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On July 1, 2021, new EU tax regulations will come into play when the European Union (EU) Value-Added Tax (VAT) eCommerce package takes effect. The changes are a major overhaul of current tax rules, designed to simplify processes and administration for merchants. They will impact virtually every business-to-consumer (B2C) business involved in cross-border eCommerce trade …

WordPress 5.8 Beta 3 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so it is not recommended to run this version on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with it. You can test the WordPress 5.8 Beta 3 in three ways: Install/activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (select …
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For many years, I was a hardcore advocate of separating any non-design functionality from themes into their own plugins. I … Continue reading WordPress Theme Lock-In, Silos, and the Block System →

WooCommerce has named Paystack its preferred payments partner for WooCommerce in Africa. More than 20,000 merchants are using the free Paystack … Continue reading WooCommerce Selects Paystack as Preferred Payments Partner in Africa →

Creating a hero section that catches your visitors’ attention can set the tone for the rest of the website. If you’re looking for a creative way to use Divi’s sticky options to help you get there, you’ll love this tutorial. Today, we’re showing you how to reveal an underlying image grid in your hero with …

What began as a project in August 2020 has now become a reality. All past Twenty* default WordPress themes now … Continue reading A Throwback to the Past: Refreshing Old Twenty* WordPress Themes With Block Patterns →

Google Analytics is powerful if you know exactly what kind of metrics you want to investigate, it but can be … Continue reading Google Launches Search Console Insights, a User-Friendly Content Performance Overview →

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 Tennis Club Layout Pack that’ll help you get your …

Adding floating labels to form fields in Divi can boost the design and UX of any Divi form in a subtle, yet powerful, way. Any website form (not just Divi) usually includes some kind of input field and a label for that input field. For example, a form may have a text input field for …

WordPress 5.8 is slated for release on July 20. In just over a month, many users will get their first … Continue reading Getting To Know the Upcoming WordPress 5.8 Template Editor →

The MapLibre project is picking up speed with the release of MapLibre GL Native, an open source mobile SDK for … Continue reading MapLibre Project Gains Momentum with MapLibre GL Native Release →

Sites running Jetpack are being infected via compromised WordPress.com credentials. The largest password dump ever with 8.4 billion passwords is used in credential stuffing attacks. Wordfence Threat Intelligence discloses new plugin vulnerabilities as well as a vulnerability at tsoHost. Data Breaches impact VW and EA, REvil compromises a nuclear weapons contractor, and TurboTax accounts are …Read More

Extendify has been scooping up some successful block-related plugins in recent months. It acquired the Redux Framework in November 2020 … Continue reading Extendify Adopts EditorsKit, Increasing Its Block Plugin Collection →

How do you go from one sale to $100K per month? Go in-depth with Addify about their process, strategies, and why they sell on the WooCommerce Marketplace.

The Wordfence site cleaning team helps numerous customers recover from malware infections and site intrusions. While doing so, Wordfence Security Analysts perform a detailed forensic investigation in order to determine how the site was compromised by attackers. In a set of recent cases, we were able to identify a service vulnerability allowing malicious attackers to …Read More

Do you keep getting the “Are you sure you want to do this” error message while working on your WordPress site? You’re probably wondering what’s causing it and if there’s a way to get rid of it. This warning can be very frustrating, as it doesn’t really tell you what the problem is. Plus, it …

Automattic released its second block theme to the WordPress theme directory last week. Mayland Blocks is geared toward photographers and … Continue reading Automattic Launches Mayland Blocks, Its Second FSE Theme on WordPress.org →

Alex Denning and Iain Poulson launched FlipWP today, a private marketplace to facilitate acquisitions for WordPress companies. WP Engine’s recent … Continue reading Alex Denning and Iain Poulson Launch FlipWP, an Acquisitions Marketplace for WordPress Companies →

Businesses grow when they find reliable ways to provide an excellent customer experience and gain more qualified leads, conversions, and sales.  In 2021, using a live chat service on your website is a quick way to boost your business growth, as 79% of customers favor live chat over other support channels. Did you know that …

On March 2, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed a Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) vulnerability in WP Fluent Forms, a WordPress plugin installed on over 80,000 sites. This vulnerability also allowed a stored Cross-Site Scripting(XSS) attack which, if successfully exploited, could be used to take over a site. We reached out to the plugin …Read More

WordPress 5.8 Beta 2 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so it’s not recommended to run this version on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with it. You can test the WordPress 5.8 Beta 2 in two ways: Install/activate the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (select the Bleeding …

How do you stay motivated through the twists, turns, ups, & downs of entrepreneurship? Don’t miss these 13 tips that will change your perspective on business.

Introducing the perfect theme for medical clinics, hospitals, family doctors and other medical institutions. The new “Clinic” skin is created specifically for all types of medical and healthcare businesses, which comes with a vast array of professional quality features. The skin comes with the necessary page layouts and components to get you going online in …

On May 21, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability that we discovered in WooCommerce Stock Manager, a WordPress plugin installed on over 30,000 sites. This flaw made it possible for an attacker to upload arbitrary files to a vulnerable site and achieve remote code execution, as long …Read More

Wordfence is now a CVE Numbering Authority, or a CNA. As a CNA, Wordfence can now assign CVE IDs for new vulnerabilities in WordPress Core, WordPress Plugins and WordPress Themes. An outage at Fastly takes down major websites including Reddit, Twitch, Amazon, and many others. Microsoft patches numerous Windows 0-day vulnerabilities, and Google patches a …Read More

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence and Site Cleaning teams have been tracking a malware campaign that redirects all site visitors to malvertising domains, while attempting to keep site administrators unaware of the infection. Since June 1, 2021, the number of sites we are tracking that have been infected with this malware has more than doubled, and …Read More

During WordCamp Europe this past Wednesday Matt and I gathered to discuss the latest developments of Gutenberg and to share a video with some of the current and upcoming highlights. The video is wonderfully narrated by @beafialho and it was a great opportunity to celebrate all the incredible work that contributors are doing around the …