In what seems to be a never-ending onslaught of new features, Munir Kamal has released some major new features to his EditorPlus plugin in the last two updates. Version 2.0, which landed earlier today, includes a set of seven new blocks. The previous release showcased a create-a-block feature that puts more customization options in the hands of end-users. The block …
Dragging and Dropping Meta Boxes Might Not Be So Simple in WordPress 5.6
If you have been testing the latest development version of WordPress in the past week or so, you may have noticed that the ability to drag and drop meta boxes seemingly disappeared. This is not a bug. Nine days ago, lead developer Andrew Ozz committed a change that requires end-users to click the “screen options” tab to expose the ability …
Keeping Your WordPress Sites Fully Backed-up with Snapshot and The Hub
Backing up your WordPress site(s) has never been easier. Regardless of your hosting setup, The Hub and Snapshot make keeping your sites fully backed up a breeze. Here’s how… Whether you manage one or multiple WordPress sites, keeping your site’s files and data regularly backed-up is an essential part of website maintenance and security. So, it’s important that the backup …
Yext Launches a WordPress Plugin To Connect To Its Answers Platform
Last week, Yext launched its Yext Answers plugin to the WordPress community. The goal was to bring a platform that won the Best Software Innovation category of the 2020 Global Search Awards to WordPress. However, my experience was far from satisfactory. “For people searching on a WordPress website, the Answers Connector provides a seamless search experience,” said Alexandra Allegra, the …
Q: First FSE WordPress Theme Now Live
Q WordPress theme screenshot. Themes Team representative Ari Stathopoulos is now officially the first theme author to have a theme in the directory that supports full-site editing (FSE). With a slimmed-down beta release of FSE shipping in WordPress 5.6 this December, someone had to be the first to take the plunge. It made sense for someone intimately familiar with theme …
2020 Roadmap Roundup – Hot Off The (Word) Press!
So it’s been a hot minute since our last roadmap roundup. The last six months have been so jam-packed full of awesome features and releases that it would be practically criminal to not put a post together to present them in all their glory. Yes, this roundup is super overdue – we promise it will be worth the wait! We’ve …
WordPress 5.6 Release Team Pulls the Plug on Block-Based Widgets
Current block-based widgets admin screen design. I was wrong. I assured our readers that “the block-based widget system will be ready for prime time when WordPress 5.6 lands” in my previous post on the new feature’s readiness. I also said that was on the condition of not trying to make it work with the customizer — that experience was still …
WooCommerce Tests New Instagram Shopping Checkout Feature, Now in Closed Beta
Instagram’s checkout feature, which allows users to purchase products without leaving the app, has become an even more important part of Facebook’s long-term investment in e-commerce now that the pandemic has so heavily skewed consumer behavior towards online shopping. When Instagram introduced checkout in 2019, it reported that 130 million users were tapping to reveal product tags in shopping posts …
Optimizing Your WordPress Site Performance with Smush, Hummingbird, and The Hub
If you manage multiple WordPress sites, logging into each individual site to tweak performance settings can be tedious and time-consuming. The Hub’s Performance tab lets you quickly optimize and manage site performance with Hummingbird and Smush from a single tab. The Hub is a complete WordPress management console that lets you manage one or more WordPress sites from one central …
Celebrating 1000 Editions Of The WhiP! + Special Giveaway
With its hand-picked selection of WordPress news and epic puns, The WhiP has been a welcome arrival in thousands of inboxes for over 6 years. And to celebrate our fav newsletter reaching the big 1K we’re doing an extra-special giveaway. May 14th, 2014. Just your typical Wednesday. All of Me by John Legend was the US number one, and we’d …









