Month: December 2020

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Time to upgrade! WooCommerce 4.8 is now available!

Chris Grant (he/him) December 09, 2020 0 Comments
The WoocCommerce team has announced the release of WooCommerce 4.8, which is now publicly available! It has been in development since November 2020 and Core contributions include about 257 commits from 29 contributors. This is a minor release, which means everything is backward compatible with the previous version. Given the release of PHP8, WordPress 5.6, and the Twenty Twenty-One theme, the...
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Prepare for breaking changes in WordPress 5.6, due 8th December 2020

Chris Grant (he/him) December 07, 2020 0 Comments
WordPress 5.6 is due to be released tomorrow, 8th December 2020, and is the first recent major release that is not fully backward compatible with previous versions of WordPress in the 5.x version. This version of WordPress could potentially break websites. Our recommendation before updating your site to WordPress 5.6: Create a backup of your site’s files and the database Check your site’s...
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Google confirms a core algorithm update is started to roll out on December 3, 2020

Chris Grant (he/him) December 05, 2020 0 Comments
Google confirmed on the 3rd of December that the third core algorithm update of the calendar year has begun rolling out. A fair amount of time has passed since the last core update, compared to the average time between these types of updates. The last core update rolled out on May 4th. It’s likely the pandemic delayed the rollout of Google’s next core update. As more time than usual has...
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Drupal 7 can now use your site name in the From: header for e-mails

Drupal 7 now has an option to use the site name (i.e. the value of the site_name variable) as the "Display Name" in the From header in system e-mails. For example this would mean the sender might be "Acme Website" <[email protected]> as opposed to just the e-mail address alone. In order to avoid disruption, this is not enabled by default for existing sites. New sites will have it enabled...
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