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📰 WordPress & Around
- WordPress 6.2 Planning Schedule Proposal: WordPress 6.2 General release is tentatively scheduled for March 28, 2023 and if you are interested in being a part of 6.2’s release squad, please share it in the comments section of the post.
- Despite criticism, Google says search results are better & are more relevant: Danny Sullivan of Google “Our numbers say we’re showing more relevant results.” Danny linked to this post he wrote in March with quotes such as “Over the last seven years, we’ve decreased the number of irrelevant results by over 50%.”
- The 30 most-subscribed YouTube individuals: MrBeast is the most-subscribed YouTuber with 116 million subscribers. PewDiePie is second with 111 million subscribers.
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- Stop Spammers Security plugin vulnerability affects up to 60,000+ sites: The plugin patched a PHP Object injection vulnerability that arose from improper sanitization of inputs, subsequently allowing base64 encoded user input.
- WordPress Vulnerability Report – December 28, 2022: Regular report from iThemes
- WordPress vulnerability & patch roundup December 2022: A list of important security updates and vulnerability patches for the WordPress ecosystem this December from Sucuri.
- Google Ads abused to spread malware: Cybercriminals are targeting unsuspecting users searching for popular software products via fake websites for the same.
- New Linux malware uses 30 plugin exploits to backdoor WordPress sites: A previously unknown Linux malware has been exploiting 30 vulnerabilities in multiple outdated WordPress plugins and themes to inject malicious JavaScript.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Simple URLs Legacy plugin: It is a complete URL management system that allows you create, manage, and track outbound links from your site.
- REST WP plugin: REST WP allows you to test and utilize APIs with ease from your WordPress dashboard.
- Cache Warmer plugin: It visits your WordPress website to create the cache if you have any cache solutions configured.
- Product Delivery Date plugin: It allows you to customize the delivery date of a product.
👥 Community News
- Join Bloganuary challenge: Bloganuary is a global writing challenge that brings people together through blogging.
- Oxygen 4.3 is available: It has a new accessibility-focused Site Navigation element.
- WordPress Plugin Daily Downloads zap: A no-code way from Matt Cromwell to grab daily download numbers for plugins from WordPress.org.
- WP Freighter is now free for everyone: Existing customers will no longer be charged for future renewals and can freely upgrade to v1.1.
- Meet Gutenberg Market: Gutenberg Market is the first marketplace exclusively offering block plugins, block themes and block components, all built by independent developers.
- Meet Pulsar: The team behind Pulsar is a community that came about naturally after the announcement of Atom’s Sunsetopen in new window and decided that they needed to do something about it to keep their favorite editor alive.
- Meet Advanced Java PSD Manipulation Library: Create, read, edit and convert PSD & PSB files easy and efficiently.
- Meet Futurepedia: It’s the largest AI tools directory.
- WorldWideWeb turns 32: On December 25, 1990, at CERN, a British physicist and internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee created the world’s first web browser, called WorldWideWeb.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- Year in Review 2022: From Awsm Innovations
- New year, same me: From Post Status
- A look back at WordPress in 2022: From Torque
- 2022: the block developer’s year in review: From WordPress Developer Blog
- Brizy’s year in review 2022: From Brizy
- How the ChatGPT watermark works and why it could be defeated: From Search Engine Journal
- How to check page speed: tools and suggestions: From Yoast SEO
- HIPAA security compliance: All you need to know: From Astra
- 2022’s badly handled data breaches: From TechCrunch
- Tech workers remain in high demand despite brutal 2022 layoffs: From Gizmodo
- The bad freelance habits you should avoid: From Speckyboy
- Grow profits in 2023: From Chris Lema
- SEO 2022 in review: E-E-A-T, ChatGPT, Search Essentials and more: From Search Engine Land
- How Google Autocomplete works: From Search Engine Land
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- How to password protect a page in WordPress: From Elegant Themes
- Eliminating render-blocking resources to speed up WordPress: From Automattic
- URL redirects for SEO: A technical guide: From Search Engine Journal
- How to export and import a WordPress site: From Jetpack
- How to integrate WooCommerce with Zapier (A guide for task automation): From Cloudways
- WordPress Salts – What they are and how to use them: From FixRunner
- How to add a Mastodon verified link without a plugin: From rm.codes
📆 Save The Dates
- WP Wealthbuilder Summit on February 03: Learn how to grow your business profits and build your 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 Entebbe on March 10, 2023: It is the first in-person WordCamp scheduled in Africa.
- 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 Kerala 2023 on March 25: More details to be shared.
- WordCamp Switzerland 2023 on March 31st to April 1st 2023: Call for Sponsors is out.
- YoastCon 2023 on May 10 & 11: It’s a two-day interactive conference focused on search engine optimization and online marketing.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Call for speakers is out.
- The WordPress Community Summit on August 22-23, 2023: In the early planning stages, the Community Summit is an “unconference,” without slides, selected speakers, or planned presentations.
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