Want to buy a domain name for 100 years? Have you been curious about real websites made with the Block Editor (and look really good!)? Besides those answers, many new plugin releases and product updates. Plus, WordPress folks meet this week at the WordCamp Asia 2025 event in Manila.
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- Domain for 100 Years… WordPress .com has expanded the 100 Year offering with a domain only plan. You can register a domain name for 100 years (a century!) for one time price of $2,000. If you want domain with website hosting for 100 years, then price is $38,000.
- Beautiful Block Websites… Diane and Yann Collet have created an amazing website design inspiration resource at WP Gallery that showcase websites made with the (Gutenberg) Block Editor. A lot of good looking websites out there for inspiration.
- SnapWP is Public… the headless WordPress solution from rtCamp, SnapWP is now publicly accessible on GitHub. It promises simpler setup, support for Core Blocks, and example starter preconfigured for Typescript, GraphQL Codegen, Prettier and ESLint.
- GenerateBlocks… the much awaited 2.0v of GenerateBlocks is now available. This brings new Global Styles feature and dynamic tags to display dynamic content anywhere inside block HTML code.
New Plugins For: Polylang, WooCommerce, & EDD
New Gato Plugins… Leonardo Losoviz has launched the new Gato Plugins venture, and has released first plugin Gato Multilingual for Polylang which automatically translates your WordPress website content. It works with Polylang, and integrates with multiple translation APIs: DeepL, Google Translate, and ChatGPT.
Email Designer for Woo… Robert DeVore has released a free Email Designer for WooCommerce plugin. It is an experimental plugin that allows block-based email customization for WooCommerce. Like you can customize Woo ‘s default emails to create custom layouts.
EDD Changelog Display… Jack Arturo of WP Fusion has released a free plugin that adds a beautiful changelog display shortcode for Easy Digital Downloads products. It automatically adds visual badges for New, Improved, Fixed, and Dev changes.
More Plugins: Gravity AI, EchoDash, Fluent Customizer
Gravity Forms AI… Tom Whitaker has launched Gravity Builder AI add-on for Gravity Forms, which allows users to generate and edit forms from a prompt or by uploading a document example.
EchoDash… event tracking and analytics platform, EchoDash has released the EchoDash plugin in the repository allowing you to easily connect your WordPress website with this service.
Fluent Community Customizer… Spencer at WP Launchify has released a new Fluent Community Customizer plugin that allows you complete control over the layout, design, and integration.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- WordPress in 2025… Noel Tock has published WordPress in 2025 report, explaining why WordPress should be a cornerstone of your long-term strategy. It also covers long open source, AI, Headless WP, and looking ahead in 2025.
- Update WordPress… a short-cycle release, WordPress 6.7.2 Maintenance Release is now available for update. This includes 35 bug fixes that address issues for various multiple components of the block editor, HTML API, and Customize.
- WPGraphQL… 2.0v has dropped support for PHP below 7.4 and WordPress below 6.0 version. This update also includes recently introduced features like new extensions page, new CLI arguments, new fields on EnqueuedAsset and EnqueuedScript.
- Core Team Reps for 2025… Francesca Marano (Head of Partnership at Patchstack) and Jb Audras (CTO of Whodunit) have agreed to serve as Core Team Reps for 2025 with Benjamin Zekavica joining in a mentorship role.
- Acquisition Train… the team at Cool Plugins has acquired two Elementor form addons from Eduardo Villão, an independent Brazilian developer. Form Input Masks for Elementor Form with 10,000+ active installs and Extensions for Elementor Form with 20,000+ installs (will be rebranded to Cool FormKit Lite).
- WP Milestone… Tutor LMS is celebrating the 6,000+ subscribers milestone on its YouTube Channel. The SpeedyCache plugin has crossed 300,000 active installs milestone in the repository.
Updates: SMTP2GO, Forms, WPML, WP Bakery, xCloud
SMTP2GO Integration… SMTP2GO is a popular transactional email service. SureMails 1.0.0v has added SMTP2GO integration for email delivery via this service. FluentSMTP plugin also added SMTP2GO integration recently.
Conversational Forms… SureForms 1.4.0v has introduced Conversational Forms feature, which allows you to create step by step forms that are more engaging and easy for users to submit information.
WPML… 4.7v makes it easy to translate the entire website from the newly revamped Translation Dashboard feature. They have also simplified how you translate texts (strings) that are outside regular content, like those from plugins and themes.
WP Bakery… 8.2v ha added post type settings in the front-end editor, meaning you no longer need to switch between the back-end and front-end when editing pages, posts, or custom post types.
xCloud Features… 1.6.7 release has added Object Cache Pro integration allowing faster page loads, and reduced database queries. It has also added Google Cloud Storage as a new storage provider for backing up websites.
Quick Bits 👍
- All new Rapyd CDN launched for Rapyd Cloud hosting users.
- Cool Plugins gets a new look logo (Links X) design branding.
- Bookmark: The ultimate block list to stop AI bots by Jeff Starr.
- Check the WordPress developers recap for February 2025.
- Communication to test new WooCommerce features, feedback!
- WebDevStudios team love Block Editor, ‘Slowly, it gained favor’.
- WordPress Biz & More
- Human Made is the new WordPress VIP Gold Agency Partner.
- BigScoots joined new web hosting and cloud industry alliance.
- Ongoing: WordPress Trademark extension has been rejected.
- WordPress People
- Brian Coords joins Developer Advocate role at WooCommerce.
- Brian Gardner’s open letter on minimalism, focus on essential.
- Rich Tabor cloned his voice to create an ai voice support agent.
WordCamp Asia 2025 – This Week!
Get Ready… for WordCamp Asia 2025 with this handy recap of important things you need to know. Like exclusive Airport fast track lane, dress code requirements, shuttle service to the venue, and the mandatory eTravel registration.
Event at WordCamp Asia… the Patchstack team is organizing Capture The Flag event for WordCamp Asia 2025, winners of this challenge (Links X) can grab prizes of $1200, $900, $600, and more.
More Side Events… check the side events page for information on participating in side events organized by various companies like Google, Omnisend, Woo, Elementor, Hostinger, and more.
Local Representation… Lawrence Ladomery at WPBiz Dev noted that the local speaker representation at the upcoming WordCamp Asia 2025 has dropped by 2% when compared to 2024 edition.
Early… This WPWeekly issue was published one day early as I am leaving for Manila to attend WordCamp Asia 2025. If you are attending – Let’s Connect!
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