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

Link building may be a big part of your SEO strategy, but not every website that links back to your site is beneficial. Google can penalize websites associated with shady or low-quality sites. So, if one of those sites links to your site, you could be in trouble, at least when it comes to page …

Yesterday, September 15, 2020, the Wordfence Live team covered The Hacker Motive: What Attackers Are Doing with Your Hacked Site. This companion blog post reviews the motives we discussed live during Wordfence Live and dives deeper into the minds of attackers. You can watch the video of Wordfence Live below. Timestamps You can click on …Read More

In an extraordinarily inconvenient API change, Facebook and Instagram will be dropping unauthenticated oEmbed support on October 24, breaking content across millions … Continue reading Upcoming API Change Will Break Facebook and Instagram oEmbed Links Across the Web Beginning October 24 →

After publishing a post about the new Recipe Block plugin last week, several people were quick to point out that … Continue reading Digging Into Recipe Card Blocks, WPZOOM’s Solution for Recipe Bloggers →

Why are my emails going to spam? If you’ve ever sent an email only to have it detoured to the recipient’s spam folder, you might find yourself yelling that at your computer screen from time to time.
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Image overlays have been around for a long time in web design. They are great for engaging visitors by revealing additional content and design elements when hovering over the image. Because this is such a popular design feature, there are many plugins out there dedicated to creating image overlays. However, depending on the plugin, they …

When you think about managed WordPress hosting, hopefully Pressable comes to mind. If not, we’re going to walk you through some of the reasons we think it should. Not only is Pressable run and hosted by the team at Automattic (folks behind WordPress itself), the whole infrastructure is set up on the same servers that …

We are excited to announce that the long anticipating Pagespeed framework is close to final. We are going through the final round of testing and ironing the fine details. The project has been taking a long time as we have to re-code some components due to Google Pagespeed Insight algorithm changes. After the previous beta …

Podcasting, like many other industries during the pandemic, is seeing a strong shift over the past six months, which has … Continue reading Podcasting During the Pandemic: Castos Sees 300% Growth in New Podcasters →

Immediately available is BuddyPress 6.3.0. This maintenance release: fixes 1 bug related to the 6.2.0 release, fixes 2 bug related to the 6.0.0 release, is a recommended upgrade for all BuddyPress installations. For details on the changes, please read the 6.3.0 release notes. Update to BuddyPress 6.3.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org …

Overnight, the Meta Team for WordPress.org flipped the switch for a new plugin author feature in the official directory. It … Continue reading Plugin Authors Can Opt Into Email Confirmation for WordPress Plugin Updates →

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 the first layout this week, Kenny and his team have created a beautifully polished Painter Layout Pack. A …

Social messaging apps are great for engaging with your audience and providing customer service to users who need it. Messaging apps can provide a more personal touch for audience members who have questions or need assistance from you or a member of your customer support team. However, before we jump into the best apps for …

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

Posting to Instagram is relatively simple, right? You take a photo, make a video or design a graphic, then throw it up on your profile along with a caption and a few relevant hashtags. With such an uncomplicated (and fun) social platform, why bother with an Instagram scheduler or marketing tools? As any influencer or …

Show more toggles can come in handy for a lot of different applications on a website. Traditionally, show more toggles are used to show more text when clicking a show more link (like read more toggles). This is helpful for keeping the initial design more compact and concise, leaving it up to the visitor to …

A progressive web app (PWA) is a tool that can help boost your marketing. PWAs can increase brand awareness, improve user engagement, and deliver exclusive, brand-specific content and functionality. A PWA improves the brand experience for users who might otherwise skip the website or mobile app due to connectivity or storage space issues. Because PWAs …

In August, following the suspension of the popular Astra theme, WordPress Meta contributors opened a ticket to add a new … Continue reading WordPress Themes Directory Adds New “Delist” Status for Non-Compliant Themes →

For the first time, online stores can accept payments across Europe without fees, stress, or long waiting periods. Introducing Viva Wallet for WooCommerce.

I could hardly sleep last night. Once in a blue moon, I have an idea I want to try out. … Continue reading Addressing the Theme Design Problem With Gutenberg’s New Block-Based Widgets System →

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

Millions of attacks have been targeting the recent File Manager plugin zero-day vulnerability discovered last week. Two attackers are vying for control over sites compromised through the vulnerability. A security researcher has revealed that specially crafted Windows 10 themes can be used to perform Pass-the-Hash attacks. A database belonging to the Digital Point webmaster forum …Read More

Happy end-of-summer Divi Nation! ⛱ Yes. We are nearing the end of warm sunshine, swimming, and summer skin. The cliché remains. Time flies! Time flies and it definitely flies when you’re having fun. 2020 has been challenging. To say the least. But here we are and we want to know what has been “fun” for …

The official AMP plugin for WordPress recently crossed the 2.0 milestone, a major release that closed 141 issues and merged … Continue reading AMP Plugin 2.0 Adds Onboarding Wizard and Expanded Reader Mode →

“Organize your quarantine-inspired baking blog with a ‘Recipe’ block!” read the opening description of Kelly Choyce-Dwan’s new plugin, Recipe Block. … Continue reading Start a Recipe Blog With the Recipe Block WordPress Plugin →

Starting an online store? Follow our guide to your first customer! From dropshipping and manufacturing to digital delivery — here’s what you need to know.

Last week, we covered a vulnerability in the File Manager plugin installed on over 700,000 WordPress sites. By Friday, September 4, 2020, we recorded attacks on over 1.7 million sites, and by today, September 10, 2020 the total number of sites attacked has increased to over 2.6 million. We’ve seen evidence of multiple threat actors …Read More

Instagram is an excellent way to increase your brand awareness. You can even differentiate your content and post different images on each channel. However, featuring multiple Instagram feeds on your website can be tricky. Smash Balloon is a handy plugin that will help you show images from multiple Instagram accounts in the same feed on …