Awesome Motive, the company behind MonsterInsights, OptinMonster, WPForms, and several other popular products, has acquired SearchWP, a commercial plugin that enhances WordPress’ search functionality. No changes have been announced for the plugin and Awesome Motive CEO Syed Balkhi says it will be “business as usual” for current customers. “We have built a lot of internal […]
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Gutenberg 11.0 Includes Over 70 Bug Fixes, Continues Improving With WordPress 5.8 Just Two Weeks Away – WP Tavern
Gutenberg 11.0 landed yesterday with a pile of changes. The development team has been moving fast, and it shows. For a two-week cycle, version 11.0 includes an insane number of bug fixes. Contributors squashed over 70 in this release alone. This seems to be in preparation for WordPress 5.8, which is expected to land on […]
Continue readingHow To Downgrade Composer, PHP, and NPM
TL;DR: If you’re working on a variety of projects each of which requires different versions of PHP, Composer, and/or NPM you may need to change the version of all or any permutation of any of these utilities. This article outlines what steps need to be taken to downgrade Composer, PHP, or NPM when working on […]
Continue readingCreate food delivery website in less than 30 minutes
If you are looking for a reliable theme that can enable you to take your restaurant business online, this blog post is perfect for you. While there are loads of popular food delivery themes and plugins out there, they lack some essential functionalities. Some have suitable ordering mechanisms but fail to give a good UI […]
Continue reading10 Best Food Blog Themes for WordPress: It Can’t Get Any Tastier Than This!
Are you are a food lover with a burning desire to share your delicious creations with the world? Or perhaps you want to connect with other foodies around the globe? Whatever your motivation, it’s crucial to have a strong web presence that attracts other like-minded food lovers to you. When you have a WordPress website, […]
Continue readingPrivate Note-Taking and Journaling With the Hypernotes WordPress Plugin – WP Tavern
Ella van Durpe, a core WordPress contributor and software engineer at Automattic, released a note-taking plugin earlier today. Hypernotes is a simple custom post type that allows end-users to take private notes or serve as a journaling tool. I have seen similar plugins in the past. I even began building one years ago before ultimately […]
Continue readingDynamic Favicons for WordPress • WPShout
I can’t be the only one who sometimes has dozens of tab open, all from my own WordPress site. And then I lose track of which I was seeing the public side of my site, vs the admin side where I writing a post, tweaking settings, etc. It’s because of the (admittedly minor, but nonetheless […]
Continue readingWordPress 5.8 Adds Support for New Emoji Introduced in Twemoji 13.1.0 – WP Tavern
In the upcoming 5.8 release, WordPress is updating its version of Twemoji, Twitter’s open source emoji library that supports the latest Unicode emoji specification. Version 13.1.0 introduces five new smileys and emotions, including heart on fire, mending heart, face with spiral eyes, face in clouds, and face exhaling. Version 13.1 adds mixed skin tone support for […]
Continue readingJetpack 9.9 Released With a Refreshed Image Gallery Carousel – WP Tavern
Today, Automattic released version 9.9 of its popular Jetpack plugin. The development team improved the modal animation and transition speed for the Instant Search module and added the Social Preview panel to the pre-publish sidebar. However, the most notable user-facing update was a refresh of its Carousel feature. The module creates a fullscreen overlay gallery […]
Continue readingBuilding Backcast, Part 6 | Tom McFarlin
TL;DR: I’m tired of writing code without consistent standards (I often work on code that changes between WordPress or PSR2) so this is how I installed PHP Coding Standards via Composer and a few extra extensions for the project. This also details how to automatically format the code on save. Adding PHP Coding Standards I’ve […]
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