Weekly WordPress News: Next week WPlift is launching a new site design!

The first thing I want to share with you: next week we’re going live with the new design of WPlift! I can’t wait to show it to you. A fresh design with some long-awaited functions in there…

Now back to the regular news.

The difference between WordPress and WordPress.com is a touchy subject in the community. This new website explains those issues loud and clear.

Additionally, Brian has a good article on free speech and the web. And Colin has some tips on what to think about when changing WordPress themes.

Finally, if you’re a fan of Themify, they’re running a huge 50% off sale right now. Don’t miss out if you’ve been eyeing some of their products!

Let’s get to all of this week’s news…

WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES

• Changing WordPress Themes: 7 Important Questions to Consider – 7 things to consider if you’re switching WordPress themes.
• Selling to Developers: Ten Lessons Learned – an article from Povilas at Indie Hackers that’s relevant to WordPress.
• Free speech, privacy, and the web – a timely article from Brian at Post Status.
• WP Is Not WP – not technically an article…but an interesting new website. What do you think?
• Don’t Take Security Advice from SEO Experts or Psychics – a nice article from Troy Hunt that made the rounds on Twitter.
• Five Ways I’d Like To Be Proven Wrong About Gutenberg – Gutenberg is still in the news!
• What’s new in Gutenberg? (11th August) – speaking of Gutenberg, it’s changed quite a bit since our review.

TUTORIALS AND HOW-TOS

• A Deep Dive Into WordPress User Roles and Capabilities – ever wondered what those different user roles are?
• Using VueJS and ES6 In the WordPress Admin – a developer-focused tutorial from Josh.
• 10 Tips: Increase Your WooCommerce Conversion Rate with Product Tables – some tips to use product tables to help increase your store’s conversion rate.
• How to build a product launch page with Elementor for free – a big tutorial for using Elementor, one of our favorite page builders.
• Display Members in BuddyPress by Roles – a very specific tutorial.

RESOURCES, DEALS & FREEBIES

• WooCommerce Product Table Review: Create Filterable Tables from Products – a helpful plugin to create tables from WooCommerce products.
• 5 Helpful Blog Name Generators to Pick a Domain Name – use these blog name generators to help you pick a domain name.
• Themify 50% Off Sale – Themify is running a huge 50% off sale right now. Use code Lucky7.