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By now we’re all getting weary of the phrase “new normal.” Much ink has been spilled over the question of … Continue reading State of the Meetup Under Lockdown →

Fixed footer bars can be a convenient way to keep important information about your website at the forefront as the user engages with your page content on any device. Like with Divi, a footer bar usually exists as a static element at the very bottom of the page after the main footer content. They include …

Your WordPress RSS feed likely plays an important role on your site, even if you’re not directly aware of it. It may keep readers appraised of your latest posts, or even improve your content’s visibility. Being able to fix it if it’s experiencing an error is key to keeping your site running smoothly. In this …

Hi BuddyPress contributors, We’ve just updated the plugin to help you test BuddyPress beta & RC releases. From now on, when testing BuddyPress pre-releases, you’ll find a new section into the plugin’s administration screen called “What to expect from next release?” as shown below. By clicking on the “our Development Blog” link you will be …

Shop Sale Happy Easter everyone! The smell of growing grass and the longer days of sun are many things to look forward to this time of year. And as usual, we’ve got a great Easter 30% Off Sale on EVERYTHING (yes, including the Lifetime Club) for you to revamp and brighten up your online WordPress …

It’s more important than ever to follow up with existing customers. Learn how to save a ton of time by automating your most important follow-up emails.

A common theme among my friend groups is the utter boredom of being under stay-at-home orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. … Continue reading Fighting the Stay-At-Home Boredom: Time to Create Rather Than Consume →

Divi’s scroll effects help bring an entirely new dimension to the design you’re creating. With every new Divi feature, we also try to share tutorials that’ll help you view your web design from a different perspective. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to limit module scroll effects to column containers. This means that whatever …

Content marketing is essential for many businesses and brands, but it can be time-consuming to keep your marketing pipeline full. One way you can save time and money in your content marketing is by repurposing content. Repurposing content means that you take one piece of existing content and use it to create content for other …

On Monday, the WordCamp Europe team announced it would hold its annual event online from June 4-6. The move comes … Continue reading WordCamp Europe 2020 Is Moving Online This Summer →

What’s up with coding music? Should you bother building your ultimate playlist? People have been arguing about music and productivity since before cavemen started using Walkmans. After all, we’ve all argued that music played at ’11’ is the only effective way to study algebra.
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Creating text background scroll animation is a unique way to add colorful moving textures to the text on your website as a user scrolls down the page.  With Divi, the process is surprisingly easy once you learn a few key techniques. In this tutorial, we are going to use nothing but the power of Divi’s …

Every web developer has a favorite code editor. Some people swear by an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) whereas others just want simplicity. If you prefer the latter, you may appreciate Sublime Text packages. One of the most attractive aspects of Sublime Text is that it’s highly modular. If you’re a purist, you can use the …

In the April edition of our “People of WordPress” series, you’ll find out how Mario Peshev went from self-taught developer to teaching basic digital literacy.

How much do you really know about your customers? Learn why buyer personas are the foundation of your business & how to create your own in just four steps.

The Jetpack team announced today that its search service is now available as a separate package from the professional bundle … Continue reading Jetpack Re-launches Search Feature as Standalone Service →

Creating interactive design comes with many advantages. One of them is the fact that you can fit more visual content inside a single section and determine how the visual content shows up while visitors are scrolling. It elevates the overall user experience visitors have on your website and takes your web design efforts to the …

On March 3, 2020, our Threat intelligence team discovered a number of vulnerabilities in WP Lead Plus X, a WordPress plugin with over 70,000 installations designed to allow site owners to create landing and squeeze pages on their sites. These vulnerabilities allowed an authenticated attacker with minimal permissions, such as a subscriber, to create or …Read More

Google is always looking to provide better solutions to users’ problems. One of the ways it tries to do so is by delivering answers directly within its results pages to save searchers a click or two. These are what we call “featured snippets.” Not only do Google featured snippets make research simpler, but they can …

Out of thousands of free WordPress themes, how do you pick the right one for your site? You want a theme that will fit your brand, make your site stand out, be lean and offer the features that you need. We’ve reviewed over a million commercial websites running WPML and compiled a list of free …

Denis Žoljom, the automation representative for the WordPress theme review team, proposed moving much of the theme review system over … Continue reading Proposal to Move WordPress Theme Review Process to GitHub →

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, Kenny and his team have created an exciting new Event Layout Pack. This layout pack is …

This week, we look at the WordPress 5.4 release which includes turning distraction free editing on by default. We also look at new plugin vulnerabilities discovered by the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team, including those found in Rank Math and a Contact From 7 helper plugin. We review the new features recently added to Fast or …Read More

Leaving a job is stressful, whether you’re excited to move on to a better opportunity or you’re fed up with your employer and need a way out. If you have a good relationship with your boss, you may be worried about disappointing him or her. If you have a bad relationship with your boss, you …

Social distancing is pushing local businesses online. In this post we list some of the practical steps that you can take right now, to find local businesses who need your help. As shoppers stay home in increasing numbers due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, business owners are quickly realizing the importance of moving their stores …

The Events Calendar is the gold standard events calendar for WordPress. It works well with Divi, but to add it to your Divi layouts requires you to use a shortcode. Styling is done from its settings tab in the WordPress dashboard. This makes it difficult to integrate the styling with your Divi layout. A third-party …

One of the advantages of Divi’s design system with sections and modules is they can be pre-styled and reused on many websites. This has opened up opportunities to build libraries of sections and elements to help build your Divi websites. There are lots of places online where you can purchase them. In this article, we’ll …

On Wednesday, Garret Hyder announced a feature proposal for a WordPress Consent API. The proposal is one step on the … Continue reading Proposal to Add a Consent API to WordPress, Feature Plugin Available →

The month of March was both a tough and exciting time for the WordPress open-source project. With COVID-19 declared a pandemic, in-person events have had to adapt quickly – a challenge for any community. March culminated with the release of WordPress 5.4, an exhilarating milestone only made possible by dedicated contributors. For all the latest, …