WordPress 5.2, Jetpack Ads In Plugin Search Screen, Plugin Vulnerabilities Protests 🗞️ May 2019 WordPress News w/ CodeinWP

WordCamp Asia Proposed for 2020 in Bangkok, Thailand

After WordCamp Nordic, a new regional WordCamp is in the works. Though it hasn’t been confirmed yet, Bangkok is the proposed host city for WordCamp Asia in 2020. Anyway, fancy visiting Bangkok? Cause we surely do.

SQL Injection in Duplicate-Page WordPress Plugin

Duplicate-Page, a popular WordPress plugin, got infested with an SQL injection that harmed 800,000 websites. The vulnerability was marked by Sucuri as dangerous, with a DREAD score of 8.4. The devs fixed the issue and you should update as soon as possible if you’re using this plugin.

GoDaddy Acquires ThemeBeans, CoBlocks, Block Gallery, and Block Unit Tests

Even more acquisitions for GoDaddy! This time, they took up the reins of no less than four new Gutenberg-oriented brands in the same month. Reason? Expanding the company’s Gutenberg products.

WooCommerce 3.6 to Add Marketplace Suggestions, Despite Overwhelmingly Negative Feedback from Developer Community

Following the suggestion-like advertisement from the big plugin players, WooCommerce started to show users suggestions of extensions too. They include products of their own (managed by Automattic) and third-party developers. This change was not well received in the community either, and Automattic toned it down a little as a result of the feedback.

One of the world’s most popular WordPress themes hits new milestone

WordPress themes have come a long way since 2003, any idea which theme is the most popular? We’re spoiling the suspense. It’s Avada, by ThemeFusion. This theme officially became the most popular premium theme ever. Its more than half a million sales on Envato are the proof. Congrats!

How to Get Featured Snippets for your Blog Posts

We love SEO advice that you can actually use. Do you want to show up as Google’s first choice in the search results page? Aka catch the so-called position zero, where your content is highlighted in a box, separate from the rest? Here’s what to do to get your articles featured there.

How We Successfully Adopted the 4-Day Work Week at MailPoet

Working only 4 days a week, isn’t that sweet? And according to the guys at MailPoet, instead of decreasing their revenue, this change actually did the opposite. It boosted employees’ productivity and happiness at work. Read more on that in this post.