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News & Articles
WordPress 6.1 Beta 3 Now Available (wordpress.org) WordPress 6.1 Beta 3 is now available for download and testing. The current target for the final release is November 1, 2022, which is about four weeks away.
Core Editor Improvement: Catalyst for Creativity and Control (make.wordpress.org) Alongside the addition of more blocks to edit more parts of your site, more design tools are being added across all blocks to both ensure consistency in the experience and to allow folks to customize their site even more, without needing to use CSS.
A Sudden Change Leaves WordPress Plugin Devs in the Dark (masterwp.com) WordPress developers get very little information about the performance and growth of their plugins in the WordPress plugin repository.
As of late last week, it has been taken a step further when someone within WordPress’ leadership decided to remove the active install growth chart.
How to Translate WooCommerce Emails (translatepress.com) If you own a multilingual eCommerce platform and use WordPress and WooCommerce to run it, you’ve probably already run into the issue that is WooCommerce email translation. We know this from first-hand experience since this is one of those questions we keep getting from our customers. So, how do you translate WooCommerce emails?
How to Manage Editor and Author Permissions in WordPress? (www.cozmoslabs.com) The WordPress Editor Role and the WordPress Author Role are two of the most important user roles on any WordPress site. However, WordPress doesn’t allow making any customizations to these user roles by default.
But since websites and user roles are never a one-size-fits-all thing, you need a reliable solution to manage WordPress Editor and Author permissions.