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News & Articles

• SiteCare Acquires Maintainn (sitecare.com)
  SiteCare, LLC, a leading WordPress maintenance and digital marketing company, announced that it acquired the assets of WebDevStudios’ Maintainn division, their WordPress support and management unit.
• Is What’s Good for Gutenberg Also Good for WordPress? (thewpminute.com)
  There’s no getting around the fact that, for better or worse, WordPress and Gutenberg are tied at the hip. That’s fine – as long as they can learn to walk together in step.
• Project Update: WordPress.org Homepage and Download Page Mockups (make.wordpress.org)
  As the WordPress brand evolves and changes, the WordPress's team goal is to create something that looks forward to the future of the project. There are still many sections of the site to be updated, but we’ve got a great start with these new designs for two of the most high-traffic pages.
• Open Source and the Free Rider Problem (make.wordpress.org)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – August 3, 2022 (ithemes.com)
  
• WebP by Default Merged Into Core for WordPress 6.1 (wptavern.com)
  
• WordPress Product Founders on What They’d Do Differently (speckyboy.com)
  
• Are WordPress Hosting Companies Ready for Full Site Editing? (masterwp.com)
  
• Automattic Is Removing WordPress.com Features from the Official WordPress Mobile Apps (wptavern.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Barn2 Launches WooCommerce Product Filters Plugin (barn2.com)
  Barn2 have designed a new plugin which adds professional-level product filters to any WooCommerce store. They built it after analyzing the filters on the world's top e-commerce sites and bringing these techniques to WordPress for the first time. You can create filters for any type of product data, in a wide range of different styles.
• Gutenberg Contributors Experiment with Custom Labeling of Blocks in List View (wptavern.com)
  It’s easy to get lost among a sea of Cover, Group, and Paragraph blocks while navigating the block editor’s List View. Clicking around wildly will generally surface the block you’re seeking, but it’s not efficient or intuitive. Gutenberg contributors have some ideas and prototypes aimed at giving the List View more context.
• Print My Blog - Transparency Report of July 2022 (printmy.blog)
  
• 7 Best Invoicing Plugins for WordPress & WooCommerce in 2022 (wpmayor.com)
  
• 8 Best Reading Progress Bar WordPress Plugins (Most Are Free) (kinsta.com)
  

Theme News

• WordPress Theme Authors Are Moving to Host Fonts Locally (wptavern.com)
  The WordPress Themes team is poised to change its guidelines on remote hosting Google Fonts and is once again strongly urging theme authors to host their fonts locally.

Tutorials

• Is Google Translate Correct? A Deep Dive Into Google Translate Accuracy (translatepress.com)
  If you’re using Google Translate for your translations, you’ll probably be wondering if Google Translate is correct and whether you can trust Google Translate accuracy for your use case. Well, the short answer is this: Yes, Google Translate is very accurate for the most part. In some cases, it’s 94%+ accurate! With that being said, it’s not 100% perfect, and there actually is a more accurate translation service that you might want to consider in some situations.
• How to Create WordPress Redirects to Another Page, External URLs, or a Subdomain (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  There are different reasons WordPress site owners want to create WordPress redirects to another page, external URL, or a subdomain. The redirect can be based on an important user action or set up to redirect all users landing on a particular page. Whatever the type or need of your redirect, WordPress offers the flexibility to implement it in a few easy steps in the form of a plugin.
• How to Create Dynamic Blocks for Gutenberg (kinsta.com)
  
• 3 Worst Membership Cancellation Policies (and What to Do Instead) (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  
• How to Display Your WordPress Posts in a Grid Layout (www.wpbeginner.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• How Accessible Is WordPress? | Press the Issue (masterwp.com)
  
• The World of WordPress on World Wide Web Day | WP Briefing (wordpress.org)
  
• What is a WordPress Developer with Ebonie, Lisa, Kathy and Robbie | Do the Woo (dothewoo.io)
  
• "We’re Not a Small Village Anymore.” A Conversation with Kim Lipari | Post Status Draft (poststatus.com)
  
• Jonathan Wold on How Partnerships Might Help Your WordPress Business | WP Tavern Jukebox (wptavern.com)
  
• How to Find a Buyer for Your Business: Chris and Artur of Extendify Explain(ify) | Freemius (youtu.be)