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Even though WordPress is a full-fledged content management system (CMS), its most fundamental feature is creating Posts. You can create Posts for blog content, or you can create them for WooCommerce products. You can even make custom post types that function as everything from calendar events, portfolio entries, forum discussions, and nearly anything else you …

The Creative Commons search engine will soon be part of WordPress.org, as Automattic will begin sponsoring several members of the … Continue reading Creative Commons Search to Relaunch on WordPress.org →

The second major release of the year is right around the corner. You might have heard a bit of buzz about full site editing around your WordPress circles, so this post will give you some big picture things to know as well as a few wayfinding links for anyone who wants to know more. For …

No matter what you book — accommodations, classes, or sessions — you can sell out with the right marketing. Thirteen proven tips to grow fast!

WordPress theme development company Themix released its third free theme to the official directory this week. Churel is described as … Continue reading Churel Is a Colorful and Minimalist Block-Ready WordPress Theme →

If you’re building your header inside Divi, there are quite a few ways to go about it. As a matter of fact, you can get an overview on header types and tutorials here. Now, in today’s tutorial, we’re adding another option to your list. We’ll show you how to add a hamburger icon toggle to …

Almost every WordPress site that does more than display basic information about a business is dynamic. When you build dynamic websites, you create each piece of information once and display it in different parts of the website. For example, let’s say you’re building a website for a network of gyms. You need to show different …

The WordPress dashboard is both incredibly simple and incredibly complex at the same time. When users first log into the dashboard, not only does a splash screen of informational widgets potentially overwhelm them, a sidebar on the left-hand side of the screen gives them all the options and features for their site without any explanation …

Now that COVID-19 vaccinations are becoming more widespread, many hope that in-person WordCamps can once again be a reality. There … Continue reading Will We See In-Person WordCamps in 2021? An Open Discussion on a Path Forward →

Last week WordPress contributors began a heated discussion regarding blocking FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts). Google’s experimental alternative to third-party … Continue reading FLoC Blocking Discussion Continues on WordPress Trac →

On March 5, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team wrapped up an investigation that led to the discovery of a privilege escalation vulnerability along with several additional vulnerabilities in Store Locator Plus, a WordPress plugin installed on over 9,000 sites. We initially reached out to the plugin’s developer on March 5, 2021. We received no …Read More

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 Produce Box Layout Pack that’ll help you get your …

Introducing a new glue plugin – WPML SEO! It includes existing compatibility with Yoast SEO and new integration with the Rank Math plugin. We also plan on adding more support for SEO plugins in the future. Once you’ve translated your site, a natural next step is to optimize those translated pages for search engines. Here’s …

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. In the past, we shared the beautiful Chess Club Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a blog post …

When you’re building and running a website, it’s important to keep your audience in mind. To increase the likelihood that your site makes a positive impression, it’s smart to incorporate unique and helpful features. One simple yet effective way to do this is by providing weather information to your users. This can be an excellent …

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 Apothecary Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global header & footer …

The WordPress Community Team is discussing banning companies from sponsoring WordCamps if they advertise competitively against WordPress. A WordCamp organizing … Continue reading Companies Running Competitive Ads Against WordPress May Soon be Banned from Sponsoring WordCamps →

Earlier this week, Plausible Analytics released version 1.2 of its WordPress plugin. The update includes a missing feature that should … Continue reading Plausible Analytics Adds Statistics Dashboard to the WordPress Admin →

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. Today, we’re sharing a global presets style guide for Divi’s Event Venue Layout Pack. Divi’s global presets help you speed up your web design process in no time, and …

Attacks on unpatched SolarWinds systems continue. We’re now learning of a supply chain attack that started in late January 2021 affecting 29,000 customers of Codecov, as well as a zero-day under active attack affecting customers of PulseSecure VPN. Customers of these three services are well known enterprise and government organizations. In the WordPress space, there …Read More

Any time I see a new block-ready WordPress theme, I am like a toddler in a toyshop. I cannot wait … Continue reading With Some Hits and Misses, the Guten Blog WordPress Theme Has Potential →

Dramatic changes are coming to online advertising. Will your ads be impacted? How can you prepare? What’s next? Facebook, Google, and Snapchat share details.

Videos are effective marketing tools for a website. And if a video seeks to promote and sell products or services online, it should include a clear call to action for potential customers. A simple way to provide a call to action is to include a button near the video that they can click. However, some …

Google announced this week that it will be delaying the rollout of the new page experience ranking signal to mid-June … Continue reading Google Delays Page Experience Ranking Signal Rollout until June 2021, Adds New Report to Search Console →

Copy by Anne McCarthy (@annezazu) and Design by Mel Choyce-Dwan (@melchoyce) In WordPress circles (whether it’s your local meetup, a trusted publication, or your networking group), you may have heard terms like Core Editor, Gutenberg, and the Block Editor used interchangeably over the last four years. And if you’re following contributor work on the project …

For much of WordPress’s history, the foundational elements of building a theme have been slow to change. Every so often, … Continue reading Themes Set Up for a Paradigm Shift, WordPress 5.8 Will Unleash Tools To Make It Happen →

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 Chess Club Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global header & …

Today, April 21, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team became aware of a critical 0-day vulnerability that is being actively exploited in Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons, a premium plugin that we estimate has over 10,000 installations. This vulnerability was reported this morning to WPScan by “Robin Goodfellow.” The exploited flaw makes it possible …Read More