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…
A Web Font API Possibly Coming to WordPress
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 …
How Brands Like Barbie and Looney Tunes are Tapping Licensing Trends All Marketers Should Know
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 Marks 10 Year Anniversary of Forking Jigoshop
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. …
Ready to Start a Business? Think About Brand Strategy Before You Start Spending.
Your brand strategy needs to be at the forefront of your planning. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Adding Blocks With Animated Backgrounds Using WebArea’s Latest Plugin
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 …
How to Compress and Remove Original Images with Smush
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 …
Keanan Koppenhaver Acquires WP Pusher and Branch
WordPress developer Keanan Koppenhaver announced today that he has acquired WP Pusher and Branch from Peter Suhm. WP Pusher, a product we have covered for the past six years, allows users to deploy plugins and themes from popular code hosting services like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket. In 2018, Suhm expanded his offerings to include Branch, a Docker-based continuous integration service …
How to Quickly Backup to S3, Google Drive, and Dropbox Using Snapshot Pro
With the Snapshot Pro WordPress plugin, you can safely and efficiently create and store backups to 3rd party platforms S3, Google Drive, and Dropbox. Thanks to Snapshot Pro, storing backups to your favorite cloud storage set to your schedule is as easy as ever. He makes it simple to store backups to your host and elsewhere for added convenience and …
Should Users Be Able To Select More Than One Block Style?
When I first tried the block styles feature in WordPress, I was impressed. As a theme creator, it was a simple way of allowing users to select a design-related class without them actually needing to know what was happening under the hood. In that first week or so, I hit the problem that many others had. I wanted to combine …