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Recently, one of our readers asked if it’s possible to block disposable email addresses in WordPress? Disposable email addresses are temporary email accounts used by spammers to create fake WordPress accounts. In this article, we will show you how to effectively block disposable email addresses in WordPress. What are Disposable Email Addresses and Why Block Them in WordPress Most websites require an email address to create user accounts. This allows website owners to verify accounts by sending them a link to that email address. Spammers found a workaround to that requirement in shape of disposable emails. These temporary email accounts are available for a short duration allowing spammers to verify an account. If you run a WordPress membership site or allow user registration , then people can use those disposable email accounts to create fake user accounts on your website. You can block spam user registrations using different plugins. However by blocking disposable … [Read more...] about How to Block Disposable Email Addresses in WordPress

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The availability of flexible and free CMS systems like WordPress means it’s never been easier to set your stall out as a creative entrepreneur and drive both product sales and new business via your website. As a creative entrepreneur, you need more than just an e-commerce theme optimized for mobile. You need one of the best e-commerce WordPress theme for a remarkable customer experience. Why should you choose a premium WooCommerce theme? Easy. First off you can expect to find a higher overall level of quality , stylishness and flexibility along with a wide range of functionality not found in most free themes. Most premium themes also offer superb support so if you have a question you can ask the theme developer instead of relying on free forums. The range of specific businesses creative entrepreneurs can be involved in is vast, but we’ve put together a solid list of the best e-commerce WordPress themes that should be able to handle any use case. Let’s get cracking! … [Read more...] about 45+ Best eCommerce WordPress Themes for Online Stores

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After nearly 11 million downloads of WordPress 3.0 in just 42 days, we’re releasing WordPress 3.0.1. The requisite haiku: Three dot oh dot one This maintenance release addresses about 50 minor issues . The testing many of you contributed prior to the release of 3.0 helped make it one of the best and most stable releases we’ve had. Download 3.0.1 or update automatically from the Dashboard > Updates menu in your site’s admin area. Note: If you downloaded 3.0.1 in the first 20 minutes of release (before 2200 UTC), you’ll want to reinstall it, which you can do right from your Updates screen. Our bad . … [Read more...] about WordPress 3.0.1

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Saturday, September 17 is Software Freedom Day . To that end, a few announcements about this weekend’s hackathon and WordCamp Portland . 3.3 Hackathon WordPress 3.3 is about to hit feature freeze. This means it’s the last chance to squeeze in features that haven’t quite been finished, and enhancements and fixes that no one has had time to address yet. Around this time, there are often dozens of tickets that have patches, but the patches have not been tested enough to be committed to core. Then the contributors who worked hard on the patches are disappointed that their code doesn’t make it into the current release. You can help us prevent this! This weekend, we’ll be running a has-patch needs-testing marathon for the 3.3 milestone. Basically, we’re looking for people who can help test patches and/or refresh patches that need updating. Lead developers and core contributors will be hanging around in the #wordpress-dev channel on irc.freenode.net to answer questions as needed, … [Read more...] about Software Freedom Day + Hackathon

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With 2.6.1, we’re continuing our trend of releasing a maintenance release shortly after a major release in order to get fixes for the inevitable “dot zero” bugs into your hands without a long wait.  If you’re happy with 2.6, however, keep on using it.  You need not upgrade to 2.6.1 if 2.6 is getting the job done. 2.6.1 offers several improvements for international users.  Styling of the admin for right-to-left languages is much improved thanks to the efforts of the Farsi and Hebrew translation teams, and a mysterious gettext bug caused by certain PHP configurations is now fixed.  For IIS users, 2.6.1 fixes several permalink problems. Image insertion problems in the Press This feature experienced by IE users are also fixed. Of note to everyone is a fix for a performance bug in the admin where those with a lot of plugins would experience slowness on some pages. Check out the full list of over 60 fixes to see if 2.6.1 has something to offer you.   A full diff and list of … [Read more...] about WordPress 2.6.1

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