#WordPress Wednesday 2021 Volume 1

After quite a bit requests, please were asking where my #WordPressWednesday series went. I’ve had quite a few people pass away in my family, so I rolled back to regular posting on my site and other sites, rather than currating roundups each week. However, after getting back in the blogging groove, and after hearing from some of you all, I’ve decided to get back into the habit.

I feel currating a small roundup of what’s going in in the WordPress community, is important. It helps people connect and learn. Additionally, my roundup comes with short summaries, and not just some link or copied content from the original site.

#WordPress Wednesday 2021 Volume 1

WordPress Plugins

Matt Cromwell talks about the new conditional fields feature in the Give plugin – New: Conditional Fields via GiveWP Form Field Manager

Jarrett Gucci introduces a new plugin that will help with troubleshooting WordPress errors. – Temporarily Turn Off All Plugins To Troubleshoot WordPress Issues. This plugin allows you to turn off all plugins, instead of doing it one-by-one.

WordPress Themes

Randy A. Brown at the Elegant Themes blog, shows how to remove the Divi Footer in their theme. – How to Remove the Divi Footer from Certain Pages

WordPress Tutorials

The WPBeginner team shows us How to Easily Update URLs When Moving Your WordPress Site. This is extremely important for you, if you plan on switching your domain to another, so the images and links all go to the right place.

Allison Rivers breaks it down in 3 easy steps on how to build a multilingual site. – 3 Quick and Easy Steps to Building a Multilingual WordPress Website. This tutorial may be handy if you’ve been wanting to expand into displaying content in other languages.

Courtney Robertson talks on the GoDaddy Garage (blog) about full site editing in WordPress. – Navigating WordPress Full Site Editing She does a great job explaining what full site editing is, and shows some great examples in WordPress on what you can do.

Tom Rankin, at the WPKube blog, shows you how to use debug mode in WordPress to fix your site errors. – How To Use The WordPress Debug Mode To Fix Site ErrorsH

WordPress Development

WP Tavern asks Tara King who is in Automattic developer relations about how to encourage WordPress developers to embrace more projects using Gutenberg. – #9 – Tara King on Encouraging Developers Towards a Gutenberg Future. Gutenberg has a long way to go, so if you’re a WordPress developer, you might want to listen in on this podcast.

WordPress.org issues a security and maintenance release in version 5.8.2. – WordPress 5.8.2 Security and Maintenance Release. A couple bug fixes and a security patch were included in this release.

WordPress Community News

Doo the Woo podcast had a roundtable discussion about Point of Sales in the WooCommerce world – Do the Woo Roundtable: Point of Sales. This in-depth discussion covers a wide range of issues and information that you can learn more about.

Cloudways is holding an Ecommerce speedup contest – The Ecommerce Speed Up Challenge 2021. If you’re a whiz at optimizing your ecommerce site’s speed, then click the link to find out all the details.

Brian Gardner talks about what he’s doing and about the future of WordPress over at the PressThis podcast on WMR.FM – What’s Up with Brian Gardner and the Future of WordPress Featuring Brian Gardner

Angela Jin over at WordCamp Central posted that they are looking for a city to have the 2022 WordCamp US. – WordCamp US Update: City Search 2022

Lots of great content this week. As a reminder, don’t forget to back up your site and then update it to the 5.8.2 WordPress release that came out this week!