Hey, WordPress friends. This week was fairly quiet in terms of WordPress news. Most notably, there was a vulnerability in the popular WPBakery Page Builder plugin, which Wordfence detailed on its blog. Be sure to give it a read if you’re using WPBakery. Beyond that, WooCommerce 4.6 is out with some new features for store ... Read more
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Hey, WordPress friends. Last week, we told you about Cloudflare’s new web analytics tool. This week, Cloudflare launched something even cooler – affordable optimization specifically built for WordPress sites. This lets you use Cloudflare’s full page caching without breaking your WordPress site for just $5 per month. Pretty interesting! Beyond that, full site editing with ... Read more
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Hey, WordPress friends. The biggest news this week is not WordPress-specific, though it’s definitely something of interest to WordPress users. Cloudflare, the popular free CDN/security tool, just released its own web analytics product that focuses on privacy. Will it replace Google Analytics for some people? Who knows, but it’s definitely an interesting option. Speaking of ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: Cloudflare Launches Web Analytics Tool & Elementor 3.0 Review
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Hey, WordPress friends. This week, we got the first sneak peek of Twenty Twenty-One, the next default theme for WordPress. It looks pretty great, especially if you’re a fan of pastel colors. Beyond that, WordPress missed out on powering the W3C website and CodeinWP released the 2020 version of their big WordPress hosting survey. Let’s ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: Sneak Peek of the Twenty Twenty-One Theme
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Hey, WordPress fans. This week, there was another big acquisition in the WooCommerce space. GoDaddy acquired SkyVerge, the company behind over 60 different WooCommerce add-ons. Most notably, WooCommerce Memberships and Jilt, an email marketing solution for eCommerce. GoDaddy has been really pushing its WooCommerce plans, so there will likely be some good synergy here. As ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: GoDaddy Acquires SkyVerge
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Hey, WordPress friends. This week, Gutenberg 8.9 (the plugin version) is out with a new block-based approach to widgets. Beyond that, Meta Box published an in-depth comparison of Meta Box vs ACF, which you’ll probably find useful if you’re building custom content websites with WordPress. Let’s get to all of this week’s news… WORDPRESS NEWS ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: Blocks Instead of Widgets?
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Hey, WordPress friends. In big news this week, iThemes acquired the popular Restrict Content Pro plugin from Sandhills Development, the same company behind Easy Digital Downloads. It’s yet another big acquisition in the WordPress space after iThemes themselves were acquired by Liquid Web in 2018. Beyond that, there’s a new WordPress maintenance release in WordPress ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: iThemes Acquires Restrict Content Pro
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Hey, WordPress fans… This week, Elementor, the most popular page builder and the one we use here at WPLift, released its latest major version. It brings both new features as well as a lot of code optimizations. Because it’s such a big change, make sure you test it on staging, especially if you rely on ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: Elementor 3.0 Is Out
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Hey, WordPress fans. Last week, WordPress 5.5 officially launched. It’s one of the bigger major releases in a long time in terms of features, which brought both pros and cons. There are also reports of compatibility issues, so you might want to wait a couple of weeks before you update (don’t worry – there are ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: Some WordPress 5.5 Issues + More
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Hey, WordPress fans. In the biggest news this week, WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine” is officially out with a bunch of new features and improvements. Give it a try (after thoroughly testing it on a staging server). In the second biggest news this week, the massively popular Astra theme was suspended from WordPress.org…before later being reinstated, with ... Read more Weekly WordPress News: WordPress 5.5 and Astra Theme Drama
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