Issue #86 - Experiments - WP Dollars, Fix ALT text, Block Borders

We all love experiments, especially WordPress users! Be it a new million-dollar WordPress page or a simple page that tells you the latest WordPress version. Plus, a more expanded serving in the form of new plugins for avatar images, assigning alt text, and building a portfolio grid – all included in this issue!

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• New Plugins… Mukesh Panchal has released a new plugin easy author avatar image that lets you upload a custom image easily for your profile page. Also, check the fix alt text plugin that promises to make it quick to add alternate text to existing images for accessibility and SEO goodness. WPZOOM has released a new portfolio plugin to display posts in a beautiful grid via Gutenberg.
  
  
• Got Noticed… Ben Townsend at LayerWP is back with a new experiment in the form of million dollar WordPress page which is infact very interesting and also made me (The WP Weekly) grab a spot there! While Aurooba Ahmed has created a one page website that tells you the latest WordPress version upfront.
  
  
• Product Updates… FluentCRM 2.5.6 update has added much requested auto migration feature from the popular email marketing services like ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, MailChimp, Drip, and ConvertKit. While the latest SEOPress 5.5 update focussed on improving instant indexing, REST API, and more powerful regex for redirections.

1. WP Ecosystem… what is the future of WordPress is the enterprise space? Spencer Forman from WPLaunchify has a breakdown in a special episode at The WP Minute. Also, WordPress will drop ‘Pee’ and ‘Tinkle’ jokes for more inclusive language, see comments on the page for views from both sides.
   
   
2. Payments on WP… Brandon Ernst has added much awaited Paypal integration to the payments page along with 11 stylish payment page templates and a few payment form customization options. While WP Simple Pay 4.4.3 has added integration for page builders like Elementor and Divi.
   
   
3. Acquisitions Train… WebFactory’s Nifty Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode Page plugin has been acquired by folks over at WP Concern. While the WPExperts has acquired Post SMTP plugin used for delivering emails from the previous owner Yehuda Hassine.

• Fluent Support has added WhatsApp Integration by Twilio.
• LiveChat included as WordPress VIP technology partner.
• Matt Mullenweg talks on Ukraine and WordPress community.
• Interesting: 5 social media trends you should know for 2022.
• Note: New home layout for Google Analytics 4 properties.

Gutenberg’s 12.7 update now allows you to add border styles to columns and margin to group blocks without the need for custom CSS code. This update also allows themes to highlight specific patterns to their users among other changes like improvements list view user interface. Also, here is how you can build a sidebar in your block-based WordPress theme.

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Davinder Singh Kainth
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