June Newsletter Volume v18/23

This week we are covering up some latest updates for you. Therese Automattic extending €20,000 funding, Drupal, Joost de Valk’s CMS market share report, Products updates, Existing deals, wordcamp updates and many more.

Top WordPress Stories:

WordPress News:

  • WordPress Enables Commercial and Community Filters on Plugin and Theme Directories.The new filters are now enabled on both the theme and plugin directories.
  • Automattic Donates €20,000 to Fund Next Phase of Drupal Gutenberg Development. Frontkom,has received a €20,000 donation from Automattic to fund the next phase of development.
  • Blocknotes App Runs WordPress Natively on iOS, Now in Public Beta. It was created by WordPress core committer Ella van Durpe and is powered by WordPress Playground, a project that runs the software in the browser without a PHP server.
  • The WP Job Openings plugin has a new Job Alerts Addon that allows you to send daily email notifications to subscribers whenever new job openings are published.
  • The most popular WooCommerce Stripe payment plugin with more than 900,000 active users. It was discovered by Patchstack researcher Rafie Muhammad on April 17, 2023, and patched by WooCommerce on May 30, 2023, in version 7.4.1.
  • Achievement unlocks for SliceWP only 88 days. SliceWP hit 5k active installs on the WordPress plugin directory. Congratualtion.
  • Essential Blocks for Gutenberg Hits 100k Active Installations. More than 100,000 users are now choosing Essential Blocks to supercharge their web design in Gutenberg.
  • Gutenberg 16.0 was released today with page management now available inside the Site Editor. This is the first step towards a more unified experience of editing both content and design.
  • New Milestone of WPFunnels! They just hit 5000 active users, also their product Mail Mint has surpassed 2k active users! A Big Congratulation.
  • Gravity Forms announce the launch of the new Gravity Forms Nonprofit License.This nonprofit license is feature packed, giving you access to built-in functionality, all of their current add-ons, licensing for three sites, standard support, and more also they make a Brand-New Release of Gravity Forms 2.7.8.
  • Joost de Valk is an internet entrepreneur and founder of Yoast published an article about CMS Market Share Analysis June 2023 where WordPress is going stable.
  • The Plus addons make a Security Update on pro version 5.2.9.
  • This week our parent company wptowp update a review blog on hasthemes Plugin WooLentor Best Elementor WooCommerce Addons.
  • Team 10up has launched eadstartWP: An Open Source, Nimble Framework for Headless WordPress Sites.
  • WPGetAPI plugin reaching the 4000+ active installs milestone. 
  • Bricks Builder 1.8.1 makes a update for you. This release also comes with some very exciting new features like Automatically Regenerate CSS Files After Every Theme Update.

WordPress Deals:

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