wpMail.me - wpMail.me issue#484

News & Articles

• The Festival of WordPress - WordFest (www.wordfest.live)
  Enabling a global celebration of WordPress, bringing the community together in a safe environment, whilst facilitating freedom of movement within a virtual event.
• Media Coverage in WordPress Should Take Another Route (pixelgrade.com)
  Efficient communication implies unceasing effort and plenty of empathy even though we easily take it for granted. In the end, we all talk in a way or another, right? Thoughtful and authentic communication is a challenge, one that the WordPress ecosystem keeps failing at.
• Take the 2020 WordPress Annual Survey (and View the 2019 Results)! (wordpress.org)
  This survey helps those who build WordPress understand more about how the software is used, and by whom. The survey also helps leaders in the WordPress open source project learn more about our contributors’ experience. You can also take the survey in French, German, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish! The survey will be open for at least 6 weeks, and results will be posted on this blog.
• Is Your WooCommerce Hosting Black Friday Proof? (convesio.com)
  
• Reflections on Running a Sustainable Digital Agency (branch.climateaction.tech)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: October 2020, Part 2 (ithemes.com)
  
• Welcome PushEngage to the WPBeginner Family of Products (www.wpbeginner.com)
  
• Nailing First Time User Experience (FTUE) for WordPress Plugins & Themes (freemius.com)
  
• Upcoming Webinar: MAPS – The Framework for Evaluating Your Ecommerce Business (commercejourney.com)
  

Sponsored by

Plugin News

• The Missing Gutenberg Blocks for WordPress (gutenberghub.com)
  WordPress Block Editor has many useful Gutenberg Blocks by default, and those are enough for writing content and creating most layouts. Those however were missing styling options compared to other website builder tools. And those were added by the Editor Plus plugin to make designing beautiful pages in Gutenberg easier.
• Yext Launches a WordPress Plugin To Connect To Its Answers Platform (wptavern.com)
  Last week, Yext launched its Yext Answers plugin to the WordPress community. The goal was to bring a platform that won the Best Software Innovation category of the 2020 Global Search Awards to WordPress.
• The Grumpy Designer’s WordPress Plugin Pet Peeves (speckyboy.com)
  
• How to Get the Most from Your Site Backups with Snapshot (premium.wpmudev.org)
  

Theme News

• WordPress Contributors Explore Adding Dark Mode Support to Upcoming Twenty Twenty-One Theme via a Plugin (wptavern.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Edit WordPress Language Files Manually (translatepress.com)
  There are a lot of ways to translate a WordPress website. You can do it manually, use plugin or machine translation, or even hire a professional to do it for you. However, regardless of which approach you choose, it pays to understand how to edit WordPress language files manually. In this article, we’ll go over the types of language files that WordPress uses. Then we’ll show you how to edit them manually, as well as alternative approaches to localization.
• How To Add Custom Fields to the WooCommerce Checkout Process (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  Looking to add custom fields to WooCommerce checkout? Along with your product pages, it’s enormously important to get the WooCommerce checkout page right. It can be vital in securing sales! The standard WooCommerce checkout field editor provides a range of standard fields to cover the basics. But what if you need more customization?
• Setting up Wordpress in Docker (dev.to)
  
• Turn on Debugging in WordPress: WP_DEBUG (wpshout.com)
  
• A Primer on the Different Types of Browser Storage (css-tricks.com)
  
• Google Core Web Vitals for WordPress — A Complete Guide (wpbuffs.com)
  
• Programmatically Upload and Unpack ZIP files in WordPress (www.ibenic.com)
  
• How to Set up Cloudflare APO for WordPress – A Deep Dive into Boosting Performance up to 300% (kinsta.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Funding a WordPress Podcast | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Creating Automated WordPress Growth Engines with Pat Ness | Press This Podcast (torquemag.io)
  
• Tooling: Using Create-Block Scaffolding and 3rd Party Templates | Gutenberg Times (gutenbergtimes.com)
  
• Greg Ziolkowski: How Modern JavaScript Influences WordPress Development | WordPress.tv (wordpress.tv)
  
• Tools for CSS and Theme.json, Twenty-Twenty-One Theme, a long Changelog for Gutenberg 9.2 | Gutenberg Times (gutenbergtimes.com)