Facebook and Instagram embeds to be deprecated October 24th

9/24/2020: Updated the post to reflect that the oembed_cache post type is only used for caching oEmbeds used within widgetWidget A WordPress Widget is a small block that performs a specific function. You can add these widgets in sidebars also known as widget-ready areas on your web page. WordPress widgets were originally created to provide […]

Embeds Changes in WordPress 4.5

After the introduction of the embeds feature in WordPress 4.4 there have been a few significant changes in 4.5 to make embeds more robust and easier to customize. 🎉 Embed Code Adjustments Tickets: #35804, #35894 There were two minor changes to the <iframe> embed code: The iframeiframe iFrame is an acronym for an inline frame. An iFrame is […]

New Embeds Feature in WordPress 4.4

WordPress has been operating as an oEmbed consumer for quite some time now, allowing users to easily embed content from other sites. Starting with version 4.4, WordPress becomes an oEmbed provider as well, allowing any oEmbed consumer to embed posts from WordPress sites.

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A Week in Core – January 22, 2024

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between January 15 and January […]

Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2024 Edition

Nominations for the WordPress Core Team Reps: 2024 Edition

What’s new in Gutenberg 17.1 (22 November)

“What’s new in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg […]

Proposal: An update to the Field Guide

This proposal comes out of an ad-hoc session at the WordPress Community Summit. This session grew out of discussions during the session on backward compatibility in GutenbergGutenberg The Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It […]

Two Weeks in Core – August 14, 2023

Welcome back to a new issue of Week in CoreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Let’s take a look at what changed on TracTrac An open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress. between July 31 and August […]

WordPress 6.3 Field Guide

This guide shares more of the in-depth changes that you will find in 6.3 and is published with Release Candidaterelease candidate One of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). 1 to help inform WordPress developers, extenders, […]