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News & Articles

• StellarWP Welcomes LearnDash to the Family (stellarwp.com)
  This acquisition marks StellarWP’s entrance into the booming LMS space. As the global pandemic continues to drive educators to virtual learning solutions, the LMS market is projected to grow by more than $30 billion between now and 2028, according to some projections.
• Awesome Motive Acquires Sandhills Development (wptavern.com)
  Awesome Motive, the company behind OptinMonster, WPForms, MonsterInsights, and other popular WordPress plugins, has acquired Sandhills Development. The deal includes all of the company’s WordPress products and services: Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, WP Simple Pay, Sugar Calendar, WP Simple Pay, and the Payouts Service.
• Join us for WordPress Translation Day Global Events in September 2021 (wordpress.org)
  WordPress contributors around the world are celebrating the sixth Global WordPress Translation Day throughout the entire month of September! That’s 30 days dedicated to help and encourage the volunteers that translate the software and its related resources.
• WordPress Vulnerability Report: September 2021, Part 4 (ithemes.com)
  
• Your WordPress Company Has Been Acquired: Now What? (poststatus.com)
  
• How JumpStory is Transforming an Industry Worth Billions of Dollars (jumpstory.com)
  
• PHP Maintains an Enormous Lead in Server-Side Programming Languages (arstechnica.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Plugin Developers, Don’t Ignore This Growth Strategy (chrislema.com)
  We all want to build products that deliver tons of value for all our customers. As a result, we often pursue a strategy for product development that has us building everything.
• Core Editor Improvement: Introducing the Widget Group Block (make.wordpress.org)
  This new block replicates the familiar experience of being able to add a title to a group of blocks and allows you to group any block, making it easier to move and layout content however you’d like.
• Native Land Search: A Free Plugin for WordPress Sites (pipewrenchmag.com)
  
• 7+ Best WordPress Helpdesk Plugin to Ensure Real-time Support for Your Customers (appsero.com)
  

Theme News

• Tove: A Block-Based WordPress Theme by Anders Norén (wptavern.com)
  
• Should Users Be Able To Select More Than One Block Style? (wptavern.com)
  
• I Rebuild My Site as a Block Based Theme – Here Is What I Learned (fabian-kaegy.com)
  

Tutorials

• Block Reference (fullsiteediting.com)
  If you need a quick way to find a blocks CSS class, or need to copy the markup for use with your Full Site Editing theme, you can use this Gutenberg block reference to view information about each block.
• Build a Laravel Live Commenting System (kinsta.com)
  If the idea of building your real-time commenting system — with the benefits of controlling your data, designing and customizing the look and feel to fit into your blog — appeals to you, keep reading.
• DNS Management for Agencies (convesio.com)
  
• What’s the Right Font Size in Web Design? (pimpmytype.com)
  
• The Ultimate Guide for Transpiling PHP Code (kinsta.com)
  
• What Is Serverless and How Is it Different From Hosting WordPress With a Server? (blog.ymirapp.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• 9 Years and 400 Episodes! | WPwatercooler (www.wpwatercooler.com)
  
• A Sneak Peek at WordPress 5.9 | WP Briefing (wordpress.org)
  
• The Great Wapuu NFT Experiment | WP Mainline (wpmainline.com)
  
• Pippin Williamson on Selling His Plugins to Awesome Motive | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Stop Focusing on WordPress Searches and Serve Your Customers | WP Review (wp-review.castos.com)
  
• Doing “The Right Thing” and MailChimp Acquisition Thoughts | Post Status Excerpt (poststatus.com)
  
• Planning, Scope and Team for WordPress 5.9, Roadmap for WooCommerce Blocks and Gutenberg 11.5 | Gutenberg Times (gutenbergtimes.com)