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How To Build A Portfolio Grid With Divi 5’s Loop Builder

A portfolio grid is a simple, effective way to showcase your work. With Divi 5’s Loop Builder, you can design a reusable card layout and let it auto-populate from your content directly in the Visual Builder. Unlike single-purpose modules, Loop… Continue Reading →

WordPress Vulnerability Report — September 17, 2025

In this report, 199 vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed. Security patches for 50 of these plugins and themes are now available, so please run those updates as soon as possible. If you’re a Solid Security Pro user, the version management… Continue Reading →

Confessions of a Web Design Generalist (a.k.a. The Person Who Does Literally Everything)

Web design’s real MVPs aren’t specialists—they’re the generalists quietly doing everything. These multitasking heroes hold the internet together with duct tape and Google searches. This is your gloriously chaotic love letter to the people who do it all.

Enterprise WordPress security: what Kinsta delivers out-of-the-box

If you’re managing dozens of WordPress sites for enterprise clients, you know that security plugins are only one part of the story. You need protection built into the infrastructure itself. The kind that stops threats before they even reach WordPress…. Continue Reading →

Flexbox vs CSS Grid: How Do They Compare?

Flexbox and Grid are the two layout systems that define modern CSS. At first glance, they seem similar. Both handle rows and columns, manage alignment and spacing, and replace the old float-and-table workarounds. The real difference is in how they… Continue Reading →

NitroPack Review: WordPress Site Speed Optimization Made Easy

You can use multiple plugins for caching, image optimization, and a Content Delivery Network but there’s also a cloud-based solution that does it all. In this Nitropack review, I’m going over its functionality, performance, and cost-effectiveness for WordPress websites. The… Continue Reading →

Meet Kinsta at DMEXCO 2025

We’re excited to share that Kinsta is sponsoring the DMEXCO 2025, Europe’s leading digital marketing & tech event in Cologne on September 17–18. DMEXCO brings together global leaders, innovators, and professionals to shape the future of the digital economy. Through… Continue Reading →

5 Carousel Designs For Divi 5 (Free Download)

The Group Carousel Module makes it easier than ever to create carousels that look clean, adapt beautifully to different screen sizes, and are simple to customize in Divi 5. In this free pack, you’ll find 5 unique carousel section designs,… Continue Reading →

Exciting New Tools for Designers, September 2025

Web design tools that use artificial intelligence are still dominating new and beta launches, while hopefully making your workflows a little bit smoother. One of the most talked about launches this month is Google (Gemini’s) Nano Banana image generator tool,… Continue Reading →

Everything You Need To Know About Divi 5’s WooCommerce Product Modules

Compatibility with WooCommerce has now been expanded to Divi 5, giving you full control over product pages without relying on WooCommerce’s built-in templates. The newly-integrated WooCommerce Product Modules let you design engaging, user-friendly layouts that match your brand and help… Continue Reading →

Testing Divi Ajax Filter With Divi 5

Divi 5 is moving fast, and the Divi Extension ecosystem around it is following suit. We are now seeing more third-party developers release Divi 5-compatible versions of their plugins, and that’s a positive sign. It means developers are ready to… Continue Reading →

Divi 5 Public Alpha 23: Custom Attributes + 247 Bug fixes

The Divi 5 Public Alpha is available for use on new websites. If you use Divi 5, you’ll notice an update notification for Public Alpha Version 23. We release new Divi 5 versions every two weeks, and it gets better… Continue Reading →

Simplicity in Web Design? It’s All Smoke and Mirrors

Simplicity in web design is often hailed as the ultimate goal, but the truth is that it’s a myth that overlooks the complexity required to create functional, powerful designs. Great design isn’t about stripping things down to the bare minimum,… Continue Reading →

Introducing Custom Attributes For Divi 5

Today, we release Custom Attributes for Divi 5, which allows you to add any attribute, such as alt, title, rel, and aria-label, to elements and most sub-elements. Divi has had support for specific attributes, such as class and ID, but… Continue Reading →

Two-Factor Authentication is Required for All People With the Capabilities to Publish Here, on make/core

WordPress.org is committed to protecting accounts that play a crucial role in the WordPress ecosystem. Accounts with the ability to publish posts on the authoritative source of information from the WordPress Core team need to be secure in order to prevent… Continue Reading →

Fast hosting, better conversions: what marketers should know

Marketers spend endless hours perfecting ad creative, refining audience targeting, and polishing landing page copy. Yet one piece of the conversion puzzle that often gets overlooked is hosting. A fast, reliable website isn’t just a nice-to-have. It directly affects whether… Continue Reading →

Smarter Vulnerability Scanning and Reporting in Solid Security

Vulnerabilities happen. What matters is how quickly you find them, how well you understand the risk, and how easily you can act. That’s why we’ve made major improvements to vulnerability scanning and reporting in Solid Security. With the release of… Continue Reading →

Themes team meeting notes for September 9, 2025

The meeting notes are from the themes team discussion. Date: September 9, 2025 Time: 15:00 UTC Location: #themes channel Agenda: Themes team meeting agenda Agenda Prepared by: @bijayyadav Meeting facilitator – @bijayyadav Full transcript –  #themes channel Attendees: Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting.  @bijayyadav… Continue Reading →

Understanding The Difference Between Triggers, Effects, And Targets In Divi 5

Divi 5’s new Interactions use a simple model — Trigger, Effect, Target. Separate what starts it, what happens, and what changes, and you can create clear, coordinated movement across your layout. In this post, we’ll explain each part, show how… Continue Reading →

X-post: Docs team participation in WordPress releases

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WordPress Vulnerability Report — September 10, 2025

In this report, 297 vulnerabilities have been publicly disclosed. Security patches for 93 of these plugins and themes are now available, so please run those updates as soon as possible. If you’re a Solid Security Pro user, the version management… Continue Reading →

Why Algorithms Are Ruining Your Web Experience

Algorithms are restricting our online experience by prioritizing engagement over discovery, creating filter bubbles and homogenizing content. To reclaim the web, we must curate our own sources, engage intentionally, and seek out diverse perspectives, breaking free from the passive consumption… Continue Reading →

What’s new in Gutenberg 21.6? (10 September)

“What’s new in Gutenberg…” posts (labeled with the #gutenberg-new tag) are posted following every Gutenberg release on a biweekly basis, showcasing new features included in each release. As a reminder, here’s an overview of different ways to keep up with… Continue Reading →

The 5 Best WordPress Subscription Plugins For Recurring Revenue

Want to wake up to sales every morning? These 5 WordPress subscription plugins help you turn one-time buyers into loyal, paying subscribers. Whether you run a digital store, membership site, or online service, this roundup shows you how to unlock… Continue Reading →

Will The Vibes Be Good? Only Time Will Telex

Stick around ‘til the end to see a bunch of guys having no fun at all. Seriously. Not even a bit. In today’s edition: Telex turns your rambling ideas into Gutenberg blocks. Sometimes magically, sometimes… not. Open Call for Web… Continue Reading →

Kinsta names Jon Penland new CEO and Matt Reid as CMO

Penland started as a support engineer and rose to top executive, Reid was SVP at BigCommerce   LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kinsta, a leading managed hosting provider for WordPress, has named Jon Penland as chief executive officer to double down on the… Continue Reading →

Performance Chat Summary: 9 September 2025

The full chat log is available beginning here on Slack. WordPress Performance Trac tickets @westonruter recapped the 6.9 performance roadmap and noted that 6.9-beta1 is scheduled for 21 October 2025, giving six weeks for performance enhancements. @westonruter also shared queries… Continue Reading →

Bulk content and media management across multiple WordPress sites

Managing content and media across just one WordPress site can be time-consuming. Now, multiply that by five, ten, or even dozens of sites, and you’re looking at late nights, messy workflows, and a lot of unnecessary manual labor. Whether you’re… Continue Reading →

X-post: A Month in Core – August 2025

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New Soap Starter Site for Divi (Quick Install)

Divi empowers you to build the best websites possible, and now, Divi Quick Sites takes website creation to a whole new level. This revolutionary tool lets anyone, regardless of skill level, generate a complete website in under two minutes! Divi… Continue Reading →

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