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First impressions matter. As such, choosing good usernames can strengthen your branding and attract new visitors to your social media accounts. At the same time, you should ensure that your username and password are secure to minimize the risk of being hacked. It can be a challenging task, as many catchy usernames are already in …

Divi Madmenu is a third-party plugin for Divi that adds new menu features to the Divi Theme Builder. Add buttons, a Woocommerce shopping cart, search option, and adjust the placement of each element. Design independent menus for desktop, tablet, and phones, and set the breakpoints. Set the header as fixed and add animations. Every element …

On this week’s episode of Think Like a Hacker, we chat about the cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability found in the Child Theme Creator by Orbisius and how attackers could use a vulnerability like this with spearphishing to wreak havoc, much like the phishing campaigns now being found on the Canva design platform. With WordPress …Read More

Sliders are an excellent way to create a memorable visual experience for your visitors. Therefore, they’re especially useful if your website features a lot of videos and images. However, given the abundance of WordPress slider plugins on the market it can be challenging to find well-coded and useful tools. In this article, we’ll give you …

BuddyPress 7.0.0-beta1 is now available for testing! Please note the plugin is still in development, so we recommend running this beta release on a testing site. You can test BuddyPress 7.0.0-beta1 in 4 ways : Try the BP Beta Tester plugin. Download the beta here (zip file). Check out our SVN repository: svn co https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/ Clone our read-only Git repository: git clone …

What comes as a surprise to few, Google has updated its content guidelines for its Web Stories format. For users … Continue reading Using the Web Stories for WordPress Plugin? You Better Play By Google’s Rules →

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 Candy Shop Layout Pack. Divi’s global presets help you speed up your web design process in no time, and …

Several laws regulate the way that you track and store user information. Since most WordPress websites track data in one way or another, that means you need to understand how cookie consent works and how to implement it. We’ve talked about cookie consent in the past. Now, we’re going to check out a new cookie …

Capture recurring revenue, set up payment plans, sell subscriptions, or offer weekly services all directly from your WordPress dashboard.

The big news in the world of e-commerce today is Stripe’s acquisition of Paystack, a Nigeria-based payments system that is … Continue reading Stripe Acquires Paystack for $200M+ →

Created by Donna Peplinskie, a Product Wrangler at Automattic, the Book Review Block plugin is nearly three years old. However, … Continue reading Diving Into the Book Review Block Plugin →

We’re here to help you compare the best options and pick your ideal cheapest website builder. We’ve selected seven of the top low-priced solutions. Below, you’ll find the summaries of what each of them is about, along with some advice on how to pick the one that’s going to be the best for you. Most of these cheapest website builders come with a free version, too.

Progress Bar Indicators can add a nice touch to your website, boosting UX with a useful (and fun) interaction. Normally, progress bars stand alone at the top of the page without much connection to the actual content of the page. The user simply has a visual indicator of where they are on the page. But, …

Your brand’s logo has to live in umpteen different places, from a tiny favicon on your website to an enormous billboard on a busy highway. Even within your website, there are different locations for your logo to go, and in varying orientations and sizes. And every single time you use your logo – or a …

WooCommerce 4.6 was released today. The minor release dropped during WooSesh, a global, virtual conference dedicated to WooCommerce and e-commerce … Continue reading WooCommerce 4.6 Makes New Home Screen the Default for New and Existing Stores →

Starter content. It was a grand idea, one of those big dreams of WordPress. It was the new kid on … Continue reading The Future of Starter Content: WordPress Themes Need a Modern Onboarding and Importing Tool →

We are excited to announce that we’ll soon be releasing version 5.1 of AutomateWoo which contains our latest feature – Preset Workflows. Additionally, with this release, we’ve begun moving AutomateWoo over to using the same background processing system as WooCommerce Core – Action Scheduler. Please read on for more details.

At a certain point when you’re creating a page design, you might run into a list of services, courses, or something similar that you want to share in an interactive way. The design you’re using for your list content plays a very important role in how your visitors digest the content. And with most lists, …

Did you know that the average person spends 13 hours a week processing and managing an email inbox? With employees being constantly bombarded by emails, the whopping 13 hours seem like a lot of wasted time. So, how do you reduce the inbox overload without getting frustrated and spending all day organizing and replying to …

On September 9, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in Child Theme Creator by Orbisius, a WordPress plugin installed on over 30,000 sites. This flaw gave attackers the ability to forge requests on behalf of an administrator in order to modify arbitrary theme files and create new PHP files, which could allow an …Read More

Google announced an expansion of listener engagement metrics today for those using its Podcast Manager. Previously, audience insights included data … Continue reading Google Podcasts Manager Adds More Data from Search: Impressions, Top-Discovered Episodes, and Search Terms →

Two weeks ago, the Gutenberg team put out an open call for block-based widgets feedback. I had already written a … Continue reading Are Block-Based Widgets Ready To Land in WordPress 5.6? →

When pitting Wix vs Shopify, it’s important to focus on your individual needs and what’s best for the project you’re working on. In certain scenarios, one platform will be a clear winner over the other, but things are not that simple for every scenario and every user. Most of the time, you’ll need a deeper look to make a good decision between these two.
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The summer has gone by and these are the highlights of the work done in the last few months.

Creating a vertical sticky timeline can be extremely useful for categorizing content by year and/or month as the user scrolls down the page. The sticky date elements remain fixed beside the content for a convenient UX boost that users will appreciate. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to create a complete …

A non-compete agreement is a legally binding contract between two parties where one agrees not to directly compete with the other. Competition can mean designing, developing, or publishing any content for another company that they wrote under contract with you. It can also mean simply going to work for a competitor in the same role, …

WordCamp Austin 2020 attendees are raving about their experiences attending the virtual event last Friday. It was no secret that … Continue reading WordCamp Austin 2020 Finds Success with VR Experience for Sessions and Networking →

Ari Stathopoulos released his new Local Gravatars plugin last week. The goal of the plugin is to allow site owners … Continue reading Privacy-Conscious WordPress Plugin Caches and Serves Gravatar Images Locally →

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, Kenny and his team have created a beautifully polished Virtual Assistant Layout Pack. Get an edge …

Is your brand mobile-friendly? Mobile optimization is more important than ever. In fact, the world has seen a 220% increase in mobile device use over the last seven years. If you want your brand to reach this tremendous number of mobile users, then you should consider leveraging mobile inbound marketing. Mobile inbound marketing is the …