WWW News

Great news everyone!  Wordpress 6.6 "Dorsey" was released today!  The biggest thing (for people not using Gutenburg) is 'Rollbacks for plugin auto-updates'.  Here's the info from the Wordpress website: WordPress 6.6 delivers on the promise of a better web by bringing style, finesse, and a suite of creative possibilities to your site-building experience. This version helps you do more with ease, putting enhanced tools at your fingertips and giving you unprecedented power behind the scenes. You will find more ways to create beautiful, coherent design elements across your site, a new layout for quick page previews in the Site [...]

Great news everyone!  Wordpress 6.5 "Regina" was released today!  Here's the info from the Wordpress website: This latest version of WordPress puts more power into the details. It offers new and improved ways to fine-tune and enhance your site-building experience, letting you take control in ways that make it your own. You’ll find new ways to manage your site’s typography, more comprehensive revisions available in more places, and a collection of Site Editor updates paired with impressive performance gains to help you get things done smoother and faster. “Regina” also marks the introduction of some breakthrough developer tools that [...]

Great news everyone!  Wordpress 6.4 "Shirley" was released today!  Here's the info from the Wordpress website: Many of the features and enhancements in WordPress 6.4 fall in the “small but mighty” category. Along with the adaptable beauty of the Twenty Twenty-Four theme, these updates help content creators and site developers alike save time and effort while delivering the high value, low hassle WordPress experience the world has grown to expect. Josepha Haden Chomphosy, Executive Director of WordPress Meet Twenty Twenty-Four Experience site editing at its finest with Twenty Twenty-Four. This new multi-faceted default theme has been thoughtfully crafted with [...]

Great news everyone!  Wordpress 6.3 "Lionel" was released today!  This update has ~500 enhancements and ~400 bug fixes.  Pretty excited to try them out.  Here's the info from the Wordpress website: "Lionel” marks a major chapter in the evolution of WordPress as a tool for expression. It’s the culmination of years of work from hundreds of contributors, bringing a more powerful and cohesive editing experience for crafting websites with blocks. It continues the quest of making web publishing approachable for everyone—so it’s also just a new beginning! Do everything in the Site Editor WordPress 6.3 brings your content, templates, [...]

Great news everyone!  Wordpress 6.2 "Dolphy" was released today!  This update has ~500 enhancements and ~400 bug fixes.  Pretty excited to try them out.  Here's the info from the Wordpress website: WordPress 6.2 is the first major release of 2023, covering over 900 enhancements and fixes. It’s also a transition point in the WordPress project’s development roadmap, shifting focus from customization to early exploration of workflows and collaboration. Meet the reimagined Site Editor Now out of beta, the Site Editor has an updated interface, giving you a new way to interact with your entire site. Explore full previews of your templates [...]

Web browsers can be fun! Sometimes when I update or overwrite someone's website, they reply back to me and say they "can't see the changes."  Most times this also happens to me as well.  It happens because (typically) me, and the business owner, are on their sites more often than the average joe.  This often means we cache the site more often.  'Cache' essentially means your computer is storing a copy/version of the website so it can load it faster next time you visit it.  When something changes on the website, sometimes the cache doesn't notice the change because [...]

Great news everyone!  Wordpress 6.0 "Arturo" was released today!  This update has ~500 enhancements and ~400 bug fixes.  Pretty excited to try them out.  Here's the info from the Wordpress website: https://youtu.be/oe452WcY7fA Enhanced Writing Experience Writing improvements abound, whether you’re writing a brand new post or adding elements to an existing page. Explore more ways to streamline your content creation process, including: Select text across multiple blocks for easier copying and pasting. Type two open brackets `[[` to quickly access a list of recent posts and pages. Keep existing styles when you transform some blocks from one kind to [...]