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📰 WordPress & Around
- WordPress 6.1.1 maintenance release: This minor release features 29 bug fixes in Core and 21 bug fixes for the block editor. WordPress 6.1.1 is a short-cycle maintenance release. The next major release will be version 6.2 planned for 2023.
- 14.6.0 RC1 is available: Please help test it.
- WordPress Developer Blog: It’s a hub for the WordPress extender community and was released into public Beta This is a community project, and volunteers are requested to help create a great resource for all WordPress extenders and provide feedback.
- 2023 Team Rep Nominations for Marketing: If you would like to stand or know someone who would be a good team rep, please nominate them or yourself.
- Microsoft Video Ads are now broadly available: Microsoft piloted video ads in September 2021 in select countries and are available to all Microsoft advertisers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Wix announces new way to edit page level SEO settings: This update gives SEOs and businesses the option to custom craft technical SEO-related factors like structured data on a page by page level from one single settings page.
- Users lose confidence that Twitter will survive: The feeling that Twitter was nearing the end was heightened by Musk’s deadline for workers to commit to his “extremely hardcore” work demands of long hours and weekends in office.
- YouTube announced its 2023 class of #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund creators: #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund was created to directly support Black creators and artists so that they can thrive on YouTube.
- Google launches new search, shopping and maps features: Google has announced a boatload of new search features across Google Search, Google Lens, Shopping and Maps all aimed at bringing search to more users in more helpful ways.
- Google’s new local search features are finally here: Google is finally rolling out the local search features previewed earlier this year, including the ability to search your surroundings with your phone’s camera.
- Google to roll out Privacy Sandbox Beta on Android 13 by early 2023: Privacy Sandbox is an effort led by Google to create a set of web standards for websites to access user information without compromising privacy.
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- Critical RCE flaw reported in Spotify’s backstage software catalog and developer platform: An unauthenticated threat actor can execute arbitrary system commands on a Backstage application by exploiting a vm2 sandbox escape in the Scaffolder core plugin.
- Firefox 107 patches high-impact vulnerabilities: The high-impact flaws include issues that could lead to information disclosure, fullscreen notification bypass that could be used for spoofing attacks, and crashes or arbitrary code execution resulting from use-after-free bugs.
- Instagram credential phishing attacks bypass Microsoft Email security: A credential phishing attack reportedly targeted 22,000 students at national educational institutions with a campaign impersonating Instagram.
- Meta reportedly fires dozens of employees for hijacking users’ Facebook and Instagram accounts: Included among those fired were contractors who worked as security guards at the social media firm’s facilities and were given access to an internal tool that allowed employees to help “users they know” gain access to accounts after forgetting their passwords.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Loudness theme: A bold opinionated theme for music and learning from Automattic
- WooCommerce Checkout by CheckoutWC plugin: It replaces your checkout page with a beautiful, conversion-optimized, mobile-friendly checkout template.
- WP Block Mindmap plugin: It allows you to create a markdown-to-mindmap block inside the Gutenberg editor.
- Restrict With Stripe plugin: It integrates WordPress and Stripe.
- wdesk plugin: Straightforward and fast helpdesk with multilanguage support for WordPress.
- Link Verification for Mastodon plugin: It helps with Mastodon verification of websites.
- Add Product To Cart Via URL plugin: It allows CMS users to create a URL (for WooCommerce only) with specific product(s) and quantity info.
💵Investments, Acquisitions & Partnerships
- Nvidia and Microsoft team up to build ‘massive’ AI supercomputer: The collaboration will see Nvidia utilizing Microsoft’s scalable virtual machine instances to accelerate advances in generative AI models like DALL-E.
👥 Community News
- 200 LGBTQ+ websites are hosted with on WordPress.com: This huge milestone was in partnership with Out in Tech.
- WordPress.com adds support for new Pocket Casts Block: The block is branded for Pocket Casts and will display a podcast player and a selection of episodes when the show URL is selected. It makes it easy to embed any show or episode in the WordPress editor.
- New European camera kits: Eight new WordCamp Camera Kits will be available for all European WordCamps starting in January 2023.
- StellarWP releases open-source libraries for advanced WordPress development: While developers beyond StellarWP stand to benefit from the libraries, sharing also creates a platform for StellarWP team members to showcase their work.
- WP Engine launched its Managed WordPress Platform on Microsoft Azure: The WP Engine platform is available on Azure to all businesses across the U.S. and the Netherlands and will expand into other regions throughout 2023 to serve more global customers.
- Domains from WPMU DEV: WPMU DEV now offers integrated domain purchase and management. Country-specific domains are coming soon.
- Meetup.com raises concerns with new accessibility overlay: Accessibility practitioners consider the use of overlay products a flagrant malpractice and are calling on Meetup.com to abandon this solution in favor of addressing inaccessibility at the root of the problem.
- Jetpack Search adds free tier and a 3-month free trial: The new free tier and free trials enable prospective customers to try out the functionality on their sites before committing to a new annual subscription.
- Divi 5.0 aims to bring greater compatibility with Gutenberg: One of the most notable changes coming in 5.0 is that Divi will be migrating away from shortcodes and to a new JSON format that is similar to the way Gutenberg stores data.
- PHP releases schedule changes: In PHP 8.2.0, Bob Weinand found some critical bugs and there will be another release candidate for 8.2.0, RC7. The final 8.2.0 release will be on December 8, 2022.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- Finding a new home for the WordPress community: From Ollie WP
- The future of GiveWP and the Block Editor: From PostStatus
- Creating Themes from a pattern-first mindset: From WordPress Developer Blog
- What’s beyond WordPress?: From Jean Galea
- Will Big Tech layoffs hit WordPress companies?: From MasterWP
- What managed hosting can (and can’t) do for WooCommerce: From The WP Minute
- Yes, staging can be a pain — but here’s why you shouldn’t skip it: From The Next Web
- Big growth isn’t for everyone: From PostStatus
- Four phases of holiday shopping with Meta: From WooCommerce
- 20 Tips for getting the most from Google Analytics 4 & WordPress: From SEOPress
- Is Google Search getting worse?: From Search Engine Land
- Long Live tumblr: Does the mass Twitter exodus spell success for tumblr?: From MasterWP
- Web design trends 2023: From Visual Composer
- 15 Best programming fonts for coding and development : From CodeinWP
- Junk fees and slow speeds: Study of 22,000 internet bills: From Gizmodo
- The creative side of blocks: From WordPress TV
- Recession proofing your WordPress business with Nev Harris: From Torque
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- Managing CSS Styles in a WordPress Block Theme: From CSS-Tricks
- Creating a settings UI for a custom WordPress Block: From CSS-Tricks
- How to add your blog to Mastodon: From Something Odd
- How to make fewer HTTP requests in WordPress: From FixRunner
- Let’s code: developing blocks without React – Part 1: From WordPress TV
- Let’s code: developing blocks without React! – Part 2: From WordPress TV
- How to use the new video indexing report in Google Search Console: From YoastSEO
📆 Save The Dates
- Hallway Hangout on November 22: a casual chat about some of the Block Theme development-related features that are under active development. This will be an open conversation via Zoom.
- 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: Organizers have announced the first round of speakers, and also unveiled its wapuu mascot.
- 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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