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Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away brand new freebies. This time around we’re building upon the Creative CV Layout Pack with a brand new Category Page Template that matches the rest of pack perfectly. Hope you enjoy it! …

The WordPress Spotify embed block lets you add all sorts of musical goodies to your WordPress posts and pages. You can embed albums, playlists, podcasts or tracks, and anyone will be able to listen to them when visiting your site. They’ll hear a 30-second preview before being prompted to take the next step, like logging …

Before the release of WordPress 5.0 in 2018, the Classic Editor plugin was published to help ease the transition to the new block editor. At the time, we promised to support the plugin through 2021 and adjust if needed as the deadline got closer. After discussing this with Matt, it’s clear that continuing to support …
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Last week, I reached out to several members of the core WordPress committers to see if we could get an … Continue reading WordPress Classic Editor Support Extended for at Least Another Year →

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away brand new freebies. Recently, we shared a brand new Golf Lessons Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global header & …

On August 13, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed two vulnerabilities in Nested Pages, a WordPress plugin installed on over 80,000 sites that provides drag and drop functionality to manage your page structure and post ordering. These vulnerabilities included a Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerability that allowed posts and pages to be deleted, unpublished …Read More

A decade ago, keywords were the biggest and best way to boost your website’s search rankings. You could make sure that search engines knew what your content was about by simply using the same phrases (or similar phrases) over and over again. Times have changed, and Google now prioritizes the user’s experience on your site …

Are you encountering the “Upload: Failed to write file to disk” error message when uploading files in WordPress? Whether you’re trying to add images or videos to your site, this message can be very frustrating, as it prevents you from sharing your amazing visuals with your audience. Fortunately, you can troubleshoot this issue by following …

Google announced today that it has completed its rollout of the link spam update, which was started a month ago. … Continue reading Google Search Completes Rollout of Link Spam Update →

If there was a question that ever made me start feeling old, it might be this one. Last week, Marcel … Continue reading Why Did You Start Using WordPress? →

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Divi is not just any page builder. Divi takes the design process to a whole new level with a complete web design system that allows you to design every part of your website visually. But that doesn’t mean Divi has to be slow. Far from it. Divi’s built-in speed and performance optimization features can easily put …

WPML 4.5 development continues with a second beta released today. This beta clears up some issues in the first beta and sets the stage for the production release and price increase, both planned for September. We have been working hard on WPML 4.5, which includes several major new features, including Translate Everything. Translate Everything allows …

On July 30, 2021 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability that we discovered in Booster for WooCommerce, a WordPress plugin installed on over 80,000 sites. This flaw made it possible for an attacker to log in as any user, as long as certain options were enabled in the …Read More

Speed Index (SI) is an interesting metric when considering page speed. It is absolutely an indication of your page’s performance, but it is completely different from other user-centric metrics such as First Contentful Paint and Largest Contentful Paint. SI indicates how quickly your site loads above the fold. Or to put it another way, when …

Last week, a GitHub pull request I had been watching since October 2020 on the Gutenberg repository was finally merged … Continue reading Gallery Block Refactor Expected To Land in WordPress 5.9 →

Hey Divi Nation! Thanks for joining us for the next installment of our weekly Divi Design Initiative where each week, we give away brand new, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. This time around, Kenny and his team have created a beautiful Immigration Lawyer Layout Pack that’ll help you get your …

If you want to optimize your site’s speed and performance, it’s important to know what key metrics to pay attention to. For example, Time to First Byte (TTFB) measures the amount of time it takes for a user’s browser to receive the first “byte” of data from your website’s server. Not to render it or …

It goes without saying that speed is one of the most important things to keep an eye on when building a website using any tool of your choice. At Elegant Themes, we’ve prioritized making speed something that sets us apart from all the other WordPress themes and/or builders out there. In our recent performance update, …

Picture this: you’re loading a website, and it looks ready to go. You click on a blog featured image to read the article, and suddenly the whole page shifts because something else just loaded. And you click on something entirely different and load a page you never intended. If you’ve experienced this problem yourself, you …

With Divi’s new performance update come a ton of possibilities to increase page speed scores. Today, we’re sharing some practical tips and tricks that you should keep in mind when building a Divi page from scratch. These are recommendations, not rules that are set in stone. It’ll always come down to the main objectives of …

Delivering a speedy experience to visitors is critical to your site’s success. However, there are multiple ways to gauge how well it does that. One of them is First Input Delay (FID), which measures the amount of time in milliseconds (ms) between when a user first interacts with your site and when their browser responds …

I am a writer. That gives me a license — not to be overused — to steer into hyperbole once … Continue reading WordPress Contributors Actually Do Listen to Feedback and Engage With the Community →

WordCamp US 2021 will be held online this year on October 1. The free, one-day event will be packed with … Continue reading Get Your Free Tickets to WordCamp US Online 2021 →

Jeremy Keith, a web developer and contributor to the web standards movement, has resigned from the AMP Advisory Committee. Keith … Continue reading Jeremy Keith Resigns from AMP Advisory Committee: “It Has Become Clear to Me that AMP Remains a Google Product” →

The new version of Divi eliminates bloat and gives you the best of both worlds: the power of an expansive page builder with the nimbleness of a lightweight theme. Divi’s new anti-bloat features will boost the speed of your Divi websites in a powerful way. These features are just a portion of Divi’s huge performance …

Every web page is made up of dozens or hundreds of elements. Among them you’ll find text, images, buttons, widgets, and much more. Each element varies in size, and the largest ones call tell you a lot about how well optimized your website is using a metric called Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). In this article, …

WPMRR is gearing up for its second annual WPMRR Virtual Summit after the success of last year’s event. This year’s … Continue reading Second Annual WPMRR Virtual Summit To Kick Off September 21 →