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Before you run off and install a dozen affiliate WordPress Plugins, how about spending a minute to focus sharply on what you wish to achieve with your referral program. Why? It’s the only way to choose the perfect affiliate plugin for your needs. Here’s an hypothetical scenario. You have a theme, plugin, hosting or something else…

COVID-19 awareness icons added to Font Awesome. On Monday, the Font Awesome team launched a new set of icons to promote awareness around COVID-19. The solid icons available in the Font Awesome 5.13 update are all available for free and are open-source. The regular, light, and duotone versions of the icons are a part of…

Version 7.8 of the Gutenberg plugin landed yesterday. The team continues to improve the editor with the refreshed interface work that began in version 7.7. The most useful feature with this update of the plugin is the inclusion of the Patterns API for plugin and theme developers. This release is not the massive feature release…

There is a popular saying, which has been used in several memes, among my developer and remote-working friend groups. It goes something like the following: Government and Doctors: Practice physical distancing during this pandemic. Remote Workers: I’ve been preparing my whole life for this moment. I got this. The truth is that we don’t “got…

Yoast, the company behind the popular Yoast SEO plugin, launched its free block editor training course today. The course is available to anyone by signing up for Yoast Academy, which also includes multiple other free and paid courses. Users can learn everything from SEO and copy writing to basic WordPress skills. The Academy team’s latest…

WordPress is now a very popular platform for websites. As a result it attracts a load of attention, sometimes the unwanted attention of hackers and their malware. The WordPress team at Automattic works constantly to make WordPress a safe CMS to work with. But this is a continuous process, a kind of tug-of-war, as new malware and…

Google Site Kit is a brand new SEO/analytics plugin for WordPress, developed by Google. Google Site Kit enables you to connect and monitor your site across Google’s online marketing services including: Search Console, Google Analytics, PageSpeed Insights, Google AdSense, Google Optimize and Google Tag Manager. The best part? You can do all of this directly…

Book sales section from a custom theme. It was about a year ago. I was happily designing a theme for aspiring novelists. I wanted to get ahead of the competition and market a theme specifically to writers who would be attempting the National Novel Writing Month 2019 challenge. NaNoWriMo, for short, is a whirlwind of…

WP Tavern homepage design. It has been a bit of a slow news week in the land of WordPress with the COVID-19 pandemic reaching across the globe. Most people are hunkering down or getting accustomed to a change in their daily lives. For some people, that has meant figuring out a way to work with…