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Let’s celebrate the awesomeness of WordPress, voting is open now for
The WP Award 2024. Vote for your favorite WordPress things or just
browse to discover something new. Also in this issue: new launches like
SureForms Pro, PassiveWP, CommandUI, IdeasWP, Lottie Lite, and many
more.
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| What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖 |
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- Got a Plugin Idea… Brandon Ernst and Ben Townsend have launched an interesting IdeasWP project
where you can submit your plugin ideas, and they will build the actual
plugin. Further, plugin will be listed on an upcoming website and you
will get 30% share.
- Lottie Animations on WP… the team at HumanMade has launched Lottie Lite for WordPress
animations plugin. It promises a simpler and more efficient solution
for WordPress users to display animations using Lottie files.
- WP Command Bar… Calvin Alkan is gearing up to launch CommandUI, which promises instant access to everything in WordPress, like installing plugins, searching CPTs, and more.
- WPForms to Slack… there is a new Slack addon
in WPForms that allows you to connect your forms directly to Slack
without any third-party tool. Like create Slack reminder when form is
submitted, send a DM to a team member, or send a message to a Slack
channel.
New Plugins: Forms, Marketing, Tables, & AI Content
Brand New Form Plugin… WordPress forms ecosystem has a new entrant: SureForms Pro
is now available for purchase. It allows you to create simple to
complex forms using an easy to use modern editor, supports over 20 input
fields, all of which are accessible and compliant.
For Affiliate Marketing… Nathan has released the PassiveWP plugin
for Amazon affiliates. It comes with Amazon Associates integration
allowing you to find the best products from Amazon products right within
your WordPress site.
Woo Product Tables… Crocoblock has launched a new Jet Product Tables
plugin for WooCommerce users. This allows you to build Responsive
product tables, with the listing of WooCommerce products on your
WordPress website.
AI Content Summary… Julian Yanover has launched WPSummarize,
which promises to create a summary with key data highlights of your
blog post content with AI powers. It can batch process existing posts
with the option for manual edits.
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| Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥 |
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- Breadcrumbs & Blocks… Justin Tadlock has updated the free X3P0: Breadcrumbs
plugin with the option to remove the first breadcrumb. It has also
added a Markup Style option for selecting between plain HTML, Microdata,
and RDFa (default) markup.
- Snippet for Patterns… Justin Tadlock has shared first snippet at the Developer Blog on the WordPress org website. Check the snippet that allows you to unregister patterns when specific blocks are unavailable.
- WordPress RC & 6.7v… WordPress 6.7 Release Candidate 1 is now available for download for your testing. WordPress 6.7 is scheduled for release on November 12, 2024, check the WP 6.7 field guide. Also, check this video by Paul Charlton covering WP 6.7 features.
- Security Collaboration… check this interesting conversation between Miriam Schwab and Oliver Sild, hosted by Nathan Wrigley, on security collaboration between Elementor and Patchstack.
- WooSesh This Week… mark your calendar to join the online event, WooSesh 2024 edition on October 29 & 30, 2024. It is a virtual conference for Woo store owners, with over 20+ speakers.
- WP Milestones… Themeisle has crossed 40K subscribers on their Youtube channel featuring WordPress tutorials. Jack Arturo shared (Links X) the 4,004,625.00 earnings milestone for WPFusion in the 10 year journey, consisting of 29,259 support threads.
Updates: Novashare, DocsBot, PowerPack, Future, Woo
Highlight & Share… Novashare 1.5.6v has added a new highlight and share feature that allows you to select any text on the website and then quickly share on social websites like X and Mastodon, or email it.
DocsBot AI… the latest updates allows you to harnessing the power of all your business data across various platforms with new cloud integrations for Slack, GitHub, Guru, ServiceNow, Amazon S3, Digital Ocean Spaces, Google Cloud Storage, and Zotero.
Progress Bar & Circle Widgets… PowerPack for Elementor addon has added all new progress bar widget with four different styles and also an interactive circle widget for displaying attention catching content.
PublishPress Future… 4.0v allows you to schedule changes
using advanced, drag-and-drop workflows. Like change the post status to
trash after one week, move a post to the draft status and add a new
category after 15 days.
Woo Subscriptions Integration… Wholesale Suite plugin has added integration for WooCommerce Subscription, allowing you to offer wholesale discounts on product subscriptions setup in your WooCommerce store.
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Quick Bits
Matt vs WP Engine: Injunction by WP Engine
Timeline of Events… WP Engine has published a timeline of events from September 23 to October 18, 2024 to keep everyone informed from their side of things.
“WP Engine filed a motion for a preliminary injunction, requesting
that the court order Matt Mullenweg and Automattic to stop their harmful
actions immediately and act to preserve the status quo ante while the
case is being litigated”.
Matt vs WP Engine: Who owns WordPress Org?
From the fine print, WordPress org is a property of Matt Mullenweg
and is not controlled by Automattic and WordPress foundation. This was
the talking point among members of the WordPress community.
Justin Ferriman shared
(Links X), “I’ve been in WordPress for a LONG time, and only today have
I learned that the repo is not the property of Automattic, nor the
WordPress Foundation. It’s Matt’s thing, and he has no obligation to
anyone.”
Andrew Palmer shared
(Links X), “I am blown away everyday that I see people say that they
didn’t realise @ photomatt owned dot org exclusively – I mean, where
have you been?”
Matt vs WP Engine: More Coverage
Disrupt Speaker… Matt Mullenweg has been announced to speak
at the stage of TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 event. To discuss, “about his
founder journey, his challenges, and what’s next for WordPress and the
web”.
BBC Coverage… “Caught in the middle of this row are the countless websites and blogs that rely on the two companies services”, check this from the perspective of an agency owner using both, WordPress and WP Engine.
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By
Davinder Singh Kainth
A creative who Loves to Create Online Spaces powered by WordPress.
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