News & Articles

• One-Time vs. Recurring Payments for WordPress Products (wptavern.com)
  Jeff Starr posed the question at Digging into WordPress: Which Pricing Model Do You Prefer: One-Time or Recurring? It is not the first time the question has been asked in the WordPress community and will not be the last. It is important that we keep coming back to it from time to time.
• Risk and Reward at Black Friday with WordPress Products (getellipsis.com)
  Black Friday it's an anxiety-riddled time for WordPress product businesses. Should you do a sale? When should it start? What level of discount should you do? And what about new customers? This post is an attempt to pull together some lessons learned from this year’s round of sales, and pull out some key insights for the future.
• WordPress 5.3.2 Maintenance Release (wordpress.org)
  WordPress 5.3.2 is now available! This maintenance release features 5 fixes and enhancements. WordPress 5.3.2 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version 5.4.
• GTmetrix vs PageSpeed Insights vs Pingdom Tools vs WebPageTest: Which Is Best (www.codeinwp.com)
  
• Scaling Kinsta to a Global WordPress Hosting Platform in 2019 (kinsta.com)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: December 2019, Part 1 (ithemes.com)
  
• State of the Word: the Story of the Slides (wordpress.org)
  
• What’s Making Our Websites Slow? We Are! (webtrainingwheels.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Introducing ShareABlock: Brand New Way to Share and Download Free Gutenberg Block & Template Designs (shareablock.com)
  ShareABlock provides ways for selected users to share Gutenberg block, section, and even template ideas to the world. These block designs will be available for free download to everyone.
• Slim SEO Keeps Options Simple and Handles the Legwork of SEO (wptavern.com)
  Slim SEO is a plugin built by eLightUp, the company behind the Meta Box framework and GretaThemes. The plugin beautifully handles the basics that you would expect from an SEO plugin. It automatically handles meta tags, including Open Graph Tags for social media. It generates a sitemap of your public posts and pages. It outputs structured data via JSON-LD with no work on the user’s part.
• WordPress Products, Audited: WP Simple Giveaways by Igor Benić (freemius.com)
  
• Using A WordPress Poll Plugin: How To Get Feedback From Your Site Visitors (wplift.com)
  
• Google Site Kit Review – Improve Your WordPress Site Hassle-free (torquemag.io)
  

Tutorials

• How to Translate URL Slugs for Your WordPress Site (translatepress.com)
  A slug is the user-friendly part of the URL that tells site visitors what a page is about. For example, this article’s URL is https://translatepress.com/blog/translating-url-slugs and the slug is simply “translating-url-slugs.” So you would assume the page is about translating URL slugs, and you would be right. But what if the URL slug is in a language different to the rest of the page content?
• WordPress CRM Complete Guide (Best Plugins + How To Connect) (wpfusion.com)
  Finding the right WordPress customer relationship management tool (CRM) can help you develop better customer relationships and create more personalized experiences on your site and in your marketing campaigns. This post shares six of the best WordPress CRM systems for small and large businesses alike. It also shows you how you can use WP Fusion to create a two-way relationship between your WordPress site and chosen CRM, and also connect many of your favorite WordPress plugins to your CRM at the same time.
• Dating App with WordPress and CometChat Go (www.makerpad.co)
  
• How to Fine-Tune Your Existing WordPress Website for Accessibility (wpshout.com)
  
• Deactivating WordPress Plugins with SQL (tommcfarlin.com)
  
• Inserting Special Characters Into the Block Editor (wptavern.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Glitch CEO Anil Dash on Strengthening Values in a Distributed Startup | Distributed.blog (distributed.blog)