WordPress weekly – week 40

Layerslider 7.5.0

LayerSlider has evolved to be much more than a slider plugin. You can now build popups, landing pages, any kind of embeddable animated web content, or even a full website.

Great Compatibility
LayerSlider works with any web browser, WordPress theme, and page builder.
With closely following standards and best practices, they can offer maximum compatibility, so you don’t have to worry about your site’s setup.

Drag and Drop Everything
LayerSlider’s intuitive graphical editor and forget everything else
Most of the help assets are integrated right into the editor, so you can quickly access them whenever you need assistance
Their new release 7.5.0 is worth a look :

• New: 68 beautiful and unique pre-designed effects for various use cases
• Text mask effects
• 28 new slide transitions
• Opening and Ending Transitions can now inherit transformations set under the STYLE menu
• Added text color option to Text Transitions
• You can now specify a minimum and maximum responsive ratio, making it possible to control how layers are resized
• Updated French localization
• Layer Preview now supports multiple selection mode
• Slide Preview supports live edits just like Layer Preview, and changes are reflected in real-time

Old news? Adobe to Acquire Figma

Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Figma, a leading web-first collaborative design platform, for approximately $20 billion in cash and stock

Yes you read it correctly : 20 BILLION dollars.

Figma is a design platform for teams who build products together. It helps teams brainstorm, design, and build better products. It also consolidates tools, simplifies workflows, and allows collaboration across teams and time zones and it makes the design process faster, more efficient, and more fun.

WP Rocket 3.12

WP Rocket — is one of the most popular WordPress caching plugins and can automatically cache any website that runs on WordPress.

This caching plugin is built for WordPress. It’s one of the top caching plugins available for WordPress. It automatically caches all the generated static pages on your website, files, etc. It also gets rid of the full-page requests for your WordPress database, so your site will be faster and even load quicker.

The new version has a lot of new goodies under the hood :

• Enhancement: Dynamically update Remove unused CSS exclusions from their server
• Enhancement: Respect in-progress limit for preload items
• Enhancement: Add new filters to prevent deletion of used CSS
• Enhancement: Display a notice if RUCSS table could not be created
• Enhancement: Add additional exclusions from Delay JS execution
• Enhancement: Add additional exclusions from minify JS
• Enhancement: Exclude .cfm extension from CDN rewrite