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News & Articles

• WordPress 5.7 Beta 3 (wordpress.org)
  The current target for final release is March 9, 2021. That’s just three weeks away, so your help is vital to making sure that the final release is as good as it can be.
• WordPress Search Trends for 2020: Amazing for WooCommerce, Good for Plugins, Bad for Themes (getellipsis.com)
  WordPress is the most dominant CMS by a huge margin, and by one measure it recently passed a 40% share of all websites. As a community, though, we have a relatively poor understanding of specifically what drives WordPress’ growth. If we don’t understand why WordPress grows, we won’t be able to evaluate opportunities or respond appropriately if the growth rate ever changes.
• WP Engine’s Second Annual DE{CODE} Event Dedicated to Helping You Become a Better WordPress Developer (wpengine.com)
  The completely virtual, developer-focused conference will take place on March 4th with 15 expert-led sessions on how to leverage the latest WordPress technologies, tools and tactics for easy setups, fast builds, effortless launches and successful optimizations.
• WordPress VIP Acquiring Content Analytics Company Parse.ly (www.axios.com)
  
• WordPress Contributors Discuss Scaling Back Releases: “4 Major Releases Is Not a Viable Plan in 2021” (wptavern.com)
  
• Getting The Most out of Feature & Customization Requests for Plugin & Theme Developers (freemius.com)
  

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Plugin News

• How to Create a WordPress Multi-Step Form (Fast and Easy, No Coding) (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  In your travels in the beautiful world of the web, you’ll have no doubt seen a WordPress multi-step form. WordPress multi-step forms are all the rage these days, and they ensure a smooth registration process for membership sites. Why? They’re easy to fill in from a user perspective. Visitors want an easy life, and they don’t want to take a large amount of time registering for a website; their time is precious. In this guide, we’ll cover a wealth of options for creating multi-step forms, all available in Profile Builder Pro and its associated add-ons.
• Plugin Madness 2021 Nominations Open (torquemag.io)
  Is there a plugin you can’t live without? There’s nothing else like it and you still can’t believe it’s free? It’s time to show it some love by nominating it for this year’s Plugin Madness.
• Building Backcast, Part 1 (tommcfarlin.com)
  
• What’s New in Gutenberg 10.0? (17 February) (make.wordpress.org)
  
• WP Feedback Rebrands To Atarim, Moves To a Full SaaS Model (wptavern.com)
  
• wpDataTables Review (2021) – The Best WordPress Table and Charts Plugin (wplift.com)
  
• Ask the Bartender: Frustrations and Finding the Right WordPress Block Plugins (wptavern.com)
  

Theme News

• Review Best 7 WordPress Themes for Gutenberg for 2021 (metabox.io)
  Gutenberg first appeared a few years ago and was said to be the future of page editing in WordPress. And now, the latest version – Gutenberg 9.7 has just been released and proven that it’s not only the future of page editing but also more than that. With Gutenberg and a starter WordPress theme – free or paid, you can easily build your website with many powerful blocks.
• Phoenix, a Block-Based WordPress Theme With a Sidebar (wptavern.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Translate Your Entire Website Online – Complete Guide (2021) (translatepress.com)
  Struggling with how to translate your website online, without needing to resort to clunky PO editors, code, or other complicated setups? That’s what this post is about – we’ll show you step-by-step how to translate a website online using WordPress and the free TranslatePress plugin.
• 9 Tips to Create a Landing Page That Really Converts (gretathemes.com)
  Not everyone knows how to create a landing page that is truly effective and helps increase the conversion rate for maximum profit. Having worked on tons of campaigns and researches, the team at GretaThemes are going to show you their 9 best tips to help you create a successful landing page.
• How to Use WebP Images (dev.to)
  
• WordPress Debugging: The Essential Guide (ithemes.com)
  
• A Guide to Customizing Your WordPress Login Screen (layerwp.com)
  
• How to Create Flipbox Overlays and Hovers in WordPress (www.wpbeginner.com)
  
• How to Add Google Analytics 4 to WordPress (And What Is GA4 Anyway?) (creativethemes.com)
  
• A Guide on How to Use, Edit and Customise WordPress Archive Titles (highrise.digital)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Demoing the GraphQL API for WordPress (graphql-api.com)
  
• Why GPL is Great for Plugins and Themes | Freemius Experts Corner (youtu.be)
  
• How to Eliminate Render-Blocking Resources on WordPress (CSS + JavaScript) | Kinsta (youtu.be)
  
• Raising VC Funding in the WordPress Hosting Ecosystem with Miriam Schwab | Matt Report (mattreport.com)