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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, 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

Inspiration comes in many forms, and professional development never ends. With that in mind, we’ve put together a massive list of web design blogs that can keep your brain fed for the entire year. And don’t worry – you won’t find any duds on this list. We respect your time and feel like you deserve …

As you may know, WordPress is built using PHP. This programming language is incredibly flexible, but it also has a few drawbacks. For example, if you don’t allocate enough memory for your WordPress installation, you might start running into the occasional “PHP Memory Exhausted” error. In a nutshell, this error means your server isn’t allocating …

WordPress contributors are proposing the project take an active position on Google’s Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). This particular mechanism … Continue reading WordPress Contributors Propose Blocking FLoC in Core →

Patchstack, which recently rebranded from WebARX, released its 2020 security whitepaper. The report identified a total of 582 security vulnerabilities. … Continue reading Patchstack Whitepaper: 582 WordPress Security Issues Found in 2020, Over 96% From Third-Party Extensions →

Get more from crowdfunding; build it on your own WordPress site! Keep more money, customize it however you want, & connect with donors directly. Here’s how.

When building your about page, you might consider adding your company’s different team members in a showcase. When starting that design process, you’ll notice that three things can’t be missing off the bat: an image, a name and a position. But if you want to highlight your team members even more, you can consider adding …

On February 11, 2021, our Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed several vulnerabilities in Redirection for Contact Form 7, a WordPress plugin used by over 200,000 sites. One of these flaws made it possible for unauthenticated attackers to generate arbitrary nonces for any function. The second flaw made it possible for authenticated attackers to install arbitrary …Read More

I simply do not understand it. For at least the better part of a decade, theme authors have asked for … Continue reading Recreating the Classic Wedding WordPress Theme Homepage With the Block Editor →

The Jetpack team has been quietly testing a new plugin called Jetpack Boost, which addresses website owners’ performance and SEO … Continue reading Automattic Launches Jetpack Boost: A New Performance Plugin →

Over the past 10 days, Wordfence has blocked over 14 million attacks targeting Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities in The Plus Addons for Elementor Pro on over 75% of sites reporting attacks during this period. By April 13, 2021, this campaign was targeting more sites than all other campaigns put together. Number of sites attacked per day …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 a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. For this week, our design team has created a brand new Dog Breeder Layout Pack. This Dog Breeder Layout …