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News & Articles
From 0 to 4500$/month with a New WordPress Multilingual Plugin. Transparency Report #1 (translatepress.com) The WordPress plugin ecosystem is quickly becoming a very crowded space. It’s getting harder and harder to get noticed and build something people will use, even more so pay for.
Over the course of 12 months, TranslatePress grew to over 20K active installs on wp.org and closed last month with over 4500$ in revenue from its premium versions. This article is meant to cover the lessons learned while launching a new WordPress multilingual plugin, as well as challenges faced along the way.
Drupal Gutenberg Project Receives Enthusiastic Reception at Drupal Europe (wptavern.com) The Drupal Gutenberg project is gaining momentum after Per André Rønsen and Marco Fernandes gave a presentation at Drupal Europe this week titled “Introducing the Gutenberg content editor for Drupal 8.” Rønsen and Fernandes are representatives of Frontkom, a digital services agency based in Norway that has ported WordPress’ Gutenberg editor over to Drupal for use with client projects.
The Four S's of Managed WordPress Hosting (www.techradar.com) In this article, we’ll highlight the benefits of having a trusted partner manage and host your WordPress sites to ensure they’re secure, scalable, and speedy, and to provide the service and support to keep them that way.
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Plugin News
How We Increased Profile Builder’s Usability by Acting on User Feedback (www.cozmoslabs.com) Improving your product’s user experience is an ongoing task. Or at least, it should be.
Adding feature after feature in the hope of attracting more customers can easily become the norm and usability starts suffering. Without focusing on the big picture and constantly asking why, it’s easy to get off track. We’re guilty of it as well. In this article, we’ll summarize the usability issues we’ve encountered in Profile Builder , our first and most popular plugin, and how we solved them.
Hybrid Core 5.0 Offers a More Modern, Modular Approach to WordPress Theme Development (wptavern.com) Version 5.0 of Hybrid Core, one of the longest-running WordPress theme frameworks, is now available. Justin Tadlock celebrated 10 years with his Theme Hybrid community last month and released his new Mythic starter theme into beta. Mythic was built on top of Hybrid Core and developed in tandem with version 5.0.
PHP Encryption Methods for Passwords & Other Sensitive Data (deliciousbrains.com) There are a range of different encryption methods in use today, the most common being hashing, secret key encryption and public key encryption. In addition, each encryption method has multiple algorithms or ciphers to choose from (each with their own strengths and weaknesses). In this article we’re going to focus on implementing hashing and secret key encryption.
How to Create a WordPress Theme With Local by Flywheel (getflywheel.com) There are thousands of WordPress themes you can choose from, ranging from multi-purpose to focused niche options. However, sometimes the only way to get your website looking exactly like you want it to is to create your own theme. In this article, we're going to introduce you to WordPress theme development and the tools you need to get started.
