August 22, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on New Plugin Displays WordPress Environment Type for Admins – WordPress Tavern
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One of the minor but useful additions to WordPress 5.5 is the new wp_get_environment_type() function. It makes it possible for plugin and theme authors to do some interesting things based on whether a site is identified as staging, development, production, or some other custom environment type. In discussion on the original trac ticket, Marius Jensen suggested a few ways this function could be useful:
It’s a function used for grabbing the current environment, this is to ensure everyone fetches the values the same way (to avoid using different terms and such).
August 22, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on WordPress for iOS Was Blocked From Updating Unless it Agreed to Add In-App Purchases for .Com Plans
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Apple is requiring the WordPress for iOS app to implement in-app purchase options for its .com plans, and prevented the app from getting updates until the development team agreed to add the feature, WordPress developer Matt Mullenweg said on Twitter today.
Mullenweg says the WordPress iOS App was “locked” and to push updates and bug fixes, the company had to agree to add support for in-app purchase plans. There was an update released 19 hours ago after three weeks of no updates, so it appears WordPress has committed to introducing WordPress.com in-app purchase options.
August 21, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on The ultimate guide to WordPress user management
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There’s nothing more complicated for webmasters than to manage their website users. If your website or eCommerce solution users aren’t managed correctly, they can inflict site-breaking damage and loosen up tight security protocols.
While WordPress user management is vitally important, you also have to be able to run your business. You do not want to spend most of your time actively managing your users. That drains your resources and time. You have to use the right tools to automated as much as you can so you can focus on the business.
August 20, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on WordPress 5.5 has a huge flaw and it is breaking websites
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Well, recently WordPress came up with WordPress 5.5, there is a huge problem which users are experiencing after upgrading to WordPress 5.5
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What is the issue?
There are two main issues. First is, WordPress has depreciated the support for jQuery and second, there is an issue with pagination. Let’s have a look at what these two exactly are?
The jQuery issue
jQuery migrate is a javascript library. This library helps in linking the data or code of your sites on the previous versions to your site on the latest version.
August 20, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on WooCommerce 4.4 Updates Blocks and Centralizes Coupon Management – WordPress Tavern
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Yesterday, Automattic dropped version 4.4 of its popular WooCommerce plugin. The new release is a minor update with the biggest changes around the plugin’s blocks and coupon management in the admin. Two dozen people made 450 contributions to the release.
The WooCommerce team brought several updates to the plugin’s blocks. The biggest user-facing change is that the blocks will now use the WooCommerce thumbnail size instead of loading the full-sized image. This change means that images will respect the product image size settings that users can set via the WooCommerce > Product…
August 19, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on WP Rig Starter Theme Project Looking for New Maintainers – WordPress Tavern
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A couple of years ago, Morten Rand-Hendriksen launched WP Rig for WordPress. The goal was to bring a modern starter theme and build process to the theme development community. Now, he and the current team are hoping to find someone new to keep the project moving. Whoever is chosen will gain outright ownership of the project.
Rand-Hendriksen will be hosting a Zoom meeting on Friday, August 21 at 8 am PST. The meeting is planned to last 30 minutes with a possible additional 30 minutes for a Q&A session. He will update the WP Rig blog with the format and agenda for the meeting this…
August 19, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on Pro Tips to Make Your WordPress Site Better
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Since it is so easy to get started with WordPress, many entrepreneurs and business owners create badly-optimized websites to serve their needs. Although these websites are acceptable for early stages of a business, as the site grows and expands, the bad optimizations and the amateur development becomes quite clear.
August 19, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on 3 WordPress SEO Plugins for Schema.org Structured Data Implementation
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WordPress is the most popular CMS online. It not only makes publishing content easier, but it also helps site owners optimize their websites for search. In this video, I’ll share some popular SEO plugins and how you can leverage them to implement schema.org structured data. We will discuss where each excels and what some of the limitations are.
August 18, 2020Wordpress NewsComments Off on Why WordPress 5.5 is Breaking Sites
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Thousands of WordPress sites have become broken since updating to WordPress 5.5. WP 5.5 deprecated support for jQuery Migrate may have caused at least 10,000 broken sites. An issue with how themes handle pagination is causing other sites to break after updating to 5.5.
Fortunately there are solutions.
A publisher reported a bug in WordPress 5.5
jQuery Migrate and WordPress 5.5
Thousands of WordPress publishers are experiencing problems because WordPress 5.5 shipped without a JavaScript library called jQuery Migrate.
jQuery Migrate is a library that acts like a bridge for older code to function…