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Openverse Audio Catalog Passes 800,000 Files, Audio Support Now Out of Beta
Openverse, which was formerly known as Creative Commons Search before it joined the WordPress project, has passed an important milestone with its newly added support for audio files. The catalog has now indexed more than 800,000 audio files from across the internet and its development team has now taken audio support out of the beta phase. Visitors to…
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Twenty Twenty-Two theme is the first of the block theme era to be tagged accessibility-ready
After an amazing seven-month long effort across multiple contributor teams at WordPress, the Twenty Twenty-Two (also known as TT2) default theme will be tagged as “Accessibility-Ready” when WordPress 6.1 ships this coming November. It is the first block theme to meet the requirements for gaining this wonderful distinction for accessibility. During its development the theme was also…
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WebP by Default Pulled from Upcoming WordPress 6.1 Release
Last month, the plan was for WordPress to generate WebP images by default for new JPEG image uploads and that was put on hold for the upcoming WordPress 6.1 release after objections from lead developers. The original proposal had been merged into core at the end of July, despite significant feedback and concerns from WordPress’ developer community objecting…