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📰 Latest from WordPress
- Gutenberg 13.7 released: It brings an updated modal design, the ability to apply block locking to inner blocks with a click of a button, a myriad of new template types, and expands custom template capabilities.
- Proposal to add a dominant color background to images: This proposal seeks to integrate dominant color background for images into WordPress core, targeting the WordPress 6.1 release.
- WordPress Design Contributors propose shipping a curated set of style variations: The Design Contributors have proposed shipping a curated set of style variations instead of the usual default theme.
- WordPress Themes Directory launches Pattern Previews in Beta: A grid displaying the patterns is now shown underneath a theme’s description and tags.
- WordPress.com ends recent pricing experiment: The company announced that it is rolling back its pricing structure to the previous model, which offered five plans, including the free tier.
- Core Editor Improvement: Deeper customization with more template options: Justin Tadlock describes how to create a custom page templates and custom category templates.
- [Request for feedback] Feature Notifications Proof of Concept: The goal of the WP Feature Notifications project is to create a new and better way to manage and deliver notifications to the relevant audience. Please help test it and share the feedback.
- New searchable Instagram map gives visibility to local businesses: This new map helps users discover popular local businesses and filter by categories, such as restaurants or hotels.
- Google Search Console adds CNAME DNS verification: Previously, Google only supported DNS verification using the TXT method.
- Google launches 3 new ad creation tools: These tools are Asset storage and organization, Create video ads for YouTube and Voice-over audio.
- Google lets businesses set auto-responses to common questions: Using this feature, you can suggest questions for people to ask when messaging your business via your Google Business Profile.
- LinkedIn Business Manager is now in public beta: A cleaner, organized dashboard presents an easier way for advertisers to manage multiple ad accounts, pages, and matched audiences.
- Snapchat launches on desktop for premium members: Snapchat is now available for the first time on desktop browsers as a bonus feature for Snapchat+ subscribers.
- TikTok’s history of low Creator Fund payouts has some leaving the platform for good: Creators are becoming increasingly frustrated at the platform that supposedly pledged $1 billion in payouts, is shelling out mere pennies for video views.
- $115M In Ad Spend lost to clickbait sites: A new report has found that almost one-tenth of advertisers’ budgets went to clickbait sites further reducing ad spend ROI amid mounting privacy and budget pressures.
🚨 Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Drupal warns of multiple critical vulnerabilities: Drupal issued a security advisory of four critical vulnerabilities rated from moderately critical to critical. The vulnerabilities affect Drupal versions 9.3 and 9.4.
- LinkedIn and Microsoft are the most impersonated brands in phishing attacks: For the quarter, LinkedIn was seen in 45% of all phishing attempts, while Microsoft appeared in 13% of them.
- Microsoft Office most exploited software in malware attacks – Report: Research reveals that around 80% of all malware attacks used MS Office flaws. Per the Q4 2021 data shared by Kaspersky’s malware research platform Securelist, Microsoft was targeted in 61% of the attacks last year.
- Twitter data breach exposes contact details for 5.4M accounts; on sale for $30k: The breach was made possible by a vulnerability that allows an attacker to acquire the phone number and/or email address associated with Twitter accounts.
- T-Mobile agrees to $350 million settlement over its massive 2021 data breach: It’ll also have to pay an extra $150 million to beef up its security.
- Apple releases security patches for all devices fixing dozens of new vulnerabilities: Apple on Wednesday rolled out software fixes for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS to address a number of security flaws affecting its platforms.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Bright Mode theme: The theme features a vibrant color palette with tasteful gradients and 14 beautifully designed block patterns.
- WordPress Ecommerce For Creating Fast Online Stores plugin: From SureCart, a powerful e-commerce platform designed to grow your business with effortlessly selling online.
- Elementor Speed Optimizer plugin: Optimize your WordPress site and get a lightning FAST page loading speed by blocking unnecessary Elementor assets.
- Backuply plugin: The plugin from Softaculous helps you backup your WordPress website, saving you from loss of data.
- CommentsWP plugin: From Slava Abakumov, for site owners to analyze comments and to better understand commenters.
- Social Share Image plugin: This plugin from Bili Plugins lets you create custom dynamic Open Graph Images.
- WooCommerce Report plugin: From iThemelandCo, helps you to prepare useful and practical reports from your store and easily analyze information about orders, products and customers.
- WP Ultimate Team Showcase Plugin: From rstheme, it creates and manages team members.
💵 Investments, Acquisitions & Partnerships
- SiteCare acquires Maintainn from WebDevStudios: This is SiteCare’s second acquisition of a WordPress site management company after acquiring WP Site Care in 2018. The company will take on all of Maintainn’s assets but the employees will remain with WebDevStudios.
- WordPress VIP partners with SalesForce: Build better, more engaging email campaigns by integrating WordPress directly with Salesforce Marketing Cloud, activating your content to build emails that convert.
- YouTube partners with Shopify to deliver shopping tools for creators, brands: Consumers will now be able to purchase directly from a brand’s YouTube channel, without having to leave the platform.
- Huntress acquires security awareness training startup Curricula for $22M: Huntress, itself a startup that raised about $60 million in venture capital funding, said the acquisition adds another critical layer to its Managed Security Platform.
👥 Community News
- 106 Block themes supporting full-site editing: Some statistics from Hendrik Luehrsen.
- Astra theme 3.9 released: From the shop and product page to the cart and checkout page, there are major enhancements to just about every element of store.
- You can now buy Yoast SEO Premium on WordPress.com: Yoast SEO is the first premium plugin to offer paid services to customers on WordPress.com.
- 2022 Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship recipients: The winners are Margherita Pelonara, Simona Simionato, and Pooja Derashri.
- Review Signal publishes 2022 WordPress and WooCommerce hosting performance benchmarks: In the budget <$25/Month category, the 2022 Top Tier winners included 20i, 34SP, EasyWP by Namecheap, Eco Web Hosting, GreenGeeks, HostXNow, ICDSoft, LightningBase, MechanicWeb, Pressable, SiteGround, and WPX.
- A new website buider – Breakdance: Now available in Beta
- PHP version stats: July, 2022: PHP 8.1 is growing and PHP 8.0’s usage is already declining but more than 50% of developers are still on PHP 7.4 or lower.
- A new fluid engine builder from SquareSpace: Fluid Engine is the content editor for page sections that use blocks. Comparable to the Gutenberg Block Editor.
- Is what’s good for Gutenberg also good for WordPress?: From The WP Minute
- Can’t prop, won’t prop – Contributor carrots and sticks: From MasterWP
- Hosts and the free rider problem: From Jonathan Wold
- Is WordPress bigger than Wal-Mart?: From MasterWP
- My burnout & recovery journey: A framework for how I’ve understood it: From Cory Miller
- Are content products “Real” products to WordPress developers?: From WP Review
- The unsung hero of Indie journalism – Newspack: From Post Status
- CMS market share analysis – July 2022: WordPress with a 43% market share is followed by Shopify with 4.2% and Wix with 2.3%.
- Why I left WordPress for Ghost: From Dave Swift
- You can now create your own Block Theme within WordPress: From Speckyboy
- WordPress “Gutenberg Block News” 22nd July 2022: From Jamie Marsland
- The Future of Blocks with Birgit Pauli-Haack: From Do the Woo
- Is my small contribution too small for WordPress’ Five for the Future?: From Estela Rueda
- What we learned about Instagram Analytics surveying over 300 marketers: From Spotlight
- A Designer’s survival guide to economic uncertainty: From Builtin
- Google Ads vs AdSense: Feature overview and comparison: From Kinsta
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- How to fix the max_execution_time Error in WordPress: From GreenGeeks
- Let’s code! Creating your first WordPress Plugin: From Jonathan Bossenger
- Build a Headless WordPress App with Faust and Atlas Content Modeler: From WP Engine
- The detailed guide on Cloud Vulnerability Management: From Astra
- How to use Local (by Flywheel) without WordPress: From Torque
- Creating portable ACF Blocks: From Liam at Lgladdy.UK
- How to create, add, & edit a WordPress Navigation Menu: From Jetpack
- Adding custom notices for the Gutenberg Editor: From WebDevStudios
- How to perform an SEO SWOT Analysis: From Search Engine Journal
📆 Save The Dates
- 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.
- Web Accessibility in Mind Conference on September 7 & 8: This virtual conference will provide conference participants with content that will help them mature their practice in digital accessibility.
- WordCamp US 2022 on September 9-11: It will only have around 650 people – much lower than the 2,000 persons in the previous editions. You can read about it here.
- 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.
- WooSesh on October 10-14: A live, virtual conference for WooCommerce store builders.
- Adobe MAX Creativity Conference on October 20: In-person event in Los Angeles. Attend virtually for free 18–20 October.
- WordPress Accessibility Day on November 2-3: A free, 24-hour virtual conference focused on building accessible websites in WordPress. Call for speakers is now open.
- WordFest Live on November 18: This will be the fourth 24-hour WordFest Live, and the theme is Transformation. Call for speakers is now open.
- WordCamp Asia 2023 on February 17-19 at IconSiam, Bangkok Thailand: Call for speakers and media partners is out. Free tickets out for 2020 buyers.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Call for organizers is out.
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