Hi,
Last week, Matt Mullenweg called Godaddy parasitic and an existential threat to WordPress. He later deleted his Tweets but the noise is yet to settle down.
Another news that grabbed attention is the misogyny prevailing in the WordPress community. WP community may be better but we still have got miles to go be perfect and inclusive.
See you next week.
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📰 Latest from WordPress
- Matt Mullenweg identifies GoDaddy as a “Parasitic Company”: In a tweet, Matt formally identified GoDaddy as “an existential threat to WordPress’ future” starting some heated conversations.
- What would GoDaddy’s WordPress look like?: The desire for open source should not be the desire for control. The idea of WordPress should not be lost. WordPress is valuable because of its community.
- Mullenweg: GoDaddy is an ‘existential threat’ to WordPress: If Automattic ceased to exist tomorrow, thousands of people would fill in the gaps to keep the WordPress community going. Open-source is bigger than any one person or company.
- GoDaddy responds to Mullenweg’s accusations: “Our company contributes to open-source in a variety of ways… and many employees who have a passion for the WordPress community and give back whenever possible,” GoDaddy Director of Public Relations Nick Fuller said.
📰 Other WordPress News
- Gutenberg 13.5 is out: It comes with an improved featured image UX, expanded design tools for the Post Navigation Link block, a few solid accessibility fixes, and some nice quality of life improvements.
- WordPress 6.1 Planning Roundup: This release cadence will consist of a long alpha and two short beta periods before the release candidate phase. The general release is expected by October 25, 2022.
- Call for translators: 2021-2022 Annual Meetup Surveys: Translators are needed to translate the Annual Meetup Surveys from English to other languages like Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian and German.
- Rollback feature: Testing call to action: Please help test the feature to add the ability for Core to “rollback” to the previously installed version of a plugin/theme when an update fails.
- Reactivating Meetup venue support funds: The advice for all meetups is to seek a free or donated venue first. If no suitable free or donated venue is available, they may request venue support from WPCS for an affordable, inclusive meeting space.
- Block editor styles: initiatives and goals: The post highlights ongoing initiatives targeted at addressing issues, and outlines longer-term ambitions to output more readable, efficient and extensible frontend styles.
- Googlebot crawls & indexes first 15 MB HTML content: An update to Googlebot’s help document confirms that it will crawl the first 15 MB of a webpage and anything after this cutoff will not be included in rankings calculations.
- Shopify unveils 100+ new updates & features: Shopify has released its Summer ’22 Edition, adding more than 100 new features – including NFTs, Twitter shopping, and tap-to-pay on iPhone.
- Google adds LGBTQ+ owned attribute to business profiles: These labels can help some businesses with visibility and potentially increase conversions.
- Microsoft launches Cash back promotions for product ads: Microsoft Ads is now offering Cash back promotions to drive more sales and conversions for online retailers. It is for the US on product ads.
- Meta unveils new policy to fight fake reviews: Those violating Meta’s Community Feedback Policy could lose access to all of Meta’s products or features temporarily or permanently.
- TikTok commits to updating ad policies to better align with EU rules: Following discussions with the Commission and network of national consumer protection (CPC) authorities, TikTok has agreed to implement regulations around promoting alcohol, cigarettes, and ‘get rich quick’ schemes.
- Twitter launching Branded Likes: The custom emojis were previously only available to large brands paying a premium. Twitter also launched Campaign Planner, a forecasting tool designed to help advertisers estimate campaign results before launching.
- Twitter testing Notes, a long-form content feature: Twitter is testing a new feature that would eliminate the constraints of its 280-character tweet limit and allow users to publish long-form tweets.
🚨 Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Arbitrary options update via Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability: Update the WordPress Jquery Validation for Contact Form 7 plugin to the latest available version (at least 5.3).
- Twitter apologizes for abusing user security information after $150 million FTC settlement: The social media giant admitted that users were asked to provide a phone number or email address to secure or authenticate their accounts for several years. Twitter then used that information for targeted advertising.
- Multiple backdoored Python libraries caught stealing AWS secrets and keys: Researchers have discovered a number of malicious Python packages in the official third-party software repository that are engineered to exfiltrate AWS credentials and environment variables to a publicly exposed endpoint.
- Google details commercial spyware that targets both Android and iOS devices: A distinct government and enterprise-grade iOS and Android spyware variant is now in active circulation. Victims have been located in Italy and Kazakhstan.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Menu Cart For Woocommerce plugin: This plugin allows you to show your cart details on the menu. There is no need to go on the cart page; it lets you see your cart detail wherever you are.
- QuotesDLX plugin: To create beautiful and shareable quotes in the Block Editor.
- Videos for WooCommerce plugin: To display your product-related videos directly from Youtube and increase conversion.
- Metabase – Post & User Meta Editor plugin: Metabase allows you to manage your posts and user meta.
- ACF Conditional Logic Extended plugin: Extend your Group Field conditional logic with extra set of rules and select field value as your condition.
💵 Investments & Acquisitions
- Charitable joined the Awesome Motive family: The plugin is used by more than 10,000 non-profits for creating fundraising campaigns and collecting online donations. David Bisset will lead the development.
- Surfer SEO has partnered with Semrush: Surfer SEO has a new growth management tool that includes backlink data provided by industry leader, Semrush. Until now, Semrush has not integrated with an SEO company.
👥 Community News
- FSE Studio from WPEngine: Currently in Alpha phase, it is a developer tool to make building full-site editing themes faster and easier to manage.
- WP Engine extends its platform and products to Singapore: Congrats team!
- ClassicPress on the rocks: Recent turbulence in the ClassicPress community has resulted in the directors resigning and new leadership installed.
- Rocket.net introduced WordPress Access Logs from the Edge feature: the unique feature will help customers understand the visitor side of activity on their site(s)
- Laravel Pint — a zero-dependency PHP code style fixer for minimalists: Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists to ensure that the code style stays clean and consistent.
- Cloudflare outage on June 21, 2022: This outage was caused by a change that was part of a long-running project to increase resilience in their busiest locations. A change to the network configuration in those locations caused the outage.
- GitHub makes Copilot available to the public for $10/month: GitHub Copilot distills the collective knowledge of the world’s developers into an editor extension that suggests code in real-time. Verified students and maintainers of open source projects will have free access to Copilot.
- Misogyny in WordPress is real: From PostStatus
- Women should code: From Kathy Zant
- WordPress appears in NYT crossword: From WP Tavern
- What the WordPress community can learn from BTS: Take a break: From MasterWP
- WordPress isn’t safe but it can be and it starts with you: From James Giroux
- Reusable Blocks will change the way you create WordPress websites: From ILoveWP
- What does WordPress have to do with the creator economy?: From WP Review
- Why the web is turning away from WordPress: From David Large
- On disparities between the WordPress community and core product direction: From Matt Cromwell
- 10 Lesser-known (but incredibly useful) WordPress plugins: From Speckyboy
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- Anatomy of a Block Theme: From WordPress.TV
- 9 Fixes to problems accessing the WordPress admin dashboard: From Jetpack
- How to create an Elementor Table in WordPress: From Kinsta
- How to create your own WordPress Custom Post Types without a plugin: From ACF
- WordPress user roles: The ultimate guide: From Jetpack
- Achieve GDPR compliance for WooCommerce: From WP White Security
- What is a WordPress Sitemap?: From iThemes
- Making Python Scripts work in browser for web app creation: From SearchEngineJournal
- IndexNow: What it is and how it benefits you: From YoastSEO
- ProtonMail vs Gmail: The ultimate comparison guide: From Kinsta
📆 Save The Dates
- DeafBlind Awareness Week 2022 from June 26 to July 02: Check the tips to get involved.
- How to develop a WordPress developer on June 30: Courtney Robertson sits down with a couple of folks to talk about mentorship, the benefits of being a mentor, and ways that you can get started
- WordCamp US 2022 on September 9-11: The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship also returns after 2 years. It will only have around 650 people – much lower than the 2,000 persons in the previous editions.
- WordCamp Nederland 2022 on September 15 & 16: Save the dates.
- Inclusive Design 24 on September 22: A free 24-hour online event for the global community to celebrate inclusive design and share knowledge and ideas.
- WordPress Accessibility Day on November 2-3: A free, 24-hour virtual conference focused on building accessible websites in WordPress.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Call for organizers is out.
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