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A Quick Guide to Open Source Licenses

When you create software that you want to share, or you use a product that you want to adapt, questions about what is and is not legal pop up. Even programs that have an open source license aren’t free-for-alls. If you don’t know the specifics of what the license allows, you could get into legal …

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Themify’s May Love 2020 Sale – 30% Off Everything!

April’s showers bring May’s flowers – and all the love this month holds, including Mother’s Day, which is just around the corner. Make Mom proud and send a little love to your own WordPress website using our special May 2020 30% Off Sale on EVERYTHING (this includes the Lifetime Club). We’re also grateful for the …

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How to Use Transformed Motion Shapes as Backgrounds with Divi

Divi’s new scroll effects are made for you to easily take your web design experience to the next level. Of course, you can apply it to elements within your section directly, but you can choose to add motion to underlying elements too. Going for an underlying approach allows you to keep content static while having …

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Divi Meetup Network Community Update: April 2020

Hello to our lovely Divi community! We’re well into Q2 and also quarantining. ? Remote life is not too uncommon for our community but this global pandemic is not without significant challenges. However, we’ve had some nice positives come out of this trial our world is experiencing. Virtual events are how our Divi communities are …

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28,000 GoDaddy Hosting Accounts Compromised

This is a public service announcement (PSA) from the Wordfence team regarding a security issue which may impact some of our customers. On May 4, 2020, GoDaddy, one of the world’s largest website hosting providers, disclosed that the SSH credentials of approximately 28,000 GoDaddy hosting accounts were compromised by an unauthorized attacker. SSH, while extremely …Read More

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How to Create a Full Split-Screen Layout with Unique Toggles in Divi

Split Screen layouts are a great way to add design to your Divi website that is beautifully balanced and unconventional. With Divi’s new position options, we can create a split-screen layout design using two adjacent Divi sections. This opens the door for building even more unique split-screen layouts using the Divi Builder. In this tutorial, …

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Nearly a Million WP Sites Targeted in Large-Scale Attacks

Our Threat Intelligence Team has been tracking a sudden uptick in attacks targeting Cross-Site Scripting(XSS) vulnerabilities that began on April 28, 2020 and increased over the next few days to approximately 30 times the normal volume we see in our attack data. The majority of these attacks appear to be caused by a single threat …Read More

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Licensing Showdown: Creative Commons vs Royalty Free vs GPL

Creative Commons, Royalty-free, and General Public License (GPL) are types of licensing for images, graphics, and video. Designers, photographers, software developers, and content creators regularly access and use licensed media for a variety of projects. The question is, which license is best? Licensing gives users the ability to legally use a piece of media in …

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#WCEU Online, Google and GitHub Free Services, Zoom Data Breach ?️ May 2020 WordPress News w/ CodeinWP

Hi everyone, how is everything now after one more month at home? We hope you’re hanging in there. We know the daily routine at this time can get a bit tedious and feels like Groundhog Day all over again but it’s far from being the worst thing it can happen to you. You can always find nice in-house activities that keep you on track and sane.
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Get a FREE Winery Layout Pack for Divi

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, the design team has created a superb Winery Layout Pack. The Winery Layout Pack is certainly …

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The Month in WordPress: April 2020

April continued to be a challenging time for the WordPress community, with many under stay-at-home recommendations. However, it was also an exciting month in which we created new ways to connect with and inspire each other! This month, amazing contributors moved more WordCamps online and shipped new releases for WordPress and Gutenberg. For the latest, …

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How to Decide If 2 Weeks Notice is Long Enough

If you’ve ever had to make a job transition, you’ve asked yourself this question: is 2 weeks notice long enough? The answer is, that depends on your job and the situation. There are many factors that go into determining how long your notice period needs to be. These can include the nature of your job, …

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Divi Plugin Highlight: Divi Next Blurb

Divi Next Blurb is a third-party blurb module that adds several features to create unique blurb designs. The module displays icons and images at the same time, lets you customize practically every element independently, and even adds lots of hover effects to most elements. In this article, we’ll take a look at Divi Next Blurb …

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A Beginner’s Guide to Conversion Tracking in WordPress

Conversion tracking is undeniably one of the most important metrics of your website. Knowing how many visitors take action on your site and convert to being a member or paying customer helps you target your marketing, see how your site is being used, and — most importantly — determine the success of your efforts and …

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BuddyPress 6.0.0 Release Candidate 2

Hello, The second release candidate for BuddyPress 6.0.0 is now available for an ultimate round of testing! Since the first release candidate and thanks to the WordPress Polyglots Team (Many thanks to @tobifjellner & @ocean90), we’ve found an issue involving the translation of our new BuddyPress Blocks. The BP Blocks are using JavaScript i18n functions and a …

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What is Bounce Rate, Why is it Important, and How Can You Lower It?

Bounce rate. Two words that strike fear into website admins everywhere. The idea that people come to your site, glance at your content, and then leave without interacting is everyone’s worst-case scenario. You can’t control people leaving your site. Eventually, everyone will leave. But there’s a different in your exit rate (which is unavoidable) and …

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Episode 75: The WordPress 5.4.1 Security Release & More Plugin Vulnerabilities

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team unpacked the security updates in WordPress 5.4.1, and they published quite a few blog posts about vulnerabilities in popular plugins like Ninja Forms, LearnPress, and the Real-Time Find and Replace plugin. These plugin vulnerabilities affected over one million WordPress sites. As a few of these were Cross Site Request Forgery …Read More