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News & Articles

• WordCamp US 2021 Back and Better Than Ever (torquemag.io)
  After a year of planning and perfecting virtual events, WordCamp US is back! The team will hold a one day all virtual, free event on October 1 starting at 8:45 am PDT and we couldn’t be more excited. Get ready for great speakers, sponsors, and even music!
• Is There a Future for Small WordPress Businesses? (wpmayor.com)
  The past few months have been riddled with acquisitions in the WordPress space. This past week we saw two huge ones with LearnDash becoming part of StellarWP (Liquid Web) and Sandhills Development selling all its plugins to Awesome Motive. Both of these are huge acquisitions with the latter causing more concern than the rest.
• Inside Awesome Motive’s Self-perpetuating Marketing Machine (getellipsis.com)
  It’s extremely important the WordPress industry understands what’s going on within the industry. Awesome Motive’s acquisition of Sandhills’ products is an extremely important moment in WordPress. AM as a network is vital for understanding their growth and strategy. The network makes the individual products worth more than the sum of their parts.
• Implementing a Webfonts API in WordPress Core (make.wordpress.org)
  
• A Bright Future: SomewhereWarm Joins WooCommerce (woocommerce.com)
  
• Keanan Koppenhaver Acquires WP Pusher and Branch (wptavern.com)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Report: September 2021, Part 5 (ithemes.com)
  
• How to Hire Your First Customer Support Agent as a WordPress Solopreneur (freemius.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Upcoming Gallery Block improvements (wordpress.org)
  An exciting update to the Gallery Block gives you more ways to show off images in your posts and pages. While this change won’t be available for most folks until WordPress 5.9’s launch in December, we wanted to share some of what’s to come to get you excited about the future.
• Barn2's Plugins New WooCommerce Side Cart Plugin to Grow Your Sales (barn2.com)
  Barn2 have designed a new plugin which makes it quicker and easier for customers to complete their orders. Unlike most popup cart plugins, WooCommerce Fast Cart displays both the cart and checkout. This means that customers can quickly review their orders and check out without leaving the page.
• How to Handle Block Pattern Translations (make.wordpress.org)
  
• Payment Page is Now a Stripe Verified Partner! (payment.page)
  
• Add Custom SVGs via the Icon Block WordPress Plugin (wptavern.com)
  
• Adding Blocks With Animated Backgrounds Using WebArea’s Latest Plugin (wptavern.com)
  

Theme News

• Introducing Astra 3.7 with Global Color Palette, Button & Typography Presets (wpastra.com)
  The Astra theme is loved by millions of WordPress users as it allows you to build beautiful, feature-rich websites in minutes. With Astra 3.7 we aim to further our mission of making web design easy by introducing three powerful new features that provide streamlined visual controls site-wide.
• Neve, the WordPress Theme that Turns Your Website into a Rocket (wpmarmite.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Add a Language Switcher to WordPress (www.wpexplorer.com)
  Making your site multilingual entails more than just translating your website’s content. Of course, the translation is still the main part of the process, but making sure the translated content is correct, SEO friendly, and easily accessible to your visitors is just as important to the user experience. Having a good functioning language switcher is essential to the user when working with a multilingual WordPress website.
• WordPress Block Widgets Explained: How to Use Them and Why (creativethemes.com)
  The WordPress block widgets change a lot in how we’re all going to interact with our site sidebars going forward. In this quick guide, we tell you all about what block-based widgets are and how to use them effectively.
• wp_mail() Is NOT Broken (konstantin.blog)
  
• Nonces in WordPress – All You Need to Know (pressidium.com)
  
• 4 Best Local Development Tools for WordPress in 2021 (technextgen.net)
  
• Why You Should Keep Your Email and Hosting Separate (kinsta.com)
  
• Domain Mapping as an Alternative to WordPress Multisite (domainmappingsystem.com)
  
• Best Ways to Encrypt Passwords, Keys, & More with PHP in 2021 (deliciousbrains.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• A Chat With Jen Swisher About WordCamp US | Hallway Chats (hallwaychats.com)
  
• WordPress Support & Training with D.J. Billings | Women in WP (womeninwp.com)
  
• Internet Art and WordPress with Rachel Winchester | Press This Podcast (torquemag.io)
  
• WordPress Acquisition Overload Syndrome (W.A.O.S) | Post Status Excerpt (poststatus.com)
  
• AmyJune Hineline Talks About Contributing to WordPress | Torque’s Social Hour (torquemag.io)
  
• Syed Balkhi on Awesome Motive Acquiring Sandhills Development Plugins | Matt Report (mattreport.com)