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Weekly WordPress News and Updates: Plugin Security Boost: WordCamps to Receive Advertising Funds Under Proposed Changes

Team WPLift — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 12:01:26 +0000

In a significant move for the WordPress community, WordCamps are set to receive advertising funds under newly proposed changes. This initiative aims to boost the visibility and reach of these community-driven events, ensuring they continue to thrive and support WordPress enthusiasts worldwide. Read more! Stay tuned for more updates as this proposal progresses. Happy WordPressing 🚀 [...]

Weekly WordPress News and Updates: WP Engine Acquires NitroPack!

Team WPLift — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:50:24 +0000

July 18, 2024 – WP Engine, a global leader in web enablement, has acquired NitroPack, a renowned SaaS solution for site speed and performance optimization. This acquisition enhances WP Engine’s capabilities, offering customers advanced tools to improve site performance, including significant boosts in Google’s Core Web Vitals. NitroPack’s technology, known for its ease of use and powerful optimizations, [...]

Weekly WordPress News and Updates: Now, Monetize Your WordPress Site for Free with WordPress.com’s New Features

Team WPLift — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 13:52:33 +0000

WordPress.com has made its monetization features available for free. This means that users on the Free plan can now use monetization features without upgrading. In the past, WordPress.com users who wanted to earn money on their websites by collecting donations, creating a newsletter, or selling items or subscriptions had to be on one of the paid [...]

Weekly WordPress News and Updates: WordCamp Europe 2023: Learn, Connect, and Grow with WordPress!

Team WPLift — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 14:58:28 +0000

WordCamp Europe 2023 is a 3-day event that happens in a different European city each year that consists of sessions, workshops, networking, social events with the goal of sharing ideas, discussing all things WordPress and getting to know each other. This year’s event is being held in Athens, Greece from June 8 to 10. The [...]

Weekly WordPress News and Updates: WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary, Here are a few things to keep an eye for!

Team WPLift — Fri, 26 May 2023 14:20:51 +0000

WordPress has come a long way since its humble beginnings as a blogging platform. Over the past 20 years, it has grown into the world’s most popular content management system, powering over 43% of sites on the internet. Its intuitive, flexible tools have made it the go-to choice for bloggers, independent creators, and small business [...]

Weekly WordPress News and Updates: WordPress Is Developing a Command Center for Quick Search and Navigation Inside the Admin

Team WPLift — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:39:48 +0000

WordPress may soon be getting a Command Center, which would function as a quick search component for navigating to other areas of the admin, and would also be capable of running commands. The feature was introduced in Gutenberg 15.6 under the Experimental flag and currently has limited use in the Site Editor context while navigating [...]

Weekly WordPress News and Updates: MasterWP launches its 2023 WordCamp US Travel Grant program with an array of WordPress-industry partners

Team WPLift — Mon, 15 May 2023 14:42:22 +0000

MasterWP, the WordPress newsletter and education platform, announced its 2023 WordCamp US Travel Grant program, which will provide more than $10,000 in grants for members of underrepresented groups who are accepted to speak at this year’s premiere WordPress community event in National Harbor, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Potential speakers from groups that are underrepresented [...]

Weekly WordPress News and Updates: WordCamp US 2023: A New Chapter in Programming!

Team WPLift — Fri, 05 May 2023 16:41:41 +0000

WordCamp US is reimagining things this year by focusing on uniting the community and moving WordPress forward. WCUS is attempting to end the “Competition of Competitions,” to concentrate on this community’s collective goals. WCUS is targeting experienced, seasoned, professional speakers at the top of their industries who are not currently active members of our unique [...]

Weekly WordPress News and Updates: WooCommerce Launches Woo Express

Team WPLift — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:52:09 +0000

WooCommerce has launched Woo Express, a new managed hosting product that uses WordPress.com’s infrastructure and relieves store owners of the responsibilities of hosting and maintenance. The company soft-launched Woo Express in early March with a small selection of visitors but has concluded that phase and opened it up to the public. Woo Express provides a selection [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Over 1 Million WordPress Sites at Risk Due to AIOS Plugin Vulnerabilities

Team WPLift — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 09:59:08 +0000

The All-In-One Security (AIOS) WordPress plugin from UpdraftPlus publishers provides encryption and firewall measures that aim to prevent hackers. It offers a range of security features, including firewall protection against hacking threats, copyright protection, hotlinking prevention, comment spam blocking, and log-in privacy safeguards to keep hackers out. Additionally, the plugin enforces proactive security by alerting [...]