Get ready to listen to various WordPress experts this week at two online summits: Page Builder Summit and WordSesh. Is Figma Sites a worthy WordPress alternative? Also, two new plugins this week: GoDAM and B2B for SureCart.
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- Online Summits Week… get ready for WordPress goodness from various experts, throughout this week. Page Builder Summit starts from Monday (May 12, 2025) featuring 35+ talks on diverse topics. On Tuesday (May 13, 2025), it is WordSesh 2025 event for WordPress professionals.
- Websites Makeover… Cool Plugins website got a makeover, the new look is neat for sure and a good job on the ‘About’ page. While Ross Morsali has relaunched docs section of the website using very own Search & Filter Pro plugin, why not!
- Scrub Video Action… WP Interactions 1.1.0v has introduced Scrub Video Action that allows you to play a video forward as the user scrolls down, rewind as they scroll back up, and control which video segment maps to the scroll area.
- Next for Rapyd Cloud… 2.0v of Rapyd Cloud evolution has been launched with multiple website plans – specially for agencies, developers, and freelancers. It has also introduced all new dashboard interface promising smart management.
New Plugins: GoDAM & B2B for SureCart
Digital Assets Management… Rahul Bansal from rtCamp shared about the launch of GoDAM, a digital asset management platform built specifically for WordPress. The initial release focuses on video management with video capabilities like transcoding, adaptive streaming, and interactive layers all in one platform.
B2B For SureCart… Nelson Miller has released B2B For SureCart, which adds B2B features to SureCart – like wholesale pricing by user role, catalog mode to hide prices and disable checkout, a built-in messaging system, and a quote builder for custom checkout links.
New Features: GenerateBlocks, Meta Box, PersonalizeWP
GenerateBlocks Pro… 2.1.0v has added device visibility controls, improved the styles builder indicator dot system, added the ‘aria label’ field to all blocks, and a new ‘inline-grid’ option.
Meta Box + Multilingual Sites… the team at Meta Box has improved integrations for Polylang and WPML, promising easier creation of multilingual WordPress websites with a lot of dynamic content.
PersonalizeWP + REST API… 2.9v has launched two new REST API endpoints, Visitor Activities Endpoint and Visitor Segments Endpoint, enabling developers to access visitor profile information in code and create custom personalisation experiences.
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- Media Corps Ending… Media Corps experiment involving independent WordPress marketers and media members (including me) to create content around WordPress has been closed. “I believe we are, and will be, unable to achieve our stated goal, and the best path forward is to end this specific initiative”.
- New WP-CLI Release… Alain Schlesser shared about the new WP-CLI 2.12.0v release. This release includes many bug fixes and compatibility improvements – thanks to the effort of 68 contributors to get 382 pull requests merged.
- Plugin Rebranding… Wpbens has rebranded the Create Members plugin to the MemberHub plugin, “to ensure a more recognizable and consistent identity across all touchpoints, as the new name better represents the features and direction of the plugin”.
- WordCamps Action… registration is now open for workshops at the WordCamp Europe 2025, scheduled for June 5 -7, 2025, in Basel, Switzerland. WordCamp US 2025 is looking to welcome new faces to the organizing team – check the call for organizers and apply.
- WP Milestones… Dynamic Visibility for Elementor plugin by Dynamic .ooo has crossed the 50,000 active installs milestone in the directory. The Imunify Security plugin for WordPress has crossed the 50,000+ websites milestone, and is growing.
Quick Bits 👍
- Brian Gardner has released new Thoreau Theme, simple & clean!
- LiveCanvas has introduced new Dynamic Posts Loop Sections.
- Hostinger achieved 100% renewable energy share for data centers.
- Note: Critical OttoKit (Formerly SureTriggers) vulnerability patched.
- GravityKit explores Top WordPress technologies to learn in 2025.
- GAAD 2025 Pledge your time to improve accessibility in WordPress.
- Let’s Learn
- Matt Cromwell on creating one page links site using GitHub pages.
- How to use Loop Module in Beaver Builder for full custom layouts.
- 7 steps for creating a Custom Block Theme, by Birgit Pauli-Haack.
- How to automate WordPress Playground Screenshots with node js.
- People of WordPress
- Anand Upadhyay on expansion of WordPress Campus Connect.
- Anne McCarthy on engaging with WP Community post sabbatical.
- David Perez’s insights on the 2nd year in WP Plugin review team.
- Kinsta sponsoring Prashant Baldha’s WP contributions, thanks!
New Figma Sites vs WordPress?
Figma announced a new Figma Sites feature, which made many people notice it and compare it with WordPress. Kevin Powell looked into this (Youtube) and shared, “Figma Sites is worse than you might have thought”.
Of course, there is an alternative route of using Figma to WordPress converter tools like UiChemy for getting Figma designs directly into the familiar WordPress space.
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