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News & Articles
WordPress + Gutenberg - A Comprehensive Guide to the New Block Editor (theeventscalendar.com) After polling our users in a recent survey and learning that over 50% of them aren’t familiar with or ready for Gutenberg, we decided to share some of our own learnings and knowledge in an ebook that could be shared with the broader WordPress user base. The goal? Create a comprehensive guide to help them learn more about all the changes coming in 5.0.
Affiliate Systems Suck, So We Rolled Our Own (kinsta.com) Thinking about building your own affiliate system? We won’t lie, it’s a lot of work, but well worth the time and effort. Kinsta now has a system their entire team is proud of and affiliates enjoy using.
New commonWP Plugin Enables WordPress Sites to Use the Free jsDelivr CDN (wptavern.com) Milan Dinić, a WordPress developer based in Serbia, has released his commonWP plugin that enables WordPress sites to use the free, public jsDelivr CDN. Last year jsDelivr was revamped to allow any file from GitHub and npm to be served by the CDN. WordPress’ mirror on GitHub made it possible for Dinić to create a plugin that works with the CDN.
Maintaining Free WordPress Plugins is Not Free (wpreset.com) Due to an overwhelming amount of abandoned plugins in the repository, we decided to clarify a simple premise – how do free plugins get financed and why the lack of money is the number one cause of abandoned plugins.
B2B Lead Generation – Tips and Strategies for 2018 (kinsta.com) We’ve found that using a combination of inbound and outbound is generally the best way to go about establishing this pipeline – while outbound is a more immediate way of connecting with leads, your inbound can be used to establish your credibility, resulting in more qualified leads coming to you. Here are the most effective lead generation strategies in B2B marketing.
How to Make Your Plugin Compatible With Gutenberg: Part 2 (Sidebar API) (www.codeinwp.com) If you’re trying to make your plugin compatible with Gutenberg, you have a couple of paths that you can/should take – depending on what your plugin does and how it delivers its features to the user.
In the first part of this mini-series, we explored Gutenberg’s Block API – which is what most plugins need in terms of Gutenberg-compatibility. This time, we will be exploring another piece of the Gutenberg puzzle – Gutenberg’s Sidebar API.