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WordPress 5.7.1 RC 1 (make.wordpress.org) WordPress 5.7.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! As per the proposed WordPress 5.7.1 schedule, the final release is expected on Wednesday April 14, 2021 around 23:00 UTC.
Hosting WooCommerce Stores with Unexpected High Traffic (chrislema.com) What happens when you get that high traffic and they're putting things in carts? What happens when you can't handle everything with cache?
That's when you have to look at options for hosting high traffic WooCommerce stores.
SliceWP – Free Affiliate Marketing Plugin for WordPress (wpgeodirectory.com) SliceWP is the newest Affiliate plugin for WordPress, its core plugin is free, it is incredibly easy to use and its developers, just made it fully compatible with our GetPaid plugin.
As a consequence, it is compatible with GeoDirectory too!
Disable the WordPress Block Editor’s Fullscreen Mode With a Plugin (wptavern.com) As anyone who prefers to opt-out of fullscreen mode knows, there are moments when you log into WordPress and hop over to the post editor only to find it is not in the state you last left it. It is a slight annoyance but enough to dampen the user experience. On Wednesday, Johan Jonk Stenström released Fullscreen Mode B Gone to the WordPress plugin directory. As the catchy title implies, it gets rid of the block editor’s fullscreen mode.
WooCommerce User Registration: Full Customization Guide (2021) (www.cozmoslabs.com) Searching for a solution to customize how WooCommerce user registration works at your store? Thankfully, you can easily customize how it works using a dedicated WooCommerce user registration plugin, which is what we’re going to show you how to do in this guide.
9 Ways to Customize the WordPress Footer (By Hand & Via Plugin) (torquemag.io) The footer is an often neglected part of a website. After all, lots of visitors will never actually scroll down that far. However, this kind of attitude could leave you behind. To make sure any information in this part of your site looks good, we will now go over many ways to customize the WordPress footer so you can make the most of it.