In the early days after the block editor landed in WordPress, block collection plugins exploded on the scene and were quick to rack up hundreds of thousands of users. Plugins like CoBlocks, Kadence Blocks, and Ultimate Addons for Gutenberg offer dozens of blocks in one package, focusing mostly on blocks not offered in core. WordPress.org’s Block Directory gave some incentive for creating single-block plugins, allowing users to search for and install them inside the block editor.

As block themes generally include less custom CSS than traditional themes, some plugin developers are…

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DENVER, March 30, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Howard Development & Consulting has announced the launch of their newest product, WP Wallet.

WP Wallet consolidates all of your WordPress plugins, themes, and license keys in a single, intelligent dashboard. Once users add the websites they manage for their clients, WP Wallet will:

• Quickly scan each website for installed plugins and themes
• Retrieve any premium license subscription fees
• Store administrative details, such as renewal dates and…

Yesterday, Ella van Durpe merged a long-awaited feature into the Gutenberg plugin that allows users to select and modify text across multiple Rich Text blocks. It should land in version 13.0 of the plugin and WordPress 6.0 in May.

Users can currently select text across multiple blocks, but the editor automatically adjusts that selection to all of the blocks themselves, essentially creating a group. The change will allow users to highlight the specific text. This ability should work with any Rich Text block, such as Paragraph, Heading, List, and Quote.

The latest version of the AIOSEO (All in One SEO) WordPress plugin (4.1.9) adds integration with Microsoft Clarity. Clarity is Microsoft’s free analytics tool that provides insights into on-site user behavior.

Clarity’s dashboard shows a visual overview of user behavior. Then you can dive deeper into heatmaps (to see where users interact most often and how far they scroll) and session recordings (to see mouse movements, clicks, taps and scrolls for all users, across pages and devices).

AIOSEO is installed on more than 3 million websites. Clarity, which came out of beta in 2020, has also…

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Entering the digital market is the first thing to think about if you want to make your business grow and sales and popularity increase. That is why almost every company has its website in the modern world. And potential clients already form the first impression about your business from how cool and trendy it looks. Thus, if they like the design of your site, they will be more inclined to purchase your goods or order services. Accordingly, you need to create an eye-catching and professional website using innovative solutions. 

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Hackers are compromising WordPress sites to insert a malicious script that uses visitors’ browsers to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks on Ukrainian websites.

Today, MalwareHunterTeam discovered a WordPress site compromised to use this script, targeting ten websites with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks.

These websites include Ukrainian government agencies, think tanks, recruitment sites for the International Legion of Defense of Ukraine, financial sites, and other pro-Ukrainian sites.

The complete list of targeted websites is…

Cloning your WordPress website is a useful way of backing up your files or transferring them to a staging or live environment. Using a WordPress plugin is the easiest way of doing so, especially if you’re new to the process.

Duplicator is an excellent plugin for copying, cloning, or moving a WordPress website. We’ll show you how to use Duplicator to move your website to a staging environment.

Step 1: Set Up the Duplicator Plugin

To get started, you’ll need to install Duplicator from the WordPress plugin directory. In your WordPress dashboard, navigate to Plugins > Add…