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WordPress Widgets & Sidebars: Everything You Need to Know

Possibly WordPress’s strongest selling point is how customizable it is, even for beginners. Of course, you still have to understand the platform’s fundamental features if you want to get the most out of your site. Learning how sidebars and Widgets function is an excellent first step. WordPress Widgets are handy little modules that enable you …

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Wordfence 7.7.0 Is Out! Here Are The Changes

Wordfence 7.7.0 has just been released and as usual, it includes several awesome enhancements and updates for our security conscious WordPress publishers and e-commerce websites. This post goes into a little more detail on each change we’ve included. We don’t usually post additional detail like this, and we thought we’d give it a try, and …Read More

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Get a Free Web Developer Layout Pack for Divi

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new Layout Pack for Divi. This time around, the design team has created a beautiful Web Developer Layout Pack that’ll help you get your next Web Developer website up and …

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How to Install WooCommerce on Your WordPress Website

If you’re planning on using WordPress to create an online store, you’ll strongly want to consider installing WooCommerce. This plugin has become the de facto e-commerce solution for WordPress sites, thanks to its flexibility and a wide variety of customization options. However, given its wealth of features, it can be daunting to get started. Fortunately, …

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Divi Plugin Highlight: Divi ConKit Pro

Divi ConKit Pro is a plugin that brings 36 new modules to the Divi Builder and 4 other extensions that add new functionality and customizability to your website. If you’re looking for a feature-packed plugin that completely integrates with Divi and brings you modules such as Instagram feed, timeline, animated text, and flipbox, and gives …

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WordCamp US 2022 Recap

Three weeks ago, Elegant Themes attended WordCamp US. This WordCamp was highly anticipated as it’s been almost three years since its last inception (thank you, pandemic). WCUS finally went west and was held in San Diego proper at the Town & Country resort in Hotel Circle. At roughly 650+ attendees, this was the smallest WordCamp …

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15+ Best Free WordPress Plugins for Business Websites

WordPress is undoubtedly impressive, but where it shines is as a content management system. For websites that have to go beyond being blog-centric, you may find that out-of-the-box WordPress is lacking. But, there’s no need to switch site builders. With the best free WordPress plugins for business websites, you can create a full-blown business website …

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How to Use Bootstrap in WordPress: A Beginner’s Guide

WordPress and Bootstrap are both popular platforms for web design that aren’t often considered as compatible. Bootstrap has grown to be a favorite CSS platform for developers because it makes it easy to build responsive websites. In fact, more than 70% of websites on the internet are designed with it. You can code anything you’d …

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50 of the Best Topics for Bloggers You Can Write About This Year

If you’re thinking of starting a blog, you’re probably wondering which are the best topics for bloggers. Before you take the first steps, you should know that there are already 600 million+ blogs on the internet 1. To stand out in this crowd, it’s necessary to pick a topic that’s unique, targets a niche audience and is in line with current trends.

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Let’s talk about us, BuddyPress!

First, the facts. After reaching a result of ~245k WordPress sites using actively BuddyPress at the end of 2019, the “active installations” statistic (the one which is displayed in the sidebar of our plugin’s page on the official WordPress Plugin Directory), has been decreasing progressively and recently fell just below 200k. As the Plugin directory …

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WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 Now Available

WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing.
This version of the WordPress software is under development. Please do not install, run, or test this version of WordPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it is recommended that you test Beta 2 on a test server and site.

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How to Style Your Fullwidth Header Module’s Background

Divi’s Fullwidth Header module makes it easy to design a stunning hero section for your website in just minutes. A hero section is the very first section of your website that your visitors will see, so you’ll want it to be branded, informative, and compelling. Thankfully, the Divi Fullwidth Header comes packed with content options: …

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WPML 4.5.11 – Security Patch Update

Today, we released WPML 4.5.11, an important security update for a recently discovered issue. Recently, we were notified of an issue that allows unauthorized access to some WPML internal calls. It’s important to note that this vulnerability is only accessible to registered site users, not just any site visitor. However, we always recommend updating to …

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Get a Free Whiskey Distillery Layout Pack for Divi

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative; where each week, we give away a brand new Layout Pack for Divi. This time around, the design team has created a beautiful Whiskey Distillery Layout Pack that’ll help you get your next Whiskey Distillery website up and …

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WordPress Posts: Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Posts are one of the two main content types in WordPress, so it’s crucial to understand how they work. Along with pages, posts are your primary vehicle for creating content and sharing it with your visitors. This holds true even if you aren’t building a blog. In this beginner’s guide, we’ll explain what WordPress posts …

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How to Use a Dynamic Logo in Divi’s Fullwidth Menu Module

Changing website logos can be a time-consuming process. This is especially true if the website uses different headers for different templates. If you use an image for each one of those headers, you’ll have to manually get in there and change each one of them. Fortunately, Divi can display your website’s logo dynamically, saving you …