Weekly WordPress News: Jupiter X Theme Giveaway

If you missed our blog post about it, we’re giving away three copies of the flexible Jupiter X theme – you have until Tuesday to enter, so don’t wait around too long.

If you have a WordPress business, you’ll want to check out round two of the WPBeginner growth accelerator fund, and there’s a new typing experience in Gutenberg.

Let’s get to all of this week’s news…

WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES

• Elementor Growth Roundup – 15 Experts Share How to Grow Your Business in 2020 – a nice expert roundup at Elementor.
• The Story Behind Barn2’s Rebrand & New Website – go behind the recent Barn2 redesign.
• WordPress Products, Audited: The ‘All-in-One Video Gallery’ Case Study – a detailed case study about this plugin.
• Popular WordPress Themes Remove Obtrusive Admin Notices to Conform to New Theme Directory Requirement – good to see some positive changes.
• Gutenberg 6.4 Adds New Typewriter Experience, Cover Block Resizing, and Block Inserter Help Panel – some more changes in Gutenberg.
• Announcing WPBeginner Growth Accelerator Fund (Round 2) – Syed’s WordPress accelerator is open for round 2.

TUTORIALS AND HOW-TOS

• Gzip Compression WordPress Guide: How to Enable It (5 Methods) – learn how to enable Gzip compression on WordPress.
• Increase WooCommerce Customer Engagement with Email Automation – learn how to use email automation on WooCommerce.
• Why your international e-commerce strategy isn’t working (and how to fix it) – if you have a global eCommerce store.
• How to add header and footer scripts to your WordPress site – CSSIgniter shows you how.
• What is xmlrpc.php file and why you should care about it – ever wondered what this weird series of letters mean?
• How to Set Up Email Subscription for WordPress With Jetpack’s Subscriptions Feature – an extensive guide from MailPoet
• How To Create And Display User Submitted Posts With Gravity Forms (And Gravity Wiz) – Gravity Wiz explains how

RESOURCES & DEALS

• Jupiter X Theme Giveaway: Win One of Three Copies of the Theme – we’re giving away three copies of the Jupiter X theme – enter to win – you have until Tuesday.
• 5 Biggest Takeaways from Podcast Movement 2019 – Joe @ How I Built It’s takeaways from Podcast Movement.
• Check Out Top Fifty WP – a neat new site that ranks the most downloaded plugins from the previous day based on wordpress.org data.
• Matt Report: Pricing WordPress Projects – a new episode of the Matt Report podcast.