Highlights from State of the Word 2021
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WPExperts has acquired the Password Protected plugin from WordPress developer Ben Huson, author of nearly 20 plugins on WordPress.org. Password Protected was by far his most popular one with more than 300,000 active installs. The acquisition is hot on the heels of the company’s purchase of the Post SMTP plugin two weeks ago, another product…
Sorry to break it to you, but your website is not safe. That’s not necessarily because of something you did but simply because nothing on the Internet is ever completely secure. Every single website faces security threats that can take them down, damage them, or worse. That’s the bad news. The silver lining is, there…
In June 2022, WordPress.org’s Themes Team began strongly urging theme authors to switch to locally hosted webfonts, following a German court case, which fined a website owner for violating the GDPR by using Google-hosted webfonts. For years, theme authors have been enqueuing Google Fonts from the Google CDN for better performance, but this method exposes visitors’…
Christopher John, a Seattle-based designer and UX engineer, released his first project to the plugin directory yesterday. Announced via Twitter to high praise, Wayfinder is a block outline solution for the WordPress editor. Like similar plugins, the goal is to make it easier for end-users to select nested blocks, which can sometimes be tough to…
On the podcast today we have Jonathan Bossenger. He’s here to talk about WordPress notifications and how they are managed. If you’ve been using WordPress for any length of time, then you’ll have seen notifications appear in the admin area of your site. These messages can be useful, they might tell you that something needs…
WooCommerce enables you to sell basically any type of product online. However, it’s missing certain critical features out of the box, such as enabling you to print invoices. That’s where the BizPrint cloud printing service comes in. Using BizPrint, you’ll be able to speed up fulfillment time and reduce errors, which can help you keep…