News & Articles

• How a Munich-based Game Studio is Using WordPress and Gutenberg to Power Its Website (wptavern.com)
  Mimimi, an award-winning game studio based in Munich, has launched a new WordPress website that provides an interesting case study of Gutenberg in the wild. Although you may not be able to tell from the frontend, behind the scenes the new block-based editor is powering the layout with custom blocks, allowing the Mimimi team to easily update various sections of their website.
• How Does Writing Influences Your Personal Brand? (pixelgrade.com)
  We live in a world where uniqueness is the king. There were no better times to reveal your genuine personality. However, even though we have plenty of room to showcase it, we often get trapped in the ordinary.
• Presentation: Making Accessible Content and Websites in WordPress (cynthiang.ca)
  This article is based on a presentation all about web accessibility, thinking about the users affected, technology involved, creating accessible content in WordPress, and finally, choosing accessible themes and plugins.
• Google Analytics Is Lying to You (Massively) (www.tallprojects.co.uk)
  
• KMD Enterprises Scales Massive Networks With Help From WPMU DEV (premium.wpmudev.org)
  
• Drupal.org Migrates Developer Tools to GitLab (wptavern.com)
  
• Does Hosting Win the WordPress Market? – Transparency Report #42 (www.codeinwp.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Why You Need To Discontinue Using Nulled WordPress Plugins On Your Site (wedevs.com)
  From time to time, we do need to run premium (paid) plugins to get those extra benefits and functions for our site. A good number of users opt to run these premium solutions nulled and pirated. Getting involved in copyright infringement, is, however, outright theft. And this is highly discouraged because it costs your site a lot more than it gives back.
• 7 Best Auto-Blogging Plugins for WordPress: We Went Hands-on With Each (www.codeinwp.com)
  Looking for the best auto-blogging plugins for WordPress? Stop wasting time Googling and just read this post. We went hands-on with 7 of the best auto-blogging plugins for WordPress to help you find a solution to help you import RSS feed items as actual WordPress posts.
• WooCommerce Memberships Review – Reward Frequent Buyers (www.commercegurus.com)
  
• ClassicPress: Gutenberg Not Included (wptavern.com)
  

Theme Releases

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Theme News

• The Best Gaming WordPress Themes for Gamer Blogs and Magazines (www.wpexplorer.com)
  Searching for a good WordPress theme for your new gamer blog or magazine? Search no more because we’ve compiled a comprehensive article selecting the best gaming WordPress themes available ordered by quality and features, from good to better to the very best.

Jobs post your own job

• Blog About WordPress…Full Time! WPMU DEV Is Hiring Content Creators (premium.wpmudev.org)
  Would you like to become one of the leading voices in the WordPress web development community by joining the WPMU DEV team as a full time writer and content creator for their blog? Well, that’s great, because they have at least one opening to do that, full time, from anywhere in the World, as an ongoing staff member (with plenty of benefits!), as of, well, today.

Tutorials

• Gutenberg Full-Width Alignment in WordPress Themes (codepen.io)
  Looking for providing Gutenberg editor's full-width alignment compatibility in your WordPress theme? Even though your theme sets boxed website layout, and even displays a sidebar? You're at the right place. :)
• How to Create Anchor Links in WordPress (4 Easy Methods) (kinsta.com)
  Anchor links is not a topic that is discussed a lot, but we’ve had excellent results with them! Today we’ll be diving into how to create anchor links in WordPress and explore why you might want to start using them. From our experience, anchor links can help improve the user experience, make navigating long-form content a lot easier, and even give you a slight advantage in Google.
• Vue Vs React: 2018 Edition (deliciousbrains.com)
  
• 5 Best Practices for Designing High-Converting Event Registration Forms (eventespresso.com)
  
• How To Install Cloudflare On WordPress The Right Way (createandcode.com)
  
• Tips and Tricks for Using Facebook Debugger (www.presslabs.com)
  
• Advanced OOP For WordPress Part 9: Extensible Plugins Using the Plugins API (torquemag.io)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Guerrilla Marketing with David Kelly from KingSumo | Mastermind.fm (mastermind.fm)
  
• David’s Talk on Using Functional PHP | WPShout (wpshout.com)
  
• Gutenberg, Forking, and cPanel | WPWeekly (wptavern.com)
  
• Operating In Your Genius | WP Elevation (www.wpelevation.com)
  
• Mario Peshev Explains the Advantages of Gutenberg for Users who Rely on Page Builders | WP Tavern (wptavern.com)
  
• Should Developers Block Gutenberg | Doc Pop News Drop (torquemag.io)