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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- Faster WooCommerce… WooCommerce 9.9 Beta is now available, and the final release is scheduled for June 2, 2025. Woocommerce 9.9 promises up to 95% reductions in page load times across the critical admin screen. This has been made possible with smarter caching, asynchronous data loading, and leaner database queries.
- Customize Studio Environment… the free local development tool, Studio by WordPress .com, now allows you to customize your work environment. 1.5.1v has introduced settings for your preferred code editor and terminal application chosen directly in the Studio.
- New Blocks Addon… the team at Elicus has released a free WPMozo Blocks and Addons plugin. It includes various blocks like Before After Slider, Content Toggle, Fancy Heading, Flip Box, and more.
- CloudFest USA… November 05, 2025, will be WP Day at the CloudFest USA event. Grab your ticket for this event happening in Miami, Florida – use code WPWEEKLY20 for 20% off your ticket. The WP Weekly is a proud media partner for this event.
New Features: Gravity, AB Split Test, Ollie Pro, & Divi
Gravity Forms… 2.9.8v has added a setting to disable the dashboard widget and updated the default honeypot action from “Do not create an entry” to “Create an entry and mark it as spam”.
Faster AB Split Test… the latest update (1.9.4 and 1.9.5) of AB Split Test promises a huge speed boost. You can expect page speed scores to jump and pages to load 300-500ms faster.
Ollie Pro Big Update… 2.0v of Ollie Pro brings a completely revamped dashboard and three new site building tools: the setup wizard, starter sites, and a child theme creator.
Divi 5 Attribute Management… Divi users can now selectively or collectively copy, paste, and reset attributes across elements with the Attribute Management system within the builder.
SEO Focus: FluentCommunity & Schema Pro
FluentCommunity + SEO… 1.6.0v focuses on built-in SEO and structured data, making FluentCommunity compatible with search engines and supporting Google’s recommended SEO schema for forums / Discussions.
Schema for Vehicle Listing… Schema Pro has added a markup schema for vehicle listing display and enables search engines to better understand the key information about your vehicles, like the make, model, price, mileage, and more.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- WooCommerce + Square…. WooCommerce has announced Square as its preferred point-of-sale solution for in-person payments, handling online-to-offline commerce for over 4 million online stores globally. This partnership would enable seamless inventory, order, and customer data sync across digital and physical retail environments.
- Relaunch of Acquired Plugin… in January 2025, Anil Agarwal acquired (LinkedIn) WP Coupons, which was created by Brian Jackson (former CMO of Kinsta) and his brother Brett. WP Coupons plugin has been relaunched as a free version – promising a clean, fast, SEO-friendly plugin built by affiliates, for affiliates.
- WP Speakers Acquired… Post Status has acquired WP Speakers project from Michelle Frechette, moving the individual ownership to the Post Status non-profit. WP Speakers features a free database of speakers available for WordPress meetups, WordCamps, podcasts, blogging, and other events.
- Crocoblock Celebrates… Crocoblock is celebrating 7 years in the WordPress space with over 100K+ websites, 1500+ plugin releases, and millions of users worldwide. “Today, we’re not just celebrating numbers – we’re celebrating the people, the journey, and the impact Crocoblock has had on the web creation world”.
- WP Plugin Milestones… Brad Williams shared (Links X) about the Custom Post Type UI plugin clocking huge 20 million lifetime downloads milestone. While Backuply has achieved a big milestone, crossing the 500K active installs on WordPress.
Quick Bits 👍
- The team at Brizy is launching Brizy Shops, waitlist is now open.
- Patchstack ranked 52nd as the fastest growing European startup.
- WP Engine has won TITAN Award for the Customer Service team.
- WordCamp Asia 2026: Call for Organizers close on May 31, 2025.
- WordCamp Europe 2025: Contributor Day registration is open.
- Let’s Learn
- Using WP Bulk Plugin Updater to automate WP Plugin Updates.
- Behind the scenes: How Automattic designers iterate on UI copy.
- WordPress People
- Lisa Sabin-Wilson step down from WebDevStudios COO position.
- Maciek Palmowski is now mVDP Growth Manager at Patchstack.
- Weston Ruter 10 yrs as Core Committer, and laid off from Google.
Business of WP: Funding, Migration, & Branding
WP Startup €615K Funding…. Modular DS, a Spanish startup that provides a platform for managing WordPress websites, has raised €615,000 in seed funding to expand its presence in international markets and for product development.
Foundation + Newspack… Foundation, a CMS provider of publications for nearly 30 years, is joining Newspack, an Automattic product, and will migrate Foundation customers for free, and they can join Newspack at no additional cost.
New Fueled Branding… in 2023, Fueled and 10up joined hands, and now a fresh branding has been unveiled. Moving forward, Fueled will be the main brand, and 10up brand will be Fueled’s expert WordPress practice.
Report: The State of SEO in 2025
Glen Allsopp has shared 34 insights on the findings of The State of SEO in 2025 report. Goliath brands still dominate most industries and site types. A website like Wikipedia has seen stable traffic over the past ten years.
AI has impacted every industry, including search. Also, the observation was that AI provided better and more specific answers than Google search.
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