This Cyber Monday deal roundup includes only WordPress products that we like, use, and recommend.

The Wordfence Security team has found a security vulnerability in Elegant Themes’s themes Divi and Extra, as well as in the Divi Builder plugin. Elegant Themes writes:

You can find our in-depth Astra theme review below, but if you’re looking for a TL;DR version, here it is:

If you’re not clear how to undo changes in Beaver Builder, it can be difficult to know how to walk back a change you’ve made—specifically, how to undo Beaver Builder layout changes, for which normal “Ctrl+Z/Cmd+Z” undoing within Beaver Builder itself simply won’t work.

WordPress isn’t as beginner-friendly as some alternatives, but it offers vastly more potential for customization. Is, and when is, WordPress a good website builder?

This is a guide to creating a hero image on a WordPress site using the Beaver Builder plugin.

They found a security vulnerability in the Elementor plugin. It’s patched in the newest version of the plugin, so if you use Elementor, please update to the latest version as soon as you can. (And if you happen to be nervous about updating stuff, this week’s article is perfectly timed.)

This article explains what I’ve needed to know to work as a freelance WordPress developer.

This article explains what WordPress frameworks are, and why I generally recommend against relying on them.

I’ll be honest: Since Gutenberg launched, I’ve used the Classic Editor plugin to disable it on every site I work on. I do this for a few reasons: