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With the rising numbers of people who have contracted COVID-19, a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus … Continue reading The International WordPress Community and WordCamps Amid COVID-19 →

This is the March 2020 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” // Hey WordPress fans, welcome back to our monthly roundup of news from our community. You’ll hear about lots of happenings; some you will enjoy and some you will probably not agree with. But that’s life, isn’t it?
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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 Tutor Layout Pack which includes custom-made illustrations and icons …

February 2020 was a busy month in the WordPress project! Most notably, there was an outpouring of sentiment in response to the unfortunate cancellation of WordCamp Asia. However, the team continues to work hard in the hopes of making WordCamp Asia 2021 happen. In addition, there were a number of releases and some exciting new …

When you’re relatively new, it’s easy to become excited that someone–anyone–wants to contribute to your blog and accept them all. Unfortunately, not all of those guest posts will make a good impact with your audience. Some might even bring down the quality of your blog. Most bloggers need time to learn the difference between a …

This is an update regarding Wordfence’s community engagement in 2020 along with a recommendation for WordCamps globally and for the global WordPress community. As always, I’m taking a data-driven approach to this post. I present an update from the WHO regarding the containment of COVID-19 in China and what has worked. I then discuss what …Read More

Divi is an excellent theme for blogging. You can create your own blog and post layouts to create a unique design to make your blog stand out. Of course, there are lots of blog layouts to get you started. In this article, we’ll look at 12 awesome Divi blog layouts to help with your next …

Greetings Divi community! Happy Valentine’s Day and Happy Leap Year! February has come and gone and spring is in the air! ? The energy in the Divi Meetup Community has been ramping up too and we’ve got yet another monthly update to report. Check it out! The Divi Nation Meetup Network by the Numbers Total …

Companies often educate their visitors about their services by offering a helpful illustration of the steps to their process. For example, a web design agency may show their process of web development, or a bakery may feature their steps for creating the perfect cupcake. With Divi, we can take the “steps to a process” to …

This week, we review numerous plugin vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugins and the attacks that are targeting them. We also review the Duplicator vulnerability affecting over 1 million sites, and Chloe Chamberland’s discovery of multiple vulnerabilities in the Pricing Table by Supsystic plugin. Some WordPress-focused companies, Elementor and Strattic, receive venture funding. We also ask …Read More

Every new freelancer needs to know how to avoid getting scammed when looking for work on online platforms. Starting a career as a freelancer can be a positive life-changing move. But sometimes when you start out as a freelancer you take on jobs that might not be the best choice. On some occasions, that job …

Elementor, which has quickly become one of the leading WordPress page builders and companies, announced Wednesday it raised $15 million … Continue reading Elementor Raises $15 Million, Plans to Invest in the Team, Product, and Community →

Almost every week, a new vulnerability is discovered in a popular WordPress plugin or theme, leaving developers scrambling to fix it before it’s widely exploited. Surprisingly, almost all critical vulnerabilities boil down to a few common mistakes. In this talk from WordCamp Phoenix, Ramuel Gall reviews these common errors and provides advice on creating secure …Read More

Whether you want to set up a stock photo website, sell digital photographs, or just want to showcase your portfolio, you should look into what the world of best web hosting for photographers has to offer.
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Divi is a great choice for building websites for nonprofit and charity organizations. Everything you need is built-in to design a site to show your causes, ask for volunteers, accept donations, and show your events. Fortunately, you don’t have to design the site from scratch. There are lots of Divi layouts available to get you …

When building and maintaining websites, we always have to take into consideration the security of the sites under our care. Blogs especially need an extra level of care considering the number of outlinks they usually have. Taking care of outlinks involves different tasks in order to always make sure they are optimizied. One of the …

Yesterday, the Gutenberg team released version 7.6 of the plugin. Most of the work in this update went toward the … Continue reading Gutenberg 7.6 Includes Rotating Tips List and New Full-Site Editing Blocks →

Customize your store without editing lines of code. Use WooCommerce Blocks to display products, categories, filters, and more – virtually anywhere on your site!

Early yesterday, the Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce plugin received a critical update to patch a zero-day vulnerability which allowed attackers to modify the plugin’s settings. As our Threat Intelligence team researched the scope of this attack campaign, we discovered three additional zero-day vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugins that are being exploited as a part of this …Read More

Divi’s Scroll Effects allow us to create exceptional transition animations that can wow visitors with an eye-catching design. Images, in particular, can showcase the power of these scroll effects in surprising ways. In this tutorial, we are going to explain step-by-step how to create a breakaway image transition with Divi’s scroll effects. This effect was …

Everyone loves page builders because they allow designing great-looking sites quickly and easily. And when building a multilingual site, you need to make sure that you can translate everything in your page builder’s design. In this article, we compare the most popular page builders and review their compatibility with WPML. What to look for in …

If your social media feed tends to pick up a lot of inspirational quotes and motivational creeds, you may have seen the 5-by-5 rule before: “If it won’t matter in five years, don’t spend five minutes worrying about it.” While it’s usually meant to apply to your personal life, it’s also sound professional advice. On …

Today, Jean-Baptiste Audras announced the WordPress Auto-updates feature plugin. The project seeks to bring automatic plugin and theme updates to … Continue reading Automatic Theme and Plugin Updates Slated for WordPress 5.5 →

In this post, we look at the best JavaScript libraries and frameworks to try out this year. Why? Well, with JavaScript being available in every web browser, this makes it the most accessible programming language of today.
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Every time a new Divi feature comes out, we try to share some cool and useful tutorials that’ll help you think outside the box and get creative with Divi. Today’s tutorial does exactly that. We’ll show you how you can create a responsive envelope animation with Divi’s scroll effects. This is a great way to …

Did you know that personal branding can be the “make it or break it” aspect of your professional career? When you meet people and have interactions on and offline, you are showing the world who you are. But are you showing the world the best version of yourself? As a professional, making meaningful connections is …

WordPress 5.4 Beta 3 is now available! This software is still in development, so we don’t recommend you run it on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with the new version. You can test the WordPress 5.4 beta in two ways: Try the WordPress Beta Tester plugin (choose “bleeding edge nightlies” …

Pop-ups increase your WooCommerce store’s sales without generating additional traffic. See the extension that converts more visitors into customers.

Some WordPress developers and agencies were caught off guard when WP Engine announced it had acquired Flywheel in June last … Continue reading After the Acquisition: Flywheel in the New Year →

On January 17th, our Threat Intelligence Team discovered several vulnerabilities in Pricing Table by Supsystic, a WordPress plugin installed on over 40,000 sites. These flaws allowed an unauthenticated user to execute several AJAX actions due to an insecure permissions weakness. Attackers were also able to inject malicious Javascript due to a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability, …Read More