Category Archives: WordPress News

Weekly WordPress News: Elementor Gets Theme Building

This week, Elementor, the page builder that we use here at WPLift, got a massive new feature. Elementer Pro now offers full theme building. You can use the same Elementor interface to build your header, footer, single post, and archive pages. It’s super cool. And what’s awesome is that this is a core Elementer Pro ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Elementor Gets Theme Building

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Weekly WordPress News: Gutenberg Gets Drag And Drop

This week, Gutenberg 2.6 dropped with a much-needed new feature: drag and drop block sorting. Now, instead of needing to jam on the up or down arrows, you can simply drag a block to a new location. We also featured an EasyThemePacks review, that’s Daan’s new project which sells premium Elementor templates. A great place ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Gutenberg Gets Drag And Drop

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Weekly WordPress News: WordPress 4.9.5 Is Here!

In last week’s news, we shared that WordPress 4.9.5 was going to bring a new prompt for users to install Gutenberg. Well…that prompt got pushed back. But we still saw WordPress 4.9.5 drop this week to take out 25 different bugs. Delicious Brains also released news about an awesome new Blockchain project on April 1st ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: WordPress 4.9.5 Is Here!

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Weekly WordPress News: Gutenberg Gets More Public In WordPress 4.9.5

The Gutenberg Editor is getting closer to primetime – in WordPress 4.9.5, users will see a dashboard prompt that nudges them to Try the new editing experience. Mark Uraine also has some good thoughts on the Gutenberg interface. And WP Tavern published another good Gutenberg read if you still haven’t had your fill of Gutenberg talk. ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Gutenberg Gets More Public In WordPress 4.9.5

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WordPress GDPR: What It Is And What You Need To Know

If you pay attention to the news, you’ve probably seen this strange four-letter acronym increasingly popping up among webmasters (perhaps with a sense of panic attached): GDPR. What does it mean? And do you need to care about it as a regular webmaster? In this post, I’ll give you a general overview of what the ... Read moreWordPress GDPR: What It Is And What You Need To Know

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Weekly WordPress News: Stop Supporting Legacy PHP Versions

This week, we have a call for developers to stop supporting legacy PHP versions, as well as tips to prepare your website for Google’s mobile-first index. We also have some great tutorials, as well as our review of the neat Weglot translation plugin. Let’s get to all of this week’s news… WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Stop Supporting Legacy PHP Versions

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Weekly WordPress News: TechCrunch Headless Redesign With React + WordPress

This week, TechCrunch launched a redesign in the “form of a single page style React app, decoupled from its WordPress backend.” A pretty cool look at what you can do with WordPress and the REST API. Their post announcing the redesign is definitely an interesting read if you’re into WordPress. We also collected a bunch ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: TechCrunch Headless Redesign With React + WordPress

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Weekly WordPress News: The Challenges Of Running A WordPress Business In 2018

This week, there’s a big post from Alexander Mat, the co-founder of MotoPress, about the challenges of running a WordPress plugin and theme business in 2018. We also got a sneak peek at Elementor 2.0 – it looks like there’s going to be a ton of new features that move Elementor into a full theme ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: The Challenges Of Running A WordPress Business In 2018

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Weekly WordPress News: Surveying The WordPress Facebook Community

Like last week, there wasn’t very much WordPress news this week. We did find a neat post from Cloudways where they survived a bunch of WordPress users on Facebook on various topics. And Greg Schoppe also posted some interesting Gutenberg benchmarks. Other than that, we have plenty of helpful tutorials, as well as some of ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Surveying The WordPress Facebook Community

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Weekly WordPress News: Product Support, Gutenberg, And Page Builders

There wasn’t much WordPress core news this week – perhaps everyone was too busy with Valentine’s plans. We do have some good articles on offering support for WordPress products, developers doing interesting things with Gutenberg, and how some of the most popular page builders stack up when it comes to performance. We also have detailed ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Product Support, Gutenberg, And Page Builders

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