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DigitalOcean to Acquire Cloudways (investors.digitalocean.com) DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc., the cloud for developers, startups and SMBs, has entered into an agreement to acquire Cloudways, a leading managed cloud hosting and software as a service (SaaS) provider for SMBs. The acquisition will simplify workflows for small to medium-sized businesses that are looking for easier ways to build and scale their digital businesses.
WordPress 6.0.2 RC1 is Now Available (make.wordpress.org) WordPress 6.0.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! 6.0.2 RC1 features 12 bug fixes on Core, as well as 5 bug fixes (view PRs merged from July 5th onwards) for the Block Editor.
Announcing Dollie 2.0 – The Next Level of Building WordPress Cloud Platforms as a Service Has Arrived (getdollie.com) With Dollie you don’t need to worry about infrastructure, security and scale, our engineers take care of all of that behind the scenes. And the best thing? You can build your entire white labeled cloud platform using WordPress itself. With a 21-day trial you can test out all the functionality available for you to scale and manage all your websites using tools that help you to build out products and services for you to sell directly to your customers.
23+ Most Useful WordPress Plugins: Improve Any Site in 2022 (www.cozmoslabs.com) Searching for the most useful WordPress plugins to improve your site in all kinds of helpful ways? To help you skip the grunt work, we’ve curated our own list of the 23+ most useful WordPress plugins.
With a few exceptions, we’ve tried to go beyond the really obvious options and help you discover some lesser-known plugins that can make your life easier and/or help you create a better WordPress site.
WP-CLI Packages: Supercharge Your WordPress Development (deliciousbrains.com) WP-CLI lets you do pretty much anything you can do in the WordPress admin, but faster and more efficiently with a command-line interface. WP-CLI packages take this even further by containing WP-CLI commands or extending the WordPress command line in some way. In this article, we’ll show you how to install packages, highlight some of our personal favorites, and show you how to search for other packages to improve your development workflow.
How to Migrate Subsite Content to a Multisite Network (webdevstudios.com) This article addressed how to migrate subsite content within a multisite network. It doesn’t focus on migrating a whole network.
This type of migration is applicable when you are adding new features to your subsite and want to migrate only the content. For example, moving classic editor content to the block editor or sending data to a headless content management system (CMS).