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We discuss this week’s best WordPress & internet news stories. We also have a great panel of WordPress community and marketing internet junkies.

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#1 - Flywheel Relaunches Local Pro with Revamped Live Links and New Host-Agnostic Pre-Launch Toolshttps://wptavern.com/flywheel-relaunches-local-pro-with-revamped-live-links-and-new-host-agnostic-pre-launch-tools

#2 - Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Starbucks, Target, Unilever, Verizon: all the companies pulling ads from Facebook

https://www.theverge.com/21307454/unilever-verizon-coca-cola-starbucks-microsoft-ads-facebook

#3 - The Best Documentation Is No Documentation

https://wptavern.com/the-best-documentation-is-no-documentation

John Locke

Lockedown Design & SEO helps manufacturers with 250k to 50M annual revenue improve their SEO and search rankings. We specialize in helping industrial, manufacturing, and other blue-collar companies drive more natural search traffic to their sites.

Though we’re based in Sacramento, California, we’ve helped businesses across the US launch and improve their websites workflow, boost their sales, and rank higher in Google.

https://www.lockedownseo.com/

We discuss this week’s best WordPress & internet news stories. We also have a great panel of WordPress community and marketing internet junkies.

This Week Show's Sponsors

Kinsta

https://kinsta.com/

WPFunsion

https://wpfusion.com/

Our Free Webinar With Spencer Forman On Tuesday 7th of July at 9am PST

#1 - WordPress Contributors Propose Updating Trac Ticket Resolutions to Be More Friendly

https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-propose-updating-trac-ticket-resolutions-to-be-more-friendly

#2 - Apple approves Hey email app, but the fight’s not over

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21298552/apple-hey-email-app-approval-rules-basecamp-launch

https://hey.com/how-it-works/

#3 - A guide to hosting your LifterLMS site

https://lifterlms.com/docs/a-guide-to-hosting-your-lifterlms-site/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqZ2KIHPKrk&t=11s

#4 - Katie Hopkins is permanently banned from Twitter

https://mashable.com/article/katie-hopkins-banned-from-twitter/

OrganizeWP was built and is maintained by, Jon Christopher. He is a long time WordPress fan & developer who loves the platform but saw room for improvement when it came to content organization. OrganizeWP is an answer to a personal pain point of his.

He also built SearchWP, a drop-in replacement for native WordPress search that improves it in a number of ways.

He also writes on his personal site at https://jonchristopher.us, plus he has some code on GitHub, and maintain a number of WordPress plugins. If you have any additional questions or concerns please feel free to contact me either using the OrganizeWP contact form if it’s OrganizeWP-related or on Twitter if it’s not.

https://searchwp.com/

We discuss this week’s best WordPress & internet news stories. We also have a great panel of WordPress community and marketing internet junkies.

This Week Show's Sponsors

Kinsta

https://kinsta.com/

WPFunsion

https://wpfusion.com/

Our Free Webinar With Spencer Forman On Tuesday 7th of July at 9am PST

#1 - Yoast Acquires Duplicate Post, Brings on Creator Enrico Battocchi as a Senior Developer

https://wptavern.com/yoast-acquires-duplicate-post-brings-on-creator-enrico-battocchi-as-a-senior-developer

#2 - Crisis Mode

https://www.theverge.com/21293176/crisis-text-line-ceo-racism-insensitivity-police-nancy-lublin-mental-health

#3 - Review Signal Publishes WordPress Hosting Benchmarks for 2020, Introduces WooCommerce Testin

https://wptavern.com/review-signal-publishes-wordpress-hosting-benchmarks-for-2020-introduces-woocommerce-testing

#4 -Want Your Content to Succeed? Make it Resonate with the Right Audience (no, not that one).

https://sparktoro.com/blog/want-your-content-to-succeed-make-it-resonate-with-the-right-audience-no-not-that-one/

#5 - Low-Code Will Completely Change Startups

https://medium.com/swlh/low-code-will-completely-change-startups-6ea7a7d8c7ec

#6 - Course and Membership Pricing Calculator

https://lifterlms.com/calculator/

Josh Pollock is a co-founder at Ingot and one of the lead developers behind CalderaWP.

In addition to being a plugin developer, educator, and entrepreneur, Josh is a regular contributor to Torque magazine and various WordPress tutorial sites, one of which being his own blog. Additionally, Josh is a WordCamps speaker and one of the leading advocates for the WordPress REST API. Josh currently resides in Florida with his wife Alicia and their pets.

https://ninjaforms.com/

We discuss this week’s best WordPress & internet news stories. We also have a great panel of WordPress community and marketing internet junkies.

This Week Show's Sponsors

Kinsta

https://kinsta.com/

WPFunsion

https://wpfusion.com/

Our Free Webinar With Spencer Forman On Tuesday 7th of July at 9am PST

#1 - Is AppSumo Worth the Hassle for WordPress Plugin Developers?

https://freemius.com/blog/appsumo-lifetime-deals-selling-plugins/

#2 - Researchers detail huge hack-for-hire campaigns against environmentalists

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/10/21286486/dark-basin-hackers-for-hire-phishing-emails-environmental-nonprofit-groups-exxon-mobil

#3 - HOW AUTOMATTIC GUTTED LONGREADS

https://www.patreon.com/posts/study-hall-5-26-37553718

#4 - How To Build An Audience Without Spending Money On Facebook Or Google Ads

https://www.groundhogg.io/how-to/fool-proof-build-an-audience-strategy/

#5 - WooCommerce vs Shopify: Ecommerce Face-off (2020 Comparison)

https://www.cloudways.com/blog/woocommerce-vs-shopify/

#6 -YouTube analytics: 6 powerful ways to grow your channel faster

https://convertkit.com/youtube-analytics

ZipFish offers WordPress speed optimization. It takes more than just powerful servers to make WordPress fast. You also need to make the code run fast when you combine fast servers with fast code, that is where the magic happens.

https://zipfish.io/

#1 - Automattic Launches Malware and Vulnerability Scanning Service for Jetpack (Justin Tadlock · June 3, 2020 )

https://wptavern.com/automattic-launches-malware-and-vulnerability-scanning-service-for-jetpack

#2 - Google now highlights search results directly on webpages

https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/4/21280115/google-search-engine-yellow-highlight-featured-snippet-anchor-text

#3 - Automattic Invests $4.6M in New Vector, Creators of the Matrix Open Standard for Decentralized Communication (Sarah Gooding · June 4, 2020)

https://wptavern.com/automattic-invests-4-6m-in-new-vector-creators-of-the-matrix-open-standard-for-decentralized-communication

#4 - SEMrush Selling Links That Are Against Google's Guidelines

https://www.seroundtable.com/semrush-selling-links-against-googles-guidelines-29556.html

#5 - WooCommerce Is Testing a Block-based Cart and Checkout (Sarah Gooding · May 28, 2020)

https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-is-testing-a-block-based-cart-and-checkout

#6 - Some Universities Are About to Be “Walking Dead” | Amanpour and Company

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM5HkpyXxsQ

Zack has been developing WordPress plugins since 2008 and has been a huge Gravity Forms fan from the start. He lives with his wife and cat in Denver, Colorado, and can’t wait for the next episode of ATP.

https://gravityview.co