - is that Google, the search behemoth we've all come to know (and sometimes love), is quietly losing its search market share in several European countries.]]> https://wpshout.com/google-losing-market-share-in-europe/feed/ 0 Google market share drops in Europe https://wpshout.com/buddypress-lead-developer-quits-wordpress/ https://wpshout.com/buddypress-lead-developer-quits-wordpress/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2024 13:52:22 +0000 https://wpshout.com/?p=145787 Mathieu Viet, the driving force behind BuddyPress, has made a heartfelt announcement: he's stepping away from the WordPress ecosystem…entirely.]]> https://wpshout.com/buddypress-lead-developer-quits-wordpress/feed/ 0 BuddyPress Lead Developer Quits WordPress