One of the exciting things about WordCamps going virtual is the community gaining access to more events and presentations than ever before, from anywhere in the world. Even in this new online-only format, local camps still retain their unique character as they feature speakers from their respective communities. WordCamp Kent (Ohio) is one of these upcoming events that has been …
Shop it To Me: Combine Elementor and WooCommerce For An Amazing Online Store
Are you looking to open your first WooCommerce store? Or maybe you’ve built WooCommerce stores for clients, but want to build better custom eCommerce stores? You’ve got amazing products that you can’t wait to get out to your customers. Luckily, you can be open for business in no time. In this post, I’ll be going over how to build a …
New Iceberg Plugin Brings a Distraction-Free Writing Experience to WordPress
Ever on the hunt for a more beautiful, simplified writing experience inside WordPress, I jumped at the chance to beta test the new Iceberg plugin. Rich Tabor and Jeffrey Caradang, the same team behind CoBlocks, have created a new markdown editor built on top of Gutenberg that provides the best writing experience for WordPress since core’s retired Distraction Free Writing …
Comparing Web Traffic: What Your WordPress Traffic Actually Means
You did it! Your business is now online with a kickass website and a team of experts to help you manage it. The problem is, you don’t understand what your traffic reports are telling you, so how do you know your website is kicking ass? If you own a restaurant, all you need to do to understand what kind of …
Comparing Web Traffic: What Your WordPress Traffic Actually Means
You did it! Your business is now online with a kickass website and a team of experts to help you manage it. The problem is, you don’t understand what your traffic reports are telling you, so how do you know your website is kicking ass? If you own a restaurant, all you need to do to understand what kind of …
WooCommerce Payments Allows Shop Owners to Manage Payments Without Leaving WordPress Admin
Automattic-owned eCommerce platform WooCommerce launched its new WooCommerce Payments feature today. The company seeks to make it easier for plugin users to manage the entirety of their shop from a single location. For users based in the U.S. with WordPress.com-connected accounts, they can begin managing payments directly from their WordPress admin. WooCommerce Payments is available as a free download via …
How To Migrate A WordPress Site From Localhost To Server Using Plugins
Building a site locally is a good idea, but just hearing the word ‘migration’ can strike fear into even the noblest of hearts. Luckily, migrating from local to live is easier than you might think… I don’t need to spend half an hour rambling on about why you should use a local environment to build your site…because I already did …
iA Writer Adds Expanded Support for IndieWeb Tools and WordPress Publishing
iA Writer has been delighting users with its minimal writing experience for nearly a decade, racking up more than 3 million downloads. The most recent version 5.5 release for Mac and iOS moves the bar higher for competing writing apps with new support for previewing PDFs and improved support for publishing to self-hosted WordPress sites. In 2019, MacStories selected iA …
Google Patches Critical Vulnerability in Site Kit Plugin
In late April Wordfence discovered a critical vulnerability in Google’s Site Kit plugin for WordPress that would make it possible for any user on the site to gain full access to the Google Search Console without verifying ownership. Google patched the vulnerability and released the fix in version 1.8.0 on May 7, 2020. Wordfence published a timeline of the vulnerability, …
WordPress Contributor Andy Fragen Shares His Experience as a Trauma Surgeon During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Last weekend I had the opportunity to interview Andy Fragen, a longtime member of the WordPress community and core contributor. He is also the author of the GitHub Updater plugin, which allows developers to enable automatic updates to their GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, or Gitea hosted WordPress plugins, themes, and language packs. In the video below, Fragen gives us a window …