


<p>And when you look at it, there were only two&#8230; You only saw the first two ones, and then the last two ones. But you couldn&#8217;t click to, if you say, the third one or the fourth page because you knew it was things on there you had to click on next, next, next to&#8230; You didn&#8217;t find a&#8230; And now a user can determine how those numbers in the pagination block are actually organized. You can say, &#8220;Okay, give me four numbers in between.&#8221; That&#8217;s a really good improvement considering that that was possible before in the classic theme very much so. But this is kind of getting it all feature priority and it really is a good improvement. It&#8217;s such a small thing, you would think, but navigating a list of posts deeper into it, they&#8217;re not just the first page, sometimes is really needs some support, some better support there.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: Sometimes more like things that at the front end it seems like a very simple change, but I believe that under the hood that there must be many things going on, right?</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah. And then now you have in the sidebar, you have additional fields where you can put in numbers and some more explanation, if my explanation wasn&#8217;t helpful at all. And the next part is that the list view now has a keyboard shortcut for duplicating blocks. So if you are working through a list view by keyboard and you now don&#8217;t need to change controls to duplicate a block, you can just use command shift and D, and then that block that was just focused is duplicated. This definitely helps with rapid content creation and laying out some articles.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: As a content writer, I definitely agree with this one. This will be very time-saving.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Super, yeah. 16.6 Gutenberg also adds a custom taxonomy for user created patterns. So WordPress 6.3 came with the feature that you now could create synced and unsynced patterns, but if you have three or four or 15 of those, it was hard to sort through them. So now you can use some taxonomy labels for your creative patterns. So you can give other editors on your site a little bit more help with what are those patterns that Birgit created and now you can help them to be a little bit more organized here.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: So this can be for the synced and unsynced patterns?</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yes.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: Yeah, this will be&#8230; Having a feature to organize it, it definitely will be beneficial for the content creators also because we can easily choose which one we want to use.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, and you can drill down because I can see that an organization has created at least 10, 20 patterns depending on how the different content they provide. And the beauty of it is, it&#8217;s actually based on the default taxonomy patterns, not patterns, API that comes with WordPress because the patterns are custom post type. So the built-in taxonomy is now just surfacing on the editor. There was not a whole lot of&#8230; There was development being done just to make it into the site editor, but the underlying backend was already there. So it&#8217;s good to have a fallback like that.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Bug Fixes</h3>



<p>So now we are coming to the bug fixes and there&#8217;s just a few that we wanted to point out. Maybe just one, no, maybe two or so. Do you want to take that?</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: Okay. So for the bug fixes, I like this one about the post notification link, which is the remove unnecessary space between rows and label. I think for some end users this might look like a very simple improvement that almost unseen, but I believe for those who work around design a lot will be happy with this. &#8220;Finally, I already feel it sometime ago.&#8221; Because it&#8217;s only a very tiny character, isn&#8217;t it like the space between the arrows and labels? But once it removes it, it&#8217;s like, &#8220;Yeah, this is how it should look.&#8221;</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, it gives you a consistent look and don&#8217;t really get that. That&#8217;s fixed now. And then also for the block styles, there&#8217;s the preview of the popover is now working also with right to left sites.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: Yeah, I think this is also one of the great examples of a form of striving for inclusivity and equality in WordPress because it makes a site building experience equal for everyone, whatever language you use, including the right to left languages like this. So when your site using the right to left languages, you will have the exact same experience as everyone in the world.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: And sometimes that kind of falls a little bit through the cracks. So some head bubble for those who record those issues on the GitHub report so they can be fixed if they are not working right. In the site editor, there&#8217;s one bug fix.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: About the unified delete button style in the dropdown menu and making it red. So I think it&#8217;s also a nice improvement, especially for end users who still learn to use WordPress for the first time because it&#8217;s easier to tell the effect of clicking this button. When you see it previously it&#8217;s blue. So people might just, &#8220;Okay, I will just try to delete this,&#8221; and turns out it delete all the stuff that they actually don&#8217;t want to delete. But by making it red, it&#8217;s making&#8230; I think it&#8217;s related to psychology of color, people can be more considerate when they offer this button. This one will do a significant effect to my content.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: It&#8217;s kind of, &#8220;Stop. Think what you&#8217;re doing.&#8221;</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: Oh, what is it? What is it? It&#8217;s red. I will avoid doing something with this because it can avoid accidental deletion.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Experiments</h3>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: And that&#8217;s part of really the small changes that have big outcomes. So the Gutenberg 16.6 also brings a new feature, new API and that&#8217;s called lock hooks. It was introduced one or two Gutenberg versions earlier and labeled as order inserting blocks. And the PRs that are accompanying it are still referring to that, but it&#8217;s on activation plugins now can have the capability to order insert blocks, enhancing the integration and automation between the plugins and the Gutenberg editor. So the examples that you see in the PRs&#8230; And I would recommend to look through the PRs to kind of see how it all works. And the change log has the list of the PRs in there. So what is it useful&#8230; And I think we talked with Ellen about it, Ellen Bauer on the previous episode about it. So you can add a like button to a comment section or a card icon to the header with this API and any other thing that you want to add to a block that&#8217;s automatically added for the user.</p>



<p>The user now also has with the&#8230; They created now the block inspector panel and have a plugin section there. So it identifies the plugin that added a block and you can toggle the appearance or disappearance of it on your templates and on your posts. So depending on what the use case is for this plugin that you installed on your site. So this very much expands the capabilities of the block editor for plugin developers outside of adding custom blocks or adding additional features in the sidebar. Now you can add a few content as well. So this is a really good new feature and it will come to 6.4. It definitely needs some major testing. So if you are having a test site and you want to check it out and yeah, please report back on what your findings are and if you tripped up by things.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: So here in the PR, the example is log in logout, card and checkout, but it&#8217;ll be different for each plugin? For different plugins?</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, so there&#8217;s an API where a plugin developer can say, &#8220;Okay, I want this content or this particular feature added to a columns block.&#8221; Or to a paragraph block. For instance, just an anchor link to every paragraph. You can write a plugin and say, &#8220;Okay, for each paragraph add this anchor link on the right-hand side.&#8221; And then a user can install that plugin and then automatically has that on their blog and can now reference certain paragraphs. So some people do blogging more like a diary where they have all the sorts of a day in little paragraphs or in a cluster of paragraphs and say, &#8220;Okay, today I wrote also about my adventure of riding the bike down the hill on a certain hill,&#8221; and then want to link to that through Twitter or through Instagram because there&#8217;s also a picture to it.</p>



<p>So you can go back to the blog and read a little bit about it. So that&#8217;s one tiny use case. Another one is, as I said, the like button for comments. Normally comments don&#8217;t come with like buttons. But you can build a plugin that says, &#8220;Okay, every comment gets a like button for me and I want it at the top of it or on the bottom of it.&#8221; And that&#8217;s all in the API controls. And then when it&#8217;s installed and the user wants to use it can also say, &#8220;For this paragraph, I want to toggle in and off. I want to disable that particular added block for this particular paragraph. And then for the next block I want it again.&#8221; So it&#8217;s kind of a beginning of a new interface or a new way to customize the block editor.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Documentation</h3>



<p>Speaking of development, 6.3 brought a few pickups to the surface that with the&#8230; Enqueuing of assets in the editor and the CSS and Nick Diego updated the documentation and how to guide to and queue assets in the editor and best practice or how it&#8217;s actually supposed to work, especially now with the iFrame editor in the post editor as well. There were some early adopters of the block editor created a few workarounds, the early restrictions that were there. And now with 6.3 or the iFraming of the post editor, some of those don&#8217;t work anymore as one would hope. So here&#8217;s a how to guide on how to enqueue assets in the editor after 6.3.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: So this how to guide is targeted for developers? Or for everyone who wants to learn about Gutenberg in general can also try to learn this?</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Oh yeah, sure, sure. It&#8217;s a website, so the website doesn&#8217;t know who&#8217;s coming in. So it&#8217;s on the developer&#8230; The link goes right now to the Gutenberg repo where the pages, but I will share the link in the show notes where the actual documentation page was created. So it&#8217;s in the realm of the other documentation of the block editor. Yeah, it&#8217;s definitely helpful when you start out thinking about your theme development or your plugin development and you have additional assets like JavaScript files, CSS files to go with those entities and how to do it to control your iFrame editor. There has also been an update on the block variations API, and that has been&#8230; Block variations have been around since the beginning of the block editor where you can modify in a core block that then add additional feature sets or styles or just kind of different behavior to it.</p>



<p>And the block variations FPI had been updated, but this goes well with a new article on the developer blog called An Introduction to Block Variations where Nick Diego walks you through certain use cases on how to use it. So how to create a block variation, how to unregister. So you could use the block variation. So if a simple example is you have a button, you want the button to have a certain style, you can certainly do this through the theme.</p>



<p>But you can also say, &#8220;Okay, I want to unregister the core button and I want my block variations for the core button to be the default.&#8221; So it shows up in the inserter as a core button, but it will always have the right color on the border or the background or the right font size that you have decided on the design of it. And the user doesn&#8217;t have to select between the two they just have one. Same could be with a code block or a verse block. You can really have quite a few methods and attributes that you can use to create those lock variations. Yeah, I learned quite a bit from the article.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: No, I just wanted to say that this resource is pretty comprehensive. We can learn many stuff about the block variations from the basic to the putting it all together and everything. We can check it here. So yeah, it&#8217;s great.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Yeah, it also helps you how to control the icons for it or how the sidebar is behaving. So yes, it&#8217;s a really good article. All the articles on the developer blog, that&#8217;s actually a very rather new entity on the wordpress.org site. It only has been around for eight months, give or take. Official launch was actually March, so it&#8217;s only been around for five months officially, but we started in November with it. And there are quite a few blog posts now that are tutorials and go a little bit deeper on then documentation help you picks up the developer from a different place, from a beginner place and go all the way to advanced. Or say, &#8220;Okay, this is your use case.&#8221; There are a series of blog posts as well as standalone posts. And you can also learn about the slot fields. What&#8217;s slot fields? Well, it&#8217;s the spaces in the sidebar of a block where you can add additional features, fields and all that.</p>



<p>So the developer block is definitely something to check out if you are a developer and extending the block editor. And yeah, this concludes the change log for 16.6. We are through that.&nbsp;</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">What’s in Active Development or Discussed</h3>



<p>And as I said at the beginning, we also wanted to discuss a few things, or two things. No, actually three that are in active development. And the first one is a big feature that is announced slated for 6.4. The contributors have been working on it for quite a while, almost a whole year to get font management into WordPress. Meaning upload funds, make them available for blocks, make them available for templates, and then also delete funds, and have them across themes. So you are not depending on a theme developer to provide you with the right fonts. You can as a site owner also make different choices there. And I will share with you a link to a PR that kind of puts it all together, how it all works.</p>



<p>And Jeffrey Pearce also just made a call for testing on Twitter where he provided a link to a WordPress playground site with the configuration to test this successfully already in place. Because you need to make changes to the WP-config file and then you need to enable the plugin for it, the experiment for it and all that. So there&#8217;s kind of a set-up manually to be done, but this link to the WordPress playground gives you the PR, or the version of Gutenberg that has the PR in it as well as the right setup. And then you can test it, you can upload fonts, you make them available through the interface. You can use them on pages, on posts and on templates and see if the font on front end and editor actually would display correctly. And anything that you find that&#8217;s not working right, report that back to the PR so they can go and fix it.</p>



<p>Once it&#8217;s merged, so right now the PRs are still in the works and a lot of people are testing it, but it could use some more testing. If you listen to this and the PR has already been merged, it will be available through the Gutenberg nightly plugin version that you get on the Gutenberg Times, and then you can start testing it on your normal, like any Gutenberg plugin version on your test site. And my favorite tool for testing is actually local WP from the WP Engine and Flywheel folks. That has been a tremendous help to go through all those testing. So font library is a big, big step forward for WordPress and any help you can give to testing it would be really appreciated.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani:</em> So we can also use font library in playground?</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: With the link that&#8230; The link is a Bitly link. It&#8217;s shortened because it&#8217;s actually 15 lines long. It&#8217;s bit.ly/text-font-library, and then it gives you a new WordPress site and then you can use it and test it. You cannot install other plugins there. You cannot install themes. So you would have to test it with the default theme Twenty Twenty Three. And the second part&#8230; It&#8217;s only two things, is a lot of people, especially content creators were really waiting for this, it&#8217;s the adding a background image to a group block. It&#8217;s coming, it&#8217;s already available in the Gutenberg nightly because the feature has already been merged with trunk. It&#8217;ll be released with 16.7 Gutenberg plugin. And if you can provide user feedback, that will be really great. And if the provided user feedback doesn&#8217;t reveal any big issues with that new feature, it will also arrive in WordPress 6.4 with the next upgrade on November 7th, 2023. How do you like that, Maya?</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: I will definitely use this. I can see myself using this, I don&#8217;t know, for my company, for my day job, I don&#8217;t know about that. But so I have a website that is just to play around, my test site. I really like it. So I think I will definitely use this because it&#8217;s like, yeah, adding more creativity fuel to my toolkit.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: I can see that there are some very, very subtle backgrounds that could happen on different paragraphs, like wallpaper in a house or something like that where you can change that for a different group of posts or for&#8230; If you wrap a quote post into a group block, then you can add a background image to it, and that background image could have a photo of the person who gives the quote. So you don&#8217;t have to use backgrounds and fiddle around with all the blocks, you can just put it on the background image and then upload that to the quote block. And yeah, I really like it.&nbsp;</p>



<p>So we are at the end of the show. I just wanted to make sure people, when they want to connect with you, what would be a good place to meet you online, Maya?</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: So I&#8217;m on Twitter and also I&#8217;m on Instagram. So yeah, I think I will&#8230; And on LinkedIn also, so in three places. So yeah, I will share the link to you so we can put it in the show notes.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Awesome. Awesome. Thank you so much. As always, the show notes will be published on Gutenbergtimes.com/podcast and this is the episode 89. And if you have questions, suggestions, or news that you want us to include, send them to <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. That&#8217;s <a href="mailto:changelog@gutenbergtimes.com">changelog@gutenbergtimes.com</a>. And there was a time when we had quite a few people add reviews about the podcast on different podcast websites like Stitcher or Apple or Google. It would be time to do another round of reviews. If you like what you hear and get value out of this podcast, please submit a review to Apple, that&#8217;s probably the most prominent one, to iTunes or podcast, and that would be really lovely. And as a bonus, we will read them in our next show. So yeah, come on then.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: Give a little shout-out.</p>



<p><em>Birgit Pauli-Haack</em>: Give a little shout-out. Yeah. So Maya, thank you so much for joining me today. It was lovely to have you on the show and give your input and have opinions will travel that&#8217;s always beneficial at WordPress. Yeah, and I thank you all for listening and I&#8217;ll hear you in two weeks. We won&#8217;t have a 16.7 then, but we will have Tammy Lister on the show and we will talk about WordPress 6.4 and the whole process. And I wish you all well, take care and goodbye.</p>



<p><em>Nadia Maya Ardiani</em>: Thank you, Birgit. Forget the pleasure is all mine.</p>



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<p>The <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/6-4/">WordPress 6.4 release</a> is fast approaching. This week I tested two new features. I am excited about that content creators and designers will be able to <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53934">add a background image to group blocks</a>.  I see a few more decorative, wall paper like backgrounds for quotes, or call out paragraphs in our future. Furthermore, site owners and theme builders can look forward to a new Font library with font management capabilities via the Global Styles sidebar. </p>



<p>You can upload fonts and server them to visitors locally and keep within privacy guidelines. <strong>Jeffrey Pearce</strong> posted <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffikus/status/1699864919628202063">A call for testing</a> on X (formerly Twitter). For more information, I added some details in this<a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/call-for-testing-of-the-new-font-library/"> post on this site.</a></p>



<p>For novices to the intricacies of Typography, <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/news/2023/07/make-your-sites-typography-make-a-statement/"><strong>Mary Baum</strong> started an exciting series </a>on the Developer Blog. </p>



<p>Hope all is well. Cu you on the Interwebs. </p>



<p>Yours, 💕<br /><em>Birgit</em></p>




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<div class="wp-block-sortabrilliant-guidepost"><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-developing-gutenberg-and-word-press">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</a><ul><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#1-gutenberg-16-6">Gutenberg 16.6 </a></li></ul></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#0-p">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</a></li><li><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/feed/#3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </a></li></ul></div>
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<p>Last Monday, I was part of <a href="https://wpbuilds.com/2023/09/05/this-week-in-wordpress-266/"><strong>This Week in WordPress #266 &#8211; &#8220;Weirdy bespoke CMS&#8221;</strong> </a>with <strong>Katie Keith</strong> and <strong>Bob Dunn</strong>, hosted by the fabulous <strong>Nathan Wrigley</strong>.  We talked about last week&#8217;s news around the WordPress space. Gutenberg updates, about LMS Working group, and Automattic&#8217;s <a href="https://ma.tt/2023/08/one-hundy">One Hundy </a>(100-year plan) Bob&#8217;s booth take-over and Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt joining Post Status, <a href="https://bigbite.net/wordpress-for-enterprise/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Enterprise Guide to WordPress</a> and a lot more. It was great fun and quite enlightening. </p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="0-developing-gutenberg-and-word-press">Developing Gutenberg and WordPress</h2>



<p><strong>Joen Asmussen</strong> again shared the work of the WordPress design team in his post <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/design/2023/08/28/design-share-aug-14-aug-25/"><strong>Design Share: Aug 14-Aug 25</strong></a>.  You&#8217;ll find illustrations and links on </p>



<ul>
<li>the iterations on the new design for the themes directory, </li>



<li>the way how to list user patterns by category</li>



<li>the workflow to control styling nested elements through inheritance</li>



<li>Better display for the audio component  and search results for the Openverse site. </li>



<li>User interface to control the Lightbox feature for Image block</li>



<li>Font Management for Google Fonts</li>



<li>First round of designs for List views for the Admin space. </li>
</ul>



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<p>After nearly  3.5 years of feedback loops, knowledge sharing, and community building and WordPress 6.3 concluding the Phase 2, <strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> outlines in her blog post <strong><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/09/07/evolving-the-fse-outreach-program/">Evolving the FSE Outreach Program</a>,</strong> what will happen next. Details on the timeline, the shift from new feature to adoption and the hand-off of future calls for testing to the WordPress test team, are all explained in the post. Anne McCarthy has been a fantastic community builder and communicator running this first of a kind outreach program.  Their work was groundbreaking and provided a blueprint future outreach programs can build on. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading" id="1-gutenberg-16-6">Gutenberg 16.6 </h3>



<p>In his release post, <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/09/06/whats-new-in-gutenberg-16-6-06-september/">What’s new in Gutenberg 16.6? (06 September)</a>, <strong>Vicente Canales</strong> highlighted the new Block hooks, formerly known as Auto-inserted blocks, and improvements to the block toolbars by tieing the toolbars of child blocks to the parent block&#8217;s toolbar. </p>



<p><strong>Sarah Gooding</strong> also reported on the Gutenberg 16.7 release in her article <a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-16-6-introduces-block-hooks-improvements-to-toolbars-on-nested-blocks">Gutenberg 16.6 Introduces Block Hooks, Improvements to Toolbars on Nested Blocks</a></p>



<p>For this week&#8217;s <strong>Gutenberg Changelog episode 89</strong>, I had the great pleasure of welcoming <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/inyongski">Nadia Maya Ardiani</a></strong> and my special guest. Ardiani is a content creator at Hostinger and contributor on training and documentation teams working on translations. We have been in touch since we met in person at WordCamp Asia. In this new episode, we tackled the Gutenberg 16.6 release and talked about more features in the works. The episode will drop into your favorite podcast app over the weekend. </p>



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<p>TIL: The diner in Maya&#8217;s background is called <em>warkop/warmindo</em>, which is the short for <em>warung kopi </em>(coffee tavern) or <em>warung indomie</em> (instant noodle diner)</p>



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<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="0-p">Plugins, Themes, and Tools for #nocode site builders and owners</h2>



<p><a href="https://twitter.com/jrtashjian"><strong>JR Tashjian</strong></a>, senior developer at GoDaddy, has been working on <strong>OmniForm </strong>for a while, and he just released it in the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/omniform/">WordPress plugins directory</a>. OmniForm specializes in essential form types, such as contact and feedback forms. The feature list includes: </p>



<ul>
<li>20+ form fields blocks, including text fields, checkboxes, radio buttons, and more</li>



<li>Pre-built form templates or create your own from scratch</li>



<li>Manage form submissions within the admin dashboard</li>



<li>Email notifications for new form submissions</li>



<li>Customize form styling</li>



<li>Spam protection with Cloudflare Turnstile, hCaptcha, and Google reCAPTCHA.</li>
</ul>



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<p><strong>Patricia Hillebrandt</strong>, code wrangler at WooCommerce, published the release notes for <a href="https://developer.woocommerce.com/2023/08/31/woocommerce-blocks-11-0-0-release-notes/"><strong>WooCommerce Blocks version 11.0.0</strong> </a>With the latest release of WooCommerce Blocks, users can leverage the Product Collection Block and the improved interactivity of the Product Button to create appealing product displays and enhance the shopping experience on their websites. </p>



<p><strong>Sarah Gooding</strong> reported on the new release for the WPTavern: <a href="https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-blocks-11-0-0-adds-product-collection-block-in-beta-10-9-0-integrates-product-button-with-the-interactivity-api"><strong>WooCommerce Blocks 11.0.0 Adds Product Collection Block in Beta, 10.9.0 Integrates Product Button with the Interactivity API</strong></a></p>



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<p>The <em>Torque Magazine</em> published <strong><a href="https://twitter.com/nschaeferhoff">Nick Schäferhoff</a>&#8216;</strong>s post about <strong><a href="https://torquemag.io/2023/09/mastodon-and-wordpress/">Mastodon and WordPress: 8 Ways to Make Them Work Together</a>.</strong> From site verification and social icons over displaying your feed on your site or your client&#8217;s sites, to automatically posting from WordPress to Mastodon, Schäferhoff gives comprehensive instructions and illustrations for a complete integration of WordPress and Mastodon. </p>



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<p>On Learn.WordPress you can now watch the new tutorial:  <strong><a href="https://learn.wordpress.org/tutorial/intro-to-the-site-editor-and-template-editor/">Intro to the Site Editor</a>. </strong>You can create and launch your entire site within the Site Editor. In this video tutorial, <strong>Wes Theron</strong>, provides you with an overview of accessing and using the Site Editor and you learn about all the tools you need. </p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/SteveJBurge">Steve Burge</a></strong> published for KinshiPress the tutorial on how to <a href="https://kinshipress.com/time-to-read-block-wordpress/"><strong>use a Time to Read Block in WordPress</strong></a>, via the Gutenberg plugin. </p>




<p><strong> <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">&#8220;Keeping up with Gutenberg &#8211; Index 2022&#8221;</a> </strong><br />A chronological list of the WordPress Make Blog posts from various teams involved in Gutenberg development: Design, Theme Review Team, Core Editor, Core JS, Core CSS, Test, and Meta team from Jan. 2021 on. Updated by yours truly.  <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/handbook/references/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index/keeping-up-with-gutenberg-index-2020/"><em>The index 2020 is here</em></a></p>




<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="3-building-themes-for-fse-and-word-press">Building Blocks and Tools for the Block editor. </h2>



<p><strong>Anton Plauche</strong> has published a detailed tutorial for responsive design implementation by extending the core columns block. In <a href="https://fullstackdigital.io/blog/how-to-build-responsive-designs-in-the-wordpress-editor-by-extending-the-core-columns-block/"><strong>How to Build Responsive Designs in the WordPress Editor by Extending the Core Columns Block</strong></a>, Plauche shares example code to add our additional breakpoint functionality.</p>



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<p>With Gutenberg 16.6, <strong>Nick Diego</strong> updated the <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/reference-guides/block-api/block-variations/"><strong>documentation for Block Variations</strong></a> to clarify different properties and to add notes regarding implementation.  He also merged the new page on <a href="https://developer.wordpress.org/block-editor/how-to-guides/enqueueing-assets-in-the-editor/"><strong>enqueuing assets in the Editor</strong></a></p>



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<p><strong><a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Need a plugin .zip from Gutenberg&#8217;s master branch?</a></strong><br />Gutenberg Times provides daily build for testing and review. <br />Have you been using it? Hit reply and let me know.</p>



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<p><strong>Anne McCarthy</strong> published <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/test/2023/09/18/fse-program-testing-call-26-final-touches/"><strong>FSE Program Testing Call #26: Final touches</strong></a>. The instructions lead you through the array of new features for WordPress 6.4: You get to learn how to manage fonts, get your side organized using the Command Palette and rename Group blocks. Then you are asked to create a new Pattern and finish a Portfolio page. You also get to swap out patterns, and handle the display of a like button. It&#8217;s a fun call for Testing for sure and the deadline for feedback is October 9th, 2023. </p>



<p><strong>Update: September 18, 2023</strong></p>



<p>The Font Library is a new WordPress feature that will come to WordPress 6.4. Your help is needed to test the feature that allows you to manage fonts and their variants for your website. You can find the PR on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53884">Font Library: Frontend [Stage 1]&nbsp;#53884</a> and has been merged on September 15, 2023</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Use WordPress playground</h2>



<p>The WordPress Playground link was updated to <a href="https://bit.ly/font-lib-latest-test">https://bit.ly/font-lib-latest-test</a> You can use the WordPress playground tool that is already prepped for your test. </p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Test with your test site using Gutenberg Nightly</h2>



<p>If you need  to use your own test site setup with LocalWP or any other tools because you are curious how the font library works with your set of plugins,  use the <a href="https://gutenbergtimes.com/need-a-zip-from-master/">Gutenberg Nightly version</a> and start testing on your test site.&nbsp;</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">How do you find the Font Manager? </h2>



<p>No matter the tool you use, testing an undocumented feature is like jumping into the deep end of the pool and try to learn how to swim. </p>



<p>Here are the steps. </p>



<ul>
<li>From your Dashboard </li>



<li>select Appearance &gt; Editor &gt; </li>



<li>Click into the canvas side of the screen to enable Edit Mode</li>



<li>Use the Style icon to open it in the right sidebar</li>



<li>You might already see some fonts listed in the Fonts section </li>



<li>Click on the Ab icon on the left to the section header. </li>



<li>It opens the Font Manger modal. </li>
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<p>Below is a short video how you can find the Font Manager. </p>



Video: <em>How to find the Font Manager</em>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="3-what-should-you-test">What should you test? </h2>



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<li>You can download font from Google or other free font sites</li>



<li>Upload the fonts via Drag and Drop or selecting the files from your computer</li>



<li>They should land in the wp-contents/fonts folder.<br /> <img width="568" height="326" class="wp-image-25532" src="https://i0.wp.com/gutenbergtimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Screenshot-2023-09-10-at-09.11.37.png?resize=568%2C326&ssl=1" alt="New /fonts folder in wp-content directory" /></li>



<li>See that they show up in the Typography section of the Global Styles when enabling Font Family. </li>



<li>Delete fonts you don&#8217;t need. </li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Where to report issues?</h2>



<p>Report all finding in a comment on the PR on GitHub <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53884">Font Library: Frontend [Stage 1]&nbsp;#53884</a>, or comment below. </p>



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<p><a href="https://wpincludes.me/">WP Includes</a> is a new initiative that launched this week with the goal of improving equal representation of women at global WordPress companies. It was founded by Human Made COO Siobhan McKeown and XWP Director of Engineering Francesca Marano.</p>



<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in WordPress a long time and I&#8217;ve met a lot of talented women but not enough in leadership roles. It&#8217;s time to change that,&#8221; McKeown said.</p>



<p>The website states the founders&#8217; mission in launching the initiative:</p>



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<p>Disappointed by the lack of representation of women in leadership roles at companies in the WordPress ecosystem we’ve decided to do something about it.</p>



<p>We want to drastically increase representation of women in leadership roles at WordPress companies. We will do this by mentoring and supporting women to take the next step in their careers.</p>
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<p>WP Includes is recruiting women leaders who are C-Level or Directors <br />at a WordPress company to volunteer as mentors and build a supportive network of mentees.</p>



<p>The mentorship program lasts five months and calls for mentees/mentors goes out twice a year in September and March. Mentors commit to meet with mentees for a 1:1 on a regular basis and support them in achieving their goals. Mentee applicants are required to be working at a business in the WordPress ecosystem and actively developing their careers.</p>



<p>WP Includes is accepting sponsorships from companies with some rigorous requirements:</p>



<ul>
<li>Acknowledge gender disparity and a lack of representation in your organization, wherever it exists.</li>



<li>Proactively address gender disparity in your leadership and executive roles.</li>



<li>When senior roles become available, actively seek to place women within those roles.</li>



<li>Support women within their career in your organization, working to ensure that any gender-related barriers are removed.</li>



<li>Create opportunities to showcase women leaders in your organisation so that they can act as role models for future leaders.</li>
</ul>



<p>Supporting organizations can also contribute by sharing open roles within the network and by providing mentorship to future leaders who may potentially be considered for leadership roles in the sponsoring organizations. This is effectively changing representation from the inside out with cooperating organizations contributing to the cultivation of the leaders they need in order to purse more diverse leadership teams.</p>



<p>Prospective mentees, mentors, and sponsors can apply on the <a href="https://wpincludes.me/">WP Includes website</a>. </p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Sat, 09 Sep 2023 02:31:25 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:45;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
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<p>These results are more representative of the plugin&#8217;s developer community, as 81% of respondents are developers who maintain between 11-50 websites. 63% use version control for their codebase, and 27% manage dependencies with Composer.</p>



<p>The survey showed that ACF is still an important tool for its early adopters, as 50% said they have been using it since its early days and 70% of all respondents use the plugin on all the websites they build.</p>



<p>When asked what type of sites they are building, respondents had the option to choose multiple answers. Sites using Classic WordPress themes are the most popular followed by Hybrid themes, Block themes, and page builders. Surveying those who use the block editor, 56% report that they build blocks using ACF blocks.</p>



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<p>&#8220;It was cool to see the strong representation of hybrid and block themes,&#8221; WP Engine Product Marketing Manager Rob Stinson said. &#8220;It shows us that there is growing adoption of the modern WP editor experience amongst the PHP friendly crowd that is the ACF user base. </p>



<p>&#8220;We had this scoped for upcoming releases anyway, but it reinforces our focus on improving the block building experience in ACF.&#8221;</p>



<p>Among those ACF users building sites with page builders, the most popular selections include Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and WPBakery Page Builder.  Naturally, ACF Extended is the most popular extension used with ACF, followed by Gravity Forms, Yoast SEO, and ACF Better Search.</p>



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<p>Respondents demonstrated high confidence in those maintaining the plugin, as 98% of them are comfortable updating ACF to the latest version. They are also confident in continuing to build on top of WordPress, as 91% of survey participants said they are likely to continue with the platform. For a more detailed look at the questions and responses, check out the <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/annual-survey/2023-results/">2023 annual survey results</a> on the ACF website.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 08 Sep 2023 17:27:52 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:46;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:101:"Do The Woo Community: WooBits About WordCampUS, WP Includes, WP for Enterprise, Swag and Avalara Next";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:28:"https://dothewoo.io/?p=76427";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:51:"https://dothewoo.io/woobits-newsletter-episode-one/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:440:"<p>In WooBits this week, recapping WCUS, launch of WP Includes, WordPress for Enterprise, future of swag and Avalara Next virtual event.</p>
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";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:90:"WPTavern: Gutenberg 16.6 Introduces Block Hooks, Improvements to Toolbars on Nested Blocks";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=148577";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:100:"https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-16-6-introduces-block-hooks-improvements-to-toolbars-on-nested-blocks";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:3551:"<p><a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/09/06/whats-new-in-gutenberg-16-6-06-september/">Gutenberg 16.6</a> is available with progress on a feature that was formerly called auto-inserting blocks but has now been renamed to block hooks.  </p>



<p>In a previous release (<a href="https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-16-4-introduces-experimental-auto-inserting-blocks">16.4</a>), Gutenberg introduced auto-inserting blocks as an experimental feature that allows plugin developers to specify a location in which the block will be automatically inserted, such as before or after a template. Users can then reposition the blocks after insertion using the editor tools.</p>



<p>Gutenberg lead architect Matias Ventura <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/53987#issuecomment-1695915874">proposed</a> <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/54147">renaming</a> the feature to block hooks to help developers understand how they work. </p>



<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve seen anecdotal feedback that <code>autoInsert</code> is not the clearest of descriptions,&#8221; Ventura said. &#8220;I&#8217;d like to propose renaming to the more familiar <code>hooks</code> terminology—and &#8216;block hooks&#8217; in more general terms—to help folks understand the mechanics and purpose more rapidly.&#8221;</p>



<p>This release also <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/52969">adds an inspector panel for block hooks</a>, tentatively named &#8220;Plugins,&#8221; that displays blocks available for auto-insertion. It includes toggles to insert or remove them. The updated version of the feature also includes block icons (not shown below) to help differentiate the toggles. </p>



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<img width="1443" height="438" src="https://149611589.v2.pressablecdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/block-hooks.gif" alt="" class="wp-image-148604" />image source: <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/52969#issuecomment-1669889491">Gutenberg repository PR #52969</a>



<p>Gutenberg 16.6 brings improvements to toolbars on nested blocks, where the toolbar now stays attached to the parent block. This change is part of a broader effort to improve nested block experiences. Previously, the toolbar would move around when clicking inside the nested blocks, but this change makes it stay in place for a less chaotic editing experience. The updated toolbar behavior has been rolled out to Navigation, List, and Quote blocks so far.</p>



video credit: Gutenberg GitHub repository <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53699">PR #53699</a>



<p>This release includes a new keyboard shortcut for duplicating blocks within the List View: (<code>CMD+Shift+d</code>). It enables users to do more from the keyboard while navigating around the List View, instead of having to jump back into the block settings menu or editor canvas. Users can now click twice on the selected (or focused) block or multiple blocks to quickly duplicate them all in one go.</p>



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video credit: Gutenberg GitHub repository <a href="https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/53559">PR #53559</a>



<p>These highlighted features and more will be landing in the upcoming WordPress 6.4 release. Check out the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/09/06/whats-new-in-gutenberg-16-6-06-september/">Gutenberg 16.6 release post</a> for the full list of new features, enhancements, bug fixes, and improvements to performance and code quality.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Fri, 08 Sep 2023 02:59:03 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:48;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:74:"Do The Woo Community: Woo AgencyChat Live with Mitch Callahan and Ash Shaw";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:28:"https://dothewoo.io/?p=76387";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:73:"https://dothewoo.io/woo-agencychat-live-with-mitch-callahan-and-ash-shaw/";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:406:"<p>From tools they use, a bit of AI, remote work and lots of insights into their teams and their companies.</p>
<p>&gt;&gt; The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://dothewoo.io/woo-agencychat-live-with-mitch-callahan-and-ash-shaw/">Woo AgencyChat Live with Mitch Callahan and Ash Shaw</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://dothewoo.io">Do the Woo - a WooCommerce Builder Community</a>	.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:34:00 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:5:"BobWP";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}i:49;a:6:{s:4:"data";s:13:"
	
	
	
	
	
	
";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";s:5:"child";a:2:{s:0:"";a:5:{s:5:"title";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:44:"WPTavern: GoDaddy Retires Media Temple Brand";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"guid";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:30:"https://wptavern.com/?p=148575";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:4:"link";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:55:"https://wptavern.com/godaddy-retires-media-temple-brand";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:11:"description";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:4655:"<p>Media Temple (MT) is closing its doors after 24 years in the hosting industry, with the brand now retired and customers fully migrated to GoDaddy. In 2013, GoDaddy acquired MT &#8220;to win the hearts and minds of developers,&#8221; as then-CEO Blake Irving told <a href="https://venturebeat.com/business/godaddy-ceo-we-bought-media-temple-to-win-the-hearts-and-minds-of-developers/">VentureBeat</a> at the time. When it was purchased, the highly regarded brand was focusing on advanced technical services that GoDaddy had not yet adapted, and the plan was to have MT operate independently with no changes for employees or customers.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Thanks for allowing us to serve you for 24 years. The time has come to say goodbye. We will miss you. Keep building amazing things!</p>&mdash; Media Temple (@mediatemple) <a href="https://twitter.com/mediatemple/status/1699116917900894315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<p>The year following the acquisition, <a href="https://wptavern.com/mediatemple-launches-wordpress-managed-hosting-package">Media Temple launched its managed WordPress hosting product</a>, joining the ranks of Flywheel, Page.ly, WordPress.com, WP Engine, and a handful of other companies that were working to elevate the hosting experience for WordPress users.</p>



<p>In December 2022, MT <a href="https://origin-blog.mediatemple.net/news/a-new-chapter-for-media-temple/">announced</a> it would be retiring the Media Temple brand and transitioning accounts to GoDaddy, while subtly acknowledging the sentimental place MT holds in many of its customers&#8217; hearts:</p>



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<p>Since joining GoDaddy, we worked hand-in-hand with them to incorporate the best of Media Temple into offerings, including improving GoDaddy’s customer experience and leveraging Media Temple’s unique expertise on what it truly means to run a world-class hosting organization. If you closely examine GoDaddy’s hosting offerings, you will find Media Temple’s fingerprints all around. From specialized teams who deal with complex hosting issues to programs like GoDaddy Pro specifically targeting creatives, Media Temple made its mark on GoDaddy.</p>
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<p>Fans bid the brand farewell on Twitter, as its retirement marks the end of a chapter in web hosting history.</p>



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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Basically the entire design community was sponsored by Media Temple back in the day.<br /><br />I can’t imagine a more omnipresent brand at the time. <a href="https://t.co/mmhdxEIHVy">https://t.co/mmhdxEIHVy</a></p>&mdash; Josh Pigford (@Shpigford) <a href="https://twitter.com/Shpigford/status/1699464913595290066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">When I got started circa 2003, it felt like every respected web designer was hosted by Media Temple.<br /><br />They made being hosted by them feel cooler (really) than anywhere else. Geniuses.<br /><br />I was a (mt) customer from 2007–2020 until <a href="https://twitter.com/laravelforge?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@laravelforge</a> made deploying magnitudes easier. <a href="https://t.co/HyhBxz5PZs">https://t.co/HyhBxz5PZs</a></p>&mdash; Brendan Falkowski (@Falkowski) <a href="https://twitter.com/Falkowski/status/1699543478169112971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Woah. Somehow Media Temple always seemed so cool, the first “aspirational” software in a way, where you’d move when your blog was successful.<br /><br />End of an era. <a href="https://t.co/tJobBqEPQf">https://t.co/tJobBqEPQf</a></p>&mdash; Matthew Guay (@maguay) <a href="https://twitter.com/maguay/status/1699446005568270700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<p>In February 2023, Media Temple began migrating accounts to GoDaddy, with no action required from customers. Many of the products and services were already fulfilled through GoDaddy, decreasing the number needing to be migrated. </p>



<p>Now that the process is complete, the brand will discontinue operations and move current resources into supporting customers inside GoDaddy. The company assured former MT customers that they will retain their current products and pricing for equivalent products with access to more tools.</p>";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}s:7:"pubDate";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:31:"Thu, 07 Sep 2023 03:36:11 +0000";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}s:32:"http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";a:1:{s:7:"creator";a:1:{i:0;a:5:{s:4:"data";s:13:"Sarah Gooding";s:7:"attribs";a:0:{}s:8:"xml_base";s:0:"";s:17:"xml_base_explicit";b:0;s:8:"xml_lang";s:0:"";}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}s:4:"type";i:128;s:7:"headers";O:42:"Requests_Utility_CaseInsensitiveDictionary":1:{s:7:"*data";a:8:{s:6:"server";s:5:"nginx";s:4:"date";s:29:"Wed, 27 Sep 2023 01:15:08 GMT";s:12:"content-type";s:8:"text/xml";s:13:"last-modified";s:29:"Wed, 27 Sep 2023 01:00:29 GMT";s:4:"vary";s:15:"Accept-Encoding";s:15:"x-frame-options";s:10:"SAMEORIGIN";s:16:"content-encoding";s:4:"gzip";s:4:"x-nc";s:9:"HIT ord 2";}}s:5:"build";s:14:"20230908012411";}