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News & Articles

• WordFest Live Returns November 18, 2022 (www.wordfest.live)
  WordFest is a fully-remote, 24-hour event, designed to reach remote workers when they’re available, and wherever they connect to the Internet. It’s part of how Big Orange Heart accomplishes the mission “To support and promote positive well-being and mental health within remote working communities.”
• Solving WordPress Dashboard Spam and Contributing to WordPress (masterwp.com)
  There’s some amazing advantages to contributing – you can build your network, hone your skillset, accrue more career capital, and make your own experience inside of WordPress a little less crazy.
• Review Signal Publishes 2022 WordPress and WooCommerce Hosting Performance Benchmarks (wptavern.com)
  Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal has published the 2022 WordPress and WooCommerce hosting performance benchmarks. These benchmarks are some of the most trusted review sources in the hosting industry due to Ohashi’s transparent methodology. No hosting company sponsors the work. Instead, Ohashi charges a standard, publicly documented fee for participation that covers the cost of the tests.
• CMS Market Share - Analysis July 2022 (joost.blog)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – July 27, 2022 (ithemes.com)
  
• Is My Small Contribution too Small for WordPress’ Five for the Future? (estelarueda.com)
  
• Interview with Amber Hinds: Co-Organizer of WordPress Accessibility Day (masterwp.com)
  
• WordPress.com Ends Recent Pricing Experiment, Reverts to Previous Model (wptavern.com)
  
• Refocusing the WordPress Mobile App on the Core User Experience — Without Jetpack Jetpack’s Mobile App Will Absorb Outgoing Features (poststatus.com)
  

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Plugin News

• 5 Best WooCommerce Donation Plugins to Receive Donations on Your Store (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  WordPress and WooCommerce are extremely flexible in that they offer a plugin for adding pretty much any functionality to your site or store without having to touch the code. Just like there are WooCommerce Amazon affiliate plugins, there are donation plugins too.
• Akismet 5.0 Adds New Spam Detection Feature That Analyzes How Comments Are Posted (wptavern.com)
  For years, the vast majority of Akismet releases have been centered around bug fixes and improving compatibility with various plugins. Version 5.0 was released this week, following 4.2.5 earlier this month, with a new feature that should improve Askismet’s ability to detect spam comments.
• The Decline of Speed Booster Pack (poststatus.com)
  
• How to Handle Nulled WordPress Plugins and Themes (and Their Users) (freemius.com)
  
• Location Picker At Checkout for WooCommerce Review: Detect Customers’ Locations (wpmayor.com)
  
• Gutenberg 13.7 Expands Custom Template Capabilities, Adds Estimated Reading Time to Info Panel (wptavern.com)
  

Theme News

• Introducing Astra 3.9: Create the Ultimate Shopping Experience (wpastra.com)
  The latest update impacts every aspect of your WooCommerce store. From the shop and product page to the cart and checkout page, they’ve made major enhancements to just about every element of your store. Let’s review every page individually.
• WordPress Themes Directory Launches Pattern Previews in Beta (wptavern.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Add Conditional Logic to Menus in WordPress (www.wpbeginner.com)
  Do you want to show different navigation menu items for different pages in WordPress? Or display a different menu for logged in users? WordPress allows you to show a navigation menu in a specific location in your theme, but by default, it will always show the same menu. In this article, we will show you how to add conditional logic to menus in WordPress.
• Installing, Updating, and Managing WordPress Plugins With WP-CLI (deliciousbrains.com)
  WP-CLI allows you to do practically anything you can do in the WordPress admin, but on the command line. This saves a lot of time and provides a cleaner workflow. You can use WP-CLI to manage WordPress core, run theme updates, manage multisite installations, and much more. In this article we’re going to concentrate on one of the most common use cases, managing your WordPress plugins.
• Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes (learn.wordpress.org)
  
• Adding Custom Notices for the Gutenberg Editor (webdevstudios.com)
  
• How to Create, Add, & Edit a WordPress Navigation Menu (jetpack.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Why You Need a Business Sabbatical | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Beginner’s Guide to Contributions 2.0 | WP Briefing (wordpress.org)
  
• Strattic, WordCamps, and Growing through Relationships | Post Status Draft (poststatus.com)
  
• Sean Blakeley on Transitioning a Large Agency Over to Gutenberg | WP Tavern Jukebox (wptavern.com)
  
• WordPress Support Company Sitecare Acquires Maintainn from WebDevStudios | The WP Minute (thewpminute.com)
  
• Gutenberg 13.7, Template Creation Enhancements and First Full-Site Editing Themes in Woo Commerce Marketplace | Gutenberg Changelog (gutenbergtimes.com)