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Happy New Year, Divi Nation! It’s 2020 and the first month is already behind us! How’s the kick-off to your year going? Here at Elegant Themes, we’re happy to report that our Divi community is strong and growing! Check out our current stats and community updates. The Divi Nation Meetup Network by the Numbers Total …

Looking for a user-friendly, affordable alternative to Magento? Now’s the time to migrate from Magento to WooCommerce. Learn how and why you should.

The Gutenberg development team launched version 7.4 of the plugin yesterday. The update includes a few user-facing features: a text … Continue reading Gutenberg 7.4 Adds New Color Controls, Link UI, and Block Scaffolding for Developers →

Looking for the best website security check tool? Want to make sure that your website is safe and doesn’t suffer from any potential vulnerabilities that might cause issues in the future? You’re in the right place.
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Creating A Centralized Repository Of Divi Resources Today we are excited to announce that we will soon be launching an official Divi Marketplace here on elegantthemes.com. This will be a place where Divi creators from around the world can build and sell Divi Extensions, Child Themes and Layout Packs or give them away for free. …

There are few clear answers. As members of the core design, editor, and theme review teams joined for the inaugural … Continue reading Key Takeaways From the First ‘Future of Themes’ Meeting →

We’re proud to present Lossless Staging. The main difference from other WordPress hosting staging environments is that it will automatically sync changes from the live store before publishing the staging store. No more lost orders or customers!

We just released AFCML 1.6.0 which fixes a few issues and improves the translation support for ACF options page and taxonomy fields. Improved translation support for taxonomy and page options fields In older versions of ACFML, you could only translate the taxonomy and page options fields. In ACFML 1.6.0, you can set the translation preference …

Tired of social media taking so much time & producing so few results for your business? Here are 6 ways to turn social media followers into eCommerce sales.

Last week, London-based digital marketing agency Sweans Technologies released Guteblock, its new block collection plugin. Currently, the plugin boasts 12 … Continue reading Guteblock Joins the Block Collection Plugin Arena With an Initial 12 Custom Blocks →

If you sell WooCommerce themes, it’s crucial to have a sandbox environment for your potential users to test them. But it’s hard to build and maintain good hosting infrastructure just for that purpose. Explore how we built and now maintain the sandbox environment for the WoonderShop theme.

When you’re streamlining the way you create blog posts on your website, chances are high you’ll want to include an attractive CTA somewhere inside your post. Now, with Divi’s new Gutenberg layout block integration, you can easily add a new Divi-built block anywhere inside your Gutenberg blog post. This allows you to keep the overall …

Successful businesses require strong guidance from the people at the helm. Some say leadership is an innate quality only a few possess, but we’re of the mindset that it’s a skill you can hone just like any other. One of the best ways to do so is by listening to podcasts from the greatest business …

Today, Ahmad Awais launched WP Continuous Deployment, a continuous deployment pipeline for updating plugins hosted on WordPress.org via GitHub actions. … Continue reading Ahmad Awais Launches Script to Automatically Deploy WordPress Plugin Updates →

This is the February 2020 edition of “This Month in WordPress with CodeinWP.” // Hi everybody, welcome to our latest edition of WordPress news! We hope you started off the year with the batteries charged and you’re ready to embrace all the next challenges that are waiting for you around the corner.
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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 a brand new, free Divi Layout Pack from our design team to you. For this week, Kenny and his team have created a Mobile App Layout Pack you are going to enjoy. …

Following an action-packed December, 2020 is off to a fine start with some new releases and announcements. Read on to find out what happened in the WordPress project in January. Release of Gutenberg 7.2 & 7.3 Gutenberg 7.2, the first Gutenberg release of 2020, was deployed on January 8th and included over 180 pull requests …

Perhaps one of the most important aspects of running a successful WordPress website is maintaining page speed for your users. Caching plugins are one of the top ways to do so. And WP Rocket is near the top of the shortlist of most recommended plugins to handle this task. There is no free version of …

The Divi Layout Block opens the door for many convenient ways to bring the powerful design features of the Divi Builder to WordPress’s default block editor (Gutenberg). This allows you to write the bulk of your blog post content using the familiar Gutenberg block interface and then inject Divi Layouts where custom design or functionality …

Managers can be leaders and leaders can be managers, but when you get down to it, there are significant differences between the roles. Leaders may or may not have authority, but they always find a way to push people forward – to lead them to where they should go. On the other hand, managers direct …

Although sidebars have been around for a long time, they’re still frequently used around the web. They help show different elements that are connected to the post, such as recommended posts and email optin forms, without neglecting the main focus, which is the actual post content. Now, with Divi’s Theme Builder out there, there are …

WordPress log files are one of the most important aspects of the entire WP ecosystem that you may have never heard of. Or at least, may have never thought of. Log files are essentially records of everything that your website and server has done over its life (or a specific time frame). Unfortunately, many people …

In collaboration with the core design and editor teams, the WordPress theme review team will begin hosting biweekly (fortnightly) meetings … Continue reading Join the Future of WordPress Themes Conversation: Theme Review Team to Hold Biweekly Discussions →

With 2020 underway, I want to look back at some key goings-on from 2019 and reflect on the highs, lows, and in-betweens that the company went through. I’m also going to take this opportunity to share our plans moving forward.
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Whatever kind of website you’re building, chances are high that at some point, you’ll want to display a list of different services, steps and more. One of the easiest ways to approach creating such a list attractively is using Divi’s Blurb Module. Blurb Modules allow you to structure list content beautifully while providing you with …

Chloe Chamberland never wanted to get into security, and yet in the last three years, she has emerged as one of our most effective and prolific threat researchers. Not only does she find vulnerabilities in numerous popular plugins, she also travels the world while doing so. Chloe talked to me from a cabin in a …Read More

Giveaways are the lifeblood of marketing. Whether you’re a brick-and-mortar store trying to drum up sales or an online boutique who wants an influx of new customers, free stuff is almost always guaranteed to expand your reach. When it comes to online giveaways, two of the biggest competitors are Gleam.io and Rafflepress. Let’s break down …

It seems to be the week for dropping news of WordPress feature plugins. Felix Arntz, WordPress core committer and developer … Continue reading Native Lazy Loading Support Coming to WordPress →

We are happy to announce that Ultra theme and Themify Builder are now fully compatible with WPML! This means that you can translate all your site’s textual elements flawlessly. Ultra is a feature-rich multipurpose theme that you can use to build any kind of website you have in mind. It comes with many page layout …