LottieFiles, a company that hosts thousands of Lottie animations and helps designers create and test their animations, has just released an official plugin for WordPress. The company recently raised $37M in a Series B round, passed three million users on its website, and is investing in making motion design more accessible.
Lottie’s open source animation file format is used by more than 135,000 designers and developers in websites and apps for Amazon, Google, Spotify, Microsoft, TikTok, Netflix, BBC, Uber, and other high profile companies. The JSON-based format was created by the…
WordPress and crypto users are having a good week. Internet aficionados who run websites have a new toythat lets them do cool stuff with crypto donations.
DePay Donations is the first of its kind. It is an open-source plugin that allows websites to accept P2P donations in crypto. But the beauty of this is that it offers decentralized conversion of incoming cryptocurrency donations into tokens that the receiver has selected.
The Swiss Web3 payment startup DePay says the plug in is free to install. “It allows content creators and publishers to accept middleman-free and therefore…
Project management has become a rather hot topic within the realm of business. With good reason. With project management at your side, the workflow of your company can be made exponentially more efficient. Without project management? You know what happens. Chaos.
If that sounds like eventually you’d like to avoid, then a good project management tool is in your future.
If you happen to depend on WordPress and would love to add project management features to the platform, you’re in luck. You could turn a basic WordPress deployment into a…
A common way is to use a centralized crypto payment gateway. Going this way implies that one has to trust intermediaries who accept the donations on one’s behalf, which contradicts the core idea of decentralization. Additionally, the number of cryptocurrencies that can be accepted with this option is often very limited.
Another option is to provide wallet addresses in plain text on their site. Besides the aesthetics, this way requires that you have high administrative overhead with monitoring different wallets and converting tokens to hedge against volatility.
There’s a new major release of WordPress available and Jack Wallen provides the scoop on what’s been added.
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WordPress is the most widely-used blogging platform on the market. According to W3 Technology Surveys, WordPress is used by 64.1% of content management systems and 42.9% of all websites. That’s significant. It also means the developers of WordPress are always active and working diligently to improve the platform.
Recently, the developers released the latest major milestone in version 6.0. This release includes over 500…
Everybody loves a deal. Promotional discounts and coupons can motivate shoppers. WordPress merchants can easily add a variety of promotional plugins with little or no added cost.
Here is a list of discount and promotional plugins for WordPress. There are plugins for coupons, sales timers, sign-up codes, deal wheels, gift cards, and more. Most plugins listed are free, though many offer premium options.
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It’s amazing what one or more plugins can do for your website design and for your business. There’s a ton of them available for WordPress users.
A “ton” of cool WordPress plugins may sound like a lot, and it is. Unless you know where to look and what you should be looking for. Finding one or more you would benefit from can be a challenge. You might be better off reading the reviews or simply leaving everything up to the experts.
Scammers Are Taking Advantage of WordPress Tools to Hawk Their Scams
Researchers at Sucuri, a security firm owned by GoDaddy, discovered that websites built with WordPress tools had been hacked and were being used to redirect visitors to the same content with sketchy “resources” or ads.
Researchers at Sucuri, a security firm owned by GoDaddy, discovered that websites built with WordPress tools had been hacked and were being used to redirect visitors to the same content with sketchy “resources” or ads.
The malicious code was designed to redirect visitors to malicious websites…
Today marks 19 years since 19-year old Matt Mullenweg partnered with Mike Little to release the first version of WordPress based on the b2/cafelog software. The blog where he shared his thoughts on life and tech was starting to get more traffic and he wanted to ensure its future after the b2/cafelog’s main developer disappeared.
Mullenweg had the vision for what WordPress should be, even before it had a name. It centered on extensibility, a hallmark feature that has made the platform as popular as it is today:
What should it do? Well, it would be nice to have the flexibility of…
WordPress.com announced a new “Starter” plan today for customers that bridges the pricing gap between the free plan and its $15/month Pro plan. The Starter plan is $5/month and includes a custom domain name, along with 6GB storage, and the ability to use payment collection blocks (Donations Form, Premium Content, and Payment Button).
WordPress.com Pricing – 5/25/2022
When WordPress.com rolled out major, unannounced pricing changes on April 1, slashing free storage limits, users took to the forums to express their profound disappointment in the controversial update and the…
