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News & Articles

• WooCommerce Payments Allows Shop Owners to Manage Payments Without Leaving WordPress Admin (wptavern.com)
  Automattic-owned eCommerce platform WooCommerce launched its new WooCommerce Payments feature. The company seeks to make it easier for plugin users to manage the entirety of their shop from a single location. For users based in the U.S. with WordPress.com-connected accounts, they can begin managing payments directly from their WordPress admin.
• WP Engine US Summit/2020 (attend.wpengine.com)
  Since 2016, the WP Engine Summit has gathered the top minds in digital to come together to break down open source trends, technologies, research, and campaigns that accelerate digital breakthroughs. This June, they look to bring everyone together to envision new possibilities in the face of this challenging time.
• Announcing a New Chapter for Imagely (www.imagely.com)
  Imagely has a new owner and leader! Nathan Singh, a seasoned investor, and entrepreneur with deep knowledge of the WordPress gallery plugin market is taking the helm. Imagely will continue to have the same great team and the same goal of being the standard for photographers on WordPress.
• Join a Discussion About Full Site Editing and the Future of the Customizer (make.wordpress.org)
  
• The Elementor Attacks: How Creative Hackers Combined Vulnerabilities to Take Over WordPress Sites (www.wordfence.com)
  
• The Ecom Service Summit, a Free, Virtual Event (bobwp.com)
  

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Plugin News

• What’s New in Gutenberg? (13 May) (make.wordpress.org)
  Gutenberg 8.1 release mostly contains developments/enhancements on experimental screens, bug fixes, and performance improvements. It also contains some new features available on the general editor screens, described bellow.
• 16 Best WordPress Photo Gallery Plugins (Compared With Examples) (kinsta.com)
  You have an overwhelming number of WordPress photo gallery plugins to choose from. Go to CodeCanyon, WordPress.org, or make a Google search and you’re still going to be looking at a long list, without much guidance on what you should go for. Therefore, we compiled the best features to consider when looking through these WordPress photo gallery plugins.
• The 12 Best Map Plugins for WordPress (wpbuffs.com)
  
• New Accessibility Tools Now Free For The WordPress Community (campuspress.com)
  
• Google Patches Critical Vulnerability in Site Kit Plugin (wptavern.com)
  
• Squirrly 2020 Answers Call from Small Businesses for Affordable SEO Marketing Support with First-Ever Non-Human SEO Consultant (www.squirrly.co)
  
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• Cryptocurrency Entrepreneur Founds Rapidly Growing WordPress Security Plugin (freemius.com)
  
• Updated Plugin Release: GD bbPress Toolbox Pro 6.0 (www.dev4press.com)
  

Theme News

• Affiliate Program: How Pixelgrade Started and What They Learned (pixelgrade.com)
  Affiliate programs can turn into great relationships that go beyond making money together, or they can become a huge waste of resources for everyone involved. At Pixelgrade, they’ve been working hard to transform these collaborations into meaningful bonds and results. After more than two years, they reached this point with a few publishers.

Tutorials

• Best Way to Translate a Website in 2020 (Easy Tutorial) (translatepress.com)
  What’s the best way to translate a website in 2020? This is a popular question among website owners, and especially if it’s a business website that you’re running! In this tutorial, we take you step by step through the entire process and show you all the stages of translating your website in its entirety – from menus to content, images, and even SEO.
• WordPress Form Builder Plugin for User Registration (Step by Step Tutorial) (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  Using the Profile Builder Pro WordPress form plugin, you can fully customize your user registration form. You can also leverage advanced form building features including the option to add extra fields, create multiple forms, configure conditional logic, leverage repeater fields, and add reCAPTCHA. In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll show you how you can use a WordPress form builder plugin to create and customize user registration forms on your website.
• PHP Workers and WordPress: The Definitive Guide (pagely.com)
  
• How to Customize the WooCommerce Product Page (iconicwp.com)
  
• Exposing WordPress Site Data for Mobile Apps (www.designbombs.com)
  
• The Complete Guide to the WordPress Media Library (4 Handy Media Library Hacks Included) (kinsta.com)
  
• How to Use GTmetrix Speed Test Tool + Improve Your GTmetrix PageSpeed Score on WordPress (www.codeinwp.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• The Future of Funding in WordPress | WPMRR (wpmrr.com)
  
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• Matt Mullenweg with Reid Hoffman on Managing Remote Teams | Distributed.blog (distributed.blog)
  
• Gutenberg 8.1, Upcoming WordCamps, Full Site Editing, Community Contributions and Active Development | Gutenberg Times (gutenbergtimes.com)
  
• Ongoing Attacks on WP Growing in Volume Plus Numerous Plugin Vulnerabilities | Wordfence (www.wordfence.com)