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The first release candidate for WordPress 5.7 is now available! ? Please join us in celebrating this very important milestone in the community’s progress towards the final release! “Release Candidate” means that the new version is ready for release, but with millions of users and thousands of plugins and themes, it’s possible something was missed. …

People are shopping online more than ever, but they still want a personal touch. Deliver great service on the platform over a billion people use each month.

It’s that time in the release cycle when all the dev notes are rolling out ahead of the next major … Continue reading WordPress 5.7 Lets Administrators Send Password Reset Links →

Anne McCarthy announced the second round of testing for the Full Site Editing (FSE) Outreach program. The call for testing … Continue reading FSE Outreach Round #2: Building a Custom Homepage With Gutenberg’s Site Editor →

The popper.js library is a powerful positioning engine for tooltips and popovers. Today, we are homing in on how to make a popover. You can think of a popover as a tooltip that can contain more content. What makes Popper so effective is its ability to generate popovers that maintain an optimal position on the …

Whether you work with a non-profit organization that operates on the generosity of your clients and patrons, run a community fundraising event, or collect funds to benefit a specific cause or project, being able to take donations on your WordPress site quickly and easily is integral to your success. One of the easiest ways to …

Felix Arntz, a WordPress core committer and developer programs engineer at Google, announced upcoming support for lazy loading iframes. The … Continue reading Native Lazy Loading Support for iframes Coming To WordPress 5.7 →

WordPress 5.6.2 is now available! This maintenance release includes 5 bug fixes. These bugs affect WordPress version 5.6.1, so you’ll want to upgrade. You can download WordPress 5.6.2 directly, or visit the Dashboard → Updates screen and click Update Now. If your sites support automatic background updates, they’ve already started the update process. WordPress 5.6.2 is a small maintenance release focused …

Finding the right solution for shipping for eCommerce is as important as finding a high-quality product to sell in the first place. You can’t just set up a USPS shipment and expect the delivery to take care of itself. With continuously growing competition, it is essential to provide your customers with real-time shipment tracking. But that’s not the only reason to use third-party shipping solutions.

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 Crowdfunding Layout Pack. The Crowdfunding Layout Pack is …

A high-quality managed WordPress host can offer many benefits to your site. In addition to increased performance, stronger security, and access to premium tools, the right provider will also make your site maintenance workflow smoother, preferably without breaking the bank. Kinsta is one of the top companies in the WordPress hosting industry, so it’s worth …

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 time around we’re building upon the Virtual Fitness Layout Pack with a brand new blog post template that matches the rest of pack perfectly. Hope you enjoy it! …

Instagram is a popular image-based microblogging platform that’s used primarily for sharing photos and videos. For businesses and entrepreneurs interested in learning how to advertise on Instagram, it’s easy to get started. Content on Instagram is highly visual, with written content coming in secondary to multimedia. The standard aesthetic on Instagram is square images and …

Divi’s sticky options allow you to effortlessly add interaction to the pages you create and design. If you’re looking for a way to mention multiple items without just creating a static list, you’ll enjoy this tutorial. Today, we’re showing you how to build an interactive list on scroll using Divi’s sticky options. As people are …

One of the best jokes out there about being a web developer is that you spend 20% of your time coding. And the other 80% searching the internet for solutions to problems you run into. It’s not terribly untrue, either, if a bit hyperbolic. Thanks to tools like Can I Use, that time searching can be …

Gutenberg 10.0 released this week, February 17, 2021, marking the 100th release of the Gutenberg plugin; the 100th release of a journey that started more than four years ago when Matt announced the project at WordCamp US 2016.

Any business that nurtures a big catalog of data can benefit from digital asset management software. This type of software can help you manage your organization’s photos, docs, videos, spreadsheets, logos and the like. By categorizing each asset, you get more control and a simpler access to all your files in a neatly organized way.

Plausible Analytics is not new on the scene. The two-person, EU-based team behind the company has been trying to carve … Continue reading Taking on the Major Players, Plausible Analytics Offers an Alternative, Privacy-Conscious Stats Service →

An analysis of WordPress-related search trends found that interest in WooCommerce related results dominated during 2020. We discuss recent vulnerabilities discovered by our threat intelligence team in Ninja Forms, affecting over 1 million sites. WordPress issues a statement that pirated themes and plugins are prohibited on the repository. And a supply chain attack affects users …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 freebies. Recently, we shared a brand new Telehealth Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global header & footer …

Regardless of how amazing your theme is, how talented your developers are, or how perfect your website design is, chances are that at some point, you’re going to want to change something. Not a lot, just maybe take this sidebar out, or make that text box disappear. But on a single page, not everywhere. To do …

Creating urgency leads to more sales and higher revenue — if you do it right. See 7 types of urgency, 7 ways to use urgency well, and 4 ways to justify it.

After noticing suspicious review activity for the AccessiBe plugin, accessibility consultant Joe Dolson reported the fake reviews to WordPress.org’s plugin … Continue reading WordPress.org Removes Fake Reviews for AccessiBe Plugin →

Today, GT Basic became the second theme from GermanThemes to go live in the WordPress theme directory. Like the company’s … Continue reading GermanThemes Releases Block-Ready GT Basic WordPress Theme With Custom Patterns →

In this tutorial we’ll explain what is WooCommerce, why you should choose it for your store, and how to launch your first store with it. The focus is on getting you selling fast!

DiviHvac is a child theme for Divi that’s designed with HVAC companies in mind. It comes with 12 main pages, a custom header and footer, a custom slide-in, CSS, bold colors, and more. In this article, we’ll take a look at the DiviHvac child theme to help you decide if it’s the right child theme …

Effective employee training programs directly correlate to the success of any business. Preparing employees to do their job accurately, efficiently, and safely makes a huge difference to employees and the bottom line. Volumes have been written on how to design training programs! There is so much to talk about on this topic. So to keep …

Immediately available is BuddyPress 7.2.0. This maintenance release fixes six bugs mainly related to issues when the BP Nouveau Template Pack is used with the Twenty Twenty-One WordPress theme. For details on the changes, please read the 7.2.0 release notes. Update to BuddyPress 7.2.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository. Many …

Hello. I always supported the idea of a WordPress block editor as a whole, but lately, I’m a bit frustrated … Continue reading Ask the Bartender: Frustrations and Finding the Right WordPress Block Plugins →