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Cyber Monday and Black Friday awesome deals are coming to Envato Market for all WordPress website owners who want to get some hot premium plugins and themes at 50% off! This year`s campaign starts on Tuesday, 24 November (12:00 AM EST) and ends on Tuesday, 1 December (12:00 PM EST) 2020. It means we should prepare ourselves for a whole week of delicious deals!

With this article, we bring you the premium items from Envato Market chosen by the platform representatives: best WordPress themes and best WordPress plugins to purchase within Cyber Monday and Black Friday 2020 campaign.

Bonus! Top 40 WordPress items’ list from Envato Market is now available — 20 of the best selling WordPress plugins and themes at 50% off!

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One of the main features that brings WordPress its popularity is the international and interlingual approach of the platform. WordPress is meant to be accessible and simple for people all over the world. It means, that it should be translated to all known and used languages. The task is very ambitious and there is still no company that could make it in a full volume. On the other hand, WordPress might be closer to this goal than any other company or project. And the key is the community.

WordPress can not be translated to each of the existing languages just by one team, no matter how big it is. Only an international community can deal with the task. Fortunately, WordPress has such a community. People from all over the world make WordPress better each day. Translation is one of the numerous features being done by this community.

You can also become a part of this community and its great work. One of the opportunities to join the team is to visit one of the meetups organized by dedicated WordPress users and administrators. We will share an interesting experience of visiting such event and tell you the basics of WordPress platform`s translation any member of the community should know.

One of the key features of WordPress is the constant updating process. The platform updates to keep the safety level high and to provide its users the best features from the latest trends. WordPress changes from year to year but one thing remains: it always serves website administrators in order to give even opportunities for everyone in this field.

WordPress 5.2 update is already available in beta test. The release of the update is planned for the end of April 2019. We will now list the most interesting features of the 5.2 update and look at the opportunities they give to a WordPress administrator.

Note, that the beta test features may differ from those we will see after the release. But the main ideas and update`s direction should remain as they are on the beta test version now. To try all features by yourself, use the free WordPress Beta Tester plugin.

Images represent one of the most popular content types for any WordPress website. Although we often prefer to express thoughts with good photos and pictures, most of us know very little about the basics of this file type. The choice between JPG and PNG file types can serve as a great example of this statement: how many of us know what do these file types stand for? What is the difference and what file type is preferable in a certain situation?

Our today`s Quick Tip will show you the truth about JPG and PNG file types: what secrets do they hide and how can we use it. We will discover the basics about image file formats and learn how to use their strength and weaknesses for the sake of a WordPress project.

Since the 5.0 update of the WordPress platform most of us started to use the new editor called Gutenberg. This block type editor has lots of advantages and only one downside — we needed to get used to it. Over months of using Gutenberg the majority of users find it better than the old one. The minority of users install the “Classic Editor” plugin and enjoy their workflow in familiar conditions. We would not focus our attention on the editor`s alternatives rather will look at one of the new features that Gutenberg brings to WordPress.

Reusable blocks are actually custom blocks that you can create, edit and use in any moment of your work with Gutenberg editor. These blocks can also be combined and represent a group of blocks which you often use while creating your WordPress content of any type — from text to video.

WooCommerce is known is the largest trading platform for WordPress websites. However, WooCommerce is not the only tool you need to create a successful online store project on the WordPress platform. The modern eCommerce is a pretty complicated sphere that demands lots of work to bring your efforts to success. Even more work is needed to keep your WordPress online store among the leaders in any segment of marketing. Today we will pay attention to one of the most important aspects — social media integration within a WooCommerce project.

Social media represents one of the most rapidly growing channel of new customers your business can possibly have. Social networks tend to replace all kind of online services — from testimonials and feedback to buying guides and personal assistants. That is why your WooCommerce project based on WordPress platform can not ignore the opportunities of social media.

Fortunately, WooCommerce is flexible enough to work with lots of useful social networking plugins for WordPress. We will consider the most interesting and promising tools of this category in the article below. Do not hesitate to learn more important tips on developing your WordPress online store with us!

Artificial Intelligence (or simply AI) develops constantly to cover all tasks that could potentially be automated. By automating lots of everyday tasks we get more opportunities to stay creative and invest more time into gathering, analyzing and applying new ideas to our WordPress projects. In other words, Artificial Intelligence lets us focus on strategical tasks, while it deals with tactical ones. With such a tool you can drive lots of projects with better effectiveness.

Unfortunately, modern Artificial Intelligence is far from a perfect one. It means we can not yet delegate it a lot of tasks we would like to. On the other side, it is always good know what innovations are available and use them in a proper way. With this aim we have gathered the most stable and useful tools which provide service based on Artificial Intelligence. This list is still shorter than most of us would like to have, but there are some interesting features each WordPress administrator could use within his or her project.

An exit-intent popup is an animal in comparison to other list building tools. The success rate can reach 35%, which is more than 8 times better than a simple opt-in form at the bottom of your website.

Moreover, the popup that appears on the exit gives you an additional chance to re-engage with your site visitor which is about to leave. So you can kill three birds with one stone — actively collect email addresses, reduce your store’s abandonment rate AND increase your sales.

Let’s dig and see what the exit-intent popup should be like to bring such great results.

2018 is over: it means that the time has come to summarize the trends of WordPress premium themes over the year. We have gathered 10 of the best selling premium WordPress themes from Envato Market in the list above. This list can help you to choose your perfect WordPress theme for a rocket-speed website development in 2019.

Moreover, this top will help you to underline and analyze the trends of the last year. This knowledge will be especially helpful for those WordPress administrators who want to create new project in 2019. There is no success in the future without knowing the latest trends. Multipurpose WordPress themes remain on top but there are some specific topics` representatives in out list, which can show you the most interesting fields of activities from 2018. Use this knowledge to create a potentially popular project as soon as possible!

The question of security is the most important one for every web project, and WordPress website are not exceptions from this rule. The quality of your content, search engine optimization, customer support and all other comprehensive elements of work around a WordPress project could not be delivered to your audience properly, if your website has any type of malicious code. In other words, your website is hacked and is completely out of order, when some foreign code finds a way to implement itself within your project.

Fortunately, there are ways to prevent the appearance of any malicious code on your WordPress website. The prevention of hackers’ attack is much more effective and takes less time, effort and funds. Malicious code works like a disease, that is why the prevention actions are always better for the overall health of your project and its future.

We have gathered the most effective ways to prevent any malicious code within your WordPress projects in this article. These are plugins and services that help you to find any weaknesses onside a WordPress project and turn them into your strength. Moreover, these tools scan your website for any type of malicious code and find it before it can make any damage to your website performance. Check your WordPress website: if you do not have any of the listed above plugins (or their analogues), then it is time to think about the security of your WordPress website immediately.

Constant update and development is one of the hallmarks of the WordPress platform. Each new update strengthens the protection of your website or blog on the WordPress platform and brings new features to improve comfort while working with the admin panel. Global update 4.8 is no exception.

First of all, you should focus on the issue of protecting your WordPress site from hacking and spam. Attackers are constantly inventing new ways to crack existing security systems. The fight between hackers and developers of security software is not interrupted for an instant. In such circumstances, it is extremely undesirable to skip global updates. Each day of delay in the update threatens you with serious dangers in the form of loss of data on the site or the appearance of unwanted content hosted by hackers.

Nevertheless, the global updates of the WordPress platform are not only interesting with modern protection against hacking. Today, we will take a closer look at new features and changes in the existing functionality that will enable every WordPress administrator to work more comfortably and efficiently.

Update 4.8 pays particular attention to widgets. It includes new features for creating widgets and widening the functionality of existing widgets. This universal tool for creating content within the WordPress platform has become even more convenient and interesting, including for professional developers.

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In 2003 WordPress started out as a blogging platform built on PHP and MySQL to help bloggers do their thing. Back then, nobody could predict that it would become one of the most powerful CMS solutions on the planet.

I am not talking about The Chicago Manual of Style when I say CMS (also abbreviated as CMS), I mean a fully functional content management system. This list post contains 20 leading brands that use WordPress. You can check these sites out to get some ideas and what WordPress is capable of. Read more →

WordPress has released a major update on April, 12 2016. Version 4.5 was dubbed as “Coleman” in recognition of the late great jazz saxophone player Coleman Hawkins. You can download it or update it directly from your dashboard or download it from WordPress.org.

This release has some exciting features along with the typical list of bug fixes and updates. Coleman aims to streamline workflow with added improvements for editing and customizing in WordPress. New features include… Read more →