News & Articles

• WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” (wordpress.org)
  Named “Kirk” in honour of jazz multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk, the latest and greatest version of WordPress is available for download or update in your dashboard.
• Collaborative Editing is a Really Difficult Challenge in WordPress (publishpress.com)
  We're going to give you an overview of this collaborative editing project and when we may see it in WordPress. Will we ever be able have teams of people working together on the same WordPress post?
• Recurring Payments Feature Launches for WordPress.com and Jetpack Users (wptavern.com)
  WordPress.com launched a new recurring payments feature its users. The payments system will allow bloggers to earn money for their content directly from any page on their site. The feature is also available for self-hosted WordPress users who have the Jetpack plugin installed.
• The Repository - a MailPoet and Words By Birds Collaboration (www.therepository.email)
  
• 4 “Best” Solutions to Backup Multiple WordPress Sites (www.codeinwp.com)
  
• Is WordCamp Dying…or Not? Valuable Takeaways from WCUS 2019 in St. Louis (freemius.com)
  
• WordPress Deals for Black Friday & Cyber Monday 2019 (deluxeblogtips.com)
  
• A Teenage Woman’s Perspective On The State of The Word (poststatus.com)
  
• WordCamp US 2020 Date and Location Announced, New Weekday Schedule (wptavern.com)
  

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Plugin News

• WP Scheduled Posts Review: A Better Way to Schedule Content (wplift.com)
  WP Scheduled Posts can also help you automate other areas of your content strategy. Most notably, with the ability to automatically share blog posts on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
• WordPress Plugin Roundup – November 2019 (ithemes.com)
  Each month’s WordPress Plugin Roundup recaps the best WordPress plugins that were added or updated within the last 30 days on the WordPress Plugin Directory. Here’s a list of our favorite new or recently-updated plugins for November 2019.
• WP Offload Media 2.3 Released: WordPress 5.3 Support & More (deliciousbrains.com)
  
• Prodigy Commerce Review: A Hosted WordPress eCommerce Plugin (wpmayor.com)
  
• What’s New in Gutenberg? (13 November) (make.wordpress.org)
  

Theme News

• Themes of the Future: A Design Framework and a Master Theme (wptavern.com)
  While we are not quite ready for a future in which one theme rules theme all, it is a place to start the conversation. If we designed WordPress for this potential future, even if we never implement a master theme, what would the roadmap look like? What obstacles stand in the way? Is it feasible?

Tutorials

• How to Automatically Translate WordPress Site (Fast and with Minimal Costs) (translatepress.com)
  Automatically translating your WordPress site is an excellent way to speed up the translation process and use automatic translations as a starting point for your multilingual content. You can have everything translated in minutes, not days or weeks. In this tutorial we’ll go through how to automatically translate WordPress sites fast and with minimal costs by using TranslatePress.
• 13 Solid Ecommerce Strategies to Skyrocket Sales During the 2019 Holiday Season (kinsta.com)
  Today we’re going to share with you some unique ecommerce strategies that you can implement right away on your WordPress site. Hopefully, you’ll find something in here you haven’t seen before and it can help you get those record-breaking sales for the 2019 holiday season!
• Yoast Creates Free Online Course for WordPress Beginners (torquemag.io)
  
• Show the WooCommerce Short Description Anywhere on Your Store (barn2.co.uk)
  
• The Ultimate Guide to Product Images in WooCommerce (www.commercegurus.com)
  
• How to Add a Featured Video to Your WooCommerce Product Gallery (iconicwp.com)
  
• Beyond Prefixing: A WordPress Developer’s Guide to PHP Namespaces (wptavern.com)
  
• SEO Keyword Research: 13 of the Biggest Mistakes You Must Avoid (www.searchenginejournal.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Shayna Diamond | Hallway Chats (hallwaychats.com)
  
• Kristopher Van Sant | CodePen (blog.codepen.io)