The ball is moving on a nine-year-old effort to migrate BuddyPress’ custom URI parser to use WordPress’ Rewrite API. BuddyPress currently requires sites to use pretty permalinks in order to be compatible with its URL parser. The plugin analyzes the URL for whatever component you are viewing and performs internal checks to decide what to display there and determine the …
Clarity Ad Blocker for WordPress Announced, Receives Mixed Reactions
Stanislav Khromov announced Clarity, a plugin for hiding obtrusive banners, via Twitter and the Advanced WordPress (AWP) Facebook group today. It was first pushed to WordPress.org around a year ago, but the developer seems to be just now publicizing it. The Clarity website describes its mission as: “Ads, upsells, and analytics banners have been running rampant in our WordPress dashboards …
Forminator’s 3rd Party App Integration and After Submission Behavior
Our form creating plugin, Forminator, lets you send customized data to multiple apps like MailChimp, Google Sheets, and more. Plus, you can choose what happens after a user submits their information and create subscriptions. There are some features on our 5-star free plugin Forminator you might not be aware of. That includes sending data to 3rd party apps, controlling what …
WordPress Photo Directory Gets Its Own Make Team
The WordPress Photo Directory is taking off, growing to more than 1,400 approved free photos in under two months. After a successful call for testers and volunteer photo moderators, the directory has an enthusiastic team of contributors ready to move the project forward. Angela Jin’s pitch for photo moderators resonated with a lot of people for a couple reasons – …
Kadence Blocks 2.2.4 Adds Lottie Animations Block
Kadence Blocks, a popular block collection plugin, added a new Lottie Animations block today in version 2.2.4. Most of the blocks in the plugin offer commonly used page building features like rows, buttons, galleries, and testimonials. The Lottie Animations block introduces something a little more fun and whimsical. Developed by the design team at Airbnb, Lottie is a lightweight, open …
7 Ways Your Brand Can Thrive in the Metaverse
Actionable ways to stay at the cutting edge by embracing the new opportunities presented by the metaverse. View original post at Entrepreneur…
How To Completely Customize The WordPress Admin Area With Branda
Branda gives you the power to white label WordPress, letting your brand flow from the front to the back-end of your site. In this guide, we’ll show you how to renovate your admin area with some of Branda’s most impressive features. White labeling your WordPress site has never been easier. Branda splits every one of her features into easy to …
Miniblock OOAK and Outside-the-Box Ideas in the Theme Directory
I have been fascinated by the concept of Carolina Nymark’s Miniblock OOAK theme for a couple of weeks now. It has served as inspiration for a design idea I have been working on, and I am happy to see Nymark pushing boundaries in a space where few pioneers are left. Her design style always dares to take the road less …
How to Set Up a Cron Job in cPanel Hosting (+ WP Cron)
Cron Jobs allow you to run scripts and automate repetitive tasks that can take up considerable time if done manually. In this post, we show you how to set up a cron job in cPanel and how to configure a real cron for WordPress. This tutorial covers the following: What is a Cron Job? Parts of a Cron Command How …
#13 – Chris Lubkert and Rich Tabor on Building Sites With Extendify
About this episode. On the podcast today we have Chris Lubkert and Rich Tabor, from Extendify. Extendify is a library of block patterns and full page layouts which you can use inside of the Block Editor. Chris and Rich, as you will hear, decided a few years ago that they were going to dedicate themselves to working with blocks. They …