This is the May 2022 version of \”This month\” this month \”this month Use codeinwp \”in WordPress.
Hey, WordPress fans! We returned another round of WordPress news that happened last month.
In the biggest news report this month, WordPress.com changed its pricing structure greatly, and there was almost no big flames. Free users are disturbed, but paid households will benefit from cheaper prices (which may bring greater pressure on self -hosted WordPress space).
In addition, the Woocommerce store can soon benefit from the entire site editor. WebP images are delayed. Divi users have obtained a cool new feature. The headless WordPress fans have just obtained from WP Engine. New solution.
Let’s take a look at all WordPress news last month:
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wordpress.com Make a major change of its pricing
Among one of the biggest news this month, WordPress.com has made huge changes to its pricing plan -these changes are likely Ecological system has an impact (reading the difference between WordPress.com and self -hosting).
WordPress.com has done this with almost no announcement, which surprises many people.
The senior points were done by wordpress.com: It fundamentally simplified the pricing plan. There are only two options now -free and professional.
It almost reduced the price of \”full function\” WordPress. This makes it cheaper to use wordpress.com than ever, and at the same time can still install your own plug -in and themes.
New WordPress.com Pro plans to charge $ 15 a month ($ 180 per year), including many functions that previously reserved a business plan that were previously about $ 25 per month, including the following: [[[[[[[[[[[[[ 123]
Install unlimited custom plug -in and theme.
Create a Woocommerce store.
Use built -in tools (can also be obtained through Jetpack).
SFTP and database access.
Automatic backup.
It only needs $ 15 per month, which may attract those who value simple but may choose to be a budget WordPress host like Bluehost.
Although this is the case, although paying customers may be satisfied A group of users are not satisfied- Free plan users . Free plan users were initially strictly stored, from 3 GB to only 500 MB. In addition, there is no longer a cheap choice to connect the custom domain name. In the past, the monthly cost was about $ 8, but now you need to upgrade to the WordPress.com PRO program of $ 15 all the way.
These two plans also seem to have monthly traffic restrictions -the free plan is 10,000, and the professional plan is 100,000.
Due to negative feedback on platforms such as Hacker News, WordPress.com made some adjustments and released new plans for changes.
The new plan has canceled the traffic restrictions and increased the storage space of the free plan to 1 GB, although this is far lower than the original 3 GB.
Households should be restricted by old storage. In addition, WordPress.com also plans to provide some additional components, such as using custom domain names in a cheaper way. WordPress.com will soon adjust the price according to the geographical area, which is what it has done before. For example, Indian users can get cheaper prices when paying with rupees.
Overall, as the new price of the full -featured Pro plan is cheaper, WordPress.com will continue to put pressure on the self -hosting WordPress space, so it will be interesting to see the long -term impact of these changes.
Is Google AMP going out of the market soon?
Since Google AMP was launched and has been vigorously promoted by Google, Google AMP has been a controversial technology.
At first, the publisher was forced to use it because your website must use AMP to display the \”story\” area where Google Mobile searched (
Although it is no longer so
).
AMP also strives WordPress plug -in. However, since then, publishers have been opposing AMP due to privacy, control and income decline.
There are even litigations alleging that Google restricts non -AMP pages and adopts other anti -competitive measures forced publishers to use Google AMP, although Google is said to know that publishers have revenue by AMP by 40%. We wrote this incident as early as January 2022. Due to the resistance of the publisher, AMP has slowly died, but this technology has suffered a major blow: Duckduckgo and Brave browser It is the URL ( instead of the AMP version of the host on the Google server ):
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Duckduckgo tweet announcement
In view of the small strength of Google’s promotion of AMP, the publisher is away from AMP, In response to AMP lawsuits and the current changes in these types, my guess is that AMP is exiting as a technology.
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Elegant theme of elegant themes Launched a new DIVI Cloud service
If you are a fan of Divi, Elegant themes has just released a very cool new feature -DIVI cloud service, which will allow you to lay out (and and will be deployed (and and will be deployed. Other content) Save them in the cloud so that you can quickly reuse them on multiple sites.
Imagine it for all DIVI layout. After saving the layout to the cloud, you can visit it from any site of Divi Cloud, even if you work on the customer’s site. Now, this function itself is cool and worth mentioning, but what I am really interested in Divi Cloud is its pricing structure.
Unlike many other WordPress services, Elegant themes still offers lifelong pricing options. Paying $ 249 at one time, you can get
lifelong support and unlimited site update
.
This is great for consumers. However, many WordPress companies give up this model because it basically relies on continuous growth to survive, which is difficult to maintain.
A institution can use DIVI to establish 100 per monthA client website, but after the initial payment of $ 249, Elegan THEMES will not get a penny from the agency. In contrast, Elementor’s highest level earns 999
USD
, which allows them to earn income even without attracting new customers.
So how did the divi cloud integrate into it? Well, all elegant theme members can store up to 50 projects in the clouds for free. But in addition, they need to pay. Setting this limit is to allow temporary users to use free options, but institutions and freelancers who build customer websites will need to pay options.
The paid option is not expensive, $ 8 per month, but it is one thing-
Regular subscription
.
Therefore, with the help of Divi Cloud, ELEGANT TheMES can now try to earn some regular income from all agents and freelancers who purchased lifelong options.
I don’t know their exact thinking process, so I can’t say whether it/to how much it affects their decision. But I do think that this is an interesting (and smart) way. You can try to establish regular income flow and still take care of existing lifetime users.
Other companies try to get additional income from lifelong customers, but have been greatly resistant. For example, the Advanced Custom Fields after being acquired by Delicious Brains. But by doing this, Elegant themes allows themselves to have the opportunity to get new and regular income from lifetime users without letting users feel that they are used.
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There is no longer default WebP image (temporary)
In WordPress news in April 2022, we mentioned that the core team is considering the default webp image in WordPress 6.0.
However, after negative feedback, this does not seem likely, at least for WordPress 6.0.
So what is the problem with webp by default? The main criticism seems to be related storage requirements and costs.
If you uploaded JPG pictures in the proposed function, WordPress will automatically convert it to webp to webp , But also retain the original picture. Therefore, at this time, there are two images on your server -JPG and Webp versions.
But the situation became worse due to WordPress a tap diagram. You will also have two versions of each narrowing diagram. According to your theme and plug -in, you can have many different images.
For example, if your website generates 20 shrinkage diagrams (
Unfortunately, this is not unrealistic
), which means that each picture you uploaded has 40 picture files. Intersection Some people also expressed concern that Google engineers are leading the performance team and promoting the document format (WebP) created by Google, so there may be some conflicts of interest. In any case, webp images are no longer likely to be the default function in WordPress 6.0. However, WordPress does add WebP support to WordPress 5.8, so you can use WebP images freely as needed. If you want to benefit from WebP images and other image optimization strategies in the simplest way, you can use the Optimole plugin.
Woocommerce single product templates Edit on the entire site
In WordPress 5.9 (released in January 2022), WordPress users experienced the first editor’s experience of using the editor for the whole site editing.
If you are not familiar with this term, the basic idea is that you can use the native WordPress block editor (\”Gutenberg\”) to design your theme
template
. Basically, it is similar to the theme builders such as Elementor Pro or Beaver Themer, but uses native WordPress editors.
If you have a Woocommerce store, you will be glad to know that the WooCommerce team is about to release full -site editing support for a single product template.123]
When this function comes, you will be able to use the editor to completely customize the product template of the store, which will be a very useful feature for the store owner.
If you want to know more information about this function and when to release, please check the full site editing post post of Darren’s WooCommerce full site editing.
WP Engine released Atlas, a headless WordPress solution
Headless wordpress recently attracted a lot of attention. If you are not familiar with this term, the basic idea is that you use WordPress on the back end, but use different technologies at the front end, such as Gatsby or React applications. You can then use WordPress REST API or WPGraphQL to extract information from the WordPress back end.
For example, please consider the WordPress of TechCrunch.
In April, WP Engine released its headless WordPress website solution -Tlas.
ATLAS is a
\”The complete headless WordPress platform, which can achieve faster dynamic sites with the flexibility and security of the headless solution.
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If you are interested, you can try the Atlas Sandbox for free. You need to enter a credit card for verification, but you can use the development environment for free.
If you want to go online, the starting price of the ATLAS hosting plan is 49 US dollars per month, which is slightly higher than the standard WordPress hosting plan of WP Engine.
This summarizes our WordPress news review in May 2022.
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Since Google AMP was launched and has been vigorously promoted by Google, Google AMP has been a controversial technology. 
