#194 – Devin Walker on Leading Jetpack: Challenges, Vision, and the Future

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, leading Jetpack, the past, the challenges, the vision, and the future. If you’d […]

Open Channels FM: Open Tabs

Bob and Nathan explore the chaos of browser tabs. One hoards thousands, while the other balances life with two. Tune in for witty banter, tech quirks, and questionable life advice.

How You Can Help Prevent Link Rot and Make the Open Web Better

Web content doesn’t stay the same forever. Over time, pages get moved, deleted, or taken offline, which leaves behind broken links and missing references. This problem is known as link rot, and it affects every corner of the internet. If you run a WordPress site, these dead links can hurt your SEO and make readers […]

HeroPress: From carpentry to digital marketing, this is the story of how WordPress helped me rebuild my life. – De la carpintería al marketing digital, esta es la historia de cómo WordPress me ayudó a reconstruir mi vida.

Este ensayo también está disponible en español. Here is Josep reading his own story aloud. My origins I’m Josep, born and raised in Rocafonda, a working-class and humble neighborhood in Mataró. I come from a family that has worked with wood lovingly for three generations. Carpentry was always our trade, our way of understanding life […]

WordPress.org blog: WordPress 6.9 Release Candidate 2

The second Release Candidate (“RC2”) for WordPress 6.9 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, it’s recommended that you evaluate RC2 on a test server and site. Reaching this phase […]

Weston Ruter: WordPress 6.9 Performance Landings

WordPress 6.9 includes so many performance improvements! Scripts with fetchpriority, increased inline CSS, minified theme styles, on demand block styles in classic themes, the template enhancement output buffer, and much more! Check out the field guide I just published: WordPress 6.9 Frontend Performance Field Guide There were many contributors from the Core Performance Team involved […]

WPBeginner Growth Fund Exits Investment in Seahawk Media and Pro Services to Be Discontinued

Back in 2022, I announced that our WPBeginner Growth Fund had taken an investment stake in Seahawk Media, a promising WordPress services company. Our goal was to combine their service expertise with our platform to launch WPBeginner Pro Services and offer our users high-quality development and maintenance solutions across our product brands. During our partnership, […]

Matt: Rothko Chapel Garden

It’s been hard for me to write about Friday because it was so overwhelming, to see so many friends and loved ones and teachers and mentors there, including friends of my late Father’s I hadn’t seen in years, and to be with all of the people who have been driving the mission of the Rothko […]

WordPress Update Broke Your Site? Here’s a 5-Minute Rollback Plan

You update WordPress expecting everything to run more smoothly, but instead…your website seems broken. Maybe the layout has shifted, a plugin stopped working, or you’re suddenly seeing error messages. It’s frustrating, but it’s also very common. Most WordPress crashes look worse than they actually are and can usually be fixed in just a few minutes. […]