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News & Articles

• WordPress 6.0 “Arturo” (wordpress.org)
  Say hello to “Arturo” and WordPress 6.0, inspired by Grammy-winning jazz musician, Arturo O’Farrill. Known for his influence on contemporary Latin jazz, Arturo has pressed more than 15 albums spanning a body of work across five decades.
• Some Great Stuff We’ve Learnt from WordSesh 2022 (masterwp.com)
  The online conference WordSesh 2022 took place last week, featuring talks for all of us making a living of WordPress (whether as a theme or plugin developer, designer, SEO specialist, or marketer, working in an agency, as a business owner, or freelancing), offering valuable lessons that we can benefit from.
• WordPress 6.0: Top 20 New Features & Improvements (ithemes.com)
  WordPress 6.0 includes over 500 enhancements and 400 bug fixes intended to make your content-creation and site-building experience with WordPress even better.
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – May 25, 2022 (ithemes.com)
  
• An Interview with Olivia Bisset on WordPress and wp19! (masterwp.com)
  
• Open Source Initiative Launches News Blog on WordPress (wptavern.com)
  
• The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship Returns for WordCamp US 2022 (wordpressfoundation.org)
  
• Udemy vs. WordPress LMS: Which Platform Should You Use to Sell Online Courses? (convesio.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Sucuri vs Wordfence – Which WordPress Security Plugin is Better? (www.fixrunner.com)
  Both Sucuri and Wordfence provide great protection to your website. The choice of which to go for depends on your budget and type of website. Sucuri’s cloud-based firewall blocks malicious traffic before it gets to your site and also improves your site’s speed. Wordfence, on the other hand, is low-cost and it offers a free server-side firewall.
• The 6 Best WooCommerce Plugins for Selling to B2B Customers (barn2.com)
  
• How to Add a Reading Progress Bar in WordPress Posts with the Word The Read Plugin (www.wpbeginner.com)
  

Tutorials

• Successful Onboarding: Membership Onboarding Best Practices in 2022 (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  With a well-designed membership onboarding process, you’ll be able to convert users faster, keep them engaged with your membership offering, and potentially generate more revenue for your business. With this in mind, in this article, we’ll share some useful tips that can help you create an effective onboarding process for your membership site.
• WordPress Database Optimization: Adding Indexes to Custom Tables (spinupwp.com)
  Just like the index of a book, an index greatly improves the speed of retrieving data from your database tables. It should be the first thing you think about when you create a custom table. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to optimize databases with indexing, and highlight how not having indexes can affect your WordPress website’s performance and hence its search engine ranking and user experience.
• How to Use tmux for Remote & Local Development (deliciousbrains.com)
  
• Font Matrix – See & Pair Typefaces Like Never Before (pimpmytype.com)
  
• WooCommerce Function of the Week: wc_get_product_category_list (poststatus.com)
  
• How to Handle WordPress Form Submissions Correctly - Complete Guide (2022) (tripetto.com)
  
• The Ultimate WordPress Checklist: 100 Tasks for Every WordPress Website Owner (ithemes.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Can WordPress Save the Planet? | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Managing Product Teams at StellarWP | Post Status Excerpt (poststatus.com)
  
• Building a Site with WordPress 5.0 vs WordPress 6.0 | Anne McCarthy (youtu.be)
  
• Mark Root-Wiley on Creating Standards for CSS in WordPress | WP Tavern Jukebox (wptavern.com)
  
• Brian Krogsgard on Determining Membership Benefits and Preventing Churn | How I Built It (howibuilt.it)