In July, Termly announced its acquisition of the GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner plugin. The new direction was an overhaul of the WordPress extension, turning what was once a free offering into, essentially, a commercial SaaS product. Users could run the service for up to 100 visitors. After that, the cheapest tier would cost $180 per […]
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5 of the Best Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Plugins For WordPress
No matter what your business entails, you’re almost guaranteed customers. The hope is that you have many of them, although loyal ones can be just as (if not more) profitable. As such, you need to make sure who they are, what they spend with you, and (in an ideal world) when they last engaged with […]
Continue readingA Versatile Approach to Building Attractive Websites
The Litho Multipurpose WordPress Elementor theme is a low-cost, high-value theme package that offers an abundance of options for creating great-looking WordPress websites exactly the way you want them. Whether you’re building a brochure-style site for your new business, an eCommerce store to sell your products, or a portfolio site to showcase your creative work, […]
Continue readingWorldwide WordPress Virtual 5K Set for October 1-30, 2021 – WP Tavern
Automattic is organizing its 2nd annual Worldwide WordPress 5K during the month of October this year. Registration for the race is free and participants will have the opportunity to donate to a charity of their choice, with Automattic matching donations up to $50,000. Just like the first Worldwide WP 5K that was held in 2015, […]
Continue readingWeekly WordPress News: Automattic Acquires Frontity
Hey, WordPress fans. We are checking in with your latest dose of weekly WordPress news. This week, Automattic acquired Frontity, an open-source React framework for WordPress-powered websites. The Frontity founders will apply their expertise to the Gutenberg project full-time. Beyond that, WordPress 5.8.1 release candidate is out and available for testing. This release features 41 […]
Continue readingExtendify Patches Vulnerabilities in the Redux Framework Plugin – WP Tavern
Wordfence has published two vulnerabilities that affect users of the Redux Framework plugin, which has more recently come to be know as the “Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework” on WordPress.org. Extendify purchased the plugin from its creator, Dōvy Paukstys, in November 2020, in a deal that was not highly publicized. It is currently active […]
Continue readingA World Where (Some) Block Development Is Merely a Templating System With No Build Process? – WP Tavern
What if WordPress developers lived in a world where we could create PHP-based templates that would output data on the front end and handle editable fields via the block editor? Or, we had a system where we could create blocks without a build step? While there are many reasons the modern WordPress editor is not […]
Continue readingAstra Theme Review: Is It the Best WordPress Theme in 2021?
Considering using the Astra theme for your website? In our hands-on Astra theme review, we’ll help you decide whether it’s the right theme for your needs. Astra has the impressive distinction of being the most popular non-default WordPress theme ever. It was the first and only non-default theme to pass the one million active install […]
Continue readingGutenberg 11.4 Overhauls Galleries, Adds Axial Padding for Buttons, and Lays Groundwork for Global Spacing – WP Tavern
Another two weeks have flown by, and another Gutenberg plugin update is in the books. I always look forward to the latest release, awaiting what goodies our contributor community has produced. Sometimes I jump the gun and install a development version of the plugin to understand an upcoming feature, such as the new “block gap” […]
Continue readingWordPress Translation Day 2021 Kicks Off September 1, Expanded to Month-Long Event – WP Tavern
WordPress Translation Day 2021 WordPress Translation Day kicked off today, and the event has been expanded to run from September 1-30 this year. WordPress Polyglots contributors from all over the world will be hosting mini-events throughout the month where they will be translating themes, plugins, apps, meta, docs, and other important projects. Events will also focus […]
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