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News & Articles

• Volunteer at WP Accessibility Day! (wpaccessibility.day)
  WordPress Accessibility Day is a nonprofit event organized and run entirely by volunteers who share a common goal: never to stop advocating for and creating an accessible internet. And we need you to join us!
• Not Sure How to WordPress Anymore? (css-tricks.com)
  We have so many tools for extending WordPress as a CMS that the front end of a WordPress site may vary from site to site. We can quite literally build an entire custom WordPress site with nothing but some tweaks to the theme.json file and fiddling around with layouts in the Block Editor. It’s amazing and dizzying all at once.
• WordPress Core 6.0.2 Security & Maintenance Release – What You Need to Know (www.wordfence.com)
  On August 30, 2022, the WordPress core team released WordPress version 6.0.2, which contains patches for 3 vulnerabilities, including a High Severity SQLi vulnerability in the Links functionality as well as two Medium Severity Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities.
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – August 31, 2022 (ithemes.com)
  
• Rob Howard's WooCommerce vs. Shopify Speedrun (masterwp.com)
  
• Documenting the Successful Launch of Japanese Online Workshops (make.wordpress.org)
  
• James Koster Shares Design Explorations that Transform WordPress’ Site Editor Into a More Visual, User-Friendly Tool (wptavern.com)
  

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Plugin News

• 5 Best WooCommerce Shortcodes Plugins for Managing Functionalities on Your Store (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  Shortcodes are basically small snippets of code that you can just paste into different areas of your website to add certain functionalities you want without having to modify your website’s code. But since there’s a need for a much larger variety of shortcodes than what WooCommerce offers by default, we have curated a list of the best WooCommerce shortcodes plugins you can use on your store.
• 10 Accessibility Plugins & Themes for WordPress (Recommended by Experts) (wpmayor.com)
  Websites that are easy to use keep visitors coming back, rank better in search engines, and can, in turn, improve your business’s bottom line with increased sales. But what does “easy to use” mean? Is there a standard for measuring your website’s usability? This post answers these questions and more.
• 10+ Image Optimization WordPress Plugins (www.wpexplorer.com)
  
• WP-Optimize Denies Allegations of Cheating Performance Tools (wptavern.com)
  

Theme News

• 21 Most Customizable WordPress Themes of 2022 (wpastra.com)
  Do you want to change the look of your current WordPress website? Want to level up your current look or change the design to match a rebrand? There are thousands of WordPress themes out there that can help you create an engaging website that attracts your target market. None of us has time to check out each and every one of them, so we have done the hard work for you.
• Block WordPress Themes Worth Exploring (wpengine.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Make Word Documents in WordPress (printmy.blog)
  WordPress can quite easily be used as a total replacement for Microsoft Word or in conjunction with it. Even if others expect and require Microsoft Word documents, there are advantages to using WordPress and exporting to Microsoft Word as needed.
• How to Test Webhooks From Public APIs in Local Development (deliciousbrains.com)
  Webhooks are a mechanism for receiving notifications about events from disparate systems without having to continuously poll them. One of the challenges of working with webhooks is testing the code that you write to process webhooks in your local development environment. In this article we are going to show you some of the options available to test webhooks locally.
• Adding Custom Hooks in WordPress: Custom Filters (code.tutsplus.com)
  
• How to Accept PayPal Payments in WordPress (Best Option) (profilepress.com)
  
• A Backend Engineer Learns to Build Block Editor Blocks, Part 1 (tommcfarlin.com)
  
• When to Use a Local WordPress Web Development Environment (4 Cases) (torquemag.io)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• WordPress Accessibility in a Page Builder World | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• What Does It Mean To Contribute To WordPress? | Post Status Excerpt (poststatus.com)
  
• Laura Nelson on How To Create a Profitable Newsletter | WP Tavern Jukebox (wptavern.com)
  
• Are Gutenberg Third Party Plugins Heading in the Wrong Direction? | Pootlepress (www.pootlepress.com)