The Complete Guide to WooCommerce User Roles (2025)
Interested in how you can use WordPress and WooCommerce user roles to enhance your eCommerce store? At a basic level, WooCommerce roles let you control what store admins and shoppers…
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Holiday Break
In order to give myself and the many tired volunteers around WordPress.org a break for the holidays, we’re going to be pausing a few of the free services currently offered:…
Write Books With the Block Editor
If you need a little push to start writing this winter, in the comfort of your familiar editor, here it is! You can now use the Block Editor to create…
Openverse.org: A Sight for Sore Eyes
Openverse.org, the vibrant platform for openly licensed media, has introduced a sleek and modern Dark Mode feature. This new site theme is designed to enhance users’ comfort and style as…
WordPress 6.7 “Rollins”
WordPress 6.7, code-named 'Rollins,' celebrates legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins and debuts the sleek, versatile Twenty Twenty-Five theme, designed for any blog, any scale. Dive into new font management features…
WordPress Community Creates 1,000 Block Themes in 1,000 Days
In nearly 1,000 days, the WordPress community has created 1,000 Block themes—coming together to use the full potential of the Site Editor and unleash new creative possibilities for everyone.
Expanding Our Code of Conduct to Protect Private Conversations
At the heart of our community is our shared pledge to create a space that is harassment-free, welcoming, and inclusive for all. Our Community Code of Conduct already outlines a…
WP Engine Promotions
Given the egregious legal attacks by WP Engine against WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, a number of their customers have been looking for alternative hosting, and in return a number of…
Forking is Beautiful
The right to fork the software is at the heart of open source. WordPress itself started as a fork of the b2/cafelog project. WordPress was one of several forks from…
5 Best WooCommerce Tax Plugins to Recover Taxes on Your Sales
If you’re running a WooCommerce store, there’s no way you can do without a WooCommerce tax plugin. Trying to manually add in the code to calculate the taxes for different…