To decrease abandoned cart rates, you’ll need new ways to optimize your eCommerce store. If there are too many steps required to purchase your products, visitors may just simply leave without buying. That’s where Buy Now buttons can simplify the Continue reading How to Add Buy Now Buttons to Your Products
Lemmony is a new WordPress block theme designed by the team at Shufflehound, a theme development company based in Europe with commercial products on Themeforest. This is the team’s first block theme on WordPress.org and it is a strong debut. Continue reading Lemmony: A Free WordPress Block Theme with 30+ Patterns
Jetpack 11.9 was released this week with support for sharing posts to Mastodon. The new button allows readers to click an icon to launch a sharing window that will ask the user to enter the full URL of the Mastodon Continue reading Jetpack 11.9 Adds Sharing Button for Mastodon, Updates Stats Dashboard Design
Transcript [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox is a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in Continue reading #66 – Sé Reed and Courtney Robertson on How the WP Community Collective Is Helping WordPress Contributors
WP Engine is beta testing its new Pattern Manager plugin for creating and maintaining patterns. The plugin is intended for WordPress professionals – developers, agencies, and freelancers, who could benefit from having an interface and system for pattern management. “There Continue reading WP Engine Pattern Manager Plugin Now in Beta
Images are an essential part of blog posts and using visual elements is definitely among the best practices of creating blog content. You probably already know that. But do you ever ask yourself if the way you are using images Continue reading Blog Images Best Practices: 10 Ways to Use Images in Blog Posts
WordPress contributors have updated the legacy default themes to bundle Google Fonts locally in the theme folder, instead of loading them from Google’s servers. In years past, loading fonts from the the Google CDN was the recommended practice for performance Continue reading WordPress’ Legacy Default Themes Updated to Bundle Google Fonts Locally
If you’re not yet excited about the upcoming WordPress 6.2 release, you will be after watching the new live demo product video that was recorded last week. The demo was presented by Anne McCarthy and Rich Tabor, and moderated by Continue reading WordPress 6.2 Product Demo Video Now Available
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On March 2, release squad members Anne McCarthy and Rich Tabor presented a live product demo of all the delights coming in WordPress 6.2, set to release on March 28, 2023. A first-of-its-kind event in the world of WordPress releases, Continue reading Your WordPress 6.2 Preview
Representatives of the WordPress Themes Team are looking to carry forward the momentum contributors found in creating the Twenty Twenty-Three theme’s style variations by launching a new Community Themes initiative. Leading up to WordPress 6.1’s release, 19 designers from eight Continue reading WordPress Themes Team Proposes Community Themes Initiative
February has been an exciting month for the WordPress community, with the celebration of the first-ever WordCamp Asia bringing friends and contributors back together in person. But that’s not all; read on for the latest project updates. Get ready for Continue reading The Month in WordPress – February 2023
Last month’s Twitter outage gave Mastodon a boost, as the company also announced unpopular changes to its API access. People from the WordPress community continue to trickle into the fediverse, with many going so far as to shutter their Twitter Continue reading WordPress Community on Mastodon Launches “Toot the Word” Survey
MonetizeMore, an ad revenue optimization company, has acquired the Advanced Ads plugin and will be hiring the team behind the products. The plugin’s ad management tools are used by more than 150,000 websites to create, display, and rotate ad units, Continue reading MonetizeMore Acquires Advanced Ads Plugin
Join WordPress enthusiasts from across the globe on May 27, 2023, as they come together to celebrate its 20th anniversary! Regardless of how you use WordPress or where you call home, you are invited to celebrate this great milestone. Plan Continue reading Let’s Party: Organize your WP20 Celebration!
In today’s economy, the ability to create is more important than ever. And the rise of the “creator economy” has made it easier for people with creative ideas to share them with the world, and get paid for them. But Continue reading What is the Creator Economy (And How Can You Join It?)
Transcript [00:00:00] Nathan Wrigley: Welcome to the Jukebox podcast from WP Tavern. My name is Nathan Wrigley. Jukebox has a podcast which is dedicated to all things WordPress. The people, the events, the plugins, the blocks, the themes, and in Continue reading #65 – Bob Dunn on Building a WooCommerce Community
Wordfence has published the details of two stored XSS vulnerabilities the company responsibly disclosed to the developers of the All In One SEO plugin in January 2023. The vulnerabilities potentially impacted more than 3 million users on versions 4.2.9 and Continue reading All In One SEO Patches Multiple Stored XSS Vulnerabilities in Version 4.3.0
This month we feature Hauwa Abashiya, a project manager in Nigeria and the UK, whose passion for community support led her to an adventure in open source. The People of WordPress series features inspiring stories of how people’s lives can change for Continue reading People of WordPress: Hauwa Abashiya
WordPress 6.2’s Openverse integration is getting some last minute changes after contributors expressed concerns about it hotlinking images by default. The new feature allows users to quickly insert free, openly-licensed media into their content. It also allows users to upload Continue reading WordPress 6.2 Openverse Integration Updated to Upload Inserted Images