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How to Transform Still Images Into Live Videos for Free With the Latest AI Tools

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How to Transform Still Images Into Live VideosThe latest advancements in AI art have taken over the internet. It seems like many people are enjoying the ability to instantly make their vision come to life. One thing that hasn’t gotten as much attention is that you can take AI-generated images (or any images for that matter) and transform them into videos. In this quick guide, I’m going to show you just how you can do it.

WordPress Shifts to Only One Major Release in 2025: What to Expect

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During the last week of March, nearly 30 WordPress core committers, project leaders, and team members gathered to discuss WordPress’ release schedule. According to the meeting notes, the conversation was prompted by organizations reducing their contribution hours to the WordPress project. Ultimately, project leadership decided that WordPress 6.8 will be the only major release of 2025. In this post, we’ll talk about what the implications of this are for your site(s) and how you can stay up to date in this new once-per-year world.

Automattic Lays Off 281 People Across 90 Countries: The Web Reacts

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On Tuesday, Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg sent ripples throughout the WordPress community with a blog post announcing the layoff of 281 employees – representing 16% of Automattic’s workforce. Employees were first notified via internal message before the news was made public later in the day on Automattic’s website. While acknowledging continued revenue growth, he cited… Read More »Automattic Lays Off 281 People Across 90 Countries: The Web Reacts

How to Add Search to a Static WordPress Site for Free Using Lunr

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If you have a static WordPress site or you’re strongly considering launching one, then you’re probably already aware of its default limitations. One of the big ones is the inability to add a search function to your site. But with a little bit of creative thinking, you can use a free, open-source JavaScript library called Lunr (along with a few other tools) to get around that problem and build one anyway. Here’s how…

How to Launch and Maintain a WordPress Site for Only $10.44 a Year (Domain + Hosting Included)

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I know what you’re probably thinking – there’s a catch. Well, there IS. But it’s not some special promo rate or a first-year deal. The catch is that this solution requires more effort to pull off compared to signing up for a shared hosting plan with pre-installed WordPress. What I’m going to teach you is how to build a WordPress site on your computer using Local by Flywheel. Then you’re going to convert that site to a static version, deploy it Cloudflare Pages, and maintain it using GitHub and some code. It’s ambitious, but worth it.