Last week, Automattic’s marketing team made a positive step towards curbing the perennial branding confusion between WordPress.org and WordPress.com. The company’s press page was updated with a notice to journalists who are writing about Automattic: Automattic owns and operates WordPress.com, which is a hosted version of the open source WordPress software with added features for security, speed and support. Please append …
How to Get the Most Out of Defender Security
Keeping your WordPress site safe often requires no more than the click of a button with Defender, our 5-star WordPress security plugin. Defender protects your site 24/7 against hackers, malicious code, SQL injections, and much more. This guide shows you how to get the most out of using the plugin. With Defender installed, your site’s security needs are automatically handled. …
Remove or Improve – Is It Time to Get Rid of Your WordPress Admin Bar?
Fed up with your WordPress admin bar getting in your way when viewing your site? Need a simple plugin to help you tweak it a little, or if your mind’s set on it, remove it completely? Read on for a roundup of the best. Your admin bar may be full of useful options, but it can easily get to a …
Big Orange Heart Opens 2020 Remote Work Wellbeing and Mental Health Survey
A Big Orange Heart, formerly known as WP&UP, has opened its 2020 Remote Work Wellbeing and Mental Health Survey. The charity organization focuses on supporting remote working communities with education and resources for mental and physical health. It is also home to a community of more than 4,700 members who support each other in growing their businesses and building new …
WordCamp US 2020 Canceled Due to Pandemic Stress and Online Event Fatigue
WordCamp US 2020, which was originally scheduled for October 27-29, was officially canceled today. In April, organizers transitioned to planning for it to be held as a virtual event, but the tenuous situation with the pandemic in the United States and the stress on the event’s large crew of volunteers has precipitated a full cancellation. The decision was announced on …
New Forminator Integration: FortressDB for Data Privacy, Security, and Speed
Do you use web forms to collect and store sensitive or personal information? It’s not uncommon, but have you ever stopped to consider whether anyone else can access this information? Privacy is important, and so is speed. Do you display data from a database on your WordPress site? Have you noticed that it can sometimes be slow to load? Ugh…that’s …
Bing Launches URL Submissions Plugin for WordPress
Bing has launched its first official plugin for WordPress aimed at helping site owners get their content indexed immediately. Instead of waiting for a bingbot to crawl the site, the plugin notifies Bing of any new or updated content automatically using its Submit URL API. “Bing believes that the future for search engines is less about crawling to discover content and …
Gutenberg 8.6 Adds Cover Block Video Positioning and Updates Block Patterns
Gutenberg 8.6 landed quietly last week. Much of the focus right now is ironing out the remaining bugs for WordPress 5.5 during its beta cycle. However, that does not mean the Gutenberg project has come to a complete halt in terms of new features. The team is marching forward with extra goodies for those who use the plugin. The latest …
Shipper, Now Much Less Sh**ter (1.1.5)
When we first set out to build a migration plugin, we reached for the stars. We probably shouldn’t have. We didn’t want to build your regular ‘zip this up and transfer it across’ plugin that failed on most shared hosts or any sort of decent sized site. And we wanted 100% success rates. Something brand new. File by file. Heck …
WordPress to Stick with Online-Only Meetups and WordCamps for Remainder of 2020
photo credit: Burst The WordPress Community Team has officially updated its guidelines for WordCamps to be online-only events for the remainder of 2020. The six WordCamps on the schedule through the end of the year were already planning on using an online format but the guidelines also include local meetups. “The team acknowledges that this is not easy for the …