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This is the October 2020 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” Hello! We are back after witnessing another month of interesting stories from our WordPress community. What we want to present to you today contains several cool news items that will shape your future as a WordPress user.
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Ever since the Divi sticky options have come out, endless interaction design possibilities have been added to our Divi toolboxes. Besides being able to turn a header sticky on scroll, you’re also able to change the style of your elements in a sticky state. This allows you to highlight your header once it’s turned sticky, …

Greetings Divi community and happy fall! ? As we start Q4 of a very challenging year for Team Earth, we’re reminded of the power of community. And it keeps us going. Did any of us expect to be here a year ago? No. Yet, here we are. It can be overwhelming to plan into our …

Finally, the long-awaited framework update is here. This version (v5) is all about page speed improvements, so we called it the Pagespeed Framework. We initiated the Pagespeed Framework because we saw a common problem, all multi-purpose themes and builders are bloated and slow. So we’ve decided to solve this issue. In the past 11 months, …

I have been eagerly awaiting the moment when I could install a theme and truly test Gutenberg’s full-site editing feature. … Continue reading Exploring Full-Site Editing With the Q WordPress Theme →

The greater Jamstack community is coming together on October 6-7, 2020, for a virtual conference. Organizers expect more than 15,000 … Continue reading Virtual Jamstack Conf to Feature Fireside Chat with Matt Mullenweg and Matt Biilmann, October 6 →

Welcome to the second tech comics roundup of 2020! That’s right; we’ve got more comics. In fact, we’ve been working on comics ever since we published the previous roundup back in May. Most of the credit goes to our artist-in-residence, Joao Santos, who spends his time trawling the internet so he can bring you a fresh perspective on developments in the tech-sphere. So, what caught his eye over the past few months?
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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, free Divi Layout Packs from our design team to you. This time around, Kenny and his team have created a beautiful Coworking Space Layout Pack that’ll help you get your …

On September 14, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team discovered two high severity vulnerabilities in Post Grid, a WordPress plugin with over 60,000 installations. While investigating one of these vulnerabilities, we discovered that almost identical vulnerabilities were also present in Team Showcase, a separate plugin by the same author with over 6,000 installations. We initially reached …Read More

The podcasting boom isn’t slowing down anytime soon, and almost everyone behind the microphone wants to make the big bucks through their podcast. With podcasting being a billion-dollar industry, why not? Enter: Podcorn. A podcast sponsorship marketplace where advertisers can post listings with campaign details for podcasters to browse and send proposals. Starting Out with …

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 PR Firm Layout Pack with a brand new blog post template that matches the rest of pack perfectly. Hope you enjoy it! …

The internet is a completely different space than it was 20 years ago. If you remember the days of GeoCities and Angelfire, then you probably have seen first-hand how terrible keyword stuffing is and why it’s to be avoided. Similarly, anyone who spent time online between 2008 and 2013(ish) saw the rise and fall of …

It’s that time again for our monthly Divi Showcase, where we take a look at ten amazing Divi websites made by our community members. Each month we showcase the best Divi websites that were submitted from our community and today we want to share with you the top ten websites for the month of September. …

When it comes to business, how important is it to trust your gut feeling? The idea of trusting your gut in business trends from time to time. But the question is, does intuition have a place in your decision-making process? If you’re not familiar with the idea of a gut feeling, it’s an instinctual response …

Gutenberg 9.1 was released to the public on Wednesday. The team announced over 200 commits from 77 contributors in its … Continue reading Gutenberg 9.1 Adds Patterns Category Dropdown and Reverts Block-Based Widgets in the Customizer →

In a nutshell, a retainer agreement is a work-for-hire contract that pays on a regular schedule for expected work. Most retainers offer a small discount in exchange for the promise of reliable income. Learning how to set up a retainer agreement is one of the best ways to give yourself income security as a freelancer!
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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. Today, we’re sharing a global presets style guide for Divi’s Financial Advisor Layout Pack. Divi’s global presets help you speed up your web design process in no time, and …

This month was characterized by some exciting announcements from the WordPress core team! Read on to catch up with all the WordPress news and updates from September.  WordPress 5.5.1 Launch On September 1, the  Core team released WordPress 5.5.1. This maintenance release included several bug fixes for both core and the editor, and many other …

Shopify reports that two rogue employees stole data from 200 merchants on their platform. A security researcher found a vulnerability in the Medium Partner Program could have allowed an attacker to steal writers’ earnings. Symantec reports that a state-sponsored hacking group has been hiding out in company networks as a part of an information-stealing campaign. …Read More

Using images on your website is critical to attracting viewers or customers. As important as the visual is, the size of the image file matters too. For the images you choose to compliment your content and not distract from it, you should format them to work with your page and be consistent with size and …

A few weeks ago, we reviewed some of the worst website hacks we’ve ever seen. Every one of them started with poor password choices and escalated into a disastrous event for the site owner. Strong passwords and good password hygiene are often the first line of defense. On September 29, 2020, the Wordfence Live team …Read More

In pursuit of “democratizing web analytics,” Cloudflare announced it is launching privacy-first analytics as a new standalone product. The company … Continue reading Cloudflare Launches New Web Analytics Product Focusing on Privacy →

Keeping existing customers is far less expensive than finding new ones. Follow our guide to learn how successful stores build customer loyalty & expand reach.

From October 5 through October 9, the first Page Builder Summit will open its virtual doors to all attendees for … Continue reading Virtual WordPress Page Builder Summit Kicks Off October 5 →

Menus are a vital part of any site so it makes sense to spend a little extra time and effort to make sure they display properly. In Divi, we can build custom menus quickly using Divi’s Menu module, which provides many of the style options we need. But it always helps to streamline the process …

Web servers are at the core of the internet. Without web server software such as Apache and NGINX, the web would be nothing like what we see today. However, they’re not interchangeable. To know which of those two options – Apache vs NGINX – is best for you, you need to understand how they work. …

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Jetpack 9.0, coming on October 6, will debut a new feature that allows users to share blog posts as Twitter … Continue reading Jetpack 9.0 to Introduce New Feature for Publishing WordPress Posts to Twitter as Threads →

I love your articles. And now, in the middle of the WordPress revolution, I realized I’m constantly searching for an … Continue reading Ask the Bartender: How To WordPress in a Block World? →