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📰 Latest from WordPress
- WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 4 is out: This RC4 release is the last milestone for testing ahead of the official release.
- Seeking Feedback on Annual Meetup Survey for 2021-2022: For the first time in WordPress history Community Team will distribute the surveys in several different languages. Please comment on this post or make suggestions on the documents before 26 May 2022.
- Core Editor improvement: Creating & containing containers: In the last few versions of Gutenberg set to be included in WordPress 6.0, a collection of changes were made to simplify the discovery, use, and optionality of container blocks.
- A fresh new design for WordPress.com subscriber Emails: With this new design update the out-the-box email templates have got a modern look.
- WooCommerce calls for early testing on Custom Order Table Migrations: WooCommerce updating to use custom order tables will be a major change that will impact extension developers in different ways.
- Regional in-person WordCamps going forward: Regional WordCamps will not need to go through additional steps (such as writing a proposal), and can directly apply to organize a camp for their region using the regular WordCamp application form.
- Open Source Initiative launches news blog on WordPress: The blog was launched on a subdomain of the opensource.org website, which uses Drupal 7, self-hosted on a droplet from Digital Ocean. The new blog design was inspired by WP Tavern’s new design.
- Software Freedom Conservancy receives court ruling affirming GPL as both Copyright License and Contractual Agreement: The favorable ruling is in its right-to-repair lawsuit against Vizio, an American TV manufacturer that refused to provide the source code for software with copyleft licenses that it bundles with its products.
- Google launches tool for practicing job interviews: Google’s new Interview Warmup tool uses artificial intelligence to help users practice answering job interview questions in various fields. It also launched video health tools to help publisher monetization
- New mobile Google ad experiment puts favicon in-line with display URL: A new confirmed mobile Google Ads display experiment brings favicons next to the URL in a fashion comparable to organic results.
- Google criticizes Canada’s proposed “Link Tax”: Google has come out swinging against a law proposed by the Canadian government that would force the search engine to pay publishers for listing content.
- Facebook’s most widely viewed links dominated by spam: 30% of the top 20 most widely viewed links were generated through inauthentic behavior and spam.
- TikTok launches creator-crediting feature: TikTok users will now be able directly tag and credit video creators using a button in the social media app. TikTok also launched Branded Mission for brands to source content directly from creators without going through an agency.
- At tech companies, the rebellion against the return to the office is getting serious: From Wall Street Journal
- Facebook, Twitter are pulling back on hiring: From Wall Street Journal.
- WP Tavern is hiring: A great opportunity if you like writing about WordPress.
- Android 13 beta will test out-of-the-box support for most braille displays: The display allows people with deafblindness to use smartphones and people who are blind to silently use mobile phones without screen readers or voice commands.
- GitHub Sponsors launches in India: You can sign up right away if you have a bank account in India. The number of developers on GitHub in India now totals more than eight million and growing, making it the second-largest developer community on GitHub.
🚨 Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Backdoor found in the School Management Pro plugin: the vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary PHP code on sites with the plugin installed. Update to version 9.9.7 or later immediately as it is a critical security issue.
- Critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Jupiter and JupiterX premium themes: The vulnerability allowed any user to become an administrator.
- Protecting Android users from 0-Day attacks: Details of three campaigns that used the popular Predator spyware, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox, to target Android users.
- JSON vulnerabilities in Strapi open the door to hackers and data theft: The two vulnerabilities, named CVE-2022-30617 and CVE-2022-30618, are described as sensitive data exposure vulnerabilities that may lead to account compromise in the admin panel of Strapi.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Local Google Fonts plugin: Helps host your used Google fonts on your server and make your site more GDPR compliant after a German court has ruled that using Google Fonts is a violation of Europe’s GDPR.
- GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent & Compliance plugin: In addition to GDPR compliance, this plugin allows cookie compliance with CNIL of France, the LGPD of Brazil, and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
- Truefy Embed: It allows you to invisibly watermark images uploaded to the WordPress Media Library or a WordPress Post.
- Text To Audio plugin: To add functionality to WordPress site to read blogs out loud in more than 30 languages and write blogs by speech in more than 30 languages.
- LottieFiles – Lottie block for Gutenberg plugin: It gives you access to over 50k free and ready to use Lottie animations that you can easily embed on your website.
- Remove Block Library Styles plugin: This plugin kills front-end block editor CSS for WordPress core, WooCommerce and the Storefront theme.
- Pixi Contact Form For Elementor plugin: Enhance your Contact Form 7 customization using Elementor Page builder with Pixi Contact Form for Elementor.
👥 Community News
- SEO pioneer and expert Bill Slawski passes away: Slawski was best known for writing about Google patents. He has helped countless SEOs better understand how search works. Also Google search results spam for ‘Bill Slawski obituary’ shows the dark side of SEO.
- FlyingProxy hosting launched: Founded by Gijo Varghese, FlyingProxy is currently in public beta and costs $10/site/month. The current pricing will be changed after the actual launch.
- Elementor Pro 3.7 is out: Contains new stripe button widget, 100+ dynamic tag fields, notes (a new tool that boosts your collaborative efforts), and more.
- SEOPress 5.7 is out: The new version contains Google Inspect URL, Matomo self-hosted, video XML sitemap and new blocks.
- Update WPML before updating to WordPress 6.0: A change introduced in WordPress 6.0 causes issues with translated content that has any taxonomy terms assigned to it. So update to WPML 4.5.7.
- A new starter site from Creative Themes: The team claims BizConsult to be the sleekest, the meanest and the quickest way to start your new business.
- Convesio has launched a European web presence: The Dutch version of the website, Convesio.nl, is the WordPress hosting provider’s entrance point into Europe.
- WP Engine’s new site monitoring tool: Next on the agenda is a notification integration with Slack, so site managers can choose the notification style that best matches their unique workflow.
- Astra Security is now partners with Sprinto: Sprinto will waive the $2000 implementation fee for anyone who comes with a referral from Astra Security.
- Newsletter Glue launched Newsletter templates: You can now create newsletter templates in WordPress with Newsletter Glue.
- WordCamp US 2022 Travel Scholarship Program from InMotion Hosting: It offers three travel scholarships that provide $1,500 toward the costs of attending the WordCamp.
- Fewer attendees, more expensive sponsors: Devin Walker asks if you would spend $30-60k to sponsor and only reach 650 people in person. Platinum sponsorship costs $60,000 while Gold sponsorship costs $30,000.
- Open source & accessibility– Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day: In the WordPress Briefing, GAAD Co-Founder Joe Devon joins WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy.
- What if Automattic bought Mozilla?: From the WP Minute. Matt Mullenweg tweeted that he will be happy to do so.
- Is WordPress hurtling toward a closed-source future?: From MasterWP
- There’s more to WordPress than FSE and Headless: From Tom Mcfarlin
- What is there besides WordPress?: From Chris Wiegman
- Building a site with WordPress 5.0 vs WordPress 6.0: From Anne McCarthy. WP Tavern also has taken a look into the video.
- What’s trending among the #FSE themes in the theme directory: From Carolina Nymark.
- Where’s that elephant in WordPress community?: From Developerka
- Freelancers are caught in the middle of WordPress licensing woes: From the WP Minute
- Voice-Controlled WordPress: Experiment from Ross Wintle
- Community saved my life: Falling down, lifted up: Leo Gopal on how the WP community helped him as he battled depression
- Free awesome certificates for web developers: From Suprabha
- GOV.UK drops jQuery from their front end: Meaning 32 KB of minified & compressed JS was removed.
- WP Job Openings plugin review: From LayerWP
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- Using the Navigation block: From WordPress TV
- WordPress admin dashboard: Become an expert in 15 minutes: From Jetpack
- How to create a custom reset password page in WordPress: From Cosmolabs
- How to protect your site against Remote Code Execution attacks: From Torque Magazine
- How to start testing your WordPress code with the Pest PHP Testing Framework: From WPTavern
- Intro to the Site Editor and Templates: From Learn WordPress
- WordPress database optimization: Adding indexes to custom tables: From SpinupWP
- Accessibility in full site editing themes: From Carolina Nymark
- SaaS Security Assessment: Important tips & 7 best practices: From Astra
- Vue vs React: Which one should you use? From Kinsta
- REST API guidelines and conventions: From RapidAPI
- 6 JavaScript optimization tips from Google: From Search Engine Journal
📆 Save The Dates
- Contributor Day on June 02: Contributor Day is an organized event the day before WCEU where you can share your contribution.
- 10th Annual WordCamp Europe on 3-4 June 2022 in Porto: Tickets are available now. Also check these 6 things you can do to make WCEU amazing
- BlackPress meetup event on June 7: Learn to extend your WordPress site capabilities further with Custom Fields and Custom Post types.
- The Page Builder Summit on June 20-24: Join the VIP list to be the first to know when you can get your free ticket.
- WordCamp MontcWordCamp Montclair – June 25, 2022 — Montclair, NJlair 2022 on June 22: Call for sponsors is now open.
- WordCamp US 2022 on September 9-11: All three days of programming will be held at Town and Country Resort San Diego. The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship also returns after 2 years.
- WordCamp Nederland 2022 on September 15 & 16: Save the dates.
- Inclusive Design 24 on September 22: Call for speakers is open for the 24-hour long livestream conference.
- WordPress Accessibility Day on November 2-3: A free, 24-hour virtual conference focused on building accessible websites in WordPress.
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