Guides

Welcome to the January 2026 edition of WPBeginner Spotlight! This month, we’re looking at new tools to help you clean up your WordPress media library, fine-tune cookie consent banners, and preview design changes faster. We’re also covering fresh updates across forms, fundraising, and site management, including new features from WPForms, Charitable, WPCode, and Formidable Forms.

Elementor is a powerful tool for building WordPress websites, but its dashboard can sometimes feel cluttered with upsell ads and prompts for premium features. In this guide, I’ll show you how to remove most Elementor upsells, allowing you to enjoy a cleaner, more focused interface. You can follow along the guide and add the code

Responsive web design is an approach to building websites that automatically adjust their layout, images, and content to fit any screen size. Whether someone views your site on a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop monitor, the experience remains consistent and functional. The concept originated in 2010 when web designer Ethan Marcotte published his influential article

Square makes it easy to accept recurring payments on your WordPress site, even without setting up a full online store. If you’ve ever wanted to add subscriptions, memberships, or donation forms but felt overwhelmed by WooCommerce, then you’re in the right place. In this guide, I’ll show you exactly how I set up recurring Square

WordPress 6.8 introduced a highly requested feature: Speculative Loading. But what exactly is it, and how does it affect your website? In simple terms, and in WordPress specifically, it’s a technique that makes your site feel faster by predicting which page(s) a visitor is likely to view next and preloading them. In this guide, we’ll

What are we likely to see when the WordPress 5.3 release gets to be a reality? And now you can start looking forward on it. The official release date of the WordPress core was allocated on November 12, 2019. Earlier today, the beta version was discharged. You are able to test on the beta version