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When I was asked to help manage OceanWP, I found a fantastic team of talented people who needed direction. OceanWP was a big ship, but the former captain was lost, and the one that replaced him did not perform. Sometimes managing a product is just about pointing the ship in a direction. I was happy …

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 Monday, we shared a brand new Artificial Intelligence Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global header …

Featuring a specific product in your online store can be an effective way to increase your sales. For instance, you may want to showcase your newest item on your home page, or promote it in a blog post. Fortunately, the Featured Product WooCommerce block enables you to easily highlight any product on your WordPress site. …

Divi footers are versatile. You can place a variety of elements within them to help visitors navigate through your website. Although Divi is full of modules you can place inside your footer off the bat, you can also include plugin shortcodes in your Divi footer. In this article, we’ll show you how! We’ll tackle three …

In many online stores, there’s one category of products that sells better than anything else. If this is true for your e-commerce shop, the Featured Category WooCommerce block can help you introduce those top items to an even broader audience. In this article, we’ll show you how to use the Featured Category block in WooCommerce. We’ll go over …

Hello everyone,As you well know, in the last two years, OceanWP has gone through tremendous growth. During this time, we launched our new Vanilla version, added 150 new demos and some theme features, launched the Gutenberg blocks and also fixed many old issues and improved the theme’s performance, styling, etc. We have a long product …

On Wednesday, Ben Dwyer announced a new block-based plugin on the Theme Shaper blog. The Automattic Theme Team had built … Continue reading Automattic Theme Team Releases a Plugin To Build Blockbase Child Themes →

WordPress 5.9 has been delayed due to significant blockers that could not be resolved in time for Beta 1, which … Continue reading WordPress 5.9 Delayed Until January 2022 →

bbPress 2.6.8 is a minor release that fixes 1 regression in the 2.6.7 release. 😬 Thank you to everyone who provided prompt feedback in the support forums. Because of you, we were able to react quickly and repackage this release right away. 🎉

A yearly copyright notice is one of the most popular elements to add to a website’s footer. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to remember to change the year from one year to the next. The solution is to make the year dynamic. It would pull the date from the server, and you would never have …

Most modern online stores enable you to look for specific types of products using filters. The Active Product Filters WooCommerce block makes that process easier, by helping you check and see what product filters you have active. In this article, we’re going to show you how the Active Product Filters block works and how to place it. We’ll go …

The upcoming BuddyPress 10.0.0 beta 1 release was scheduled for November 20, but contributors have decided to postpone the beta … Continue reading BuddyPress 10.0.0 Beta 1 Delayed, Stable Release Rescheduled for December 24 →

Flipping the usual popularity contests WordPress-related award systems on their heads, Nathan Wrigley has created something where we can all … Continue reading Donate to Big Orange Heart, Become a Self-Proclaimed Winner in the WP Builds WordPress Awards 2021 →

Gift-givers are looking for that perfect item. Will they find yours? Top tips to reach a seasonal audience that’s different than your normal customer base.

Divi footer WordPress menus are an important part of any footer. Menus can be created with text links, menu modules, or widgets. The Divi menu module places the links on a horizontal line. However, footers often utilize menus with links that stack vertically. Fortunately, these menus are easy to add to Divi footers. In this …

If you want your online store to succeed, it’s not enough to have amazing products to offer your customers. You’ll also need to know how to display them effectively on your website. Fortunately, the All Products WooCommerce block enables you to present all of your items in a neat grid, on any page or post …

Some new data from a recent Core Web Vitals (CWV) technology report produced by the HTTP Archive shows WordPress sites … Continue reading New Core Web Vitals Technology Report Shows Overall Pass Rate for WordPress Sites Decreases with Newer Versions →

Last week, the popular Rank Math SEO plugin received a major update that includes a new artificial intelligence system. The … Continue reading Rank Math SEO Launches a Content AI Feature →

bbPress 2.6.7 is a minor release that fixes 19 issues. For everyone running bbPress 2.6, feel free to update at your earliest convenience. 🍯 This release improves Akismet and BuddyPress support, allows Moderators to reply to unapproved Topics, and fixes a user-interface issue with the hierarchical replies feature, just to highlight a few notable changes. …

Want to start using automatic translation but need to make sure it’s correct and sounds natural? No problem, you can have a professional translator review it. But how do you find a good translator at a reasonable price? Easy, use our Translation Reviewer Directory! Automatic Translation with a Human Review Is a Great Combination In …

Note: To receive disclosures like this in your inbox the moment they’re published, you can subscribe to our WordPress Security Mailing List. On November 1, 2021 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability we discovered in “Preview E-mails for WooCommerce”, a WordPress plugin that is an extension for WooCommerce, …Read More

Black Friday Starts In… Black Friday Is Coming We do Black Friday better than anyone else, period! We pull out all the stops to make sure that this sale is something worth waiting for. This year’s Black Friday sale starts on Nov 26th at exactly 12:00 AM UTC-6, and you definitely don’t want to miss …

The Wowmall theme was released to the public today. It is the second 100% block theme that integrates with WooCommerce … Continue reading Wowmall: A Free Experimental WooCommerce Block Theme →

The internet has revolutionized the world of work, especially freelance work. There are millions of jobs that exist entirely online and thousands of websites devoted to helping people find freelance work. In this article, I’ll take a look at the best freelance websites for finding high-quality work – no matter if you’re looking for gigs yourself or want to hire someone to do them for you.

During the busy holiday season, it can be easy to let things slip. Learn how to provide great customer service and turn gift buyers into lifelong customers!

Sticky footer bars can be a useful addition to any website, especially for mobile devices. A sticky footer bar remains fixed (or stuck) at the bottom of the screen as the user scrolls through the page. Its position makes it more accessible to mobile users (especially on phones) because it is so close to the …

There are broken links everywhere on the web. As your content library grows and posts become outdated, it’s all too common for some links to “break”. When a user clicks on a broken link, it sends them to a page that doesn’t exist. That’s terrible news for both the User Experience (UX) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). …

WordPress executive director Josepha Haden Chomphosy announced today that the 2021 State of the Word will be held on December … Continue reading State of the Word 2021 Will Be Broadcast Live from New York City on December 14 →

A current proposal could spell the death of at least one form of child theming. The feature would allow themes … Continue reading “Skins” Are Back in Style, Proposal for Themes To Bundle User-Selectable Design Variations →