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📰 WordPress & Around
- WordPress 6.1.1 RC1 is now available: It features 28 fixes on Core as well as 18 fixes for the Block Editor. WordPress 6.1.1 will be released on November 15.
- Gutenberg 14.5 has been released: The highlight of this release is the new “Document Overview” panel, which combines what was previously found under separate icons in the Editor toolbar under “List View” and “Details.”
- WordPress 6.1 sponsored contributor stats: 18.7% of WP 6.1 contributors were sponsored. The top sponsoring companies are Automattic, WPDeveloper, Yoast, Awsm Innovations, GoDaddy, XWP, Multidots and Extendify.
- Gutenberg’s roadmap for a “Font Library” will give users an interface for registering and managing web fonts: The roadmap for the webfonts API and the font management interface tickets will be an exciting project to watch, as Gutenberg contributors work to offer another level of creative control to users.
- WordPress 6.1 ‘Misha’ Retrospective: Anyone is welcome to participate in this retro, so please take a few moments to fill in the form or leave public feedback. The form and comments will be open until December 15th, 2022.
- WordPress to explore using GitHub Codespaces for improving contributor experience: WordPress lead developer Helen Hou-Sandí has proposed using GitHub Codespaces to improve the contributor experience. GitHub Codespaces is now available for everyone, with 60 hours free every month.
- Community Team Rep Nominations for 2023: Please nominate people for Community team rep in this post’s comments or via private message by 23 Nov 2022 as Sam Suresh and Megan are leaving the post.
- Nominations for Core Team Reps: 2023 Edition: The current Core team reps Jb Audras and Mary Baum are leaving. The deadline to nominate people is 2 December 2022.
- Google rolls out ad frequency targeting for YouTube campaigns: With the rollout of target frequency, Google is giving advertisers more control over the number of times people see their ads on YouTube.
- Instagram lets users schedule posts & reels in the app: Instagram users with professional accounts can schedule posts and reels up to 75 days in advance directly from the mobile app.
- TikTok has launched an in-app ecommerce feature: TikTok has launched TikTok Shop, where users can now make purchases directly through the app. It is currently inviting select U.S. businesses to participate in the initiative.
- Twitter fires 80% of contractor employees with no formal notice: There are reports that approximately 4,400 contract employees out of 5,500 were laid off by Twitter. Senior executives who are core to Twitter’s functioning resigned while Musk reportedly says bankruptcy isn’t out of the question. Meanwhile in a survey conducted by Search Engine Journal on the #LeaveTwitter movement, the majority of the 1,500 combined responses across LinkedIn and Twitter pointed towards the majority not leaving Twitter. Also a new “Official” label was announced and then removed less than 24 hours later.
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- WordPress Vulnerability Report – November 9, 2022: Regular report from iThemes
- Russian hacktivist group targets political websites with DDOS attacks: A Russian hacktivist group calling itself “The People’s Cyberarmy” called on its members to target the American Democratic party website at https://democrats.org with DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks.
- Missing Authorization vulnerability in Blog2Social plugin: Vulnerable versions of the plugin make it possible for authenticated attackers with minimal permissions, such as subscribers, to change the plugin’s settings.
- Vulnerabilities discovered in five WooCommerce WordPress plugins: The plugins are Advanced Order Export for WooCommerce, Advanced Dynamic Pricing plugin for WooCommerce, Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce Coupons, WooCommerce Dropshipping and Role Based Pricing for WooCommerce.
- Google Business Profiles bug causing reviews to disappear: A bug with automatically applied suggested edits leads to some businesses seeing all their reviews vanish from Google.
- GitHub introduces private vulnerability reporting for public repositories: The new private vulnerability reporting capability enables repository maintainers to allow security researchers to report to them any vulnerabilities identified in their code.
- New vulnerability in popular widget shows risks of third-party code: Successful exploitation of this vulnerability found in accessibility widget by EqualWeb, could allow malicious actors to impersonate a user and take over a user’s account, perform any action on behalf of the user and or steal sensitive information such as cookies and session tokens.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Fairy FSE theme: A minimal and clean WordPress full site editing theme developed for blogs.
- SAAS Software Technology theme: This theme is responsive and ideal for digital marketing, marketing, or advertising agency.
- Blocks Everywhere plugin: From Automattic, this plugin switches the default WordPress editor for comments, bbPress, and BuddyPress to use Gutenberg.
- WholesaleX plugin: A WooCommerce plugin that offers a full-featured solution for B2B, B2C, and hybrid wholesale businesses, with the added benefits of Wallets and Conversation.
- Linkz.ai plugin: Linkz.ai automatically adds link preview pop-ups so visitors can view and interact with hyperlink content without leaving your website.
- Advance Custom HTML plugin: It is an advance HTML code editor that enables you to code professionally.
- Product for Price for WooCommerce plugin: It helps to replace “Call for Price” when the price field for the product is zero or empty.
💵Investments, Acquisitions & Partnerships
- LifterLMS is an official Stripe-verified partner: LifterLMS is a powerful WordPress learning management system plugin that makes it easy to create, sell, and protect engaging online courses and training based membership websites.
👥 Community News
- WooCommerce 7.1.0 released: It adds cart block cross-sells and includes high-performance order storage behind a feature flag. The release package included an inadvertent change that bumped the required PHP version to PHP 7.4.
- SEOPress 6.1 is now available: SEOPress 6.1 is now compatible with PHP 8.1 and WordPress 6.1.
- Advanced Custom Fields version 6.0.4 is now available: This release contains a number of performance and bug fixes for both the ACF and ACF PRO plugins.
- Figma CSS to Gutenberg attributes conversion via free Greenshift plugin: Check it out
- Logoipsum: Logoipsum provides free placeholder logo that you can use in your design.
- NordVPN named one of TIME’s 2022 Best Inventions: The list celebrates innovations that make the world a better and safer place. NordVPN appears in TIME’s “Apps and Software” category.
- Elementor pro pricing plan updates: The Agency plan is now $399 instead of $999 and there will be no Studio plan.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- 5 Reasons WordPress 6.1 is a release like no other: From XWP
- Divi 5.0 and the future of Divi: From Elegant Themes
- WooCommerce store owners combat fraudulent Stripe charges: From WPTavern
- Introducing fresh WordPress Themes: From Deno
- PHP 7.4 will be End of Life in November 2022. What does this mean for your WordPress site?: From iThemes
- Learning and pulling together: From PostStatus
- The four-day WordPress work week: From PostStatus
- The grumpy designer asks: Are you tired?: From Speckyboy
- Design irresistible email with ConvertKit Starting Points: From Brian Gardner
- To keep a user, sometimes you have to let them go: From UX Magazine
- 8 mindblowing AI tools that will save you hours: Twitter thread from Marius Hauken
- 9 Nocode app builders: Twitter thread from Arthur West
- Can Mastodon avoid becoming another Hellsite?: From MasterWP
- Tumblr showing some Woo: From Do the Woo Podcast
- Fränk Klein on how Gutenberg and Full Site Editing are bringing new opportunities for WordPress developers: From WPTavern
- Openverse & Photo Directory– What are they, and how are they different?: From WordPress.org
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- An introduction to spacing presets: From WPEngine
- Using block template parts in classic Themes: From Learn WordPress
- How to fix the DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN Error: From Jetpack
- How to deactivate a plugin without access to WP-Admin: From Jetpack
- How to create a multilingual website: From Torque
- WordPress Logging: What it is & why you should use it: From Torque
- 9 Steps to a future-proof social media strategy in a Web3 world: From Search Engine Journal
📆 Save The Dates
- WordPress 6.1 Exploration on November 17: A live exploration of what’s been released in WordPress 6.1.
- WordFest Live on December 16: This will be the fourth 24-hour WordFest Live, and the theme is Transformation. You can register to speak.
- WordCamp Kolkata (India) on December 17-18: It will be an in-person event. Call for speakers is out.
- WP Wealthbuilder Summit on February 03: Learn how to grow your business profits and in turn build your personal wealth and secure your retirement from this online event.
- WordCamp Asia 2023 on February 17-19 at IconSiam, Bangkok Thailand: Call for sponsors is out.
- WordCamp Phoenix on March 24 & 25, 2023: About 400 attendees are expected for a weekend of reconnecting, making new connections and learning about WordPress.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: The preparations for WordCamp Europe 2023 have begun.
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