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Gutenberg 4.5 Changelog

In order to be able to use srcset and sizes on the front end, wp-image-### CSS class has been added to the media and text block.Add minimal multi-selection block panel to replace “Coming Soon” message. It shows word and block count for the selection.Exclude reusable blocks from the global block count in Document

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How to Install and Enable a WooCommerce Extension from WooCommerce.com

Installing a plugin on your WordPress website is pretty straight forward, and can be done in a few different ways. WooCommerce extensions from WooCommerce.com are installed differently and are managed within the WooCommerce plugin itself. WooCommerce extension? Aren't they just plugins? WooCommerce

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Optimizing a ThemeForest theme

WordPress themes from ThemeForest are perhaps the most popular premium themes available. Themes like Avada, X | The Theme, and Enfold have over 100,000 sales each (Avada has nearly 400k sales). These themes provide their users a ton of control and options,

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WordPress Ecommerce Support: WooCommerce

WooCommerce is a popular platform for running businesses online, allowing business owners to process online transactions through their own websites. If you’re one of the many WordPress users who entrusts their ecommerce needs to WooCommerce, then you know how important it is

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Remove WooCommerce Marketing Hub Menu Item

WooCommerce 4.1.0 was released yesterday and among the various updates, there's now a new Marketing tab below the Analytics menu item. This is a new addition to WooCommerce, which they are dubbing the Marketing Hub. Taking a look at the new section

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Does deleting a WordPress Taxonomy also Delete the Associated Post?

When the time comes to clean your post taxonomy house, it's good to get rid of old or non representative tags, categories, or custom taxonomies. Every time I remove one however, I get that nagging feeling - what if all these posts

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Why did Visual Composer dissapear

What’s Visual Composer Visual Composer, by wpBakery, is a page builder plugin for WordPress. It allows the building of DIY pages without coding by using a set of content elements and templates that can be selected and applied to your page or

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Domain Names & Web Hosting, Explained

Building a website can be a huge undertaking – especially if you’ve never built one before. While small sites with small budgets can be built with a little elbow grease and a lot of trial and error, bigger sites and e-commerce sites

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Slack Snippets zero width space bug

I wrote last week about how to detect and remove zero width space characters (​) from Sublime Text. Turns out the culprit is a bug in Slack. We use Slack to maintain a code snippet library using their Snippet feature. It works

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WordPress Software Updates

Keeping up with WordPress updates can be tedious and time consuming… and we bet you have much better things to do with your time. Like run your business. At Cinch, we take care of your website updates every day so you don’t

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Is Cinch Right for You?

WordPress and the related software required to run a website are constantly changing, evolving, and improving. This necessitates an active website management approach. There are almost daily tasks that need to be performed to ensure a website is up to date, safe,

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Let’s Encrypt to offer wildcard SSL’s

Great news folks!! Starting in January 2018 Let's Encrypt will start issuing wildcard SSL certificates. They cite that wildcards have been a common feature request and are hoping that it makes managing and deploying HTTPS that much easier going forward. Wildcard SSL?

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Gutenberg is Coming

When WordPress 5.0 gets released, a new content editor, currently named Gutenberg, is slated to be included. This will be a major change to the way content is edited in WordPress, so let's take a closer look at Gutenberg, and what it

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Change WordPress admin email without confirmation

When we're building a new WordPress powered website one of the very first things we do in the setup process is create the first admin user. The email address associated becomes the main admin for the site. You can see this under

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Google Maps API Setup Guide for WordPress

Google Maps requires an API key to work on your website. This guide shows you how to set up your own key so you control costs and avoid relying on a developer’s shared account. Quick Setup (For Power Users) Time Required: 15–30 minutesCost: Free

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Deny Public Access to wp-cron.php

We wrote a post a while back on how to set up server side CRON jobs for WordPress. We set these up for our hosting customers who request them - and also on high traffic sites to help with server loads. It's

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Why We Don't Do One-Time Fixes

We write quite a bit on our blog about WordPress and WooCommerce, and how we've solved some of the issues we've come across. This brings a lot of site traffic – folks looking for help on the same issues we've come across.

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Gutenberg 4.3 Changelog

Allow toggling the core custom fields meta box.Introduce Annotations API across Block and Formatting.Allow using a YouTube URL (or other sources) in the Video block and transparently convert it to Embed.Allow Alt+F10 keyboard shortcut to navigate to block toolbar regardless of the

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How Our Real-Time Backups Saved The Day

We offer real-time backups for our Performance, WooCommerce, and Pro-Bundle customers. A new customer recently signed up for our WooCommerce Support plan. One of the first things we do when setting up any site is to connect our backup systems and take

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WordPress 4.8.2 Security Release

WordPress 4.8.2 was released today and is considered a security release. Site owners are strongly encouraged to update immediately. Previous versions of WordPress (4.8.1 and earlier) are affected by the following security issues: $wpdb->prepare() can create unexpected and unsafe queries leading to potential

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