This first week of August WordPress news roundup has some great tutorials, plugin recommendations, and more.
#WordPressWednesday is a curated list of most recent week’s articles published from around the WordPress Community. This is just a look into what’s going on, plugin news, theme news, WordPress development and design, and much more. It’s important to stay on top of what’s going on in WordPress by reading.
#WordPress Wednesday August 6, 2025
WordPress Plugins
Shahzad Saeed over at WPBeginner has curated a list of tested and verified 11 Best WordPress Payment Plugins.
Abdul Rehman shows us How to Set Up Elasticsearch on WordPress using ElasticPress. Their tutorial shows methods using their web hosting platform and also without their web hosting.
WP101 rounds up 7 Best WordPress eCommerce Plugins: Essential Tools for Your Store.
Camber Clemence over at GiveWP’s blog put together a list of 6 Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Fundraising Success.
Bridget Willard reviews the Hide AI plugin – Hide AI by Andrew Hoyer is Awesome! Five Stars.
WordPress Tutorials
Bud Kraus over on the Kinsta Blog dives into Custom styling for WordPress block themes using a child theme.
Nile Flores (me) shows you how to Turn WordPress into a CRM for Client Management using a free WordPress CRM plugin.
Deanna Mclean over at the Elegant Themes blog, shows us How To Build A Pop-Up With Divi 5’s Interactions.
Matt Cromwell shows and explains on How I Moved Customizer CSS to an External File (and Why It Matters). This might be handy if you’re looking to reduce bloat on CSS.
The Gravity Forms Community talks about using Gravity Forms and Gravity Kit for spreadsheets. – Ditch the spreadsheets: How to build a custom application tracker with Gravity Forms and GravityKit
Mohd Wasim Choudhury over at the Barn2 blog, shows How to use AI to improve your WooCommerce SEO. Great suggestions!
Nick Schäferhoff over at Torque Mag, talks about WordPress File Permissions: Everything You Need to Know. This is great for beginner and intermediate that want to know more about file permissions for WordPress.
WordPress Development
John Blackbourn announces over on the official WordPress News blog about the Maintenance Releases for WordPress branches 4.7 to 6.7. These are mainly security related.
Jb Audras over at the Core team at Make WordPress shares some of the notes, discussions, and announcements – Dev Chat Agenda – August 6, 2025. Check out the roadmap annoucement.
WordPress Community News & Miscellaneous
The 2025 WordCamp US team shares news – Announcing Career Corner at WordCamp US 2025! This is a good opportunity if you’re looking to network or trying to find a job.
Nathan Wrigley over at WP Tavern’s, shares the recent podcast – #179 – Mariya Moeva on the Impact of Google’s SiteKit on WordPress.
Roger Montti over at Search Engine Journal shares about WP Engine’s AI Toolkit in – WP Engine’s AI Toolkit Vectorizes WordPress Sites For Smart Search.
Recent episode is up over at Post Status on Get It Seen: The Simplest Way to Accessible Design with host Michelle Frechette and typography specialist Piccia Neri. Definitely tune in to listen.
So, what did you like from this week’s #WordPressWednesday?
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