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News & Articles

• WordPress.com Rattles Freelancer Community with New Website Building Service Launch (wptavern.com)
  WordPress.com launched a new website building service with prices starting at $4,900. Automattic has been beta testing the service since the last quarter of 2020. The product announcement invites customers to let WordPress.com’s professional team “translate your vision into a compelling and modern website” but does not specify pricing for more customized websites.
• Why WordPress List Posts Can Be A Bad Idea & A Real World Example/Teardown. (layerwp.com)
  A well-written list post can not only attract traffic but help people. This post isn’t about the best list posts; it’s about those who blatantly game the search engines for either profit or exposure.
• Who Attacked SolarWinds and Why WordPress Users Need to Know (www.wordfence.com)
  This post explores the different threat actor classifications and how these relate to WordPress users as well as took a deeper dive into who may have been responsible for the SolarWinds Orion hack.
• WP Buffs 2020 Year in Review (wpbuffs.com)
  
• Delicious Brains's 2020 Year in Review (deliciousbrains.com)
  
• 150k Small Business Website Teardown Part Three: WordPress (freshchalk.com)
  
• If You’re Afraid of Automattic Making $5K Websites, You Need to Change Your Approach (casabona.org)
  

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Plugin News

• Profile Builder Enhancements: Free Addons included in Main Plugin (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  Profile Builder, Cozmoslabs's all in one user registration and profile plugin, just got better. In an effort to give more control to their users while also increasing ease of use, they decided to include the free Profile Builder addons in the main plugin.
• Best WordPress SEO Plugins for Multilingual Sites (translatepress.com)
  Translating a website involves a lot of challenges. Not only do you have to translate the content of all your pages, but you also need to ensure that users can find the versions in their preferred languages. To do this, you’ll need to put some work into multilingual Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Fortunately, WordPress offers several SEO plugins that are multilingual-friendly.
• WordPress Blocks Backwards Compatibility (webdevstudios.com)
  
• Easy Digital Downloads EU VAT after Brexit (barn2.co.uk)
  
• How do WordPress Plugin Developers Make Money? (freemius.com)
  
• 8 of the Best WordPress Testimonial Plugins Compared (www.wpkube.com)
  
• 10 Best WordPress Automations to Make Your Life Easier (wittysparks.com)
  
• All in One SEO Plugin Turns on Automatic Updates without Notifying Users, Removes Functionality in Latest Release (wptavern.com)
  

Theme News

• Armando WordPress Theme Provides Insight Into the Current State of Full Site Editing (wptavern.com)
  The theme is a solid starting point for theme authors who have yet to dip their toes into block-based theme development. It is also usable enough for end-users who want to experience the current state of Full Site Editing.
• GeneratePress vs Astra: Which WordPress Theme Should You Use in 2021? (kinsta.com)
  
• What is the Fastest WooCommerce Theme? (chrislema.com)
  

Tutorials

• A Guide to the WordPress Template Hierarchy (2021 Edition) (kinsta.com)
  If you want to customize themes or build new ones from scratch, it’s important to understand how the WordPress template hierarchy works. First and foremost, this WordPress system helps keep everything organized. Once you know what all the theme template files are, what they do, and how they’re prioritized, you’ll be able to alter almost every aspect of how your WordPress website looks.
• Want to Get Started with Dynamic Content in WordPress? (chrislema.com)
  You might think that WordPress doesn't do dynamic content. But that's not true. And even though it's not a default feature of the software, several plugin providers have created solutions to help you with personalized content.
• PHP 8: The Complete Guide (ithemes.com)
  
• How to Set Up a Dropshipping Store (woocommerce.com)
  
• How to Optimize the WooCommerce Category Page for More Sales (iconicwp.com)
  
• How We Brought Down GitHub Actions Workflow Execution Time From 20 Minutes to 5 Minutes? (manzoorwani.dev)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• 2020 End of Year Review | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Using Tailwind with WordPress | WP Café (youtu.be)
  
• How to use Keyword Research to Get More Relevant Traffic | Kinsta (youtu.be)
  
• A Chat with Pippin Williamson | Torque's Social Hour (torquemag.io)
  
• Increasing Conversion Rates for Plugins & Themes | Freemius Experts Corner (youtu.be)