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News & Articles

• Local Avatars in WordPress? Yes, Please (wptavern.com)
  It is an age-old question. OK, well, it’s really a 10-year-old feature request, but that is age-old in software development years. Should WordPress have a local avatar system?
• Apple to Enforce 1-Year Limit on SSL/TLS Certificate Lifetimes on September 1, 2020, Mozilla and Google to Follow Suit (wptavern.com)
  Beginning September 1, 2020, Apple’s Safari browser will no longer trust SSL/TLS certificates issued for longer than 398 days, which is the equivalent of one year plus the renewal grace period. Apple will begin enforcing the change immediately, which means it will deny connections to TLS servers that don’t meet the new requirements. After Apple’s announcement, both Google and Mozilla contributors moved to propose their own implementations that cap certificate validity at 398 days.
• How Kinsta Designed the Fastest WordPress Hosting Experience (kinsta.com)
  In 2016, the Kinsta team set out to make their already high-performance WordPress hosting even faster. That journey culminated with them moving and consolidating their entire infrastructure from multiple providers to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this article, we’ll dive deep into Kinsta’s vision and why they chose Google Cloud Platform as their infrastructure provider.
• WordPress Co-Creator Mike Little & Friends to Discuss the Contributions & Challenges of the Black Community within WordPress & Genesis (studiopress.blog)
  
• Building Successful Client Relationships Virtually (webdevstudios.com)
  
• Some Thoughts on Virtual Event Fatigue (casabona.org)
  
• Why WordPress 5.5 is Breaking Sites (www.searchenginejournal.com)
  
• WordPress 5.6 Release Planning (make.wordpress.org)
  

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Plugin News

• How to Password Protect WordPress Site (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  Looking to password protect your WordPress site? You might think that to do this you need to install a full-blown membership plugin, but you don’t. The Profile Builder Pro plugin is designed to give unlimited flexibility when it comes to user management and restricting different parts of your WordPress site.
• WordPress Page Builder Showdown: Elementor vs Divi vs Beaver Builder (mhthemes.com)
  Many page builder plugins have sprung up throughout the years, but we're going to focus on three: Elementor, Divi and Beaver Builder. Other page builders exist for WordPress, but these three page builder plugins have risen above the rest.
• Top 13 WordPress Project Management Plugins and Tools to Use in 2020 (kinsta.com)
  
• Revive Old Posts Review: How to Receive More Traffic from Social Media (mhthemes.com)
  
• WooCommerce 4.4 Updates Blocks and Centralizes Coupon Management (wptavern.com)
  
• Enable jQuery Migrate Helper Plugin Passes 10K Active Installs (wptavern.com)
  
• Why You Should Support Your Free WordPress Plugins (pluginrank.com)
  
• Announcing Content Notify (contentnotify.com)
  

Theme News

• WP Rig Starter Theme Project Looking for New Maintainers (wptavern.com)
  
• Astra – What’s Behind the Drama? (mediaron.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Create a WooCommerce Multi Language Site (Plugin & Tutorial) (translatepress.com)
  Looking for an easy way to create a WooCommerce multi language store? If you want to fully translate and localize your store, you’ll need the help of the right plugin. In this post, we’ll talk about some of the benefits of translating your store. Then, we’ll show you step-by-step how to use a WooCommerce multi language plugin to translate your entire store and let visitors choose their preferred language(s).
• How to Add Cookie Notice in WordPress Without a Plugin? (www.wplogout.com)
  In this tutorial, we are going to add cookie notice in WordPress without a plugin. Basically, you can find lots of plugin in WordPress repository with GDPR compliant to display cookie consent notification. But in this guide we are going to do show cookie notice without the help of any plugin.
• How to Display Posts on a Category Page, Divided Into Their Respective Subcategories (wpshout.com)
  
• 3 Simple Ways to Use Personalization in Emails to Improve Engagement (www.mailpoet.com)
  
• How to Create a WooCommerce Food Delivery Website (iconicwp.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Offering Coupons & Seasonal Discounts for WordPress Plugins, Themes, and SaaS - Experts Corner | Freemius (youtu.be)
  
• WordProof.io: Building Trust Over the Internet through Blockchain & WordPress | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Buying, Selling and Building WooCommerce Plugins with Matt Geri from Sftwr | BobWP (bobwp.com)
  
• Running a Team of 20+ Translating the Web (Augustin Prot, WeGlot) | WPMRR (wpmrr.com)
  
• David Zimmerman | Hallway Chats (hallwaychats.com)