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News & Articles

• Flywheel Relaunches Local Pro with Revamped Live Links and New Host-Agnostic Pre-Launch Tools (wptavern.com)
  Flywheel has relaunched Local Pro, the commercial upgrade for its free local WordPress development product. The first version of Local Pro, launched in July 2019, was heavily geared towards Flywheel customers, but the tool has gradually evolved to be more host-agnostic. This major update focuses on pre-launch features that allow developers to check links, optimize images, share a live link, and make changes with live reload.
• Grunt vs Gulp: Battle of the Build Tools (deliciousbrains.com)
  Task runners like Grunt and Gulp still have their place and the people still use both here at Delicious Brains as build tools for different products they develop. In this article, they’re going to take a look at both Grunt and Gulp to see what their differences are and look at the pros and cons of using each as a build tool for front-end assets.
• The Best Documentation Is No Documentation (wptavern.com)
  The goal of any software should also be to create self-documenting interfaces and other elements that a user interacts with. Users should be able to automatically understand the purpose of a button, text field, or checkbox without consulting the docs. The next time you sit down to write a new user-oriented piece of documentation, make sure that you are not using it as a crutch to prop up a poor user experience.
• Interview With Adrian Spiac of Cozmoslabs (layerwp.com)
  
• Kinsta vs. WPEngine: An Honest Review (wpshout.com)
  
• WooCommerce 4.3 to Introduce New Home Screen (wptavern.com)
  
• Presslabs Is the First Managed WordPress Hosting Platform Running on Kubernetes (www.presslabs.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Welcome Smash Balloon to the WPBeginner Family of Products (www.wpbeginner.com)
  Smash Balloon is a combination of four plugins that makes it easy for you to create and display custom Facebook feeds, custom Instagram feeds, custom Twitter feeds, and custom YouTube feeds on your WordPress site. Over the years what has made Smash Balloon stand out is that it’s easy to setup, and it is always reliable.
• 24 WordPress Membership Plugins to Capture Recurring Revenue (kinsta.com)
  Membership websites can mean big money, as long as you find the right niche, focus hard on providing quality products/services, and choose the best WordPress membership plugins to guide you along the way.
• Transparency Report of June 2020 – Print My Blog (printmy.blog)
  
• Revamp Your WordPress Admin With These 12 Awesome Plugins (premium.wpmudev.org)
  
• GiveWP 2.7 Adds Donation Form Templates and Per-Form Stripe Connections (wptavern.com)
  

Theme News

• 35+ Completely Free Clean, Minimal & Whitespace WordPress Themes (wplift.com)
  

Tutorials

• Make Gravity Forms Multilingual with TranslatePress (Easy Tutorial) (translatepress.com)
  There are a lot of fantastic WordPress form plugins you can use. However, Gravity Forms remains one of the most popular premium options on the market. One of the only downsides to using this plugin is that it doesn’t enable you to set up multilingual forms out of the box. However, you can quickly resolve this issue by using TranslatePress. The plugin enables you to quickly and accurately translate as many custom forms as you want into as many languages as you need to reach your international audience.
• How to Add WordPress Frontend Login to Your Website (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  Adding your own bespoke WordPress frontend login page will help you give your users a better experience and make your membership site run smoothly. They will be redirected to the frontend login screen even when trying to access the default WordPress login. Here’s how your frontend login page could look.
• Adding Modal Windows in the WordPress Admin Without JavaScript (www.designbombs.com)
  
• Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics (lwn.net)
  
• How to Remove Core WordPress Blocks (www.billerickson.net)
  
• How to Include JavaScript Files on Your WordPress Site with wp_enqueue_script() (wpshout.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Ultimate Guide to Free Trials for WordPress Plugins and Themes: Increasing Conversion Rates (Part 2) | Freemius (youtu.be)
  
• Anyssa Ferreira: Prototyping WordPress Projects | WordPress.tv (wordpress.tv)