Weekly WordPress News: Black Friday 2020 Is Over

Hey, WordPress friends. We hope you got your fill of WordPress Black Friday deals last week. There are still a few deals straggling on, but most of them are over by now.

Other than those deals, it’s been a fairly quiet week. There’s been some talk of returning to in-person WordPress events in limited locations and, as usual, we have lots of tutorials and resources for you.

Let’s get to all of this week’s news…

WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES

• New Plugin Adds Google-Doc Style Commenting to Gutenberg Blocks – this looks like a really neat plugin for content teams.
• WordPress Community Team Discusses Return to In-Person Events – would need to be very limited.
• Block-Based Bosco, Second Full-Site Editing Theme Lands in the WordPress Directory – another block-based theme is out.
• Why WordPress Will Soon Power 50% of All Websites – will it happen?
• What’s New in WordPress 5.6 (Accessibility, Performance, Security) – check out what’s coming in WordPress 5.6.
• Print My Blog November Transparency Report – see the behind-the-scenes of running a freemium plugin.

TUTORIALS AND HOW-TOS

• How to Use Cloudflare Full-Page Caching With WordPress (for Free!) – learn how to set up Cloudflare full-page caching without breaking your site.
• Google AMP for WordPress: How to Get Started + Best Plugins – we updated our guide on how to use Google AMP with WordPress.
• How to Add Any Custom Language in WordPress (Even Klingon!) – how to add a custom language to your site.
• How to Fix WooCommerce Performance Issues Using Kinsta APM (Real-World Examples) – a very detailed tutorial.
• Gutenberg Components and Invalid Hook Call Error in React. What do do? – very specific tutorial.

RESOURCES

• Jelastic Review: Multi-Cloud PaaS for WordPress Hosting – check out our review of Jelastic.
• Pros & Cons of Selling Add-ons for Plugins and Themes – Experts Corner – a video from Freemius.