A client needed accordions and styled form fields without the usual custom-code mess. September’s WordPress core updates add a native Accordion block and theme.json form styling that make it far easier.
A client’s editors kept breaking custom page layouts. October’s Gutenberg releases fix that with content-only editing for patterns, plus the Terms Query block and Block Bindings improvements.
A client wanted a custom mini-cart block inside their nav menu. Here is how to extend the WordPress Navigation block the right way, using the blocks.registerBlockType filter to add your own blocks to allowedBlocks instead of fighting it with CSS.
The new Accordion block in WordPress 6.9 works but ships unstyled. Here is how to style it properly: set base styles in theme.json, then add a block stylesheet with wp_enqueue_block_style() for hover and open states instead of piling on custom CSS.
Agencies struggle to find junior devs who understand open-source contribution. WordPress Credits is a new internship that brings university students into the WordPress project with mentors, real projects, and support from the WordPress Foundation.
Getting to WordCamp US is not cheap. The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship covers the trip for women who are active WordPress contributors, have not attended before, and can show financial need. Applications for 2025 close July 25.
WordPress 6.8.2 landed with 20 Core and 15 Block Editor fixes, and it confirmed that security updates for the 4.1 through 4.6 branches have stopped. If your site is on an old 4.x version, here is why you need an upgrade plan now.
A round of WordPress maintenance releases backported updated root certificates to version 4.7, so older sites can keep making secure API calls to payment gateways, email services, and update servers.