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WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks 2021 (wphostingbenchmarks.com) It's that time of the year again, but with more exciting news. This year, the WordPress benchmarks have a new home: WPHostingBenchmarks.com. An entire site dedicated to the benchmarks both past and present. 2021 and 2020 data is loaded up.
WordCamp Europe 2021 Online Schedule Announced (wptavern.com) Mark your calendars for the next major WordPress event coming up at the beginning of next week. WordCamp Europe is just four days away and will run from June 7-9. In July 2020, organizers announced that in-person events would not resume until 2022.
Full Site Editing Study: Will WordPress Theme Shops Embrace this New Paradigm? (wpmarmite.com) Full Site Editing is just around the corner. WordPress contributors should deliver the first batch of FSE features in the WordPress 5.8 update, planned for July 20th, 2021. At WPMarmite, they were curious about how existing theme shops consider Gutenberg and Full Site Editing.To further investigate their current involvement in Gutenberg and FSE, they conducted this study.
Really Rich Results – A WordPress Plugin from Pagely (pagely.com) Pagely is proud to announce their latest open source WordPress plugin – Really Rich Results. RRR can be used to generate Schema.org structured data, empowering you to take advantage of Google’s Rich Results and featured snippets with minimal effort.
TranslatePress Plugin: Translate Any WordPress Site Fast and Easy (www.cloudways.com) Translating web content into other languages sounds like a lot of hard work, doesn’t it? But there’s a growing number of website owners who are translating their content into other languages and opening up their content to new opportunities and new audiences.
So how are they doing this? And what are the costs involved?
In this review, we’re going to show you how you can translate your self-hosted WordPress website using an intuitive multilingual plugin called TranslatePress.
How to Make WooCommerce Multilingual for Free (Easy Method) (translatepress.com) If you have an online store with a multilingual audience, going multilingual is a great decision because a significant chunk of people won’t shop at a store if it’s not available in their native language(s).
But if you’ve browsed some other WooCommerce translation solutions, you might have been put off by their price and/or complexity. Thankfully, there are ways to translate a WooCommerce store for free, which is what this post is about.
How to Setup a WordPress Member Directory (and Customize It) (www.cozmoslabs.com) If you have a membership site of any kind, you probably have a number of engaged users that are slowly emerging as community leaders. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could highlight those members on your website? Or if you’re looking to create a community of professionals and let your website visitors get in touch with them. As it turns out, you can. Using the right tool, you can easily create and add a WordPress member directory to your website.