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Never Miss Anything in WordPress: The Ultimate Guide
Our goal is simple: make sure you never miss out on anything that is relevant to you in the WordPress space—without information overload.
Track Themes & Plugins
We’ve developed tailored solutions that alert you about your favorite themes and plugins. Click on “Configure” on those pages to see all the options.
You can also get alerted when new plugins that match your criteria enter the WordPress repository.
If you provide themes or plugins, you can also track their rankings in the WordPress repository.
Track Official WordPress Updates
Get updates directly from the horse’s mouth by following the WordPress News feed.
On that page, you can also narrow down the types of news you want to receive. Click on “Follow” and, for example, use the tag filter to get alerted only about new WordPress releases if that’s what you’re interested in.
If you’re a developer, also follow the official WordPress Developer Blog.
As with all feeds, you can choose how you want to receive the updates: by email, RSS, Telegram, the follow.it mobile app, Slack, Discord, and many more channels coming soon.
There’s much more you can track on WordPress.org:
- Support forums: Add /feed to the support forum URL of any plugin or theme, e.g. https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/backup-backup/feed, and paste the resulting URL into the feed directory search field.
- Make WordPress Teams: Here again, just add /feed to the team URL (e.g. https://make.wordpress.org/docs/feed) and paste it into the feed directory search field.
- WordPress Trac Feed: Make sure to use the keyword filter, or you may quickly run into information overload.
Follow WordPress News & Blogs
To stay close to the action, follow WordPress-focused news sources like WP Tavern and The Repository.
If you work professionally with WordPress, follow The WP Minute, Post Status, and The WP Weekly.
For an even broader overview, WordPress Planet aggregates posts from WordPress blogs around the web.
For plugin and theme creators, Freemius publishes useful industry insights and data.
For an insider perspective, follow Matt Mullenweg’s personal blog and Joost de Valk’s blog.
And if WordPress makes the news beyond the WordPress ecosystem, it’s probably worth knowing about. Follow WordPress mentions on major tech publications such as TechCrunch or Ars Technica.
Finally, keep an ear on the community itself by following WordPress discussions on Reddit.
Security & Vulnerabilities
The main authorities on vulnerabilities in the WordPress ecosystem are Wordfence, Patchstack, and WPScan. However, none of them offers a feed that lets you select exactly which vulnerabilities you want to hear about, so staying informed can quickly lead to information overload.
We’re currently working on a feed to fill this gap. Get alerted when it goes live.
WordPress Events
WordPress’ list of official events (WordCamps, WordPress Meetups, etc.) offers no alert functionality. In such cases, you can use our Website Changes Tracker—for example, specify that you want to get notified when your city appears on the page.
Many independent WordPress events appear on Meetup.com, which offers an RSS feed you can use on follow.it. Search for a WordPress group in your area, switch to the Events tab, add /rss to the URL (e.g. https://www.meetup.com/berlin-wordpress-meetup/events/rss), and paste it into the feed directory search field.
More WordPress Updates
We also offer a feed to stay up to date on mergers & acquisitions in the WordPress space. It’s an “Open Feed,” which means anyone can submit updates that are then quality-checked by an admin before being sent to followers.
Never Miss Anything Else
Beyond feeds specifically for WordPress, we also offer feeds for when your website goes offline, a domain expires, and much more.
While most of these feeds can be followed at least once for free, the real fun starts when you use their premium features or follow them multiple times. We’re thinking about offering a lifetime membership for readers on AppSumo soon. If you think we should—and if you’d be interested—please let us know.
One final point: we’re constantly improving follow.it. If you have ideas for other feeds, find bugs, or have any other feedback, we’d love to hear about it. Our vision is to make follow.it the standard platform you go to when you don’t want to miss out on anything you care about—without information overload.