Category Archives: WordPress News

Stylemix Companion Theme Review: Create a Powerful First Impression for Your Business

07.10.2022Elementor, Multipurpose Theme, reviews, woocommerce, Woocommerce Themes, WordPress News, WordPress ThemesTeam WPLift

Companion is a high-performance theme for high-powered companies and organizations who need to impress clients with a powerful and professional online presence. Developed by Stylemix, a top-trusted Power Elite Author on the popular Envato Marketplace, the theme certainly has all the credibility you’d expect from a top WordPress business theme, but is it the right [...]

Location Picker at Checkout Review: Improve Customer Satisfaction With This Easy Address Locator

06.10.2022woocommerce, woocommerce plugins, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Location Picker at Checkout (LPAC) is a powerful WordPress plugin that works with WooCommerce to give your customers more freedom and flexibility over pickups and delivery. If you’re running a taxi or rideshare business, for example, and your usual geo-location tool only gives customers a rough geographical area to arrange where they’re collected from, that’s [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Partnerships and Updates

30.09.2022WordPress 6.0, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, we heard about a couple of partnerships in the WordPress space. Rocket.net and Atarim worked together to offer a full solution for hosting and visual collaboration. Meanwhile, MainWP partnered with SEOPress and created a useful extension for mutual [...]

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Plugins

26.09.2022Elementor, iThemes, Marketing, page builder, Security, seo, WordPress News, WordPress PluginsTeam WPLift

One of the many things that make WordPress the most popular CMS in the world is the huge array of WordPress plugins that can be used to add just about any kind of functionality you can think of. That’s great, but if you’re new to all this, the above statement probably raises more questions than [...]

Weekly WordPress News: MetaSlider Joins the PublishPress Team

23.09.2022Gutenberg, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. The WordPress acquisition train continues. This week, PublishPress acquired Metaslider, a WordPress slideshow plugin with over 700,000 active installations. Beyond that, Gutenberg 14.1 is released with an improved navigation block and an experimental zoomed-out view in the site editor. We also [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Investments in the WordPress Space

16.09.2022Automattic, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. Automattic made a significant investment in the self-managed WordPress hosting platform Gridpane. According to its founder and CEO Patrick Gallagher, the additional capital will go towards innovation and marketing initiatives. Meanwhile, Atarim closed its first funding round with funding from [...]

Weekly WordPress News: WP Super Cache Joins Jetpack

09.09.2022jetpack, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, WP Super Cache, one of the most widely used WordPress caching plugins, joined the Jetpack family. Meanwhile, a security vulnerability was found in the BackupBuddy plugin. Make sure to update sites to version 8.7.5 or higher. This is [...]

Weekly WordPress News: Gravity Forms Acquires Gravity Flow and Gravity Experts

02.09.2022gravity forms, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, Rocketgenius, the company behind Gravity Forms, announced its acquisition of Gravity Flow and Gravity Experts. Beyond that, the popular performance enhancement plugin WP-Optimize was accused of gaming page speed results. The company promptly responded to the allegations. Let’s [...]

Weekly WordPress News: DigitalOcean Acquires Cloudways

26.08.2022Elementor, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, DigitalOcean announced its acquisition of Cloudways, a leading cloud hosting platform. The $350 million deal seeks to help small and medium-sized businesses build and grow their digital footprint. Beyond that, Elementor 3.7 is now out with significant enhancements [...]

Weekly WordPress News: A New WordPress.org Homepage

19.08.2022Automattic, WordPress NewsTeam WPLift

Hey, WordPress friends. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. The WordPress.org homepage and download page got a fresh new look this week. It features the usual jazzy design WordPress is known for. Beyond that, WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s “This is not a good use of time” comment on this [...]