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WordPress 6.5 Adds AVIF Support
WordPress 6.5 supports AVIF, a modern image format that offers significant improvements in image quality and compression over previous formats like JPEG, PNG, and even WebP. AVIF images can be up to 50% smaller than JPEGs while maintaining the same image quality. AVIF images also support a wide range of colors (including HDR) and produce sharper images than JPEGs, especially in areas with high detail.
How WordPress Became a Global Powerhouse
Today, WordPress is the web builder behind 42% of all websites, including websites for well-known brands like the New York Times, Forbes, and Samsung. But this success didn’t happen overnight. The process of building, refining, and developing a platform that anyone can successfully use took time, and here you’ll find the story that got WordPress to where it is today.
Introducing the WordPress Core Trac Sustainability Focus
One component of the WordPress Sustainability Team’s effort is to improve the sustainability of our codebase, which led to the creation of a Sustainability Focus on the WordPress core Trac bug tracker. For this post, the emphasis is on sustainable or “green” coding which focuses on minimizing the environmental impact of software development and execution.
