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News & Articles

• WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate (wordpress.org)
  The first release candidate for WordPress 5.5 is now available! This is an important milestone in the community’s progress toward the final release of WordPress 5.5.
• WordPress to Stick with Online-Only Meetups and WordCamps for Remainder of 2020 (wptavern.com)
  The WordPress Community Team has officially updated its guidelines for WordCamps to be online-only events for the remainder of 2020. The six WordCamps on the schedule through the end of the year were already planning on using an online format but the guidelines also include local meetups.
• Page Speed: What We Learned By Analyzing 1,500 Agency Websites (convesio.com)
  Agencies have some of the best looking websites, often looking much more polished than the designs they produce for their clients. But how well do they perform, bearing in mind that 37% of visitors bounce when websites take over five seconds to load? Convesio analyzed 1500 agency websites on their page speeds, with some very interesting results!
• Google Core Web Vitals for WordPress: What You Need to Know (wplift.com)
  
• Develop, Test, and Showcase Blocks in Isolation With BlockBook (wptavern.com)
  
• Pragmatic and Angry Creative Merge to Capitalize on WooCommerce Services (bobwp.com)
  
• Building a Customer-Driven Hospitality Business (pixelgrade.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Barn2 Launches the Ultimate WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering Plugin (barn2.co.uk)
  After helping large numbers of restaurants use their other plugins to start selling online during the lockdown, Barn2 decided to create a purpose-built food ordering solution. The new WooCommerce Restaurant Ordering plugin aims to bring the clean, modern design of platforms like Uber Eats and Grub Huub to WordPress.
• Bing Launches URL Submissions Plugin for WordPress (wptavern.com)
  Bing has launched its first official plugin for WordPress aimed at helping site owners get their content indexed immediately. Instead of waiting for a bingbot to crawl the site, the plugin notifies Bing of any new or updated content automatically using its Submit URL API.
• How to Create a Powerful and Secure Customized Firewall with Defender (premium.wpmudev.org)
  
• Gutenberg Gets A Bad Rep – Here’s Why It Doesn’t Deserve It. (layerwp.com)
  
• What is the Best WordPress Form Plugin? (wpshout.com)
  
• Spotlight Pro Plugin Review. Embed Instagram Feeds In WordPress. (layerwp.com)
  

Theme News

• Upcoming in WordPress 5.5: Features and Changes Theme Authors Should Know About (wptavern.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Add Hreflang in WordPress (translatepress.com)
  One of the hardest aspects of creating a multilingual website is making sure search engines index your content properly. For that to happen, crawlers need to understand that there are multiple versions of each page, each in a different language. That’s where hreflang WordPress tags come in. hreflang tags aren’t inherent to WordPress websites. However, they’re easy to implement using this Content Management System (CMS).
• Essentials for Building Your First Gutenberg Block (blog.logrocket.com)
  Any functionality implemented for Gutenberg is also available for our own use. It is a good idea to be a heavy user of the WordPress editor, exploring all of its screens and user interactions, to discover and experiment with these functionalities and decide whether to port them to our own plugins.
• How to List All Users in WordPress (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  
• The Ultimate Guide to WordPress User Roles and Capabilities (kinsta.com)
  
• Create a WordPress Plugin to Rebuild Your Gatsby App on AWS using GitHub Actions (www.twilio.com)
  
• WooCommerce SEO (www.commercegurus.com)
  
• 9 Effective Tips to Shut Down Spam in WordPress for Good (torquemag.io)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Gutenberg 8.6, Block Patterns in WordPress 5.5 and Active Development | Gutenberg Times (gutenbergtimes.com)
  
• How Working with NonProfits Can Bring You More Clients | WP Gears (wpgears.com)
  
• Refund Policy Best Practices for Selling WordPress Plugins and Themes | Freemius (youtu.be)