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Ninja Forms Parent Company Saturday Drive Acquires CalderaWP (wptavern.com)
Saturday Drive, makers of Ninja Forms, Ninja Shop, and SendWP, has acquired Caldera Forms, a React-based, drag-and-drop forms builder plugin. In addition to the free plugin on WordPress.org, which has more than 200,000 active installs, CalderaWP’s product line includes a Pro version and more than 30 free and commercial add-ons for things like payment processors and marketing integrations. -
Feature Project Proposal: WP Notify (make.wordpress.org)
WordPress is currently lacking a fundamental mechanism: sending notifications to users to give them feedback about state changes in the system. Traditionally, plugin developers and Core have been using admin notices for this purpose, but this solution is lackluster at best and comes with a lot of disadvantages. there’s a general consensus that admin notice are not up to the task and need a more robust replacement that can deal with current and future notification needs. -
WordPress Explores Forming a Nomination-Based Advisory Board (wptavern.com)
WordPress contributors are weighing in on a proposal for the formation of a nomination-based advisory board with set term limits for its members. Josepha Haden, the project’s Executive Director, published a first draft two weeks ago with ideas for how the board might operate and feedback is rolling in. -
Pixelgrade Transparency Report #9 (pixelgrade.com)
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The 3 Laws of Locality (learnui.design)
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WordCamp Montréal on August 10-11, 2019 (2019.montreal.wordcamp.org)
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WooCommerce vs Shopify: A Battle for Ecommerce Platform Dominance (poststatus.com)
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WordCamp Long Beach to Debut a “Future of WordPress” Track (wptavern.com)
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Feature Plugin Discussion: a Consent and Logging Mechanism for User Privacy (make.wordpress.org)
As part of the WordPress #core-privacy team’s 2019 roadmap, the team has begun a discussion on the possibility of creating a consent and logging mechanism, most likely as a feature plugin. This is a working document to assemble our thoughts on what the initiative would involve; this document is not the formal proposal.
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EditorsKit 1.9 Introduces Block Styles, Utility Classes, and Full Height Editor Screen (wptavern.com)
EditorsKit 1.9 was released this week with a new Block Styling feature for the image and cover blocks. It allows users to change these blocks to be displayed as circular, diagonal, inverted diagonal, rounded corners, or with a shadow. It also adds a “full screen height” display option to the Advanced block settings panel. This makes it easy to turn the Cover, Image, and Media & Text blocks into a hero section.
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7 Best WordPress Membership Plugins Compared (2019) (www.isitwp.com)
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WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: July 2019, Part 2 (ithemes.com)
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Print My Blog Transparency Report – July 2019 (cmljnelson.blog)
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Jetpack 7.6 Improves AMP Compatibility, Adds Preview and Upgrade Nudge for Blocks Only Available on Paid Plans (wptavern.com)
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9 Best Free WordPress Notification Bar Plugins Compared (Pros and Cons) (themeisle.com)
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