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WordPress has signed the Open Weights and American AI Leadership letter, joining more than 270 companies asking US policymakers to avoid early restrictions on downloadable, modifiable AI models.
On a recent WP Tavern podcast, Damon Cook explained how his tool WP Trend Watcher combines AI summarization with human editing to help WordPress professionals keep up with a fast-moving ecosystem.
Strapi co-founder Pierre Burgy argues that websites peak on launch day and then quietly decay, and explains why full automation isn't the fix, but a smarter division of labor between agents and humans is.
A proposed .prefix-* wildcard selector for CSS classes has been formally adopted into the Selectors Level 5 draft, offering a cleaner alternative to verbose substring attribute selectors.
WordPress 7.1 introduces the Icon Registration API, giving developers a supported way to add custom SVG icon collections to the Icon block instead of relying on the default, limited icon set.
WPBeginner's latest tutorial breaks down free, built-in WordPress settings and layered techniques site owners can use to stop comment, form, and registration spam without expensive tools.
A new design analysis argues that most AI features fail not because people reject AI itself, but because poorly integrated AI tools add extra work instead of removing it. For site owners weighing AI plugins and tools, the lesson is about workflow fit, not novelty.
A recent WP Tavern podcast episode digs into how three WordPress education initiatives, the Credits Program, Campus Connect, and Student Clubs, are working together to bring new contributors into the project.
A deep dive from CSS-Tricks maps out how modern CSS pseudo-classes like :focus-visible, :has(), and :user-invalid now handle logic that used to require JavaScript, with new media element states on the way.
Smashing Magazine's long-running community wallpaper series returns with a batch of free, summer-themed desktop backgrounds contributed by designers around the world.
