Surfing The WordPress Waves

Surfing the WordPress Waves. WordPress 6.7 on November 12! Great WordPress events. Plugins waves. WooCommerce and SureCart news. Goodmorning Gutenberg Academy. Hosting cooperation. WP news sources.

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WordPress Core

WordPress 6.7 & beyond

Dive into WordPress 6.7 following the recent live stream with Jamie Marsland, Nick Diego and Rich Tabor.

What's new for developers November 2024 by Nick Diego.

WordPress 6.7 source of truth by Anne McCarthy.

Announcing the new WordPress Design System Figma library.

Responsive core styling (X) an interesting idea proposed by Tommy J. Vedvik (X).

Review Highlight

CommandUI

A game changer for productivity on your everyday WordPress life. A powerful command bar to perform any action on your website. Check my review down here.

Do you like this plugin?

Plugins News

Soft waves

OnePageGA a new plugin from WPBeginner that lets you see your Google Analytics data right inside WordPress and in a nicer and more intuitive way. 14 days free trial available.

– Gravity Forms v 2.9 adds image choice and multiple choice fields.

WP Grid Builder a new video by WPTuts on how to create multi-level filters.

JetEngine V 3.6 (now in beta) is going to introduce a new AI builder called JetEngine's AI Website Structure Builder.

Widget Usage Tracker for Elementor a new free plugin by Robert DeVore (X).

– Check the MPG plugin from Themeisle if you need to generate and manage multiple pages or posts in bulk. The free version is very powerful.

E-commerce spot

WooCommerce 9.4 is going to be released today Nov 11. See all the new features in this post. Among other improvements there are going to be new settings for the express checkout.

SureCart 3.0 is here! The long awaited update of SureCart is now available, be carful the update process requires some special attention since there is a big technical change in this new release. To be sure to follow the right steps see the update guide provided by Adam Preiser.

Upgrading to SureCart V3 introduces powerful new features and enhanced functionality. However, due to significant structural changes, it’s essential to carefully review your site afterward to ensure all elements look and function as expected. 

Themes News

Various

Classic themes

aThemes, the business behind the popular themes Botiga and Sydney, is now running a 40% off Black Friday promotion.

FSE themes

Resources to learn how to create professional websites with FSE.

The Block Theme Academy by Fränk Klein.

– Check my new Goodmorning Gutenberg Academy, join the waitlist! We're going to learn how to create professional websites using the Block Editor and the new Twenty Twenty-Five theme!

– Check Anders Norén FSE themes.

Builders News

Builders life

Divi 5 Alpha is getting better with bug fixes and improvements and the final objective to be soon stable and ready for everyone to build sites with.

Breakdance v 2.2 great new features added to the builder + they are already sunning a Black Friday discount.

The Road to Bricks 2.0, worth reading to follow the evolution of this powerful WordPress builder.

Gutenberg spot

Supablox an interesting Gutenberg blocks plugin, now in beta.

The Hosting spot

Cooperation

What can Hosts do for WordPress? A good article by Eric Karkovack of The WP Minute, talks about the opportunity for hosts to collaborate on security, performance and support areas within the WordPress project:

I believe a collaborative effort among hosts is too good to pass up. There may be no more powerful constituency within the WordPress ecosystem. And there’s so much potential for good.

Promos

Hostinger is running a huge Black Friday discount. Up to 85% off + 3 Months free + more discount when using my coupon WPROADS.

Kinsta is offering 50% off on all plans.

WordPress People

WordPress News Sources

Following the latest WordPress news can be quite a challenging task! Plus, after the whole September WordPress Drama, we saw a lot of new blogs, newsletters and creators start sharing WordPress news. So I made myself a list of the most trustful sources and I wanted to share it with you!

Here is a list of my favorites:

WP Roads by Pascal Claro, yes it's me, where I share tutorials, reviews and latest WordPress news every week!

The WP Weekly by Davinder Singh

The WP Minute with Matt Medeiros

– The official WordPress blog

– The official WordPress developers blog

Gutenberg Times by Birgit Pauli-Haack

WP Tavern

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Pascal Claro
Pascal Claro

YouTuber & WordPress enthusiast, founder WP Roads. Happy husband and father based in Paris. I love to share news, reviews and interviews all about WordPress.

2 Comments

  1. Pascal,
    You do an amazing job on this. It’s a great collection of things to check out and read. Thanks so much.

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