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News & Articles

• 2022 WordPress Community Support Financial Update (make.wordpress.org)
  With the recent update in guidelines for WordPress events it seems like a fitting time for WordPress Community Support to provide an overview of the state of the program’s finances.
• Google Says Emojis Won’t Hurt Or Help SEO (www.searchenginejournal.com)
  Google provides an update on the use of emojis in webpage titles and meta descriptions, saying they’ll neither hurt or help SEO. This is stated by Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller during the Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout recorded on January 28.
• CMS and E-Commerce Churn Data Shows WordPress Maintaining Market Lead, Shopify Gaining on WooCommerce (wptavern.com)
  Rick Viscomi, one of the maintainers of the HTTP Archive, tweeted some interesting data from a report he is working on that tracks churn for different JavaScript frameworks and CMS’s over a specified period of time. He detected the changes using the open source Wappalyzer project.
• The Complicated Futility of WordPress (coderjerk.com)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – February 9, 2022 (ithemes.com)
  
• Uberflip Joins the WordPress VIP Technology Partnership Program (wpvip.com)
  
• How We Analyse 20,000 keywords a Month for WordPress SEO Clients with FALCON AI (getellipsis.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Tripetto vs WPForms: Which Is the Best WordPress Form Plugin? (wpmayor.com)
  Trying to decide between Tripetto vs WPForms as the best form plugin for your WordPress site? WPForms is the most popular form plugin at WordPress.org while Tripetto is a newer form plugin that focuses on helping you build unique conversational forms with branching logic. Both have advantages and disadvantages to the other one, so you’ll want to make sure you have the information to choose the best form plugin for your site.
• Creating Content Dividers With the Wavy Divider WordPress Plugin (wptavern.com)
  Kevin Batdorf, the Project Lead Developer at Extendify, released the Wavy Divider plugin earlier this week. It is described as “a colorful, fun, lightweight divider block to energize your website with character and pizazz.”
• Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP Everywhere Allow Remote Code Execution (www.wordfence.com)
  
• Creating Slides With the Carousel Slider Block WordPress Plugin (wptavern.com)
  
• The Complete Gutenberg vs Brizy Comparison: Which Page Builder Is Better? (wpastra.com)
  
• SmartCrawl Adds Regex Pattern Support, Bulk Import/Export, and Redirect Options Galore! (wpmudev.com)
  
• 10 Best WordPress Affiliate Plugins in 2022: How To Use Other People To Promote Your Products and Services (wplift.com)
  

Theme News

• Miniblock OOAK and Outside-the-Box Ideas in the Theme Directory (wptavern.com)
  

Tutorials

• How to Redirect Users After Login in WooCommerce (Easily & Quickly) (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  The ability to redirect users after login is an important functionality for WooCommerce sites. It not only helps increase sales by redirecting customers to an optimized products or shop page, but also offers a better user experience overall. If you don’t set up a login redirect for your WooCommerce store, users may end up on the back-end of your site and this may lead to poor user experience.
• LearnDash Translation: How to Translate a LearnDash Site in WordPress (translatepress.com)
  If you want to reach a broader audience for your courses, learning how to translate LearnDash is a must. In addition to making it easier for a multilingual audience to consume your course content, you can also build a bigger audience in the first place via multilingual SEO and social media marketing. But if you’ve never created a multilingual LearnDash course before, it can be tough to know where to get started. That’s what this post is for.
• Local Development Setup on macOS (claudiorimann.com)
  
• A Deep Introduction to WordPress Block Themes (css-tricks.com)
  
• The Ultimate Guide to the WordPress Database (www.wpwhitesecurity.com)
  
• The Perfect WordPress Deployment Automation Flow (www.nexcess.net)
  
• Frontend Design, React, and a Bridge over the Great Divide (bradfrost.com)
  
• Core Editor Improvement: Curated Experiences with Locking APIs & theme.json (make.wordpress.org)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Three Goals in 2022 | WP Briefing (wordpress.org)
  
• WordPress 5.9 & WordCamp EU | Pressing Matters (pressingmatters.fm)
  
• Small Wins With Small Plugins | Post Status Excerpt (poststatus.com)
  
• What Freelancers Should Know about WordPress | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Marie O’Sullivan, a Therapist Helping Therapists with WordPress | Women in WP (womeninwp.com)
  
• Chris Lubkert and Rich Tabor on Building Sites With Extendify | WP Tavern Jukebox (wptavern.com)
  
• CI/CD in WordPress is Overlooked and How to Change that With Maciek Palmowski | Press This (torquemag.io)
  
• Restricting Customization in a Full-Site Editing World, Gutenberg 12.5 and Roadmap for WordPress 6.0 | Gutenberg Changelog (gutenbergtimes.com)