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The fixed position property is a crucial position type to learn how to use properly. Fixed elements are important for improving user experience on your website. Fixed headers stay in view when scrolling through a web page, making it easier for users to navigate the site. Fixed sidebars keep important CTAs and Email Optins visible, …

TikTok is a fun, rapidly-growing marketing platform with tremendous potential for brands, small businesses, artists, musicians, performers, freelancers, and entrepreneurs of all kinds. The platform utilizes short-form video, primarily to entertain and raise brand awareness. TikTok marketing is still new compared to other social media platforms. That means brands that utilize it have a higher likelihood …

BuddyPress broke into the world of blocks last month with its 6.0 release. Group and Member blocks were the first … Continue reading BuddyPress Contributors Begin Work on Block-based Activity Post Form →

The first beta for WooCommerce 4.3 was released yesterday. The team behind the popular eCommerce plugin added a new homepage … Continue reading WooCommerce 4.3 Beta Available for Testing →

Pitching new clients is one of the most exhausting aspects of life as a freelancer, but it is also one of the most essential. Luckily, you can make pitching easier by using quality cold email templates. In this guide, we will discuss why email templates work and what an email template needs in order to be successful. We will also provide specific email templates for pitching new clients and explain why each template works.
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Whether you or looking for a fresh new look for an image gallery or just wanting a nice display for product images, this tutorial should help. Normally, when adding images to a Divi website, we may limit the design to one image per column. While this is traditionally a safe and clean design, you may …

Review Signal founder Kevin Ohashi has published the site’s annual WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks for 2020, along with a smaller set … Continue reading Review Signal Publishes WordPress Hosting Benchmarks for 2020, Introduces WooCommerce Testing →

Not your normal online store: a 100-year-old, $24 million-dollar brand shares their eCommerce tech stack. Unique, enterprise-level apps are just the start.

Yoast, the company behind the popular Yoast SEO plugin, announced it had acquired the Duplicate Post plugin earlier today. Along … Continue reading Yoast Acquires Duplicate Post, Brings on Creator Enrico Battocchi as a Senior Developer →

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

The quest for the perfect form plugin is nearly as old as WordPress. Projects have come and gone. There are … Continue reading Build Forms via the Block Editor With Gutenberg Forms →

Late last week WordPress made major progress towards the goal of getting users to adopt newer versions of PHP. The … Continue reading WordPress Bumps Minimum PHP Recommendation to 7.2 →

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, our design team has created an inspiring Fitness Coach Layout Pack. All the page layouts included …

Live video has never been more accessible. Audiences are growing used to watching candid streams of their favorite brands and content creators. That makes the pressure mount to provide real-time interaction, entertainment, and information. Despite it seeming as though there is a large barrier to entry, jumping into livestreaming is relatively easy–and cheap! While there …

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. Earlier this week, we shared a brand new Wedding Photographer Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global …

Happy late Spring, Divi community! How have you been persevering the state of things? We certainly hope you have been well and healthy! Like most organizations during this time, our meetups have gone through a bit of a stagnant period as we have proceeded lightly with onboarding of new groups. Alas, we finally onboarded some …

We have noticed the Builder Contact addon had security vulnerability allowing hackers to send spam/phishing emails on behalf of the affected sites. The issue was first reported by a few of our members on the support forum and at the same time we were notified by the WordFence team (big thanks to WordFence team for …

Vertical navigation menus can come in handy for certain websites that need more menu items at the forefront. Horizontal menus can be difficult to fit all the menu links needed, especially on smaller browser widths. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to build a custom vertical navigation menu using the Divi …

The tricky thing about trying to market your business on social media is that it’s constantly changing. Platforms come and go, and you’ll need to continually try and keep up. Most recently, this means taking a look at the latest social media app to make it big – TikTok. In this post, we’ll offer a …

Like many tech conferences, OpenJS World 2020 was forced to go virtual for its upcoming event scheduled for June 23-24, … Continue reading OpenJS World 2020 Conference Goes Virtual, Tickets Are Free: June 23–24 →

Yesterday, the Gutenberg team released version 8.3 of the ongoing plugin behind the block editor. While much of the focus … Continue reading Gutenberg 8.3 Updates Block Categories, Includes Parent Block Selector, and Adds New Design Controls →

If you’re in the market for a cheap dedicated server hosting, then you likely know your way around some of the more popular providers. The problem is that many of them require you to pay through the nose for the privilege of having a server all to yourself.
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This week, we look at the WP 5.4.2 release and a ransomware bitcoin scam targeting site owners with a “You’ve Been Hacked” email. We also look at an FBI warning about online banking app malware, the Verizon data breach report and what is says about WordPress, and how some white hat hackers are becoming millionaires …Read More

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

Why are good marketing newsletters important? Because a huge part of marketing is keeping up with the action! To do your best work as a marketer (of any kind), you need to update your knowledge on a regular basis. But subscribing to every newsletter you come across just ends up filling up your inbox with …

The Gutenberg team is currently immersed in bringing full-site editing capabilities to the block editor as part of Phase 2 … Continue reading AsBlocks Project Uses Gutenberg to Create a Collaborative Writing Environment →

WordPress Core version 5.4.2 has just been released. Since this release is marked as a combined security and bug fix update, we recommend updating as soon as possible. With that said, most of the security fixes themselves are for vulnerabilities that would require specific circumstances to exploit. All in all this release contains 6 security …Read More

The way you design your page’s hero section sets the expectations for the rest of your page. If you’re designing a landing page that celebrates something, whether it is an anniversary or a sale, it can definitely help to bring the festive mood into your design. One way to approach it is by adding a …