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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 →

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, the design team has created a beautiful Clothing Store Layout Pack that’ll help you get your next …

Core Web Vitals is a set of metrics Google uses to evaluate the quality of your website. Optimizing your site for these metrics is absolutely essential. Not only does optimizing these metrics for a good score give your website a solid user experience (UX), that user experience combined with a fast loading speed and high …

Privacy policies and terms and conditions are two important pages that should be easy to access. The footer is perhaps the most popular place to add links to these pages. These links are easy to add to your footer with Divi. In this article, we’ll see two methods on how to add Divi footer privacy …

Anyone who’s familiar with browsing the web has run across a 403 Forbidden error, or other HTTP status error, at some point. These errors are incredibly frustrating, especially when they appear on a WordPress website that you own and run. When you’ve gone to the trouble to set up your own hosting and you know …

Pop-up optin forms are simultaneously one of the most useful and most annoying elements of web design. Without them, you can hardly grow a list of devoted customers, but first-time visitors are highly unlikely to even pay attention to them. That’s why we want to walk you through the process of using Divi’s condition options …

Your internet browsing session has just been interrupted by an untimely 504 Gateway Timeout error. Most likely, you’ve seen this error from time to time, since it happens when a browser fails to connect to the website you’re attempting to visit. It’s a nuisance for web users who are simply trying to navigate to their …