wpMail.me wpMail.me issue#395 - The weekly WordPress newsletter. No spam, no nonsense. - February 6, 2019
News & Articles
WordPress Names Josepha Haden New Executive Director, Joost de Valk Marketing and Communications Lead (wptavern.com) Last week Mullenweg announced that WordPress is expanding its leadership team to include Josepha Haden in a new Executive Director role and Joost de Valk as the Marketing and Communications Lead. These new roles better distribute project leadership to more individuals who have demonstrated the ability and judiciousness to guide large, diverse teams towards success.
WordPress 5.1 Beta 3 (wordpress.org) One of the features originally slated for WordPress 5.1—the PHP error protection handler—will target WordPress 5.2 instead. Some potential security issues were discovered in the implementation: rather than risk releasing insecure code, the team decided to pull it out of WordPress 5.1. The work in #46130 is showing good progress towards addressing the security concerns, if you’d like to follow development progress on this feature.
20+ of the Best Bootstrap Admin Templates for Your Next Project (www.codeinwp.com) If you’re starting a project like a web app or a website that requires an admin dashboard, then this collection of Bootstrap admin templates will be a great starting point! Bootstrap is a free and open-source JavaScript framework that contains a whole lot of ready-made code to help you create things.
A weekly e-mail that condenses last week’s security news into 10 or so items worth knowing about. It is designed to keep you up-to-date with minimal effort, and also has an RSS feed.
Plugin News
Beaver Builder vs. Elementor: The 110% Comparison (wpbuffs.com) If you or your clients haven’t found the new WordPress editor to be a help in your workflow, it may be time to consider installing one of these page builder plugins. You could, of course, always return to the classic editor, but that would put you and your clients at a disadvantage by taking a step backward instead of forwards.
Maps Marker Pro Review: A Flexible WordPress Mapping Plugin (wplift.com) Need to display any type of map on your WordPress site? In our Maps Marker Pro review, we’ll show you how this flexible WordPress map plugin can help you create your own custom maps with markers, filtering, and a whole lot more.
Hey WordPress Theme Developers, Are Your Themes Ready for the Gutenberg Block Editor? (deliciousbrains.com) Before WordPress 5.0 arrived we came across a few premium WordPress themes already advertising that they were ‘Gutenberg-ready’ or ‘Gutenberg-compatible’. Huh. But how could a theme not be compatible with the new block editor (formerly known as Gutenberg)? Surely themes just render whatever is in the post content with the theme’s own styling?
Tutorials
10 Effective Tips to Increase Your Multilingual Site Speed in WordPress (translatepress.com) Knowing how to increase your multilingual site speed is an important skill. Page loading speed is an often underestimated factor for the success of a website. However, it influences many key factors, like: traffic, bounce rate, conversions, user satisfaction, as well as SEO.
This detailed guide will cover everything you need to know about how to make your multilingual WordPress site faster.
How to Create a Membership Pricing Table in WordPress (www.cozmoslabs.com) A well thought membership pricing table can positively affect your site conversion rate.
You can easily highlight things like access to members-only store, a premium members forum or exclusive content.
Below we’ll go into the steps required to create a pricing table that shows each subscription plan options for your site.