News & Articles

• WordPress Interactive Time Machine (93digital.co.uk)
  This month WordPress turns the ripe old age of 15. To celebrate, London WordPress agency, 93 Digital, wanted to make something special to honor WordPress and the large community of volunteers across the globe who have contributed to its success over the years. To that end, they’ve built an interactive Time Machine (using WordPress, naturally). You can view every incarnation of WordPress admin and accompanying default theme, right back to version 1.0, first released way back in 2003.
• The 52 Best Tools for Freelancers to Scale a Business (kinsta.com)
  Luckily, as freelancers start to become an increasingly larger chunk of today’s workforce, the marketplace is responding in kind with high-powered tools that freelancers can use to be more effective. Understanding the importance of information availability, regardless of which tool you’re currently using, most of our picks for the best tools for freelancers integrate with other popular tools for freelancers.
• Marcel Schmitz Releases Unofficial WordCamp for iOS App (wptavern.com)
  Marcel Schmitz, founder of hellodev, has released WordCamp for iOS for free on the App Store. The app utilizes the WordPress REST API endpoints from WordCamp Central and hellodev to display sessions, speakers, and news from an event’s official site.
• 9 Effective Ideas for Getting Content from Your Clients on Time (artisanthemes.io)
  
• Does WordPress Hold You Back as a Developer, Really? (tommcfarlin.com)
  
• GDPR For WordPress Developers: Announcing The (Free) Anonymization Addon (deliciousbrains.com)
  
• Why Sites Didn’t Automatically Update to WordPress 4.9.6 (wptavern.com)
  
• New Elementor Add-Ons Hit the Market, and What We’re Doing With Our $7k/mo Plugin – Transparency Report #39 (www.codeinwp.com)
  

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Plugin News

• GDPR, Registration Data, and Your Ticketing Website (eventespresso.com)
  In preparation for the new GDPR legislation, WordPress 4.9.6 and Event Espresso 4.9.62 have been released. This post will help you become familiar with the GDPR and the new tools in WordPress and Event Espresso that will help with your registration and ticketing website.
• James Kemp Doubled ‘IconicWP’ Revenues In Less Than A Year By Leveraging Various Freemius Features (freemius.com)
  The founder & owner of IconicWP explains how he constantly increases his WordPress plugin sales.
• The Complete List of Essential & Recommended WordPress Plugins (artisanthemes.io)
  
• How to Sell Documents Online Using WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads (barn2.co.uk)
  
• Blox Page Builder Review: A Brand New WordPress Page Builder (wplift.com)
  
• Simple Google Maps Shortcode Plugin Has New Home with WebFactory (pippinsplugins.com)
  
• WordPress Plugin Updates: Can I Just Ignore Them? – A Data-Backed Look Into It (codeable.io)
  

Theme Releases

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Theme News

• OceanWP: Easily-Customizable and Blazing Fast WordPress Theme (kinsta.com)
  If you build WordPress sites with page builders, you’ve probably come across OceanWP. Along with GeneratePress and Astra, it forms the “Big 3” of popular themes to pair with WordPress page builders. In case you’re not familiar with the WordPress page builder world, OceanWP is a free multipurpose WordPress theme that gives you a ton of control for customizing your site’s design via the real-time WordPress Customizer. Not only that, it’s also blazing fast!
• Music: A Gutenberg-Powered Theme (themeshaper.com)
  
• Top 15 Best One-Page WordPress Themes NOT on ThemeForest (2018) (winningwp.com)
  

Tutorials

• WordPress Gutenberg Block API: Creating Custom Blocks (code.tutsplus.com)
  The new WordPress editor (codenamed Gutenberg) is due for release in version 5.0. Now is the perfect time to get to grips with it before it lands in WordPress core. In this series, we're showing you how to work with the Block API and create your very own content blocks which you can use to build out your posts and pages.
• Understanding How WordPress Outputs Code From Child Themes (premium.wpmudev.org)
  It can sometimes be unclear whether WordPress will be using the code from your parent or your child theme. When it comes to template files, stylesheets and functions files, it can be tricky to work out what’s being used when. In this post, we’ll demystify all this. We’ll look at each type of file and identify when WordPress will use the code from your parent theme and when it’ll use the code from your child theme.
• How to Create a Product Catalog in WordPress (without a Shopping Cart) (www.wpbeginner.com)
  
• Making your WordPress Database HEART Healthy (torquemag.io)
  
• Introduction to HTTP/2 for WordPress (www.wpexplorer.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• From Full-Time Mum to Successful Entrepreneur with Sarah Pressler | WP Elevation (www.wpelevation.com)
  
• New GDPR and Privacy Features Coming to WordPress 4.9.6 | Doc Pop's News Drop (torquemag.io)
  
• Nadia Williams | Hallway Chats (hallwaychats.com)