WPBeginner Spotlight 05: WordPress Drama, New AI Features + Major

WP Engine filed a motion on October 18, 2024 for a preliminary injunction in a Northern California court, seeking restored access to WordPress.org and a reversion to conditions as of September 20, … Source

The WordPress Themes Repository has hit an exciting milestone of 1,000 block themes. As of today, the repository has over 12,000 free themes.  Block themes were introduced in WordPress 5.9 all… Source

Automattic’s Marketing Lead, Nicholas Garofalo, has announced that WordPress is adding a new element to the Community Code of Conduct: Publishing private messages without consent. This addition exp… Source

Automattic has agreed to remove the WP Fusion Lite Plugin from WordPress.com following a Cease and Desist letter filed by the plugin’s creator Jack Arturo on October 12, 2024. The letter accu… Source

Following the recent ban and ACF to Secure Custom Fields fork/takeover incident, some plugin authors have announced their decision to remove their plugins from the WordPress.org repository. Gravity… Source

On the podcast today we have Christy Nyiri and Mike Straw from Automattic’s Special Projects Team. They discuss their design work, contributions to WordPress, and the team’s internal, a… Source