Automattic is bringing Tumblr’s Blaze ad tool to WordPress sites with its launch today on WordPress.com and Jetpack. Blaze made its debut in April 2022, to the delight of Tumblr users who will gladly shell out cash to get people to look at their cat or promote a game they made. It’s an affordable way to attract new followers or …
3 Marketing Trends to Adopt in 2023
Follow these trends to reach your ideal customers and increase brand awareness. View original post at Entrepreneur…
WordPress Performance Team Working Towards Unbundling Performance Lab Plugin
WordPress’ Performance Team met this week with the express purpose of responding to Matt Mullenweg’s recent request to stop adding functionality to the Performance Lab plugin which could otherwise work as a standalone plugin. At the end of December 2022, the Performance Team published instructions for how to test the new SQLite implementation, which was bundled into the Performance Lab …
'This Is a Further Sign the Brand Has Successfully Ditched the Baggage of its Past': Abercrombie Sees 'Better-Than-Expected' Holiday Sales
Abercrombie & Fitch’s holiday sales rose 1% to 2%, exceeding expectations of a holiday decline. View original post at Entrepreneur…
SmartCrawl’s Newest Release Adds A Handful of New Features, Plus Greater Flexibility in Options
SmartCrawl version 3.4 adds multiple keyword analysis, additional SEO recommendations, the ability to disable SEO & Readability Analysis in the post list, and more. For free. SmartCrawl has been SEO optimized from the start, but each new version further improves site performance while boosting your PageRank on Google. With automated SEO scanning, automatic XML sitemaps, real-time keyword and content analysis, …
Gutenberg Times to Host Webinar on How to Use New WordPress Layout Features
Gutenberg Times will be hosting a live Q&A webinar titled “Layout, Layout, Layout” on January 11, 2023, at 05:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) via Zoom. This event is open to WordPress users of all experience levels who are interested to learn more about how to use WordPress’ layout features when building sites with blocks. Host Birgit Pauli-Haack will …
WordCamp Europe 2023 Speaker Applications Open, Organizers Call for More Interactive Sessions
WordCamp Europe 2023 is being hosted in Athens this year with two conference days scheduled for June 9 and 10. The first day’s theme is “WordPress Now” (Everything that can be currently achieved with WordPress) and the second day is “WordPress Tomorrow.” Organizers have opened the call for speakers and are especially interested in scheduling talks that “empower people to …
Awesome Motive Acquires Duplicator Plugin
Awesome Motive’s product suite of nearly 20 commercial plugins has expanded to include a backup plugin. The company announced its acquisition of Duplicator today, a 12-year-old freemium product with more than 1.5 million users. In addition to the backup utility, the plugin enables users to migrate, copy, move, or clone a site from one location to another. Commercial licenses range …
The World is Changing and Your Brand is Dying. Here's How to Create and Champion An Evolving Brand
For a brand to become more human and successful, it must change, evolve and take risks — ultimately leading to its longevity. View original post at Entrepreneur…
New CF7 Blocks Plugin Brings Blocks to Contact Form 7
WordPress developer Munir Kamal has released a new plugin called CF7 Blocks that does exactly what it says in the name. It brings blocks to one of WordPress’ most beloved plugins, which has kept the same familiar interface and has not yet adopted the block editor. The Contact Form 7 plugin was created by WordPress developer Takayuki Miyoshi, who has …





