After a short hiatus for some much-needed vacation, we’re back with more great WordPress news!
First up, EasyThemePacks just released two new premium Elementor templates – one for blogs and another for florists or other arts and crafts stores. Go check ’em out if you use Elementor!
All of Foxland’s themes are also now free, which is pretty awesome. And if you’re a WordPress business owner, you’ll want to check out Syed Balkhi’s new WordPress growth accelerator fund.
Let’s get to all of this week’s news…
WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES
- 2 New EasyThemePacks Elementor Templates – for bloggers and flower shops.
- Syed Balkhi Launches A WordPress-focused Growth Accelerator Fund – worth looking into if you have a WordPress business – $100k-500k funding.
- Severe vulnerability exposes WordPress websites to attack – might be worth paying attention to.
- Why You Need To Discontinue Using Nulled WordPress Plugins On Your Site – a reminder why nulled plugins are a bad idea.
- WordPress for iOS 10.6 Adds A Detailed Site Activity Log – improvements to the WordPress iOS app.
- Foxland products for free – I love Sami’s themes, so this is pretty awesome! All themes are now free.
- Yoast SEO 8.0 Is Out – you might have noticed the new meta box. What do you think of the smiley faces?
TUTORIALS AND HOW-TOS
- How To Embed Google Forms In WordPress: Manually Or With A Plugin – learn the best ways to embed Google Forms in WordPress.
- How to Migrate from a Self-Hosted WordPress Site to WordPress.com – a pretty detailed tutorial!
- How can you add Instagram to Divi Header – helpful for Divi users.
- Organizing WordPress Types, Views, and Subscribers – for developers, from Tom McFarlin.
- WordPress Freelancing Can Be Lonely: Nine Strategies to Cope – not really WordPress specific, but helpful for freelancers of all types.
RESOURCES & DEALS
- YellowPencil Review: Easy CSS Customization With Visual Editing – YellowPencil helps you edit your theme’s CSS using a beginner-friendly visual interface.
- 7 Best WordPress Social Share Plugins: Our Picks + What We Use – our picks for the 7 best social share plugins.
- 8+ Best WordPress Search Plugins To Improve Your Site Search – some plugins to help you improve the search function at your WordPress site.
- ShortPixel $29 Lifetime Appsumo Deal – you can still get this deal for a little while longer.
- Bryce Adams and Metorik – the How I Built it podcast.
