News & Articles

• Transparency Report #34 – Is Black Friday Good for Merchants? (www.codeinwp.com)
  Welcome to the 34th edition of the monthly transparency report (for November 2017). This is a series where CodeinWP team shares and discusses the more interesting events, projects, and learnings from the company’s day to day.
• WP Site Care Acquires WP Radius (wptavern.com)
  WP Site Care, a WordPress management and maintenance service provider has acquired WP Radius. Ryan Sullivan, Founder of WP Site Care, says the acquisition has been in the works for some time.
• Backdoor in Captcha Plugin Affects 300K WordPress Sites (www.wordfence.com)
  The WordPress repository recently removed the plugin Captcha over what initially appeared to be a trademark issue with the current author using “WordPress”.
• The Three-Headed WooCommerce Project: Your Agency, The Freelancer, and Your Client’s Developer (woocommerce.com)
  
• How WordPress Evolved in 2017 (torquemag.io)
  
• Page Builders in a Gutenberg World (www.wpbeaverbuilder.com)
  
• Massive Cryptomining Campaign Targeting WordPress Sites (www.wordfence.com)
  

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Plugin News

• WordPress Plugin Conflicts: How to Check for Them and What to Do (premium.wpmudev.org)
  Symptoms of a plugin conflict typically occur in one of two forms. Either your site starts acting wonky–specifically, a plugin stops acting the way it’s supposed to–or the white screen of death rears its ugly head after the last update or latest install of a new plugin. The following guide will provide you with the steps you need to take in order to identify a WordPress plugin conflict and then consequently fix your site. We’ve also included tips on how to avoid these conflicts in the future.
• BackupBuddy 8.2 is Here with Improved WordPress Staging & Deployment (ithemes.com)
  We’re excited to tell you the latest version of BackupBuddy, the WordPress backup plugin, just landed with some great new features and enhancements for BackupBuddy’s WordPress staging and deployment functionality.
• Cool New Plugin: “Admin Menu in Frontend” (wpshout.com)
  
• Jetpack Alternatives Worth the Price (tommcfarlin.com)
  
• The Best WordPress Store Locator Plugins to Display Shop Locations (www.wpexplorer.com)
  

Theme Releases

Interserver Platinum (wordpress.org)

Snowflakes (wordpress.org)

MinaLite (wordpress.org)

Theme News

• The Best Free WordPress Themes November 2017 (wplift.com)
  The year is almost at an end. At this time, different reviews and round-ups emerge, detailing the best of the best. No matter what it’s about, such reviews are very useful. In this article, we’ll go through some of the best WordPress Themes released in November.
• Best Practices for Starting A Profitable WordPress Theme Business in 2018 (freemius.com)
  

Tutorials

• Escaping Problems with Slashes in WordPress (developer.eventespresso.com)
  If you get “slashes wrong” in your code, you can end up with really big security problems (specifically, SQL injection problems), bugs, or find user-created content gets littered with extra slashes like: I'm 'drowning" in slashes!.
• Easy Digital Downloads Table Plugin – List Products in a Table Layout (barn2.co.uk)
  Barn2 Media have published an in-depth tutorial about how to improve your Easy Digital Downloads store layouts by adding a searchable, sortable table layout with filters. It's a handy alternative to the traditional grid layout and lets you show extra product data, product filters, variable prices, buy buttons and more - all from a single page.
• setup_postdata(): The Template Tags You Need, the Custom WP_Post Arrays You Crave (wpshout.com)
  
• How to Set Up WordPress Error Logs in WP-Config (www.wpbeginner.com)
  
• The 6 Most Common Elements That Slow Down Your WooCommerce Backend (And How To Fix Them) (codeable.io)
  
• How to Redirect WordPress Attachment Pages to Original Post or Page (themeisle.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• GDPR, User Privacy, and More With Heather Burns | WPWeekly (wptavern.com)
  
• Productivity & Hiring, with the WP Buffs Frontman | Mastermind.fm (mastermind.fm)
  
• Kendall Guillemette | Hallway Chats (hallwaychats.com)
  
• Why Video Matters to You and SEO | SEObits.fm (www.seobits.fm)
  
• What Every #GenesisWP Developer Must Know about the Genesis Framework | StudioPress (studiopress.blog)