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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 …

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 Coworking Space Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a blog post …

As the online world becomes louder and more crowded, it’s becoming more important to practice authenticity in marketing. Beyond products and services, audiences want to connect with the brands they love on a deeper level. Brands that practice authenticity in marketing are being intentionally true to the heart of their brand and its message. Gone …

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

Speed is at the top of every website owner’s wishlist. The faster the site, the better user experience, which leads to more conversions. Also, Google ranks pages that load more quickly higher in search results. So you have a good reason to eke out every last millisecond you can from your site. One particular way …

In 2015, WordPress 4.4 introduced a REST API, but one thing that has severely limited its broader use is the … Continue reading WordPress 5.6 to Introduce Application Passwords for REST API Authentication →

Jan Koch, the founder and host of WP Agency Summit, is kicking off his second annual event on October 12. … Continue reading WP Agency Summit Begins Its Second Annual Virtual Event October 12 →

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

A vulnerability discovered by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team in the WPBakery plugin exposes over 4 million sites. High severity vulnerabilities were discovered in the Post Grid and Team Showcase plugins. The online avatar service Gravatar, has been exposed to a user enumeration technique, which could be abused to collect data on its users’ profiles, …Read More

Good CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software can help manage many aspects of a business, such as scheduling appointments, management through digital calendars, organizing contacts in easy-to-access databases, email marketing, project management, tracking activities of employees, providing an overview of the sales pipeline, and much more. Since all CRMs are not made equal, there is an …

First of all, thanks to those who have updated to the Pagespeed Framework. We’ve received a a lot of feedback from the release. Since the release on Monday, we’ve been receiving 400 to 500 tickets every day related to the update. Our team has been working very hard to help everyone resolving every ticket in …

Reviews have the power to turn visitors into customers. What’s the science behind them? Here are six proven ways to make the most of your store’s reviews.

The new block-based navigation screen is once again delayed after it was originally slated for WordPress 5.5 and then put … Continue reading Navigation Screen Sidelined for WordPress 5.6, Full-Site Editing Edges Closer to Public Beta →

Munir Kamal shows no signs of slowing down. He continues to push forward with new features for his EditorPlus plugin, … Continue reading EditorPlus 1.9 Adds Animation Builder for the Block Editor →

Web accessibility is the process of making your website equally usable to people of all abilities and disabilities. It’s about understanding that users with disabilities may use assistive technologies to access the web. As a website owner, it is your duty to ensure that you make your website adequately compatible with such assistive technologies. WAI ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications) is a set of guidelines published by the W3C. It defines additional HTML attributes that you can apply to your tags. These attributes help improve accessibility and make your DOM structure more readable by assistive technologies.
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Find It In The Divi Marketplace Divi Supreme Pro is available in the Divi Marketplace! That means it has passed our review and has been found to meet our quality standards. You can visit Divi Supreme in the marketplace to see all of their available products. Products purchased from the Divi Marketplace come with unlimited …

Have you ever been visiting a website and been amazed by the split-second load times? Or maybe your competitor’s website blasts past yours in terms of loading speed and the ability to handle massive loads of visitors. You might even be a first-timer and have no idea which hosting company is best, so you want …

Just a day after launching its new privacy-first web analytics product last week, Cloudflare announced Automatic Platform Optimization (APO) for … Continue reading Cloudflare Launches Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress →

Gutenberg 9.1 made a backward-incompatible change to its theme.json file (experimental-theme.json while full-site editing is under the experimental flag). This … Continue reading Kick off Block-Based WordPress Theme Development With the Theme.json Creator →

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

On July 27th, our Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in WPBakery, a WordPress plugin installed on over 4.3 million sites. This flaw made it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level or above permissions to inject malicious JavaScript in posts. We initially reached out to the plugin’s team on July 28, 2020 through their support …Read More

Use any SEO plugin or service, and you will always be looking at “keywords” or “key phrases.” In general, these are 1-3 words that you want to rank for in search engines. When someone types in a query like workout, you want your fitness site to show up, for example. But that’s just basic, single-keyword …

Jetpack’s highly anticipated 9.0 release has landed, introducing some of the new features the team has previewed over the past … Continue reading Jetpack 9.0 Introduces Loom Block, Twitter Threads Feature, and Facebook and Instagram oEmbeds →

Just one month after publicly announcing its acquisition of Restrict Content Pro (RCP), iThemes purchased WPComplete for an undisclosed amount. … Continue reading iThemes Buys WPComplete, Complementing Its Recent Restrict Content Pro Acquisition →