2021 is a fresh start on many perspectives. One of the biggest of them is a new administration on the White House. However, with this came a piece of good news for WordPress. The White House has relaunched their website with a new design and for the second time in a row, the White House administration chose WordPress to build their website.
So many talented people worked their tails off to get the new https://t.co/9wqlgOK5bi brand & website launched last Wednesday. Our express goal was to give the new Biden-Harris Administration a seamless, fresh start (and do our best to make it all look easy). 1/? https://t.co/k40mnTazX5
The website relaunched on the same day that the new administration took over. The new slick and clean design immediately caught the eyes of many and became a talking point for the tech enthusiasts.
Here at WP Hive, our team loved the all-new look. If you are a WordPress lover, join us, as we talk about the new design, what changed from the previous one, and what this relaunch means for the WordPress community.
When Did the White House Start Using WordPress?
The White House website www.whitehouse.gov has been powered by CMS for a long time. It was Drupal, which was the choice of successive administrations from 2009 to 2017. However in 2017, the new administration closed the door for Drupal, and it was time for WordPress to power the prestigious White House website.
Why WordPress is preferred by the White House is a question that can be asked in the opposite way, as well. Why wouldn’t WordPress be the choice for the White House?
By 2017, WordPress was already the engine that powered by more than 30% of the website out there. It was and still is the developer’s choice, as you can see from more than 50,000 plugins available on the WordPress repository (higher than any other CMS) and countless free and premium themes. Add to that the world-class security plugins, and you are all set for a powerful and stable website.
Andrew Nacin, one of the WordPress lead developers, joining White House’s U.S. Digital Service was thought to be one of the prime reasons behind the White House’s move to WordPress, although he later said that he didn’t have any part to play in the transformation.
I wasn't involved in this. I work on public-facing digital services like veterans applying for health benefits or immigrants applying for citizenship.
However, even if Nacin did not have many roles in the process, it was not a hard decision to make. Because of the advancement that WordPress made on all fronts, starting from Functionality, SEO, Speed Optimization, Security, to Stability, it was in fact an easy choice to make.
What’s New – White House Website Relaunch with WordPress
The recently depreciated White House website, as seen in the image below, was already a simple one.
However, the new website is even cleaner looking. With all new navigation bar, and the option to translate the whole website into Spanish make it more meaningful. The website is as follows:
If you look closely, you will see that there are two little buttons on the left side of the screen. What are those? We have solved the puzzle for you. Those two buttons are there to let you toggle between “Large & Small Font Size” and “High & Low Contrast Mode“.
Wait a minute, what does High Contrast Mode mean? Well, yes you have guessed it right, the White House now has Dark Mode support.
However, as you know we like a bit of Sherlock Holmes here at WP Hive, naturally, we sneaked under the page source and found this for you. See the green texts?
Yes, inside the source code, there’s a recruitment message by the United States Digital Service. Don’t look at us like that, we were equally surprised seeing the Easter Eggs!
Apart from the dark mode support, new design, they also did quite brilliant work optimizing the website. As you can see from the tweet from @webos, the new website is rocking on all fronts. Hats off to the White House development team!
https://t.co/hoaioTVqE3 scoring super well on lighthouse, has dark mode and font size selector
If you search on Google, you will find countless articles on why you should not use WordPress to build your website, terming it as slow, insecure, or even outdated. Yet, WordPress is being used more than ever, and now powering more than one and a half quarter of all the websites.
What’s more, WordPress is now in the middle of a multiple-year-long modernization project that will make it even more appealing to build websites using WordPress in the near future.
As more and more important sites like the White House uses WordPress, it is becoming even more apparent that WordPress is becoming a more reliable way of building and managing all sorts of websites.
So if you are a WordPress lover, this means that all your love is not going in vain. If you are not quite fond of WordPress as of yet, it is perhaps the time to acknowledge the big stride WordPress is making. And if you are interested to build your next website with WordPress, we have a comprehensive guide to do just that!
That WordPress 5.4 “Adderley” has been released on March 31st, 2020 is a piece of great news for every WordPress enthusiast. Most importantly, it is now available to download it from the WordPress.org officially. But what’s new inside the brand new version?
In this article, we will look into the new features and changes that are brought about for WordPress 5.4 “Adderley”. So, let’s move forward and see what the changes are.
The New Features and Changes in WordPress 5.4 “Adderley”
With the release of WordPress 5.0, the Gutenberg editor was attached to the core. After that, numerous Gutenberg block add-ons had been rolled out to the market.
Interestingly, with this very release of WordPress 5.4, a considerable number of Gutenberg plugins have been merged into the core. As a result, it will affect the functionalities, User Interface and the overall editing experience as a whole.
In addition to the block editor’s feature enhancements, the new version has introduced some interesting improvements in the Site Health Tool and the Rest API. Although some of the feature improvement has been postponed until the next release of WordPress version 5.5
So, What’s New in the Block Editor with WordPress 5.4?
A considerable number of the Gutenberg plugin versions have been merged into the core, from 6.6 to 7.5. So, if you aren’t using the Gutenberg plugin, you’ll find tons of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes in the block editor when upgrading to WordPress 5.4.
As I said, you will find a considerable number of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes in the new Gutenberg block editor. Besides this, you are going to get a significant 14% loading time reduction and a 51% time-to-type reduction for a post (~36,000 words, ~1,000 blocks) as an upgrade in WordPress version 5.4
New Block Editor Features and Enhancements
Though WordPress 5.4 has the brand new Gutenberg editor, it is a fact that the editor is still under development. However, here are the quick list of the new block editor’s features and improvements in a flash:
A Welcome Guide Modal
New Social Icons Block
New Buttons Block
New Tiktok Embed block
Fullscreen Mode Enabled by Default
Inline Text Color Support in RichText Blocks
Additional Color Options for Several Blocks
Featured Images in the Latest Posts Block
A New Breadcrumb Bar for Block Navigation
A Welcome Guide Modal
Out of the box, when you update to the WordPress 5.4, you will get a nice welcome guide modal that will help you go through the basic information on the brand new block editor. You will also get a link to the online documentation from the editor.
The Welcome guide slideshow is visible only once immediately after the update. However, you can trigger the same slideshow from the More Tools & Options.
New Social Icons Block
Initially, this feature was released as experimental usage in Gutenberg 6,5 and now it is stable since Gutenberg 7.5. You can swiftly add social profiles by using the new Social Icons Block, formerly known as Social Links. The new version provides a good number of social icon child blocks to use for in your posts or pages.
The Social Icons block can be customized with three predefined visual styles:
Default,
Logos only, and
Pill shape.
Bonus tips on Social Icon blocks:
Since Social Icons had been released in Gutenberg 6.5, they may not work properly in Gutenberg 7.5 in case you are using the old Gutenberg editor. In order to get rid of this issue, you can do the followings according to Jorge Costa:
Manually Update All Contents: First off, update to WordPress 5.4 and then manually load your content in the Gutenberg block editor and save it. This way you can migrate the social icons to the new version.
When updating to WordPress 5.4, keep the Gutenberg Plugin Installed:
Dedicated Tool to Select a Block Easily
While you are working on nested blocks like a group or columns, you may got in trouble in selecting a block easily. Fortunately, the WordPress 5.4 has addresssed this issue with a dedicated select tool you want to change.
The TikTok Embed Block
WordPress 5.4 has been released considering the tiktok superstars. Yes, you heard it right! Fron now we can embed Tiktok videos along with YouTube or Dailymotion videos i any post or pages.
New Buttons Block
This new button block works like a page builder element. This means, unlike adding a single button, you can now add multiple buttons within a same block container. The multiple buttons are completely new features in Gutenberg version 7.2.
You can also customize the buttons with the predefined styles like changing the color properties and changing the border radii as usual:
Drag and Drop to Upload Featured Image
Surely, you are going to love this feature, because it will save your time when you are uploading the featured images without selecting the upload option. The WordPress 5.4 will allow you to simply drag and drop an image to the featured image section from your local storage.
Fullscreen Mode Enabled by Default
Upon upgrading to WordPress version 5.4, the Gutenberg editor will open up in fullscreen mode by default. But you can change the mode anytime from the More Tools & Options:
Inline Text Color Support in RichText Blocks
If you want to change the color of a single word or strings you no longer need to hardcode anymore. Yes, you heard it right! With the release of WordPress 5.4, you can now style your text with the inline text color support with rich text blocks. It will be pretty helpful if you are writing long-form articles.
Starting with WordPress 5.4, we can select words and sub-strings in RichText blocks and quickly change their colors using the built-in color picker.
Additional Color Options for Several Blocks
The new WordPress 5.4 does not limit the color options to the features and enhancements. What that means is that you will now be able to use gradient backgrounds along with a list of predefined gradient styles.
Here are a few new features and enhancements to look at:
If you are using Group blocks, you will get the text color support for it (Gutenberg 7.4 and 7.5). In addition, nested blocks will inherit the text color from their respective parent group block.
Text and background color support for Columns block (Gutenberg 7.4 and 7.5).
Featured Images option in the Latest Posts Block
From now on, with the advent of Gutenberg 7.5, you can effortlessly add featured images in the Latest Post Block.
This option makes the Latest Posts Block more advanced and dynamic making them global blocks.
Please note that you can pull post from a specific category but you can not build more advanced queries according to tag/category/post type and or include / exclude single posts.
We hope to see further enhancements with this block in the future.
Caption Below Table
From now on, you can not only add tables but also can add caption from underneath the table block:
Fixed Block Toolbar on Mobile
Great news for editing posts or pages on the go! It means you can now edit in a more convenient way from your smartphone. Previously, the toolbar was floating around the block you edited. But now WordPress 5.4 has fixed this bug by adding a floating toolbar.
A New Breadcrumb Bar for Block Navigation
Available to Gutenberg users since version 6.7, and now merged into the Core, the new breadcrumb bar aims to simplify nested block navigation.
Although the Breadcrumb Bar was available since the Gutenberg version 6.7, it is now merged into the core. The purpose of the Breadcrumb bar is to simplify the nested block navigation.
Here is a breadcrumb bar at the end of the image marked by red rectangle:
Wait, That’s Not the End!
Here are a number of additional changes to make note of:
Easier image sizing in the Gallery block.
Drag-and-drop images into the featured-image box.
Several new APIs.
Friendlier offline error messages on REST API request failures.
You can now color just parts of the text in any RichText block.
For Theme and Block Developers
With the release of the WordPress version 5.4 a significant changes are made to the core that the theme and block developers must know. Here are the changes that are brought about:
Block Editor Keyboard Shortcuts
Gradient Theme APIs
Markup and Style Changes on the Block Editor
Block Scaffolding
Block Collections
Block Variations
For Developers
5.4 also contains a bunch of developer focused changes.
Updated Calendar Widget
According to the HTML 5.1 a <tfoot> tag must follow <tbody> tag. It was not followed before the WordPress 5.4. Which means with the version 5.4, in order to produce valid HTML, the navigation links are moved to a <nav> HTML element immediately afte the <table> element.
apply_shortcodes() as an alias for do_shortcode()
Don’t worry! The do_shortcode() has not been deprecated. But to deliver better semantics the apply_shortcodes() function will be utilized in leau of the do_shortcode() function.
Better favicon handling
Administrators can now get more flexibility in that they can get a favicon in the Customizer by uploading a /favicon.icon file. And as usual, to use in the emergency time you will always get the WordPress logo as a fallback.
Other changes for developers
Here are the other changes according to the WordPress.org:
Clearer information about errors in wp_login_failed.
Site ID has been added to the newblog_notify_siteadmin filter for multisite installs.
Support has been added for the required WordPress and PHP version headers in themes.
Embed support has been added for TikTok.
Wrapping up
This is a quick glimpse of the new WordPress 5.4. We tried to shed light on the most important aspects here. We hope that this article will help you get a quick grasp of the newly released version WordPress 5.4.
Not to mention, though the classic editor has reigned for decades, the Gutenberg editor has going to be more advanced and user-friendly with its more and more new features and enhancements. So, we think it’s time to ditch the outdated classic editor for every WordPress user.
If you do know anything else about WordPress 5.4, please let us know in the comment section below. We will update the content as soon as possible.
If you are a WordPress enthusiastic person, you would be glad to know that WordPress new version 5.6 has been released on December 8, 2020. They named it after the legendary performer “Nina Simone“.
As like every previous release, this time as well WordPress has brought something new and magical. It’s loaded with new features and changes. It also includes a brand new default WordPress theme.
In this blog, we are going to review all the changes that WordPress has brought for us. But before that,
Always remember to create a complete WordPress backup before initiating the update. Otherwise, it would cost you.
Okay, let’s dive into the review!
WordPress 5.6 Release Date
WordPress 5.6 was released on December 8, 2020. The development cycle for WordPress 5.6 was scheduled as follows.
Date
Content
October 20, 2020
Beta 1
October 27, 2020
Beta 2
November 2, 2020
Beta 3
November 12, 2020
Beta 4
November 17, 2020
Release Candidate (RC) 1
December 1, 2020
Release Candidate (RC) 2
December 7, 2020
Dry run for release
December 8, 2020
Release
What’s New in WordPress 5.6 Simone
New Default Theme: Twenty Twenty-One
You may have known that WordPress usually releases a new default theme each year. And they name it after the year. Having said that WordPress 5.6 comes with Twenty Twenty-One as the new default WordPress theme.
It looks awesome, plus it’s lightning-fast, accessible, and SEO-friendly. One of the coolest features is that you can quickly build a complex layout thanks to block patterns.
Twenty Twenty-One uses a pastel green background color, and two shades of dark grey for text. It also ships with colors for the dark mode which can be enabled by customizing the theme.
Here is a preview of what these built-in color combinations would look like.
If you want to try the theme with your fresh WordPress website, you can try out the new homepage layout. Visit the Appearance > Customize page and click on the Publish button to generate basic website pages including a homepage.
This sample homepage gives you an idea of what you can do with the block editor. You can simply edit the page and replace it with your own content.
Block Editor Enhancements
The Gutenberg plugin development team continues to make small but vital improvements to the block editor.
In this version, you’ll find improved support for video positioning in cover blocks, enhancements to the block patterns, better dragging and dropping of blocks, and improved keyboard navigation. It also comes with performance and accessibility improvements as well.
Patterns Organized in Categories: The patterns panel under the ‘Add new block’ column now has a category switcher. This makes it super easy for users to find and use a pattern they need.
Cover Block: It is now possible to adjust the position of the video in the cover block. Previously, only images were available. Also, the repeated background has been added to the media settings.
Drag Block: Blocks are now easier to move by dragging.
Character Count Display: The information panel will now show characters along with words, paragraphs, and blocks used in your content.
Appearance Settings:
Optional items have been added.
Reduce the interface
Spotlight Mode
Display button labels
Use theme styles
Automatic Updates for Major WordPress Releases
Before releasing WordPress 5.5, only the developers’ community had the opportunity to automatically update the version. Then, WordPress 5.5 introduced auto-updates for themes and plugins, and now WordPress 5.6 takes auto-updates a step further.
Now with WordPress 5.6, there is a dashboard UI that allows users to turn on auto-updates for major WordPress releases. Go to Dashboard > Updates page to get the update.
It’s totally up to you whether or not you want to upgrade the version.
Updates for Developer
As like every time, this time too WordPress has brought something magical for developers. Now we will review the changes from a developer’s point of view.
Application Passwords for REST API
WordPress 5.6 comes with Application Passwords for Rest API, which enables third-party apps to connect to their websites safely and smoothly. Using this feature, you can grant or revoke access to a specific user.
Passwords are 24-characters long and feature a combination of upper-case, lower-case, and numeric characters. They can either be generated manually or through the REST API.
PHP 8 support
PHP is a core programming language for WordPress. PHP 8 has just been released and the WordPress new version 5.6 has compatibility with it.
Though WordPress 5.6 has PHP 8 support, getting PHP 8.0 fully-integrated within WordPress will take some time. However, theme and plugin developers may still need to test their own code for compatibility.
Updates to jQuery
Updates to jQuery were included in WordPress 5.5, but they are also in this version and will continue to be added in WordPress 5.7 as well.
Since WordPress 5.6 marks the halfway point of the updates process, users are asked to run the Test jQuery Updates plugin and ensure there are no errors on their sites ahead of time.
If users find any issues with the look of their site such as something not displaying or functioning properly, they are asked to also install the Enable jQuery Migrate Helper plugin.
How to Update WordPress 5.6
You can update automatically the WordPress new version 5.6 Simone from your dashboard. Go to Dashboard > Updates page to get the update.
The following requirements apply to run WordPress 5.6.
PHP version 7.4 or greater
MySQL version 5.6 OR MariaDB version 10.1 or greater
Apache or Nginx
Wrapping up
WordPress has been improving its quality with each release. So, if you want to keep your WordPress site updated, embrace the new version of WordPress.
Don’t forget to let us know whether or not you like the WordPress new version. Also, if you face any error while upgrading the version, let us know through the comment box below. We’d love to help you out.
A better & reimagined WordPress repository for the 21st century.
Today is a day I have been waiting for the last 6 months. I am very excited to show you what’s the next chapter of WP Hive. Today, WP Hive introduces a bold new take on the WordPress repository.
I am proud to introduce every WordPress users to a better, more robust, and beautiful take on WordPress repo.
How the idea of WP Hive came to life
Before telling you the story, I want to introduce myself. I am Saif Hassan, and I work as a Product Manager at weDevs.
I have been using WordPress for more than 10 years now and I have not seen any notable improvements to WordPress.org repository in the last 1o years. Yes, I know they are very busy building the future with Gutenberg but the existing experience of WordPress.org did not improve over the last 10 years.
It all started with a simple problem I faced a few months ago. I wanted to use a minimalistic looking social sharing button. I searched through a lot of free plugins but I was undone without any success. Maybe I’m too picky or professionally biased, but all I wanted was a clean, minimal social share plugin & subscriber popup – that doesn’t hurt readability or makes the site slow. Whenever I used a plugin that was either too heavy or did not meet my needs.
On the second day, I started testing each plugin and checking memory usage, page loading impact by each plugin. Because I only wanted to use cleanly coded plugins that don’t take many resources. I started manually activating the plugin, testing it on Pingdom tools, measure memory usage and whatnot (That’s the time I wrote the blog post on best social sharing plugins and all the tests were manually done!)
Then it hit me – could there be a website that can measure each plugin on different criteria? Like how much memory it has been using? Does it impact page speed? Is the plugin regularly updated?
On the third day, I had an epiphany. I thought to myself, how about making a platform that judges WordPress plugins by the same standard? If I can test all WordPress plugins with the same standard and can produce actionable data – it would provide users with a user great experience. There has to be demand for that! I’m not the only one who needs to know how a plugin behaves in the backend!
That was the start. It began as a pet project of mine. I started doing the prototype. Before starting the project – I did not know how to use Adobe XD or Sketch. I learned both XD and Sketch while creating the early prototypes.
How WP Hive handles each plugin data? How are you generating the benchmark results?
I contacted a friend of mine and started working. What the tool does is it crawls all the plugin from WordPress.org, activates it, logs many crucial data such as page speed, memory usage, JavaScript issues, activations issues and more. (You can go to the WP Hive homepage right now and start testing different plugins with their name).
The tool has multiple parts.
The management scripts, plugin crawler, testing scripts and so on.
All of them run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM. This server is almost certainly more powerful than it needs to be for this project.
The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1.
Whenever there is a new plugin update – the crawler gets it within 1-3 days. If there’s an older test data, it gets replaced with the new test data from the new release of that particular plugin.
How to Search For Plugins?
Head over to the WP Hive homepage and start searching the plugin by its name. Of course, the search is predictive – the way search should be in 2021!
And, as you scroll the page, a lot of really interesting information such as latest WordPress version compatibility, latest PHP version compatibility, pagespeed impact, memory usage, javascript issues will be presented before you.
Obviously we did not end there. We measured each plugin and its impact on the server’s memory and we are showing it with beautiful charts.
Plugin memory usage
You can also view how many tables the plugin has created into your WordPress database and view the different WP-Options.
Well, we are just getting started. WP Hive is not stopping there.
How WP Hive is Comparing Plugins
One of the most unique thing about WP Hive is that you can compare two plugins side by side. When I had actionable insights about plugins – I thought about why don’t I build something that compares two plugin side by side – just like you do for phones.
After you input and press the Compare button – WP Hive offers you a table-style comparison of memory consumption, speed and a lot of other parameters. We believe it will massively help you to choose between two plugins.
In the compare page, there’s two winner section which is calculated by the average memory usage and average page speed impact.
Since faster websites essentially mean a better environment for us all – I thought about including these two metrics to build a better future for us all. You can read this article from Nature.com. Already, the data centers use an estimated 200 terawatt-hours (TWh) each year. That is more than the national energy consumption of some countries. By 2030 it is going to hit almost 400 terawatt-hours. Better resource usage will definitely help us to build a better environment for us all.
One of the most frustrating things about WordPress.org is that even after 10 years – there’s no way to find plugins based on different categories. Think about my use case. I want social sharing plugins. What are my options for that?
Already know the plugin name
Rely on Google Search
Rely on different blog listings.
Since I have a good idea about SEO – I know whoever has topped the first page of Google, will get the advantage. It is quite impossible for a new plugin to compete with the already established plugins. This changes with WP Hive.
WP Hive is the new Appstore for WordPress. Just like you find apps from Play Store or Appstore – you can find plugins on WP Hive by different categories.
You can search for plugins using the most searched keywords using the search button on the discover page
You can filter the result to your liking, the ratings and characteristics of each plugin, everything. You can filter the plugins based on several criteria including
Top Rated this week
Top Rated this month
Most Popular this week
Most Popular this month
You can also find plugins based on their ratings/reviews. This includes all categories.
I have had many exciting features planned already for WP Hive for the next couple of years. The whole reason we came up with this because I was really frustrated with how the current scenario was and how we can build a better version of WordPress repo
Enjoy better WordPressing from today. Upgrade your WordPress experience today. If you have more questions – read the F.A.Q page.
The popularity and usage of WordPress have skyrocketed in the last few years. Here is a list of 12 Big Brands that use WordPress and why?
If you are not familiar with WordPress yet, then you are missing out. WordPress is the most popular CMS out there, beating competitors like Wix and Squarespace. You may be asking yourself “Why top brands are using WordPress?”.
Why Big Brands Use WordPress?
Today we are going to show you some great examples of the best WordPress sites. There are a handful of reasons for using WordPress, but here are the six best reasons why big brands use WordPress?
Many big brands of different fields have selected WordPress for their go-to web platform. These are some of the most amazing and engaging big brands’ sites that are built with WordPress!
Google Chrome extensions are like small software that is installed into Chrome in order to change the functionality of the browser. We don’t have to tell you the popularity of Google Chrome as a browser.
With over 2 billion users, Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser today!
Google Chrome is fast, secure, and obviously easy to use. The interface is clean and simple, even beginners will find it easy to use. No wonder, this browser is so highly rated.
That is why Google Chrome has been the go-to browser for more than 60% of people World Wide.
And it has a very rich collection of extensions. These extensions enable you make your web browser more customized and personal.
That is why we thought, why not introduce a Chrome extension from WPHive. So that you will get the awesome and technical insights of a plugin whenever you visit the WordPress.org site.
Besides the download stats and plugin introduction, they will get real time data and will be able to take the right decision on whether the plugin is perfect for them or not.
Why Use Google Chrome Extensions?
Extensions enable you to add more functions and features to your web browsers. And, you don’t need extensive coding to do that.
However, the amazing thing about the Google Chrome extension is, it is very extendable. Because you will get a plugin or extension for just about everything you possibly want. Like,
Blocking ads, so that they are restricted from being displayed
Optimizing memory usage so that Chrome runs more efficiently
Adding to-do lists or notes to Chrome
Password management
Making it easier to copy text from a site
Protect your privacy and making web browsing more secure
One-click operations of tools.
However, these are just the main advantages you will find while using Chrome extensions. But you get the idea what we are talking about.
Also, how you use an extension depends on the particular extension. Some extensions works in the background and performs it’s task automatically. While some add menu options to the menu when you right-click on web page.
However, the most common attribute of a Chrome extension is that it adds a small icon right to the address field in the browser. These icons can be clicked on or right-clicked to access the functionality of the extension.
It’s time to talk about the WPHive Chrome extension!
Seeing the popularity of Google Chrome and the intention to give WordPress users to use the amazing features WPHive more easily, we decided to develop a Chrome extension version of WPHive.
So, what this extension does? When you visit the WordPress.org page and search for a plugin, you will see all the WPHive insights about that plugin on the right-hand side of the web page.
Cool, right?
That way, you will get all the data you need about the plugin before you decide to download .
How to Install WPHive Chrome Extension
Well, installing the WPHive Chrome extension is simple as installing any other Google Chrome extension.
On the left-hand side, you will find the search bar. Type “WP Hive “
Click on “Add to Chrome”
Finally, the extension will be added to your Chrome browser. You will see WPHive icon on the top righ-hand side of your browser. It is as simple as that.
Now, when you visit WordPress.org and search for a plugin, you will see all the insights.
Also, if you want you can compare with another plugin by clicking the Compare Plugin button.
How This Extension Will Prove to Be Beneficial for WordPress Users
The job of an extension is to give users more control and make it more personalized by adding more features to the browser.
WordPress is used by thousands of people all over the world. WordPress is the most used CMS not only because of its user-friendliness but also because of its massive availability of plugins.
However, this huge collection of plugins can also have a downside. As there are lots of similar kinds of plugins available, finding the best one can be difficult.
Sure, you can read reviews .
But, reading only reviews will not tell you how the plugin will perform on your live website.
You can download and test one by one. Imagine how long that will take?
That is why we have introduced the WPHive Chrome extension. It will help you get the technical aspects of a plugin and actually tell you if you should use it or not.
You will get advantages like,
You will get all the information about the plugin
You will know if the plugin is latest WordPress version compatible or not
WordPress.org only shows you the basic stats, WPHive Chrome extension will give you more detailed information
Only one click needed to compare plugins side by side
You can easily take data driven decision now
After downloading, you know you made the right decision.
WPHive: Making the Journey Easier with WordPress
WPHive has always been trying to find ways to make the world of WordPress better and better. From when it was a blogging site to now, when it introduced itself as the new WordPress repository.
And, it obviously made things easier for WordPress users. It works in a very unique way.
It has all the plugins from WordPress.org repository. Then it activates it, logs many crucial data such as page speed, memory usage, JavaScript issues, activations issues and more. You can test it directly from the WP Hive homepage.
It consists of multiple parts.
The management scripts, plugin crawler, testing scripts and so on.
All of them run on a VPS with 8 CPU cores and 8 GB of RAM.
The test sites are hosted on Google Cloud VM instances, one site/plugin per instance. The machine type is n1-standard-1.
Whenever there is a new plugin update – the tool gets it within 1-3 days.
Also, it has made searching for a plugin a lot easier. You can search for plugins using different metrics. Say, if you want a plugin for SEO. In WordPress.org you have to know the plugin name beforehand inorder to search for it.
Not in WPHive. Just like you find apps from Play Store or Appstore – you can find plugins on WP Hive by different categories.
Also, don’t forget about the plugin comparison feature.
“If you can compare smartphones before buying, why not plugins.”
That’s the thought process that went into building this feature. You can compare two plugins side by side just like you do with phones before buying with WPHive.
A winner will be declared after end of every comparison.
So, as you can see we are not wrong when we are claiming that WPHive has made the WordPress industry a much better place and journey of using WordPress a lot smoother.
The main goal of WPHive is to bring a revolutionary change in the WordPress industry. WPHive Chrome extension is just another step towards it.
We want o make using WordPress and it’s plugins easy so that even a beginner can come in and become an instant pro. And by providing useful insights regarding a plugin, users are now able to choose the right plugins , instead of relaying o false rumors and gossips.
The World as we know is going through an unusual global pandemic due to the outbreak of Covid-19. People are stuck in their homes, and many of us are passing our valuable time doing nothing. This is a great loss for every individual as well as every nation.
But we still have options to contribute to our national economy and thus benefit ourselves. Yes, we are going to talk about how you can make money online from home. We are going to share some ideas about the ways you can earn money by staying indoors.
However, there are several ways for you to earn money. That is why you need to be smart while choosing your path. Otherwise, the plan might backfire and you will end up ultimately wasting your time.
In this article, we will thoroughly discuss how you can make money online from home and the skills that you need to acquire. So, grab a cup of coffee and bear with us.
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The Idea Of Making Money Online From Home Is Getting Popular
Nearly one in four Americans made money over the last 12 months by using their personal computers or other devices connected to the internet. The Pew Research Center, an independent research group in Washington, found that people are using the Internet to find extra work.
Even before the coronavirus outbreak forced businesses across the world to adopt a remote work policy, there were over 5 million U.S. employees working from home at least half the time.
Not only the USA, but people around the world are also looking for ways to make money online from home. If we search the keyword “Make money online”, we can see the below details.
It has more than 70,000 search volume and every LSI of this keyword has a significant search volume. Therefore, it is clear that working from home and earning online is a good option indeed. And, people are getting more and more interested in this concept.
What Are The Online Jobs/Opportunities To Make Money?
Online jobs or opportunities are those that offer you the flexibility of working remotely either from home or any other place without the need to report to an office daily. Currently, many people and companies have embraced online jobs, frequently hiring remote workers and freelancers.
Numerous platforms have also sprung up to connect the increasing number of online job seekers to clients offering such jobs. This provides an easy way for clients to identify job seekers and hire them for the different roles they are offering.
The best thing with the online jobs/opportunities is that they cover almost every field, including:
Personal Blog
Portfolio Site
eCommerce Site
Translating
Copywriting
Online Course
Content & Web Development Business
WordPress Themes and Plugins Business
Proofreading
Affiliate Marketing
These are the main topics to focus on in this article. We will take a closer look at each of the points and find out how we can turn our skills into a money-making system from home. So, let’s get started.
Personal Blog – Sell Your Insights
Personal blogging is one of the easiest ways to make money online from home. You can kick-start this earning from any time without having any coding or technology expertise. Moreover, this doesn’t demand a high configured work station. You can start it right now with your regular laptop, desktop, or even through your smartphone.
How To Start a Personal Blogging Site
With WordPress, creating a site has become quite easy. Therefore You can make money with blog by creating a blogging site using WordPress plugins. Creating a personal blogging site is not rocket science. You can create it all by yourself. Follow this blog on how to start a blog and you will have your own blogging site within hours.
Skills You Need
Without skills, you won’t be able to conduct a profitable business. Other than having a passion for writing, blogging demands skills like SEO, keyword searching, writing capability in diverse topics, and last but not least having immense knowledge of the latest technology is crucial.
You can make it easier by sharing your expertise with your readers. Let’s assume, you have experiences in traveling, just share your experiences with a simple blog and you will be on your way.
Portfolio Site – Sell Your Expertise
A portfolio website helps you present yourself to the world in a smart way, and your employers/clients want. Gone are the days of checking page after page to discover someone and make a decision. Employers and clients these days prefer to see everything you have done, your work process, thoughts, interests, and more in one place.
Creating A Portfolio Website
You can create it in many ways. But creating a portfolio website using Elementor seems easier. With Elementor you can create the site without writing a single line of code. It is easy to create a website and third-party integrations like Happy Addons make it more flexible to customize.
If you want to make money online from home by creating a portfolio website, one thing you must need to have and that is expertise in any field. Suppose, you are good at photography, then build a portfolio website showcasing your best works on photography in an organized way so that people make a contact to have you for getting their job done.
eCommerce Site – Sell Anything & Everything
You may have heard about eCommerce sites. With an eCommerce site, you can sell anything from any part of the world around the globe. You don’t need to be global for selling products, just create an eCommerce marketplace, and sell digital products or even physical goods. And people can buy them from all over the world.
Process to Create an eCommerce Site
You can create an eCommerce site using WordPress eCommerce plugin. Furthermore, you can turn it into a multi-vendor marketplace using Dokanmulti-vendor creator, and then invite other vendors to your site.
If you are familiar with WordPress, eCommerce, and Dokan, it’s just a matter of time to create an eCommerce marketplace. Don’t worry if you are a newbie at WordPress. You can create any type of marketplace within hours and start selling products. Moreover, you can earn commission from vendors selling.
Translation – Put Your Language Skills To Good Use
Do you speak another language? If yes, then you are the right person to do this job. You can find plenty of translation jobs on general freelance platforms like Upwork, but the quality of opportunities on nonspecialized platforms tends to be uneven. Earning potential also varies widely.
Entry-level, nonspecialized translation work often pays less than $10 per hour, while highly technical jobs can pay more than $50 per hour. Generally speaking, you’ll earn more as you gain experience, improve your fluency, and attain vertical-specific credentials.
How Can You Start
There are some renowned sites to start from. Here are some of them;
Gengo. Gengo is a beginner-friendly platform that covers a range of subjects and project types. Pay tends to be on the low side, but payment is frequent and predictable – it comes via PayPal twice per month.
ProTranslating. ProTranslating focuses on expert-level content at the upper end of the market, so if you’re a professional translator with verifiable subject matter expertise, you can do very well. Beginners may want to start with Gengo or another entry-level platform before applying here.
One Hour Translation. One Hour Translation is a bulk translation service that’s great for entry-level translators. It pays by the word, with hourly rates working out to $10 to $20, depending on skill and speed.
Unbabel. Unbabel is another entry-level option. Billed as an originator of “trustworthy large-scale translations,” it pays as little as $8 per hour, but the work is more plentiful and steady than on some competing platforms.
Copywriting – Don’t Waste Your Creativity
What does it pay?Freelance copywriters can earn $81,000 per year, according to Glassdoor.
Consider becoming a copywriter if you’re a wordsmith and want the flexibility of working from home. Copywriters are responsible for writing engaging copy for things like CTAs, ads, sales pages, and email newsletters. You can work for an agency as a full-time employee or work for several different companies as a freelancer.
Online Course – Provide Knowledge & Earn Good Money
Apart from spreading knowledge, generating revenue is also the most common reason for an entrepreneur to create online courses. This is the simplest use case – you create an online course once, and people buy it over and over again as a subscription. As a digital asset, it doesn’t cost much to produce, and it’s cheap to distribute. No shipping cost, right?
How to Start Selling Courses Online
If you want to sell your course online, you must have a website. So at first, create a website. Creating a tutorial course website is easy. Just follow the procedure you followed while creating a portfolio site. Tweak the designs, add more diversity and you have yourself a tutorial website. Use Elementor and Happy Addons to save time and money.
And then you need to start promoting it. Because without promotion you can’t get users to notice your site and buy your courses.
Content Writing
If you’re a content writer, you can earn money online from writing content for others. Those who are doing this job are called the guest writers. You can either get paid for writing a guest post or you can promote your products as well as other products and thus benefit yourself.
Getting Started
Almost every well-known website has their policy to accept guest posts. At first, read that policy carefully, then start writing for them. Knowledge about WordPress content editor will add value to your articles and increase your acceptance.
WordPress Themes and Plugins Business
If you are a developer and passing your days doing nothing, you can take this opportunity. Start creating your own WordPress themes and plugins, then sell it through any of the leading marketplaces. Or, you can sell it from your website as well.
How To Start
When you are a developer, you know the pain to manage your WordPress themes and plugins. After working day and night on creating the plugin/themes, it’s quite a hassle to sell your products. But all these you can do it easily by choosing the right tool like Appsero.
This platform takes care of marketing, licensing, branding, and even pushing new updates of your plugins and themes. So, it is not a bad choice for newbie developers to start selling their plugins/themes. It is also free!
Or you can sell directly from your own website.
Proofreading – Sell Your Grammatical Skill
Proofreading is another lucrative online career. “Most agencies will pay around 25% of the price of a translated document to a proofreader,” advises International Living. “Agencies charge about $75 for the translation of a five-page standard business document. So proofing the same document—which takes about an hour—pays out about $18 to $20.” You can work full time, part-time or around-the-clock.
As a new editor, start small. Look for part-time or project-based copy editing jobs. If possible, leverage existing freelance writing arrangements. For instance, if you know one of your freelance clients uses contract editors to clean up writers’ work, approach them about taking on those responsibilities directly.
Once you’ve outgrown your existing client base, look to online job boards such as Upwork, as well as media-specific platforms such as Mediabistro.
Basically, Affiliate Marketing means earning money as commissions by promoting others’ products or services (it even could be a person or company) through your channel. As a beginner, you can start affiliate marketing to earn money online from home.
How to Start Affiliate Marketing
Starting an affiliate marketing should be in a planned way.
Find your Niche to promote & join popular Affiliate Programs
Create contents on your niche using referral links
Earn 20-100% commissions from your promotional contents
It seems so easy, right?
But nowadays- it’s not such easy as it looks! You have to build trust between the buyer and seller. Too much promotional content fails to convert visitors into customers. So you have to be careful while promoting your targeted products or services.
Skills You Need to Have
Before jumping into affiliate marketing, you should know the simple hacks of affiliate marketing. As we said earlier, promoting too much can have a negative impact on that particular product. So, apply all your learned strategies about affiliate marketing and be neutral while you’re influencing someone to buy that product.
Which One You are Gonna Try?
Here, we have discussed the easiest ways to make money online from home so that you can choose any of the mentioned ways and start earning easily. But before choosing any of the options, be clear about your capability.
Suppose you are good at writing the blogs, then you should not make a photography portfolio website and asking people to hire you.
Without skills, you are not gonna make it profitable. So, when you want to make money online from home, but if you lack skill, then our recommendation is to make yourself skilled before going for earning. Good luck!
WP Hive has redefined the WordPress Repository that simplifies the plugin selection process for the users with deep insights. It enables WordPress Users to get their required plugins/themes in an optimized yet easy way.
Search, compare, & get all useful data regarding a WordPress plugin becomes easy as pie with WP Hive.
Now you will get detailed plugin/theme insights that help you to:
discover new plugins or the popular ones with relevant filters
compare plugins side by side, just like you do for phones
test your WordPress themes appropriately
have insightful data such as latest PHP version compatibility, PHP error, Javascript error, database footprint, memory usage & more.
Let’s see how WP Hive will help you in data-driven decision making to operate your WordPress site more effectively in real life
Data-Driven Decision Making to Find out the Right WordPress Plugins
WP Hive-Make Data-Driven Decision
Being a part of the WordPress industry for more than 12 years, we always try to approach in a different way. We love to think out of the box. And bring something unique every time that is helpful for both of us and our clients as well. Our main objective is to simplify our user’s life and accelerate their workflow significantly.
In this continuity, we introduced WP Hive to upgrade your WordPress experience today.
One of the biggest advantages of using WordPress is it has a large library of useful plugins. Perhaps, you will find plenty of different plugins in every category nowadays. It’s an amazing facility for WordPress users undoubtedly. But sometimes it gets really confusing to choose the right plugin from the crowd that can match your needs exactly.
We also faced the same problem several times. And unfortunately, wordpress.org could not help us always in this issue. To pick the perfect one we had to install a lot of plugins individually. And check their memory usage, page loading impact, coding pattern, usability, and others separately. Needless to say, it kills so many hours to have the right product indeed.
That’s why we bring WP Hive to simply the entire process. Now it requires only a few clicks to discover any particular plugin/theme (without even knowing their names) for a specific purpose. Or compare different plugins from the same category depending on page speed, memory usage, JavaScript issues, activations issues, and more.
Let’s see how to use this tool to find the plugins that you actually want.
How WP Hive Helps You to Make Data-Driven Decisions
WP Hive is a platform that judges WordPress plugins by the same standard. So, you can test all WordPress plugins with different metrics and produce actionable data. It helps you to understand the plugin’s performance on your site and how a plugin behaves in the backend as well.
Search for the Right WordPress Plugin
Simply go to the WP Hive homepage and start searching for the plugin by its name. The searching process is smart enough to assist you in this modern era.
After searching by an individual plugin name you will get a complete overview regarding that particular tool in front of your eyes.
By switching the tabs you can measure a plugin’s usability in different parameters.
And, as you scroll the page, you will explore a lot of really interesting information. It includes the latest WordPress version compatibility, latest PHP version compatibility, page-speed impact, memory usage, javascript issues, and so forth.
Things are not over yet! You will also get well elaborative charts on each plugin and its impact on the server’s memory.
Moreover, you can also see how many tables the plugin has created into your WordPress database and view the different WP-Options.
From the Review tab, you can overview a plugin’s features, installation & activation process, the prerequisite for using and others. Or switch the Compare tab to differentiate the attributes between two plugins side by side.
Compare Plugins with Detailed Insights
As we have mentioned before, you can compare two WordPress plugins side by side with WP Hive. Same as you do when buying a smartphone. It helps you to overview all the features of different plugins. So that you can decide which one is the perfect match for your needs.
After you input and press the Compare button – WP Hive represents a table-style comparison before you. It will show the difference depending on memory consumption, speed, and a lot of other parameters. We believe it will surely help you to choose the right one between two plugins.
In the compare page, you will get two winner sections. One is calculated by the average memory usage and another is on average page speed impact.
With WP Hive you can pick the right plugin without even knowing the name of that plugin. That is not possible in WordPress.org. Suppose you need a time tracking tool to manage your remote team. So, how can you find the probable plugin name. The options might be:
Already know the plugin name
Rely on Google Search
Rely on different blog listings
But these techniques are not that much flexible for non-technical persons. WP Hive resolves this issue successfully.
WP Hive is the new Appstore for WordPress. You can find plugins on WP Hive by different categories- same as you find apps from Play Store or Appstore.
You can search for plugins by their usages. Also, you will get auto-suggestion in the drop-down menu.
Furthermore, you can filter the plugins based on several criteria such as:
Top Rated this week
Top Rated this month
Most Popular this week
Most Popular this month
Moreover, you can find plugins based on their ratings/reviews. This includes all categories.
Hence it’s a matter of a few clicks only to get your required WordPress Plugin now. And there is zero possibility for the wrong selection indeed!
Check Your Previous WordPress Plugins with WP Hive
If you have been using WordPress for a long time, then you must have already installed several plugins on your site. However, you can recheck your decision on WP Hive as well. By measuring the characteristics of your used plugins you can probably make some better decisions now. Also, compare them with the latest one to ensure that you are using the best one.
Moreover, some plugins have an immense impact on your site performance. And you get stressed by looking for the reasons haphazardly. But can’t end up with any satisfying answer. The day of being in the dark is over. WP Hive spotlights the plugin selection process more realistic and effective at the same time.
Now, you are able to get all plugin insights at your fingertips. No extra hassle for choosing the right plugins for your WordPress site. Besides, find out the right-wrongs of previous decisions in minutes.
Get a Better WordPress Repository with WP Hive
An amazing thing is that most of the innovative ideas we have executed so far pops into our mind while we face any problem in real life. That is the reason, all our products have been proved beneficial for the users. And they always find the products helpful for their business/personal usages.
The idea of WP Hive also came in the same way when we were searching for a minimalistic looking social sharing button. And we arrange this platform that will surely enhance your WordPress experience largely. It gets a bold new take on the WordPress repository. Search, compare, and find your required plugin with all the detailed information.
Apart from this, WP Hive will save your time by providing useful information like page speed, memory usage, JavaScript issues, activations issues, and more. So what are you waiting for? Enjoy better WordPressing from today. And utilize WP Hive to get help in better data-driven decision making.
Still, have some queries? Read the F.A.Q page. Share your feedback in the comment section below!
weDevs has added another feather to their well-decorated crown. Yes, we are launching another product “Enzaime“, a 360° health-tech platform. It is a product specially for the doctors out there in the world.
Enzaime is a one-stop web solution center for doctors where they can build a customized personal website with WordPress.
WordPress is used by people from all over the world. It is the perfect solution for people who has less knowledge about coding but wants to build websites. That is equally true for ‘Doctors’. They concern themselves with the well-being of the people. They don’t have the time to make a website for themselves and make themselves more known to people.
That is why Enzaime wants to empower doctors with the help of modern technology and make them available to the patients. It is a web solution provider that facilitates doctors with all the features they need to run a personal online practice.
Also, customizing all the content with premium plugins and themes, integrated online payment and appointment facility, maintaining patient database are some of the exclusive features. Furthermore, developers will have all the premium tools to meet the demands of their clients with specialized websites at an attractive price.
Let us see what Enzaime has to offer for all the Doctors out there. Here are the top features of Enzaime,
Premium Themes of WordPress
Premium Plugins & Widgets
Drag & Drop Web Builder
Responsive Design
Online Appointment
Online Payment
Patients Form
Premium Themes of WordPress
Strengthen your online reputation with WordPress. Enzaime offers custom-tailored premium themes for your websites. It adds Quality, Uniqueness, Functionality, Security to your existing or new website which leaves you completely tension free.
Enzaime has dedicated itself to maintain the highest quality possible with the use of WordPress. All the designs offered here are unique that will help you build yourself an exclusive website for yourself.
Also, the websites will be SEO friendly which ensures your website pops up on the first page on the search engines. The functionalities are all there. You need to log in and do whatever modifications you require.
Enzaime also takes care of the question of security. It ensures that your site remains secure as the websites are hosted in Amazon Web Services (AWS) server which most definitely is HIPPA Compliant. In addition to that, we provide security plugins that will keep your site safe away from hackers.
To ensure the best possible service Enzaime provides regular updates for the facilities given and stay alert all the time to cater to your need. After all, that is our job.
Premium Plugins & Widgets
To make the whole designing process a lot easier Enzaime provides some of the industry’s most popular plugins and widgets for its clients. Namely,
Drag & Drop Web Builder, Just Use Your Imagination
We know you are not a coder and you don’t have to be one. We have designed our websites in such a way that a person who has not seen or even heard the word WordPress before, would not struggle to maintain it. To ensure that we have added the Elementor Premium Page Builder plugin which requires no code at all to use. We repeat no code at all! Just drag the widget or feature you want to add to your website, then drop and voila! It is done! We assure you it is really that simple.
Responsive Design, Compatible to Any Device
Statistics tell us that more than 60% of users are mobile users. So, having a mobile-friendly website is something a professional cannot do without. Enzaime feels that too. That is why we have made all its websites Responsive. Be it a computer, laptop, mobile, tab, etc. It will tailor its contents to the device accordingly, automatically.
Enzaime wants to create an ecosystem for the doctors where everything can be done virtually. That also includes the ability of the patients to make appointments online. Enzaime has integrated an online appointment system using Bookly premium plugin with all its sites which will enable the doctors to keep track of all their appointments. This process will reduce the working hours and difficulties. It will be beneficial for the patients also as it will facilitate them to stay in touch with their doctor easily.
Online Payment, Save Time
The patients can pay online.
With Enzaime, doctors are able to accept payment through secure channels with numerous payment gateways which will enable patients to have reliable and hassle-free transactions. It uses sophisticated and encrypted data channels to facilitate the whole process. So, there is no chance of a breach in the security system. You can rest assured.
Patients Form
Say no to all the form patients have to fill up. Patients will fill up a form about their conditions online on the doctor’s website which will save time significantly during the visit and make the whole process hassle-free. For this purpose, Enzaime integrated the weForms premium.
Conclusion
Enzaime has features for affiliate marketers also. We have designed the features keeping theme, plugin and widget authors in mind. With Enzaime, developers will get all the ingredients to manage their WordPress business on a single platform. Also, it provides content for the doctors so that they stay relevant and can go on helping people.
Doctors, remember, your name should be on the search engine results page along with what you do and how good you are. There is no other way around it.
WordPress 5.0 with built-in Gutenberg support will be released on November 19, 2018. The block-based editing experience is the most significant change in WordPress history.
It’s official. The much-awaited version of WordPress, known as “WordPress 5.0” will be released on November 19, 2018, with Gutenberg as the default editor of WordPress.
WordPress 5.0 with out of the box Gutenberg support would be released on November 19 2018
WordPress 5.0 is inching closer to a full public release. Gary Pendergast wrote a blog post about the scopes of WordPress 5.0 and proposed a schedule for the next major version of WordPress. WordPress will be having the most significant change in its history with Gutenberg.
