Last week, security provider Wordfence published its monthly WordPress Attack Report for October, which shows that the number of attacks has decreased significantly. Ticket sales for WordCamp Europe 2018 have also begun. And on the occasion of WordCamp Cologne 2017, we are once again launching a Raidboxes WordCamp Special with huge discounts on great WordPress products.
FinallyWordCamp again!
After WordCamp Europe in Paris in the summer, we're finally going to another WordCamp. This time in Cologne. Barcamp style. And because we're in a celebratory mood, we've put together a nice collection of discounts on WordPress services, plugins and themes worth over €200 in total. These include MarketPress, Blog2Social and Designers Inn.
Business
The market for WP products is oversaturated
If you want to make it on the WordPress market with your plugin or theme today, it's much harder than it was a few years ago. According to Scott Bolinger, co-founder of AppPresser, the WordPress market has changed significantly in recent years: "Previously the competition was a developer trying to figure out how to grow a company. Now it's a 30+ person organization with millions of dollars in revenue". Bolinger has three valuable tips on how to assert yourself as David against the Goliaths.
How to hack growth with a system
Sascha Gohlke - conversion professional at Web Arts AG - explains why FIFO, HIPPO and your gut feeling are not recommended methods for prioritizing your test ideas. Instead, you should use TIR, PIE or ICE. If you're not familiar with this jumble of letters, Gohlke's article is just what you need to structure your growth hacking.
Performance
This eBook will make you an image compression pro
Addy Osmani - Engineering Manager at Google - has published an eBook on best practices in image compression that leaves hardly any questions unanswered: From JPEG compression levels to color management, it's all there. The 94-page eBook is published under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0 license.
Security
Fewer attacks on WP sites in October
According to the latest Wordfence security report, there were an average of 3.6 million daily "complex attacks" on WordPress sites in October. This is 23 percent fewer than in September. There was also a positive trend in brute force attacks, as the daily attack volume in October was on average 9 percentage points lower than in the previous month.
WordPress
These are the 10 most common Gutenberg myths
Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox - the creators of the TinyMCE editor, dispels the 10 most common myths surrounding the Gutenberg editor. If you are still a critic of the Gutenberg WordPress project after this clarification, you can restore the familiar interface with the Classic Editor plugin. Incidentally, this already clarifies myth number 2: After the update to Gutenberg, there is supposedly no going back 😉.
WCEU 2018 ticket sales have started!
WordCamp Europe 2018 will take place in Belgrade from June 15 to 16. Anyone who secures one of the 1000 early bird tickets by December 31 can look forward to a surprise from the WP Swag collection.
