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On Monday, Automattic announced its Blank Canvas theme on WordPress.com. The goal is to allow end-users to build single-page websites, … Continue reading Automattic Launches the Blank Canvas WordPress Theme for Building Single-Page Websites →

WordPress’ plugin team has published a statement regarding plugins making changes to users’ update services: Unless your plugin has the purpose of managing updates, … Continue reading Plugin Team Draws a Line: Plugins Must Not Change WordPress’ Default Automatic Update Settings →

Over the course of 2020, and in the process of protecting over 4 million WordPress customers, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team gathered a massive amount of raw data from attacks targeting WordPress and infection trends, in addition to the malware samples gathered by our Site Cleaning team. Attacks on WordPress can be categorized in three …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. This time around we’re building upon the Painter Layout Pack with a brand new blog post template that matches the rest of pack perfectly. Hope you enjoy it! Check …

Social Commerce is one of the most popular and fastest-growing trends in the world of online sales. Although the principles are similar, it’s different from traditional eCommerce. As we’ll see, there are lots of reasons to pay attention to Social Commerce. In this simple guide for beginners we’ll discuss what Social Commerce is and isn’t, …

Jetpack’s Design and Research Team is launching a new customer research panel as part of an ongoing effort to collect … Continue reading Jetpack Launches Customer Research Project to Improve the Plugin and Reduce User Frustration →

Ready to generate revenue online? Adding an online ordering system is easier than ever! From design to functionality: expert tips for making it a success.

Earlier today, WP Buffs announced that it had acquired WP EZI, a WordPress maintenance and support service. It was a … Continue reading WP Buffs Finalizes First Acquisition, Purchases WP EZI →

Shared hosting and VPS hosting are the two most popular types of website hosting, but they have some pretty big differences. For that reason, it’s important to understand what those differences are and the pros and cons of each approach so that you can make the right decision.

Adding sliders to your site is a great way to level-up your design and impress your site visitors. The winners of our recent slider competition show how easy it is to create eye-catching, multilingual sliders using WPML and Slider Revolution. Together, Slider Revolution and WPML make it quick and easy to build multilingual sliders that …

One of the main goals of most websites is form submission. It is how companies get sales leads, email subscribers, and more. Effective web design can make form submission more engaging for visitors and one way to boost the engagement, even more, is to add additional styling to forms during the “filling out” process. To …

WordPress core contributors are pushing forward on an ambitious plan to land full-site editing in core before the end of … Continue reading WordPress Roadmap Update: Full-Site Editing Targeted for 5.8 Release in June 2021 →

On Sunday, Bridget Willard announced her latest project, Launch With Words. In collaboration with Ronald Huereca, who performed the development … Continue reading Jump-Start a Year’s Worth of Content via the Launch With Words Plugin →

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 professional Engineering Firm Layout Pack. The Engineering Firm layout pack …

As technology keeps evolving, design evolves too. More than ever, you can come across websites that leave you amazed and wondering how they’ve been created. Although websites that have scroll interactions going on isn’t for every type of business, knowing how to go the extra mile is particularly helpful to leave a good impression. With …

We are starting this year with no less than 27+ (!) new website demos/templates.  These impressive demos/templates are designed to give your visitors the best user experience and (of course) work seamlessly with our extensions and state-of-the-art OceanWP WordPress theme. After importing our website demos/templates, you will be able to easily edit them via Elementor . …

Toolset is a WordPress plugin that adds custom post types, fields, taxonomies, and post relationships that can be used anywhere on your website. These elements are usually placed within your content with shortcodes or Gutenberg blocks, but Toolset is now integrated natively with Divi with a Toolset Views module. In this article, we’ll look at …

There are near-infinite resources for learning about WordPress development, from YouTube channels to blogs such as this one. While in-depth articles and courses have plenty of value, following WordPress developers on Twitter can also be surprisingly informative. In fact, Twitter can be a key way to keep up with WordPress development and the people behind …

I was wondering if you could help me. I want to convert all of my old posts (about 600) to … Continue reading Ask the Bartender: How To Bulk Convert Classic WordPress Posts To Blocks? →

Any successful store requires a solid Point of Sales (POS) system to receive payments from walk-in customers as well as online sales. A POS system is usually an additional tool/software built over eCommerce stores or payment processing tools. While they may have started off as mere cash registers, they have come to pack a lot more punch nowadays. The best POS system solutions record sales data, manage inventory, generate reports, store customer contact data and more.

TasteWP is a newcomer among online WordPress sandboxing solutions. The site allows users to spin up a new WordPress instance … Continue reading TasteWP Spins Up Free WordPress Testing Sites in Seconds →

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 Family Doctor Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global header & …

Wordfence announces a new program offering free site cleaning and site audits to public schools in the United States. We talk about why we’re offering this program and how to help schools take advantage of it. We also talk about the growing prevalence of WordPress as a content management system and how the incoming administration …Read More

Anyone with a WordPress site will, at some point, run into a situation where they need to alter some of the code. That isn’t to say that you are expected to be a web developer, writing out JavaScript and PHP like a pro. More likely, you will need to tinker with HTML and basic CSS, …

Almost every store wants to increase their traffic. But how do you get started? From free to paid, use these three strategies to boost your reach and revenue.

Gutenberg 9.8 launched yesterday with a few minor UI improvements. The development team added an initial implementation for border-radius support … Continue reading Gutenberg 9.8 Brings Rounded Borders To the Group Block and Moves the Site Editor Canvas Into an Inline Frame →

From writing her first line of code when she was 16, Thelma Mutete knew she wanted to work in IT. She shares her journey in web development and her discovery of WordPress.

Creating shapes using CSS in web design is not a new concept by any means. In fact, the classic method of creating CSS shapes has been largely overshadowed by other HTML graphic solutions like Canvas and SVG. However, CSS shapes (at least the basic ones) are much easier to create and can still play a …