Category Archives: Gutenberg

Weekly WordPress News: Newfold Digital Acquires YITH

18.03.2022DigitalOcean, Gutenberg, WordPress 5.8, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. The acquisition train continues. This week, Newfold Digital has acquired YITH, one of the largest independent sellers and developers of WooCommerce plugins and themes for WordPress. Meanwhile, DigitalOcean has acquired popular web development learning site CSS-Tricks. Beyond that, WordPress 5.9.2 [...]

How to Add CTA Buttons to WordPress Posts and Pages Without Code

11.03.2022Blog, Buttons, Elementor, Gutenberg, TutorialsSimon Wright

WordPress, by default, has no options to add customizable buttons. However, there are many free and paid solutions to build attractive buttons. Which can be used in landing pages as well as in calls to action? There are WordPress plugins for almost every task. In this post, you will learn why you need these buttons and WordPress plugins to get them. [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress Business Acquisitions

04.03.2022Gutenberg, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, there were a couple of acquisitions in the WordPress space. WPExperts acquired Post SMTP, a next-generation WP Mail SMTP plugin. Meanwhile, hosting company Strattic acquired WP2Static and plans to relaunch it on WordPress.org. Beyond that, Gutenberg 12.7 landed [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress News Gets A New Look

18.02.2022Gutenberg, UpdraftPlus, wordfence, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress News got a fresh new look. According to the team, this is the first small step to modernize and improve the site. Meanwhile, there was a vulnerability found in the popular UpdraftPlus plugin, which Wordfence detailed on its [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Preliminary Roadmap for 6.0

04.02.2022Gutenberg, WordPress 5.9, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! Have you already taken WordPress 5.9 for a spin? This week, we learned about the general scope of the planned features to land in WordPress 6.0. According to this proposal, there will be two major releases this year – 6.0 in late May and 6.1 in mid-October. Meanwhile, the Gutenberg development team [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress 5.9 RC 3 Is Out

21.01.2022Gutenberg, WordPress 5.9, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends! This week, WordPress 5.9 is getting its final touches and is almost ready to launch. Since RC2, testers have found and fixed two bugs along with 14 Gutenberg fixes. We’re only a week away from the official launch, mark your calendars. Beyond that, Gutenberg 12.4 landed in the WordPress plugin directory with [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Welcome to 2022 In WordPress

07.01.2022Gutenberg, WordPress 5.9, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Happy New Year, WordPress friends! We are back with your latest dose of WordPress news after taking a couple of weeks off for the holidays. We enjoyed our break and we hope you did as well. Here’s to a better year for all of us! This week, WordPress 5.9 gets ready for prime time with [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WordPress 5.9 Beta 2 Release

10.12.2021Astra, Gutenberg, WordPress 5.9, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WordPress 5.9 Beta 2 is released and ready for testing, on track for January 2022 official release. Since Beta 1, 24 bugs have been fixed. If you’re interested in trying out the new features, check out this detailed [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Halloween Sales + Gutenberg 11.8

29.10.2021Gutenberg, Gutenberg Blocks, Halloween, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, Gutenberg 11.8 was released with dozens of enhancements including featured patterns, automatically-generated heading anchors, and spacing tools. In non-release news, there are some great WordPress Halloween deals to pay attention to: WP Rocket Halloween Campaign – get 20% [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Gutenberg 11.7 Has Been Released

15.10.2021Gutenberg, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This is the first week in a while without any WordPress acquisition news. This week, the latest version of Gutenberg has been released with some amazing features including a lighter navigation experience and block spacing options. Beyond that, the Jetpack Scan team [...]