Miriam Schwab, who is on the Elementor team, mentioned on Twitter that Elementor has crossed the 15 million active install mark.
Elementor Hit 15 Million Mark
Miriam Schwab @ twitter.com • 12 months ago
Bricks 1.9.5 Released With New Global Class Manager
Thomas Ehrig @ bricksbuilder.io • 12 months ago
Bricks 1.9.5 just dropped. The major feature of this release is a new Global Class Manager. There is also the ability to run a JavaScript function after an interaction has been triggered, along with some accessibility improves and fixes.
A Year of Core Stats for 2023
Stephen Bernhardt @ make.wordpress.org • 1 year ago
It is good to see that the number of contributors and people making their first contribution to core continues to increase year over year. Other interesting stats show the number of contributors by country and contributions by company.
Patchstack Adjusts Pricing for Individuals and Small Agencies
• 1 year ago
Good news from Patchstack for individuals and small agencies. Based on community feedback they have now updated their Community Plan options and pricing. The Community Plan used to include only up to 10 sites for vulnerability detection, but no real time protection. Real time protection used to cost $9 per month a site additional.
Now real time protection is only $5 per month per site additional. So to add real time protection for a single site is only $60 a year.
Also, if you need more than 10 sites in the Community Plan you can pay $49 a month to extend that to 50 sites (still with an additional $5 per site per month for real time protection).
These changes fill the gap between the Community Plan and the higher number of sites / real time protection included Developer Plan.
By the way, this makes Patchstack less expensive for vPatching real time protection than Wordfence.
Unlimited Elements Adds a Form Builder
Amit Keren @ unlimited-elements.com • 1 year ago
Unlimited Elements for Elementor has a great widget creator that allows you to create your own widgets. Now they have added a flexible form builder. It includes conditional logic making it useful for creating online business calculators.
All About WordPress Salts
Calvin Alkan @ snicco.io • 1 year ago
Following up on his article about authentication cookies, Calvin Alkan does a deep dive on WordPress salts. The salts keys are found in the WP Config file and people often wonder what they are and if we need to do something in relation to them. All of that and more in this technical article.
Kadence Starter Templates with AI Launched
Ben Ritner @ kadencewp.com • 1 year ago
Here is a walk-through of using the new AI features of Kadence Starter Templates. This is live. It looks good.
Gutenberg Is Not A Page Builder
Brian Coords @ briancoords.com • 1 year ago
I came across this post and video from Brian Coords, who is a WordPress core contributor. I thought it was a very balanced and thoughtful response to Kevin Geary’s video where he tried to create a layout using Gutenberg.
Deep Dive Into WordPress Session Management
Calvin Alkan @ snicco.io • 1 year ago
As shared here earlier, Thomas J. Raef recently released an analysis of hacked WordPress sites and found a significant number are hacked because session cookies were stolen due to the user’s computer having malware. One outcome from that research is the importance of logging out of sites and not just closing the browser.
In this article Calvin Alkan provides a deep dive into how WordPress sessions work. He found that WP session management provides good protection against Cross-Site Scripting attacks and session Fixation, but does not protect against session hijacking from local devices. Calvin’s suggestion is to decrease the lifetime of WordPress sessions to help prevent session hijacking.