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CMS Market Share Analysis – December 2021 (joost.blog) This is the CMS market share analysis for December 2021, JoostdeValk's sixth biannual analysis of the CMS market share numbers provided by W3Techs. While in the previous two analyses the ecosystem changed a lot already, we have some interesting new trends in the last 6 months.
Let’s Make a Difference Together #WPGivesAHand, Will You? (wpgivesahand.com) #WPGivesAHand is a WordPress-wide movement that other businesses have joined to help those in need.
If you're making a purchase with these companies, from December 20th to December 26th, 2021 they will donate a percentage of every sale towards charity!
The Gamechangers: Meet the Players Driving Change With WordPress Acquisitions (freemius.com) The Gamechangers is a video series where the Freemius team will draw back the proverbial curtain to give developers an intimate, honest look at the inner workings and moving parts that make up the M&A process. And who better to share this knowledge than the people at the heart of these transactions?
10up Releases the Publisher Media Kit WordPress Plugin (wptavern.com) Earlier this week, version 1.0 of 10up’s Publisher Media Kit went live in the WordPress plugin directory. It is a preconfigured set of blocks and patterns for jump-starting a media kit page for small and medium-sized publications.
Some Quick Performance Tests with Surge, a New WordPress Caching Plugin (roytanck.com) Last week, Konstantin Kovshenin released Surge, a new page caching plugin for WordPress. It’s main feature is that it has no configuration settings. Zero. Simply install and activate the plugin. That sounded too good to be true, so we installed the plugin and did some quick testing.
Alara Block Theme Promises a New Pattern or Design Variation Every Week for the Next Year (wptavern.com) One month ago, UXL Themes released Alara. It was a theme that carried with it one bold promise: every week for the next year, users could expect a new design variation, child theme, or block pattern. And, all of this would be done on the back of the block theme system that is slated to launch with WordPress 5.9 next month.
How to Hide Products by User Roles in WooCommerce? (www.cozmoslabs.com) Do you want to easily hide products by user roles in WooCommerce? Whatever the reason, it’s important to be able to manage product visibility by user roles for WooCommerce.
Profile Builder Pro is designed to offer this functionality, along with many other useful features that help with the user management of your WooCommerce website. And it can do it for free!
The Guide to Understanding Duplicate Content… and Eradicating it on WordPress (wpmarmite.com) Duplicate content is a real problem when you find it on other people’s sites, but it can also pop up on your own WordPress site, without you even knowing it.
This is just as annoying, especially because it can have negative consequences for your SEO. In this post, you will learn everything about this duplicate content, and especially concrete solutions to get rid of it. And we promise, it’s guaranteed to be free of fuss.