- Last updated on: May 22, 2020
- Payments, Woocommerce
Weekly WordPress News: WooCommerce Payments Is Live
Hey WordPress fans, if you have a WooCommerce store, the WooCommerce team is trying to make it easier for you to manage payments without leaving your dashboard with WooCommerce Payments, powered by Stripe Express.
BuddyPress also launched a new major version, and we’ll show you how to turn your WordPress site into static HTML.
Let’s get to all of this week’s WordPress news…
WORDPRESS NEWS AND ARTICLES
- Manage Payments Directly in the WooCommerce Dashboard – the WooCommerce Payments announcement.
- WooCommerce Payments Allows Shop Owners to Manage Payments Without Leaving WordPress Admin – more from WP Tavern.
- BuddyPress 6.0 is Live – it brings new dedicated blocks, among improvements to the BP REST API, and more.
- PHP and WordPress Version Checks Coming to Themes – more PHP version checks on the way.
- Introducing Iceberg : Distraction-free Writing Mode for WordPress Block Editor – Jeffrey is enhancing the block editor in a ton of cool ways with EditorsKit. Rich Tabor is also part of the Iceberg team.
- The Elementor Attacks: How Creative Hackers Combined Vulnerabilities to Take Over WordPress Sites – Wordfence details the attacks on Elementor.
- Why WordPress Plugin Developers Have to Start Thinking SaaS – Vova Feldman from Freemius tells plugin devs about the revenue model he thinks is best
TUTORIALS AND HOW-TOS
- How to Use a WordPress Static Site Generator to Make WordPress Static – how to create a static HTML WordPress site.
- Spice Up Your WordPress Site with These Built-In Gutenberg Content Block Recipes – how to get creative with the block editor.
- How To Create A Custom WordPress Website Using Toolset Blocks And Gutenberg Editor – how to build custom WordPress sites with Toolset.
- The Complete Guide to the WordPress Media Library (4 Handy Media Library Hacks Included) – get more from the Media Library.
- Affiliate program: how we started and what we learned – Pixelgrade digs into their own affiliate program.
- Generate a Google Translate API Key For Your Site – Weglot shows you how
- How to Customize the WooCommerce Product Page – Create your ideal product page
RESOURCES
- Elementor Review – Updated For 2.9 – Theme Building, Popups + More! – we updated our review of the Elementor plugin to account for all of the new features.
- 7 Best WordPress Theme Builder and Website Builder Plugins Compared – the best theme builder plugins for WordPress.
- E95 – Obi-Wan on crossing 300,000 active installs within 1.5 years (Bhanu Ahluwalia, Rank Math) – a new episode of WPMRR.
- Matt Mullenweg with Reid Hoffman on Managing Remote Teams – a new episode of the Distributed podcast.
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WordFence for Security
Security of a website is one element that can’t be ignored as there are thousands of hackers and malicious bots that can demolish your work in no time. Even if you have an old site that doesn’t mean you are safe from hackers.
There is no compromise for security, there are many plugins available in WordPress which you can use. Among them, WordFence is known to be one of the best. This plugin offers a variety of tools which you can use like the firewall to keep your site safe from hackers, malware scan, blocking, login security, traffic monitoring live and so on. This plugin helps you to keep an eye on the traffic including robots, real users, 404 errors, login, and logout, etc.