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News & Articles

• More Power in the Hands of WordPress Support Forum Users (wptavern.com)
  What level of control should users have over their WordPress support forum topics? That is the question at the heart of a recent discussion opened by Mika Epstein on the Make Support blog. The goal is to grant more power to users, particularly when they post private or privileged information to the public forums.
• The State of Themes and Plugins on WordPress.org in 2020 (www.ilovewp.com)
  In this article Dumitru Brinzan wants to analyze the themes and plugins that are available in the official WordPress.org repository. We're looking at the most liked and disliked themes and plugins, and at plugins that are larger than WordPress itself.
• Deque Systems to Host Axe-Con Virtual Accessibility Conference, March 10-11, 2021 (wptavern.com)
  Deque Systems, a widely respected accessibility firm that has contributed to setting up automated accessibility testing for WordPress core, will be hosting a new “Axe-con” virtual conference focusing on digital accessibility. Axe-con is named for the company’s axe-core project, an open source library and accessibility testing engine that can be customized to integrate with all modern browsers and testing frameworks.
• WordPress 5.5 Retrospective: We Want to Hear from You! (make.wordpress.org)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: September 2020, Part 1 (ithemes.com)
  
• VS Code Wins Best PHP IDE/Editor for WordPress Development in 2020 (deliciousbrains.com)
  

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Plugin News

• WordPress Plugin Authors Should Avoid Confusing Users When Naming Blocks (wptavern.com)
  On May 4, the StudioPress development team made a small but significant user-facing change to its Atomic Blocks plugin (now rebranded to Genesis Blocks). It removed the “AB” branding from its block titles. This minor update changed block titles such as AB Accordion and AB Button to Accordion and Button, respectively. On the surface, this change probably seemed of little consequence to the developers on the project. However, for at least one user, it created a massive workload.
• WordPress Plugin Roundup – September 2020 (ithemes.com)
  Each month, we recap the best WordPress plugins that were added or updated within the last 30 days on the WordPress Plugin Directory. Here’s a list of our favorite new or recently-updated plugins for September 2020.
• Meta Box vs. ACF (metabox.io)
  
• 6 WordPress Plugin Detectors of 2020 (wpbuffs.com)
  
• How to Create a Simple Gutenberg Block Pattern in WordPress (speckyboy.com)
  
• Gutenberg 8.9 Brings Block-Based Widgets Out of the Experimental Stage (wptavern.com)
  
• Put the Smackdown on Spammers: 15 Top-Rated WordPress Antispam Plugins (premium.wpmudev.org)
  
• How to Track your WordPress Plugin Competitors in WordPress.org Search Results (pluginrank.com)
  

Theme News

• WordPress Theme Directory Now With a “Delist” Status for Naughty Themes (www.codeinwp.com)
  
• Exploring Seedlet, Automattic’s Block-First WordPress Theme (wptavern.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Drip Content on Your WordPress Membership Site (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  While quick and easy sales are great, many businesses come to realize that monetizing content using drip feeding can result in more profit and can keep your audiences more engaged by rolling out information in smaller sections at a time. This specific tactic is called “drip content,” and in this post, we’re going to look at why drip content might be right for your business and how to set it up and get it running on your paid membership site.
• How to Setup WordPress Multisite for Multilingual Sites (translatepress.com)
  Multisite enables users to create a network of connected WordPress sites and manage them all from one dashboard. They share many assets, such as plugins and themes, which simplifies building and maintaining all of your sites. In this article, we’ll introduce the WordPress multisite feature and cover its advantages and disadvantages for multilingual content. Then we’ll walk you through the process of using it to create variations of your website in multiple languages.
• How to Create a Membership Site That Makes You Money in 4 Simple Steps (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  
• Complete Guide to Getting WordPress Help (www.valet.io)
  
• How to Choose an eCommerce Payment Processor (commercejourney.com)
  
• Why Launch Your Podcast with a WordPress Website? (wordpress.com)
  
• How to Fix ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH (9 Solutions) (wpbuffs.com)
  
• The WebSite Owner’s Guide to DNS Propagation (2020 Edition) (kinsta.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• WordPress Freelance Dev Life – Dev Branch | WPwatercooler (www.wpwatercooler.com)
  
• Building a Substack Alternative with WordPress | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Choosing a Product to Sell on Your eCommerce Store | Post Status (commercejourney.com)
  
• 12 Customer Acquisition Strategies that Drive Smart Growth (Part 1) | WPMRR Podcast (youtu.be)
  
• Grow Your Technology Business by Leaning into Diversity feat. Allie Nimmons | Press This Podcast (torquemag.io)
  
• Bold Moves, Woo Reluctance and Membership Sites with Shannon Shaffer from Purple Finch Studios | Bob WP (bobwp.com)
  
• Gutenberg Changelog #28 – the Block-based Widget Screen, the Query Block, G2 Components and More | Gutenberg Times (gutenbergtimes.com)