News & Articles

• WordCamp Incubator Program 2018 to Host Events in Montevideo, Uruguay and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (wptavern.com)
  The WordCamp Incubator Program has selected Montevideo, Uruguay and Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia to host WordCamps in 2018. The program provides a jump start for new WordPress communities where meetups have not yet been well-established. Montevideo and Kota Kinabalu were selected from a short list of 14 communities that had been whittled down from 104 applications for the program.
• A Guide to Building and Sustaining Profitability in WordPress Consulting (www.wpelevation.com)
  Profit is not a dirty word. And, yet, when you’re in the business of consulting and working with an intuitive system like WordPress, guilt can seep in and make you feel bad about doing what you do, or charging what you charge. There is absolutely nothing wrong with building and sustaining profitability in WordPress consulting. The following guide will cover everything you need to know about building and sustaining profitability in WordPress consulting.
• Data443 Secures Global Rights to Leading WordPress GDPR SolutionData-Security (markets.businessinsider.com)
  Data443 Risk Mitigation, Inc., a leading data security company, today announced it has secured the global technology, branding, and ongoing management rights to leading WordPress GDPR solution: The WordPress GDPR Framework.
• The Benefits of Using Staging Environments in WordPress Development (premium.wpmudev.org)
  
• WCEU Panel Discusses Progressive WordPress Themes, AMP, and Gutenberg (wptavern.com)
  
• Top Tools for Security Analysts in 2018 (www.wordfence.com)
  
• A Gutenberg WordPress Editor Review Roundup - Opinions on Gutenberg (torquemag.io)
  

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Plugin News

• Top WordPress Translation Plugins Compared Based On Page Load Time (translatepress.com)
  One of the main concerns when choosing a WordPress translation plugin is how it affects your website speed. A slower website will negatively affect your page rankings, traffic and eventually revenue. Therefore we decided to perform several speed tests on some of the most popular WordPress translation plugins just to give an idea of the load they add to a website.
• WP Job Manager – An Amazing WordPress Job Board Plugin (kinsta.com)
  These days, more people than ever before are heading online to find employment. Why not tap into the ever-growing online talent pool by turning your website into a fully functional job board? It’s the perfect way to hook-up those in need of talent with the people with skills to offer.
• WordPress Plugin Roundup – June 2018 (ithemes.com)
  
• Preparing WordPress themes for Gutenberg with the Block Unit Test (richtabor.com)
  
• Drop It Plugin Brings Gifs and Unsplash Photos to Gutenberg (wptavern.com)
  
• MotoPress Content Editor 3.0: What’s New? (motopress.com)
  

Theme Releases

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Atomic Blocks (wordpress.org)

Blog Personal (wordpress.org)

Theme News

• 12+ Best Coworking WordPress Themes to Inspire Digital Nomads (www.wpexplorer.com)
  Want to increase in the number of freelancers collaborating in your shared office space? Well, it all starts with a modern coworking website. Which is why we’ve put together a collection of the best 12+ coworking WordPress themes ideal for building a beautiful website and build your business with ease (plus you can help others make a life, not just a living, to boot).

Tutorials

• WordPress Deployment Part 2: Deploying WordPress Using The Command Line (deliciousbrains.com)
  In this article we’re going to look at how we can use command line (CLI) tools to deploy WordPress from our local computer to a remote server. While we’re not quite at the stage of being ready to set up automated deployments just yet, understanding how we can use CLI tools to deploy WordPress will serve as a good foundation for all of the automated deployment methods we will look at later in this series.
• Understanding The Loop: WordPress’s Way of Showing Posts (wpshout.com)
  The Loop is perhaps the key concept of WordPress theme development, so you’ll definitely want to wrap your head around it. Fortunately, it’s not that complicated! Our goal here is to make the concept clear first, and then to move on and show you how the code works.
• Twitter Marketing Strategies to Beef up Your Social Game (kinsta.com)
  
• Build a Marketing Dashboard in WordPress with Ultimate Branding (premium.wpmudev.org)
  
• WooCommerce SEO: 10 Tips For Better SEO (ithemes.com)
  
• Resizing Images Programmatically in WordPress (tommcfarlin.com)
  
• How to Exclude Specific Pages, Authors, and More from WordPress Search (www.wpbeginner.com)
  
• How to Choose the Perfect Domain Name: Essential Tips and Considerations (artisanthemes.io)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Can Better WordPress Development Standards Help Your Business? | Mastermind.fm (mastermind.fm)
  
• An Abundance of Acquisitions | Draft Podcast (poststatus.com)
  
• How Benjamin Denis Took His WordPress Plugin From An Idea to 10K+ Active Installs in 1 Year On His Spare Time! | Freemius (freemius.com)