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wpMail.me wpMail.me issue#316 - The weekly WordPress newsletter. No spam, no nonsense. - July 13, 2017 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. News & Articles Operation LiftUp: Welcome Lift UX to 10up (10up.com) We're delighted to announce that after nearly one year of discussion and due diligence, 10up has completed an acquisition of Lift UX: a boutique, distributed, Emmy-nominated agency that specializes in making user experience design driven websites powered by WordPress. The Lift team, including its founding partners, Chris Wallace and Brad Miller, join 10up effective immediately. Jesse Petersen, a WordPress Community Member Has Passed Away. (www.newlungsfor.me) Unfortunately, a loved WordPress community member has passed away and money is being raised for his wife and kid. If you want to contribute, please check more details here. Automattic Joins Amazon, GitHub, Mozilla, reddit, and Twitter in July 12 Protest Against FCC's Attack on Net Neutrality (wptavern.com) Major internet websites, companies, and organizations are banding together on Wednesday, July 12, to protest the FCC's attack on net neutrality. These include Amazon, GitHub, Kickstarter, Vimeo, reddit, Mozilla, Twitter, Etsy, Spotify, Netflix, and many others. Automattic is joining these tech companies in the protest, as it has several times in the past, including the Internet Slowdown event in September 2014 The State of the WordPress Community in Australia [Interview] (torquemag.io) WordPress.com Teams Up with Rebrand Cities to Bring Local Businesses Online (en.blog.wordpress.com) 6 Best WooCommerce Alternatives for WordPress (premium.wpmudev.org) WPCampus 2017 Will Be Streamed Live for Free (wptavern.com) Sponsored by Plugin News WP Offload S3 1.5 Released: Copy Between Buckets & More (deliciousbrains.com) 2 days ago it was once again release day for WP Offload S3 ‎ and with it comes some new features and improvements. We've merged compatibility addons into the core plugin, added support for copying files between buckets, as well as made some other updates to improve the speed of your workflow and your page load. 10+ Top YouTube Gallery Plugins for WordPress (premium.wpmudev.org) With Internet users gravitating towards video, it's time to start thinking about the best ways to display all that high-quality video content you've got stored on YouTube on your site. A video gallery plugin would definitely seal the deal, and give you a stylish way to organize and lay out videos in bulk across your site. In today's article, we're going to take a closer look at the top 11 WordPress YouTube gallery plugins available in 2017. Automattic Releases Net Neutrality WordPress Plugin Ahead of July 12 Protest (wptavern.com) 8 Helpful WordPress Analytics Plugins That Aren't All Named Google Analytics (createandcode.com) One WordPress Plugin Developer with A Laptop – The Success Story of Joachim Jensen with Content Aware Sidebars (freemius.com) Why and How to Publish a Plugin to the WordPress Plugin Directory (kinsta.com) 10 Best WordPress Plugins for Podcasters (www.wpbeginner.com) Why Was WangGuard Closed (wordpress.org) Theme Releases Nature Bliss (wordpress.org)   Croccante (wordpress.org)   Bestore (wordpress.org)   Theme News 15+ Elementor Themes and Templates for 2017 (www.codeinwp.com) Elementor has become one of the most popular page builder plugins for WordPress, and not without a reason. It's highly configurable, easy to use, and packs a ton of features. But! Can you get additional benefits if you use it with some of the best Elementor themes and templates? 10 Beautifully Designed Minimal WooCommerce Themes (1stwebdesigner.com) WooCommerce has become incredibly popular over the years – and for good reason. The venerable plugin turns any WordPress website into an eCommerce powerhouse. It's extensible and can be used to sell just about any type of physical or digital product. Today, we'll focus on WooCommerce compatible themes that feature a minimalist style. Their use of whitespace and clean layout will help to draw attention to your products. Plus, they pack features that will provide shoppers with plenty of useful functionality. 6 Top WordPress Theme Marketplaces to Find the Best Themes (www.wpbeginner.com) Tutorials How to Fix the Error Establishing a Database Connection in WordPress (kinsta.com) The "error establishing a database connection" is probably one of the most common and frightening errors that WordPress users can encounter. It's definitely a close tie with the white screen of death (WSOD). This error means your website is no longer communicating or has access to your database, and thus your entire website goes down. This is not something to be taken lightly and you should try and resolve this immediately as this can directly affect your sales, traffic, and analytics. But don't worry, today we'll discuss some common scenarios that cause this error and some easy ways to get your site back up and running in no time. How to Migrate a WordPress Site with WP-CLI and rsync (wpshout.com) There are lots of ways to migrate a WordPress site. Lots of plugins can do it. You can do it over simple (S)FTP. But the quickest way I know of is via rsync and WP-CLI. But that does come with an important proviso: you need to have access to a shell (via a simple local terminal or SSH) to both ends of the migration. And that's often harder to do than the plugin or SFTP route. But if you've got that, this way is a great deal faster. The Four Languages You Must Know to Understand WordPress (wpshout.com) How to Import RSS Feeds Into WordPress as Posts (themeisle.com) Hide Posts From Logged Out Users (wpsites.net) How to Use Skip Links to Make Your WordPress Site More Accessible (getflywheel.com) Removing Items From the WordPress Admin Bar (jasonyingling.me) 5 Unique Features You Must Have in Your WordPress Hosting Setup (wpdean.com) Podcasts and Videos WordPress Template Hierarchy | WordPress Resource (yourwebsiteengineer.com) Early Review of the Gutenberg Editor | Doc Pop's News Drop (torquemag.io) Interview with WordCamp US 2017 Organizers Dustin Meza and Laura Byrne-Cristiano | WP Tavern (wptavern.com) Managing Difficult WordPress Projects | WPwatercooler (www.wpwatercooler.com) In Memory of Jesse Petersen | WPWeekly (wptavern.com) follow on Twitter | forward to a friend  wpMail.me is published by Cozmoslabs. Not a subscriber yet? Subscribe here. 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