If you need a little push to start writing this winter, in the comfort of your familiar editor, here it is! You can now use the Block Editor to create electronic books and other documents—all completely offline. What a full circle moment for Gutenberg!

Plugin Check Goals & Roadmap

Plugin Check, a multi-team effort within the WordPress project, is designed to allow plugin authors to check the plugins they develop to cat

Make WordPress Plugins

Plugin Check, a multi-team effort within the WordPress project, is designed to allow plugin authors to check the plugins they develop to catch and self-service commonly found issues seen in plugin initial submissions and re-reviews for WordPress Plugin Directory Guideline violations, security issues, and plugin development best practices.

State of the Word is the annual keynote address celebrating the progress of the open source WordPress project and offering a glimpse into its future.

The Photos Directory gets a refresh and is now powered by blocks

Over the past month and a half, the Meta and Design teams have been working on a new look for the Photos Directory. This visual refresh is p

Make WordPress.org

Now that the new Photos Directory theme is live on WordPress.org, take a look around and perhaps consider contributing a few photos of your own. At the time of writing, the directory is getting close to 20,000 photos! 

WordPress photos by James Huff

Support Team member at WordPress, GIF maker on Tumblr, Trumpet in Polyhedra, and general doer of things at place. (he/him)

WordPress Photo Directory

The WordPress Speed Build Challenge is a fun live streamed event, hosted on my YouTube channel, where two people battle it out against the clock and each other to replicate a website design in just 30 minutes.

Introducing WordPress.com’s Hardened DDoS Protection Setting

WordPress.com offers a defensive mode to combat spam and DDoS attacks, enhancing site security through proof-of-work challenges for legitima

WordPress.com News

WordPress.com’s defensive mode introduces sophisticated DDoS protection that further enhances your site’s security. It works by issuing proof-of-work challenges to browsers visiting the site. Legitimate users will briefly see a challenge page while their browser completes the work before accessing the site. The feature is powered by our global edge network, but it can still be enabled independently of our global edge cache feature.

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WordPress.com News

Until December 2nd, save 25% on the first year of any new annual hosting plan from WordPress.com.

Perfect for beginners, this video shows you just how quick and easy it is to build a professional-looking WordPress website. Whether you're creating a personal blog or a business site, you'll have the basics up and running in no time.