WP-News: WCEU, Gutenberg 6.0 and Mullenweg's summer update

WP News: Curse and blessing of Avada & review of WCEU 2019.

After a great WordCamp Europe in Berlin, we not only have our WCEU review, but also more news for you: Matt Mullenweg answered the WCEU participants' questions in his keynote and Gutenberg 6.0 brings new features to the editor. We also take a look at the potential of WooCommerce for agencies and take a closer look at the well-known multipurposeTheme Avada.

Raidboxes with Matt Mullenweg at the WCEU

The WCEU 2019 brings many new insights

With over 3,260 tickets sold, this year's WCEU was not only one of the biggest WordCamps in Europe, but the biggest ever. Berlin attracted both old WCEU hands and new participants from all over the world. 97 different nations were represented. Despite the size, the familiar class trip atmosphere typical of WordCamps prevailed. The weekend showed again: WordPress and its community are colorful, open and future-oriented.

Avada WordPress  Theme : Advantages and disadvantages

What can the most successful WordPresstheme Avada?

Some love them, others hate them - so-called multifunctionalThemes for WordPress , which bring many functionalities and design options from the house. The WordPress -Theme Avada is one of them and indeed has a lot to offer. But what can the most successful WP-Theme and where are its strengths and weaknesses? The answers to this question have beenblogged for us by Jörg Fiedler .

WordPress

Matt Mullenweg's WCEU Summer Update
One of the highlights of WCEU 2019 in Berlin was of course WP co-founder Matt Mullenweg's keynote. In his summer update, he mainly talked about the progress of the Gutenberg editor and introduced future features. What these look like and what critical questions he was confronted with in the Q&A afterwards, you can check out in the livestream video.

Gutenberg 6.0 brings column layouts
The update to Gutenberg 6.0 brings some column block improvements to the editor. Users can now choose from a number of predefined Column layouts. You can also change the width of the column in the block's settings and customize the layout to suit your needs.

Business

WooCommerce for freelancers & agencies
You offer services for WordPress? Then you can't avoid WooCommerce . The growing shopping market is an opportunity for all freelancers and agencies working in the open source environment. Our WooCommerce-specialist Michael shows you which possibilities and business models are available.

web design

HTML Color Picker with JavaScript
Jonas Hellwig from the agency Kulturbanause shows you how the form elements of HTML5 offer you possibilities to create complex functionalities with relatively simple means. He shows a concrete example where the native color picker is used to recolor areas in the selected color in real time.

Online Marketing

New insights in the Google Search Console
In connection with the Mobile First Index, there have been several updates in the Google Search Console lately. Now you get even more insight into the indexing, because the GSC gives you e.g. information about the primary crawler of your site. In addition, you will now see when your site wasswitched to mobile-first index ing.

Article image: Raidboxes
More images: José Alejandro Cuffia | Unsplash, Raidboxes

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