wpMail.me wpMail.me issue#433 - The weekly WordPress newsletter. No spam, no nonsense. - October 24, 2019
News & Articles
Chilean News Publication El Soberano First to Launch on Newspack (wptavern.com) Nine months after the announcement of Newspack by WordPress.com, the Chilean news site El Soberano became the first publication to launch on the new platform. On October 16, the small news team relaunched with a fresh design powered by the Newspack theme and its newsroom-focused plugins.
WordPress 5.3 RC2 (wordpress.org) The second release candidate for WordPress 5.3 is now available!
WordPress 5.3 is currently scheduled to be released on November 12 2019, but we need your help to get there—if you haven’t tried 5.3 yet, now is the time!
10 Best WordPress User Registration Plugins to Power Up Your Site (kinsta.com) Sometimes a school needs to register students online for a field trip, a business owner may need to register users for an upcoming conference or seminar. Regardless of the reason, a great course of action is to use one of the best WordPress user registration plugins.
These plugins offer powerful tools for registering and logging in users. Not only that, but you can find all sorts of bonus features for tasks like dripping content, locking out users, and much more.
WordPress 5.3 Field Guide (make.wordpress.org) WordPress 5.3 is shaping up to be the best WordPress yet! Users will see new blocks, more intuitive block editor interactions, improved media handling, improved accessibility, and the new Twenty Twenty default theme.
Custom Google Analytics Dashboards – Why and How to Create Them (torquemag.io) Your dashboard can give you more information on how many new visitors you’ve had on your site, the average duration of their visits, and how many of them accessed your blog through mobile devices.
Armed with this information, you are able to tweak your site to ensure that it serves your audience well. Plus, tells you all of this out of the box without you having to do anything.