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News & Articles
Join the Incident Response Team (poststatus.com) A training course is available at learn.wordpress.org now for anyone who wants to join the Incident Response Team (IRT), which deals with reported violations of the WordPress community Code of Conduct (CoC). This training is also a great way to be prepared to back up the team or understand better how to deal with conduct code issues in our own spaces and at WordPress-related events that aren't officially sponsored by WordPress.
Two Proposals for Coding Standards in WordPress (masterwp.com) Two big discussions in WordPress recently have focused on coding standards, and they’re great case studies in how these seemingly minor decisions have major impacts and implications on the project.
Contributing to WordPress: The Good, the Bad & the Polyglot (freemius.com) Does contributing to WordPress for free still make sense in 2022? Freemius's multilingual copywriter wasn’t convinced, so he set out to document the pros and cons by signing up as a polyglot. In his new article, Robert Nolte shares his discoveries as an English-to-Afrikaans translator, plus insights from Freemius CEO Vova Feldman.
19+ Best Elementor Addons and Plugins in 2022: New Widgets, Features, and More (www.cozmoslabs.com) One of the reasons that Elementor has been so successful is that the developers also built the plugin in an open way so that third-party developers can extend it with all kinds of new goodies. In fact, you now have hundreds of Elementor addons to choose from – so how do you find the best options? Let us do the work for you!
New Free Plugin Offers Beautiful Block Patterns for Food Bloggers (wptavern.com) Last month WPZOOM released a free plugin called Block Patterns for Food Bloggers that we finally got the chance to test. Food blogs commonly have a strong focus on category and tag-driven grid layouts with big featured images and multiple sections showcasing different types of recipes. Prior to the block editor, customizing these types of layouts would be beyond reach for most WordPress users.
How to Fix the “Your Site Has No Hreflang Tags” Error in Google Search Console (translatepress.com) Seen a warning that “your site has no hreflang tags” in Google Search Console but not sure what that means and what you need to do to fix things?
If your website offers multiple versions of your content for different languages and/or reader locations, it’s essential that you add properly formatted hreflang tags to your site’s code. Don’t worry, though! This guide is going to cover everything that you need to know to add hreflang tags to your website and fix the error in Google Search Console.
How to Create a WordPress Registration Form with Payment Options (Stripe, PayPal, and Others) (www.cozmoslabs.com) Creating a WordPress registration form with payment options can be quite intimidating even for a developer. However, WordPress makes it surprisingly easy thanks to all the payment plugins it offers.
So this post will guide you on exactly that – creating a WordPress registration form with payment options from scratch using a highly-rated membership and payments plugin.