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Matt Mullenweg Addresses Controversies Surrounding Gutenberg at WordCamp Portland Q&A (wptavern.com) Matt Mullenweg joined attendees at WordCamp Portland, OR, for a Q&A session last weekend and the recording is now available on WordPress.tv.
The first question came from a user who tried Gutenberg and turned it off because of a plugin conflict. She asked if users will have to use Gutenberg when 5.0 is released. Mullenweg said one of the reasons Gutenberg has been tested so early is to give plugin developers time to get their products compatible.
WordPress 5.0 is Not Ready (mrwweb.com) WordPress 5.0 can and should be a positive change to WordPress, but if it is released in late November as planned, it won’t be. There are simply too many bugs in the editor, and the experience is not polished enough. This is because the rate of development has prevented systematic quality assurance (QA) and user testing.
WP GDPR Compliance Plugin Patches Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (wptavern.com) At the end of last week, a plugin called WP GDPR Compliance sent out a security update for a privilege escalation vulnerability that was reported to the WordPress Plugin Directory team on November 6. The plugin was temporarily removed and then reinstated after the issues were patched within 24 hours by its creators, Van Ons, a WordPress development shop based in Amsterdam.
How to Easily Translate WooCommerce Products [The Complete Guide] (translatepress.com) If you translate your offerings (and the rest of your site) into the language of your visitors, you dramatically increase your chances of turning them into paying customers.
This article will tell you exactly how to do that. In the following, we will go over how to translate different parts of your WooCommerce products including product title, description and category.
Complete Guide to WordPress Multi Language Setup (managewp.com) Though English may be considered the “global” language of business and e-commerce, research shows otherwise. In fact, almost three-quarters of the internet communicate (and spend) in other languages. So, with only around a quarter of the world’s online communication actually in English, if you’re a monolingual, English WordPress site or business-owner you could be leaving money on the table.