WooCommerce 8.3 was released today, featuring Cart, Checkout, and Order Confirmation blocks as the default checkout flow for new installations. This is a major milestone in moving WooCommerce towards a block-first checkout experience. Version 8.3 was slightly delayed, as core developers worked to ensure it would be compatible with the latest changes in WordPress 6.4 as well as the upcoming …
Elementor Pro Pricing Update Slashes Features in the Essential Plan for New Customers
Elementor, the most popular website builder plugin for WordPress with more than 5 million active installations, has announced major changes coming to the features included in its Elementor Pro Essential subscription plan. The plan will still include the Theme Builder along with access to 50+ Pro widgets, basic marketing tools, and the Form widget, but it will shift other more …
WordCamp Asia Extends Sponsor Application Deadline
The WordCamp Asia organizing team has extended its call for sponsors until Thursday, November 30, 2023. In an update on the official website, organizers explained that they received feedback from multiple potential sponsors regarding why they had been unable to apply before the original deadline. Some of the reasons included the following: The availability of travel visas Team member logistics …
ElmaStudio Releases Moog: A Free Block Theme for Blogs
Moog is one of the latest free block themes to be released on WordPress.org. It features a minimal and bold layout with a responsive, masonry style grid on the homepage. Moog is well suited to blogs or even small magazine websites, with options to radically change the style with the click of a button. Moog’s designers went wild with style …
5 Priceless Lessons the Rolling Stones Teach Us About Business Success
The band is a testament to how to build a brand — and a business — that stands the test of time. View original post at Entrepreneur…
WordPress 2024 Roadmap: 3 Major Releases with a Focus on Collaboration Features
WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy has published a proposed schedule for 2024 that includes three major core releases. The dates have not yet been set in stone but have been planned to avoid major holidays and WordPress events. The first release of the year, WordPress 6.5, is scheduled for March 26, followed by 6.6 in July and 6.7 in …
20 Ways to Master Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn in 2024 and Beyond
As an active network of over 850 million professionals, LinkedIn is a goldmine for personal branding opportunities, especially for entrepreneurs. View original post at Entrepreneur…
Wordfence Launches Bug Bounty Program
Wordfence launched a bug bounty program today to provide financial incentive for security researchers reporting high risk vulnerabilities to the company’s program. After researchers disclose vulnerabilities to Wordfence, the company triages them and confidentially discloses them to the vendors to fix. When the fix is released, the vulnerability will be included in Wordfence’s public database, which is free to access, …
8 Ways Social Media Use Can Backfire on Your Personal Branding
Chasing branding just for the sake of branding can backfire on us. View original post at Entrepreneur…
WordPress 6.4.1 Fixes a Critical cURL/Requests Bug
WordPress contributors have worked quickly over the past 24 hours to prepare a 6.4.1 maintenance release after a critical bug emerged from a change in the Requests library, causing problems with updates on servers running older versions of cURL. Hosting companies began reporting widespread impact of the bug. Tom Sommer, from one of Denmark’s largest hosting companies, filed a GitHub …



