WordPress 5.6 – Upcoming Features & Improvements

 With over 30 million downloads and counting, WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine” was the second major release of the year 2020, giving websites new powers in three major areas: search, speed, and security. However, to make the CMS even better, work on version 5.6 has already been started.

WordPress 5.6 is on the way and scheduled to be released on December 8, 2020. As a result of the active development, the Core Team recently released the first Beta version of WordPress 5.6. While many changes are still to come, Beta 1 gives us a sneak peek of what’s new coming to WordPress 5.6. Let’s dive into the future of the world’s most popular CMS!

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WordPress Pricing 2020 – How Much Does It Cost to Build a Website?

Initially started as a simple blogging tool, WordPress has exploded into a full-blown CMS in recent years. According to WordCamp Central, over 75 million sites run on WordPress today, including many of the world’s most reputable brands such as Facebook, Microsoft, Vogue, CNN, and The White House.

Undoubtedly, WordPress is by far the most powerful and extensible tool for website creation, but is it the most inexpensive way to bring your business online too? We all know that WordPress is completely free (and open-source) to download and use, but the flip side of the coin is that building a website with WordPress is not genuinely free. The actual cost of a WordPress site depends on several different factors, such as web hosting, developer fees, etc.

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How to Find the Best WooCommerce Theme for Your Store

When you’re going to set up a WordPress-powered online store using WooCommerce, one of the first steps is picking the right theme to define your store’s visual appearance.

With a nearly unlimited pool of free and paid themes to choose from, sometimes you may find yourself in the middle of nowhere and consequently end up selecting a low-quality theme that doesn’t meet your specific business requirements.

Is making the right choice for your store that difficult? No, it’s not if you start by understanding the importance and qualities of a great theme and where to find the perfect one for your store.

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The 12 Best WordPress Migration Plugins 2020

WordPress is incredibly easy to install, but if you want to move your existing site to a new domain or server, it can prove to be a massive headache. There are a ton of things that you need to move carefully, including the database, files, plugins, and theme. Most importantly, you’ll want to preserve your site’s SEO and minimize downtime, so your users don’t see a broken website.

While you can always choose to migrate your WordPress site manually, it’s not recommended unless you are technically proficient enough or hire a WordPress migration expert to do it. Manual migration is very time consuming, and the process involves several technical steps that need to be completed to ensure success.

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WordPress 5.5 - Upcoming Features with Screenshots

WordPress 5.5 is on the way and is slated for release on August 11th, 2020. After WordPress 5.4, this will be the second major WordPress release of the year, offering you tons of new features and improvements to enhance your overall content-publishing experience.

Let’s check out what’s new coming to WordPress 5.5 for end-users and professional WordPress developers!

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A custom WordPress theme: How it's made

Installing a prebuilt WordPress theme, configuring it, customizing it according to your needs, and integrating additional functionalities to it, are simple processes and can be performed easily in the WordPress dashboard. Creating a custom WordPress theme however, is a very difficult task for a non-programmer. It requires a deep understanding of WordPress including its programming structure, architecture, and theme architecture along with a mastery of PHP, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. When said like this creating custom WordPress themes may sound to be a very hard process but in actuality it is not. WordPress architecture is very simple to understand and PHP, CSS, HTML, and JavaScript are comparatively easy to learn. The only thing that’s is practicing, experimenting, and learning by your own experience.

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Native Applications are still essential for Mobiles

Mobile communications and commerce is happening at a breakneck speed. Nowadays, many more people are utilizing their mobiles for payments, transactions, messaging and other functions. These new functions are in addition to the telephonic services. Coming of m-commerce and other applications into the picture was influenced by the fact that many businesses wanted to augment their existing eCommerce by bringing it closer to the mobile technologies. Applications that are used for performing these tasks are web based and also native. Designing mobile websites for users has become the necessity for many new businesses.

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5 Crucial SEO Steps Your Site Can’t Afford to Miss

There have been a large number of big updates in the search engine optimisation world over the past couple of years with many websites seeing significant decreases in their rankings and traffic they receive from Google. Many of these updates have left webmasters confused and often scared however many of the standard principles remain the same.

One of the most common areas that most webmasters fall down is not having a clear content strategy and plan for their website. At the very least you should be creating content based on your target audiences needs and desires.

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18 Ways to Promote Your Newly Launched Blog

With millions of blogs out there, it can be quite challenging for a new blogger to get noticed in Blogosphere. Spending hours researching, writing high-quality content, finding appropriate images, uploading your blog post and hitting publish is not enough when it comes to gain the attention of your target audience. To get the most out of your blog, you need promote your blog as much as you can.

Below are the ways you can get the word out about your recently launched blog. Go through all of them to kick start your blog’s growth.

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8 Solid Reasons to Outsource WordPress Theme Development

When it comes to developing a custom WordPress theme for your business website, the most common dilemma you face is whether you should hire an in-house WordPress development team, do it on your own (in case you’re an expert WordPress developer) or simply go full outsourcing. Isn’t it?

No matter how easy and cost-effective keeping the work in-house seems at first, it eventually ends up in an extremely stressful, mind-boggling and grueling experience. And, if you have ever tried your hands at coding a web page in the past, then you must already know how energy and time-consuming process it is.

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8 Free Fully Customizable WordPress Themes for 2020

Finding a WordPress theme that looks and functions exactly the way you want can be a challenge – if not impossible. With hundreds of thousands of great free and premium WordPress themes available in the market today, even if you do find a suitable theme to use, you’ll undoubtedly like to customize it to best match your business needs and this is where fully customizable WordPress themes come in handy.

So if you’re not familiar with coding and looking for a highly customizable WordPress theme that can be customized without needing to touch a single line of code, here is our well-researched list of the best free fully customizable WordPress themes that are packed with several customization options such as color pickers, drag and drop layout builders, font selectors, styling options, and so on. However, before we get into our hand-picked list of highly customizable WordPress themes, let’s first understand what a customizable WordPress theme is and how it works!

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15 Newest CSS Frameworks For Responsive Web Design

In the world of web development, Responsive Web Design is the mainstream today. As a web developer, you should keep yourself updated with latest technology and trends. Only then, you can develop websites according to the latest market trends to provide your clients a great user experience.

In this post, we’ve gathered 15 new and useful responsive frameworks to help you create elegant responsive websites for all type of users, devices and browsers. All of these frameworks are great time savers and will keep you away from writing base CSS styles and JavaScript on your own.

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Best WordPress Conversion Rate Optimization Plugins 2020

Every website is built with a purpose in mind, whether to inform, entertain, sell, generate leads, or something else.

While the focus is usually on implementing tactics to drive tons of traffic to the site, it makes no sense if that traffic doesn’t convert to something you want, like gaining subscribers, prompting visitors to download an eBook, or selling a product.

To convert your visitors into paying customers, you need to implement a successful conversion rate optimization strategy.

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Top 5 Best WordPress LMS Themes in 2020

Running a successful WordPress-based online Learning Management System (LMS) is not just about creating high-quality, engaging content. It’s also (and more) about making the right choice among thousands of WordPress LMS themes on the market.

That’s because a theme not only impacts the visual aspect of your learners’ journey but also it influences their overall learning experience.

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What is WebP and How to Use WebP Images in WordPress?

Having a blazing-fast WordPress site that loads in a jiffy is everyone’s dream, and one of the proven ways to improve page load speed is by optimizing images. Since images account for over half of an average web page’s weight, anything you do with your images not only ensures your pages are served faster but also saves a lot of space on your web server.

When using images on your WordPress site, choosing the right image file format for your images is as important as optimizing your images to load faster. Although there are many image file formats available to use, most websites rely on these four formats.

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Best WordPress Development Trends for 2020 and Beyond

There are over 1.7 billion websites on the Internet today, and most of them are powered by the world’s most popular open-source content management system, WordPress. According to W3Techs, WordPress currently powers over 36.6% of all the websites on the Internet.

One key reason behind the continuously increasing popularity and usage of WordPress is that it never left behind embracing new trends and technologies to ensure constant innovation and room for improvement for users. From introducing the theme Customizer in version 3.4 to incorporating the new Gutenberg block editor in version 5.0, the CMS has come a long way from being a simple blogging tool to a full-fledged eCommerce platform.

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WooCommerce 4.1 – What’s New for Store Owners and Developers

While the dust has not yet settled on the release of WooCommerce 4.0, the WooCommerce team is back again with the new version of the eCommerce platform, 4.1. While 4.0 was the first major release of 2020, 4.1 is a minor release, keeping everything backward compatible with the previous version of WooCommerce.

Regardless of whether you’re a store owner or developer, version 4.1 has brought something special for everyone. Let’s check out in detail what’s new in WooCommerce 4.1!

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The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to WordPress Core Updates (Including How to Update WordPress Safely)

Are you someone who is leveraging the WordPress Ecosystem to power their online business? If yes, then you must be knowing the importance of WordPress Core Updates.

According to statistics, nearly 86% of sites are hacked due to outdated WordPress core files, themes, or plugins.

That means if you keep your WordPress installation as well as your themes and plugins up to date, you can prevent your website from being hacked.

Surprisingly, only 42% of websites are using the latest version of WordPress, and nearly 27% of those sites are two updates behind. And, despite these facts, people often blame WordPress security for any kind of website failure.

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WordPress 5.4 – Upcoming Features & Improvements with Screenshots

With over 41 million downloads and counting, WordPress 5.3 “Kirk” was the last major release of the year 2019. While 5.3 was primarily focused on expanding and refining the block editor with more intuitive interactions and enhanced accessibility, work on version 5.4 has already been started to improve the CMS further.

As a result of the active development, WordPress 5.4 Beta 2 was recently released with a host of new features and improvements that are available for testing. Slated for release on March 31, 2020, WordPress 5.4 will be the first major release of 2020 with the primary goal of facilitating users to edit the full-site using the block editor.

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Security Alert: Plugin Flaw Puts Over 200K WordPress Sites At Risk

If you run a WordPress-powered site, then you must get to know it!

A high-severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) to Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-8417, has been discovered in a popular WordPress plugin, potentially opening up over 200K websites to complete takeover, information disclosure, and more.

The plugin in question is Code Snippets, which offers users an intuitive graphical user interface (similar to the Plugins menu) to add, run and manage PHP code snippets to their WordPress sites in order to customize or extend the functionality of the website, all without diving into the theme’s underlying code.

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9+ Super Useful WordPress Gutenberg Plugins for 2020

Since its release back in 2003, WordPress has evolved from a simple blog publishing platform to a full-fledged CMS which today powers over 35% of all websites on the Internet. However, if we talk about the most recent and biggest change made to the CMS, it is undoubtedly the addition of the brand-new Gutenberg editor.

Introduced in WordPress 5.0, Gutenberg, the new default editor of the CMS, replaces the previous TinyMCE editor to enhance the overall content editing experience through Blocks. Blocks can be anything from Paragraphs to Shortcodes and they allow you to create and edit content in the same way you do with third-party page builders like Divi and Elementor.

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