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Watch out block patterns. There is an old player in town making the hard sell before you have even rolled … Continue reading Envato Launches Template Kits Marketplace for Elementor →

The best careers are built around the best networks. Great connections can provide you with learning opportunities, promotional opportunities, jobs, and more. The wrong connections, on the other hand, can drag your career down to their level of mediocrity. This makes it essential to develop strong networking skills so you can build the right network for your career.
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In this WooCart tutorial video, we show you how you can create a WooCommerce store in a minute with WooCart’s Store Wizard.

Knowing how to add a dynamic site title and tagline to a Divi Global Header will come in handy when building Divi websites. And there are a few good reasons that one would do it. For one, not every site has a logo. A site title is a good logo replacement. Another reason is to …

WordPress is one of the most user-friendly and easy-to-access content management systems out there. If someone needs a website, the famous 5-minute install is always an option, and most hosting platforms offer a quick-install feature, too. Anyone can do these, no problem. But what’s next? After the installation, the real work begins. Design and feature …

Last weekend I had the opportunity to interview Andy Fragen, a longtime member of the WordPress community and core contributor. … Continue reading WordPress Contributor Andy Fragen Shares His Experience as a Trauma Surgeon During the COVID-19 Pandemic →

This major release introduces the first two BuddyPress Blocks!! We are very excited to announce the immediate availability of BuddyPress 6.0.0 code-named “iovine’s“. You can get it clicking on the above button, downloading it from the WordPress.org plugin directory or checking it out from our Subversion repository. If you’re upgrading from a previous version of BuddyPress, …

With full-site editing just around the bend, it is a fair question to ask whether the WordPress ecosystem is prepared … Continue reading Where Gutenberg Went Wrong: Theme Developer Edition →

TL;DR: A new update is available for WooCommerce! When you’re ready, update via your WordPress Dashboard. To make the process as smooth as possible, view our documentation on how to update, make a backup, update your extensions, and then update WooCommerce. WooCommerce 4.1 has arrived! This release represents the next step in our mission to …

On April 21st, our Threat Intelligence team discovered a vulnerability in Site Kit by Google, a WordPress plugin installed on over 300,000 sites. This flaw allows any authenticated user, regardless of capability, to become a Google Search Console owner for any site running the Site Kit by Google plugin. We filed a security issue report …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 Monday, we shared a brand new Financial Advisor Layout Pack. To help you get your website up and running as soon as possible, we’re sharing a global header …

Need to add booking functionality to a new or existing WordPress site? See what to look for in great booking plugins and which ones WPML team recommends. What to look for in a booking plugin When looking for a plugin to handle appointments and reservations, check for three things: A straightforward front-end Look for a …

Flodesk is a fairly new email marketing platform that is affordably scalable and easy to customize. It’s a highly visual platform equipped with simple tools and aesthetically pleasing designs. If you’re looking for an affordable service that provides beautifully designed email templates that are easy to tweak and won’t break the bank as you scale, …

Starting April 28th, we saw a 30 times increase in cross site scripting attack volume, originating from a single attacker, and targeting over a million WordPress sites. We published research detailing the threat actor and attack volume increase on May 5th. By the time we published, the attack volume had dropped back down to baseline …Read More

Yesterday, GitHub added a new setting to user-owned repositories called “Account Successors.” It allows users to designate repository access to … Continue reading GitHub Adds Account Successors Feature →

A WooCommerce agency owner shares his “tech stack” — the software, tools, & platforms used to run a successful business while balancing life with teenagers.

Last week, Tetsuaki Hamano contributed his first plugin to the official WordPress plugin repository. RichText Extension grants additional options for … Continue reading Highlight, Underline, and Control Font Size with RichText Extension →

For many websites, blogging has become an important part of their SEO strategy. But besides creating high-quality content, it’s also important to simplify the post navigation process for your visitors. That way, they can hop from one post to another and spend more time on your website reading the content you put out there. Within …

Are you looking for help kick-starting your brand’s marketing strategy? If so, partnering with a KOL (Key Opinion Leader) could be your best bet for reaching your target audience and getting your brand marketing off to a great start. If you’ve been following the evolution of marketing over the past several years, you’re most likely …

The WordPress Accessibility Team is organizing a new online event called WP Accessibility Day that will take place on October … Continue reading WordPress Accessibility Team to Host 24-Hour Online Event October 2, 2020 →

It is not often that I come across a free WordPress theme that instantly impresses me. Far too often, I … Continue reading Simple Photoblogging with the Instapress WordPress Theme →

If you run a WordPress agency, your hosting needs will be a lot different than those of users managing a single website. For one, a lot of clients are likely to rely on you for hosting, which means choosing the right provider becomes a much more critical decision.
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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 and professional Financial Advisor Layout Pack with stunning page …

On Monday, May 4, 2020, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team discovered two vulnerabilities present in Page Builder by SiteOrigin, a WordPress plugin actively installed on over 1,000,000 sites. Both of these flaws allow attackers to forge requests on behalf of a site administrator and execute malicious code in the administrator’s browser. The attacker needs to …Read More

Have you ever published a post or made a CSS update and then gone to the homepage and it not be there? Moved from one tab to another to find out that you’re signed in when you thought you’d signed out? Chances are good that the culprit is your cache. Given that page speed is …

Creating a Slashing Text Effect is a fun way to bring life to your content. The idea is to give the illusion that text is being slashed in half and breaking apart as the user scrolls down the page. In this tutorial, we’ll show you just how easy this design is to build in Divi! …

It can be difficult to find a video editing app that has everything you need in one place. If you want to apply effects, filters and stickers, you may have to do it in one app, then use another to trim your video and add music. What about if you want to stitch together multiple …

Divi lets you control and design every detail of your website, from header to footer and everything in between. Some of the most-clicked elements of any website are social media icons. An engaged audience wants to find you elsewhere and get to know you. Obviously you’ll want to make that as easy and frictionless as …

One of the most frustrating aspects of running a website is having to troubleshoot an error when you don’t know why it’s happening. Some issues, such as the 502 bad gateway error, have many potential causes. This means you may need to try multiple solutions before you land on the right one. In this post …