A strong brand identity has the power to elevate and position a company in a way that can yield greater success. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Next Phase of the WordPress Theme Review Overhaul: Open Meeting and Call for Feedback
The WordPress.org Themes Team announced an open discussion and date for a Zoom meeting with theme authors. The team is proposing a new set of guidelines that reduces and simplifies what is currently in place. Comments on the proposal are open through July 26, and the meeting is set for July 28, 2 pm CET. This is the next step …
Revisions Extended Plugin Lets Users Schedule Updates to Published Posts
WordPress has long had the ability to schedule content to be published in the future, but it can only make immediate changes to posts that are already published. If you want to schedule changes to published content, a plugin is necessary. Corey McKrill, a full-time sponsored contributor to the WordPress.org Meta team, has developed a plugin, with the help of …
Stockfish Contributors Sue ChessBase for GPL Violations
image credit: Sebastian Voortman A legal reckoning is brewing in the world of open source chess engines. Stockfish, a GPL-licensed chess engine widely recognized as one of the strongest in the world, has filed a lawsuit against ChessBase. The German-based company makes and sells chess software that relies heavily on the Stockfish engine, maintains a prominent chess news site, and …
Let There Be Light(house)! SmartCrawl Now Integrates Lighthouse SEO Scan Feature
Google Lighthouse is the industry standard for testing website performance, and is now built into our SEO plugin, SmartCrawl. Lighthouse has historically been able to run in several ways: as a Chrome DevTools, as a separate Chrome add-on (with a few restrictions), and as a Node package (incorporating it into your build process). Now, you can do it from right …
BuddyPress 9.0.0 Transforms Legacy Widgets Into Blocks
BuddyPress 9.0 was released one day before WordPress 5.8. As all major BuddyPress releases are named for pizza joints, this one has been dubbed “Mico” in honor of Pizzéria Chez Mico, a small restaurant on the French riviera, where you just may find capers and anchovies on your pie. This short release cycle was laser focused on getting all of …
Free On-Demand Webinar: How to Get Funding & Grow Your Brand
Watch now! Supergoop! CEO Amanda Baldwin shares how she uses her deep knowledge and investor’s eye to create value in organizations while scaling profitably and much more! View original post at Entrepreneur…
Makers of TinyMCE Acquire Setka
Tiny, the makers of TinyMCE, have acquired Setka, a content design and editing platform, for an undisclosed amount. Founders Katya Bazilevskaya, Alexey Ametov, Vasily Esmanov, Roman Khudonogov, and the rest of the Setka team will join Tiny as part of the agreement. Tiny has been tracking an increasing developer demand for rich text editing components, citing 8.1 million TinyMCE downloads …
Identify and Select Blocks via the Wayfinder WordPress Plugin
Christopher John, a Seattle-based designer and UX engineer, released his first project to the plugin directory yesterday. Announced via Twitter to high praise, Wayfinder is a block outline solution for the WordPress editor. Like similar plugins, the goal is to make it easier for end-users to select nested blocks, which can sometimes be tough to pin down. Wayfinder outlines each …
Brand Yourself Better with Authentic Stock Photography
This the female-founded startup is on a mission to make stock photography more diverse, authentic, and affordable. View original post at Entrepreneur…