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WordPress 5.0 RC 1 Released, Gutenberg Passes 1 Million Installations
WordPress 5.0 RC 1 was released over the weekend after a string of five betas that began in late October. According to the Gutenberg stats page, more than 1.1 million sites have the Gutenberg plugin installed and users have written more than 980,000 posts using the new editor. These numbers are conservative estimates, as the numbers only include WordPress.com sites and sites running Jetpack.
Drupal 8.7 to Introduce Layout Builder, Contributors Face Accessibility Challenges
Drupal has traditionally appealed to a more technical audience, and probably wouldn’t count Squarespace, Wix, and Tumblr among their competitors, but the project is getting more friendly towards site builders and content editors. The project is currently testing a visual design tool for building layouts.
The Colorful History of WooCommerce
WooCommerce is the biggest, baddest, most popular e-commerce plugin for WordPress, which, by extension, also makes it the most popular e-commerce platform of them all.
But how did the journey begin? Was WooCommerce always the top dog right from day one?
