Below you'll find a list of all posts from September, 2021
Gutenberg 11.6 landed yesterday. Contributors added dozens of enhancements and bug fixes. Admittedly, there was not a whole lot that excited me as a user about this release. Typography options for the Post Title block. Nice. Cropping for the Site Logo. A necessary addition. Toolbar button for converting old Gallery blocks to the new — still experimental — format. Sweet. …
Becoming a WordPress hosting reseller is not only quick and easy — but can also be very profitable. In addition to your usual web developer fees, you can generate Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) reselling products and services (like ours!) In this post we’ll show you how to set up your own hosting business that will benefit you and your clients …
Viewing patterns from the WP Block Patterns homepage. Andrew Starr, the owner of UXL Themes, has cobbled together a new project around block patterns. His new site, aptly named WP Block Patterns, allows users to preview any WordPress.org-hosted block themes and patterns together. The project does not allow visitors to download anything or ask them to sign up. It is …
Ecommerce brands face an incredible amount of competition these days, but they often use a tried-and-true tactic to set themselves apart. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Ari Stathopoulos announced a proposal for implementing a web fonts API in core WordPress. The goal is to standardize how theme authors register and enqueue font styles. It may also serve as the foundation of other features down the road. Jono Alderson opened the original ticket for such an API in February 2019. The discussion has continued off and on …
Marketers of everything from toys to T-shirts tap NFTs, social causes and DTC sales to grow business and win over today’s consumers, which could help connect smaller brands to bigger audiences. View original post at Entrepreneur…
WooCommerce is celebrating 10 years since WooThemes launched the first iteration of the WooCommerce plugin. Paul Maiorana, WooCommerce’s current CEO, covered a few high highlights of the plugin’s rising popularity over the years in his anniversary post. After 16 months in the wild, WooCommerce had been downloaded 500,000 times and passed the 1 million downloads milestone just 137 days later. …
Your brand strategy needs to be at the forefront of your planning. View original post at Entrepreneur…
As always, I like to highlight some things on the lighter side of the WordPress world. We have had enough business acquisitions in the past week — the whole year, really — that we need to take a break and enjoy the more experimental developments that the community has to offer. Such as the case with WebArea’s latest plugin, Background …
Want greater control of your uploaded images? Smush lets you compress uploaded images, backup uploaded images, scale images to a desired threshold, disable scaling altogether, and more. With Smush, you can now override WordPress Core functionality in the plugin’s settings to compress and remove original images. We have tweaked the bulk smush engine and added several options that lets you …
