wpMail.me wpMail.me issue#532 - The weekly WordPress newsletter. No spam, no nonsense. - October 13, 2021
News & Articles
WordCamp US 2021 Summary (poststatus.com) Some highlights and an overview of WCUS 2021 from David Bisset. The event sold over 3000 tickets, which for a WordCamp US and a virtual event with limited marketing time is quite good.
Black Friday 2021 for WordPress Businesses: What You Need to Know (getellipsis.com) 2021 has been another year of flux and change: we started out with hope that we’d be back to “normal” and COVID-19 behind us thanks to the rollout of vaccines, but we’re not quite there yet. The world has opened up a little, but normality seems far from restored – and it’s a possibility that the normality we remember might not fully be back any time soon. This brings us to the second Black Friday to happen during the pandemic: November 26th 2021 is coming up fast
The Next Web Publishes Storyblok-Sponsored Hit Piece on WordPress (wptavern.com) Last week, under its news section, The Next Web published what could only be described as a hit piece: Developers hate WordPress — and so should marketers. The claim was that, despite its current 40% market share, folks should start looking at alternatives for a better experience.
WordPress Stripe Payment Plugin – How to Set it Up on Your Site (www.cozmoslabs.com) What’s great when using Stripe, compared to other available options, is that it will help you handle transactions directly on your site, with no redirects, making payments an absolute breeze for your website’s users.
In this post, we’ll show you how to unlock this functionality for your own membership website and add a Stripe payment gateway to your site, using an easy-to-use WordPress plugin. So let’s dive in!
WP Engine Launches Atlas Content Modeler (wpengine.com) WP Engine announced the launch of Atlas Content Modeler (ACM), a free WordPress plugin to create custom post types and fields for Headless WordPress sites. ACM integrates seamlessly with WPGraphQL, replacing the need for three separate plugins required to create content models for headless sites.
Introducing Twenty Twenty-Two (make.wordpress.org) WordPress 5.9 will feature a brand new default theme named Twenty Twenty-Two. It arrives during an exciting time for WordPress themes. With the advent of Full Site Editing and Global Styles, themes are changing structurally and functionally to enable far more avenues for customization than users have come to expect in the past. To take advantage of these new abilities, Twenty Twenty-Two has been designed to be the most flexible default theme ever created for WordPress.
How to Translate WooCommerce Checkout Page and Cart Page (Easy Method) (translatepress.com) Searching for a way to translate the WooCommerce checkout page and/or the WooCommerce cart page?
If your store has a multilingual audience, you probably want to be able to offer the WooCommerce cart and checkout in multiple languages.
WooCommerce doesn’t include a built-in feature for this functionality, but you can accomplish it using the right plugin.
Best Ways to Encrypt Passwords, Keys, & More with PHP in 2021 (deliciousbrains.com) There are a range of different encryption methods in use today, the most common being hashing, secret key encryption, and envelope encryption. In addition, each encryption method has multiple algorithms or ciphers to choose from (each with its own strengths and weaknesses). In this article, we’re going to look at implementing all three encryption methods.