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DigitalOcean has transformed the way teams and individual developers host apps and other web dev projects. It’s a unique form of hosting that removes the need to manage your own development infrastructure through powerful and reliable cloud hosting. DigitalOcean has also made this unique form of hosting more affordable. Why would anyone need DigitalOcean alternatives then?
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When creating your global header, chances are high you’re going to include a blog menu item. If you don’t have many blog post categories on your website, going for one blog menu item might be enough. However, if you have a set of different categories and you want to highlight each one of them, you …

WordPress enables you to send a broad range of transactional emails right out of the box. These include messages for user registration, password resets, and much more. However, the emails don’t always arrive as intended, and while it’s not WordPress’ fault, it’s definitely a problem you need to solve – potentially using a service such …

Unless I’m trying to be aware of it, I don’t see the WordPress admin anymore. When you work inside it … Continue reading Admin 2020 Reimagines WordPress Admin and Media Library →

Spearheaded by Munir Kamal, GutenbergHub launched a free block library to the WordPress community today. Currently, there are 37 custom-designed … Continue reading Copy and Paste Editor Blocks via GutenbergHub’s Block Library →

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 Holistic Healer Layout Pack that’ll help you get your …

GIFs are good for more than just memes. A GIF in the right place can convey additional context, and it can help you drive your point across in seconds. The challenge lies in knowing when and how to use GIFs to enhance your writing, without coming across as unprofessional. In this article, we’ll talk about …

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 Juice Shop Layout Pack with a brand new Product Page template that matches the rest of pack perfectly. Hope you enjoy it! …

At some point, we’ve all looked at a website and wondered how it’s been put together.  However, you may find the curiosity gets the better of you, leading you to seek out precisely what software a website was built with. The good news it that it’s easier than you might imagine. All you need is …

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 Monday, we shared a brand new Spice Shop Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global header …

Summer greetings, Divi community! We have just begun Q3 of 2020! Normally, we would point out how fast time is flying by, but at this point, we’re all okay with this year just flying by, amirite? Nevertheless, we press on toward our goals during these unprecedented times and constantly reiterate. Reflecting on Q1 and Q2 …

This week WordPress’ Documentation team announced a ban on links to commercial websites in a revision to its external linking … Continue reading WordPress Documentation Team Bans Links to Commercial Websites →

Ariele Lite, the latest theme from Rough Pixels, went live in the WordPress theme directory today. In an ecosystem where … Continue reading Ariele Lite Is a Fun and Refreshing Theme for WordPress Bloggers →

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

OSI (Open Source Initiative) is hosting a new 24-hour, virtual conference called State of the Source Summit, September 9-10. The … Continue reading Open Source Initiative to Host Virtual State of the Source Summit, September 9-10 →

On Wednesday, the Gutenberg team released version 8.5 of its plugin to the public. This will be the final major … Continue reading Gutenberg 8.5 Adds Single Gallery Image Editing, Allows Image Uploads From External Sources, and Improves Drag and Drop →

Trying to figure out how to move a website to a new host without breaking anything, causing downtime or any other issues that could hurt your Google rankings? As with any move, moving your site to a new host can feel a little daunting, especially if you haven’t done it before. However, it doesn’t have to be, and with the tutorial that we’ll share in this post, you should be able to move virtually any website to a new host.
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Today we released Yoast SEO Multilingual 1.2.0. This release includes bug fixes related to Yoast’s new Indexables feature. Fixing issues related to Yoast’s new Indexables feature Yoast recently introduced Indexables, a new architecture that provides a speed boost for your site and readies Yoast for an expanse of features. This was a major update for …

Did anybody listen to Peter Thiel? In 2011, the billionaire co-founder of PayPal, dubbed “contrarian investor” by the New York Times, … Continue reading WordPress University Was Always Online →

On June 15, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team was made aware of a number of access control vulnerabilities that had recently been disclosed in KingComposer, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. During our investigation of these vulnerabilities, we discovered an unpatched reflected Cross-Site Scripting(XSS) vulnerability. Wordfence Premium customers received a new firewall rule …Read More

In our last tutorial we recorded a video on how to create a dynamic property site with Builder Pro and Pods plugin. To demonstrate that Builder Pro is compatible with all major custom post type plugins, we are writing another tutorial on creating a movie review site with Builder Pro and the Post Type Builder …

Jetpack 8.7 was released this week with an exciting new feature that allows users to “unroll” a tweetstorm and publish … Continue reading Jetpack 8.7 Adds New Tweetstorm Unroll Feature, Improves Search Customization →

It has been a long road. Eleven long years. WordPress will finally allow end-users to update an installed plugin or … Continue reading After 11 Years, Users Will Be Able to Update Themes and Plugins via a ZIP File →

Choosing to add a sidebar to your blog posts is entirely up to you. Some bloggers choose to not use a sidebar at all. This tutorial is for those of you who prefer using a sidebar but want to make it look a little different. Usually, sidebars are statically positioned, but if the post content …

On June 24, 2020, our Threat Intelligence team was made aware of a possible vulnerability in the Adning Advertising plugin, a premium plugin with over 8,000 customers. We eventually discovered 2 vulnerabilities, one of which was a critical vulnerability that allowed an unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files, leading to Remote Code Execution(RCE), which could …Read More

In the past five-plus years, have you bought anything as minor as a book or as major as a car without reading at least one review first? Probably not. Today, ratings and reviews influence just about all purchase decisions. Businesses have understood this for a long time now, which is why many go out of …

WordPress 5.5 Beta 1 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so it’s not recommended to run this version on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. You can test the WordPress 5.5 beta in two ways: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose the “bleeding …

Gatsby announced its new source plugin (v4) for WordPress is now in beta. The plugin has been completely revamped to … Continue reading New Gatsby Source WordPress Plugin Now in Beta →