Hopefully you’ve had a good week sorting through the thousands of privacy policy update emails you received as a result of the GDPR… This week, we have a great deal for you – we got WP Compress to extend its lifetime image optimization deal for WPLift. With this deal, you can optimize 30,000 images per ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Special Lifetime Deal At WP Compress
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This week, we got the release of WordPress 4.9.6. True to the numbers, it’s technically a minor privacy and maintenance release. But because it adds some big new features to tackle the GDPR, some people think it straddles the line between minor and major release. CodeinWP also published the results of their 2018 hosting survey. ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: WordPress 4.9.6…A “Major” Minor Release?
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This week, we got news that WordSesh will be back on July 25th. You can learn more about it at the Post Status Draft podcast. WordPress 4.9.6 release candidate is also out, and WPTavern has a good look at some of the new GDPR compliance tools that it contains. We also got message from our ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: WordSesh Returns On July 25th
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You probably already know that WordPress is pretty popular. But just how popular is “pretty popular”? Have you ever wondered more about WordPress’ usage stats and just how many websites out there are running on the best content management system in the world (ok – that might be editorializing)? I know I was curious – ... Read moreA Collection Of Interesting WordPress Usage Stats: Market Share, Themes, Plugins, + More
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This week, Pagely published the results of their survey about WordPress headaches. Performance issues took the lead as the biggest pain point. Weglot also published a new transparency report that details some pretty massive growth. And we have some good developer guides on Gutenberg migration, MySQL data reconstruction, and styling the default WordPress media player. ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: The Biggest WordPress Headaches
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As far as WordPress news goes, this week was pretty quiet. WPTavern did spot some issues with using Gutenberg on iOS devices. And Ionut from CodeinWP also published another transparency report that’s worth a read. Beyond that, Daan’s EasyThemePacks shop just launched two new premium Elementor templates for travel agencies and bakeries. And Delicious Brains ... Read moreWeekly WordPress News: Gutenberg/iOS Troubles + New Elementor Templates
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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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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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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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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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