Category: Technology
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WordPress 5.4 Released
WordPress 5.4 has been released! Along with speed and privacy improvements, this update adds a new Social Icons block, enhancements for the Button block, and 361 bug fixes. For specifics, check out the changelog. 552 volunteers contributed to this release, lead by Matt Mullenweg, Francesca Marano, and David Baumwald. At the time of writing this, WordPress…
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WordPress Does Not Have Phone Support
Please excuse this interruption to our regular programming (do we have regular programming?), but there’s a scam going around, and we all need to do our part to stop it. First, as the title states, WordPress.org and WordPress.com do not have phone support, and they never did. Anything claiming to be “official WordPress phone support”…
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Happy New Year! the 2020 edition
2020 begins today, so it’s a great time to start using some basic privacy tools, make sure your browser is up to date, update all of your passwords, and setup two factor authentication wherever you can. The theme this year was apparently themes, since the top two posts were Twenty Nineteen Tweaks and A Search Shortcut For Any Theme,…
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On Social Networks
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, especially with the introduction of WT.Social, a new social network from the co-founder of Wikipedia, which boasts about being a better alternative to the mainstream social networks. We all know those mainstream networks, and we’re all probably on them. I’m on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram, but…
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WordPress 5.3 Released
WordPress 5.3 has been released! Along with new features, refinements, and accessibility improvements in the editor, this release introduces the new Twenty Twenty default theme, Health Check improvements, verification for admin email changes, PHP 7.4 compatibility, and 387 bug fixes. For specifics, check out the changelog. 645 volunteers contributed to this release, lead by Matt Mullenweg,…