There are some heavy hitters when it comes to WordPress email plugins that can help build your contact lists, send automated HTML emails, newsletters, and more. Which ones deliver the knockout punch and reign supreme as champions? Stay tuned, because we’re going to let these plugins duke it out and see who wins the title for your WordPress website. “In …
Will Page Builders Remain Competitive in the Block Era?
Screenshot courtesy of the Elementor plugin. As Elementor, the most-used WordPress page builder, celebrated its first round of funding at $15 million, some of our readers questioned whether this was a sound investment. With movement in the Gutenberg plugin toward a full-site editing solution, which will eventually make its way into core WordPress, it is a valid concern. Will page …
Tracee Ellis Ross Spent 10 Years Building Pattern, Her Hair Care Brand
The actress and entrepreneur has learned that to be successful, the message is as important as the product. View original post at Entrepreneur…
The International WordPress Community and WordCamps Amid COVID-19
With the rising numbers of people who have contracted COVID-19, a disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), it is time for the WordPress community to begin evaluating what the remainder of 2020 may look like. It is not a time for panic. However, some serious discussions will need to happen and decisions made on an ongoing …
7 Ways to Make Your New Business Name Unforgettable
Want people to remember your business’s name? These seven strategies can help. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Elementor Raises $15 Million, Plans to Invest in the Team, Product, and Community
Elementor, which has quickly become one of the leading WordPress page builders and companies, announced Wednesday it raised $15 million in its first round of funding, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment round comes on the heels of the plugin surpassing four million active installations. Founded in 2016, Yoni Luksenberg and Ariel Klikstein wanted to create a platform for …
Gutenberg 7.6 Includes Rotating Tips List and New Full-Site Editing Blocks
Yesterday, the Gutenberg team released version 7.6 of the plugin. Most of the work in this update went toward the upcoming full-site editing feature. The team continues to pump out new dynamic, placeholder blocks for post data. The biggest user-facing feature was the addition of a rotating list of tips in the block inserter. Version 7.5, released two weeks ago, …
Top Of The (Free) Pops: The Lowdown on 5 of The Best WordPress Pop-Up Plugins
Most pop-ups ignite a rage fire within us that makes us click that back button before we’ve even had time to blink. In a world full of unwelcome interruptions to our browsing, you need to put the work in if your pop-ups are going to pay off. Pop-ups that are easy on the eye, yield great results and don’t scare …
Automatic Theme and Plugin Updates Slated for WordPress 5.5
Automatic updates column on the plugin management screen. Today, Jean-Baptiste Audras announced the WordPress Auto-updates feature plugin. The project seeks to bring automatic plugin and theme updates to WordPress version 5.5. It was originally slated as a feature project in 2019, but it was later bumped to the 2020 roadmap. The WordPress Auto-updates plugin is available for beta testing in …
After the Acquisition: Flywheel in the New Year
Some WordPress developers and agencies were caught off guard when WP Engine announced it had acquired Flywheel in June last year. Flywheel had quickly become a trusted web hosting company for many that specifically catered to the needs of developers and agencies. For some, they questioned whether such a buyout would change the company culture and whether the good things …