#105 – UpdraftPlus Acquires WP Overnight, WP Project to Replace Slack with Matrix

Hi,

Another week and another acquisition! And we are only into the first month of 2023. We can safely assume that more exciting days are ahead of us.

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📰 WordPress & Around

🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities

🔌 New Plugins & Themes

  • SQLite Database Integration plugin: As part of unbundling the Performance plugin, the new SQLite database integration is now available for testing as a standalone plugin. The intent is to allow testing an SQLite integration with WordPress and gather feedback, with the goal of eventually landing it in WordPress core.
  • BananaCrystal Payment Gateway plugins: It helps accept payments for your store or business almost free.
  • Timetics plugin: An advanced booking plugin for WordPress to create and manage online schedules and unlimited appointments.
  • Php Version Fay plugin: It displays important information about your PHP, database and server on the WordPress Dashboard.
  • WordPress SVG Enabler plugin: It allows SVG uploads whilst ensuring that they’re sanitized to stop SVG/XML vulnerabilities affecting your site.
  • Upsidedown theme: A blog theme from Automattic, with a direct experience on post reading: noticeable post titles listed on a text-only page, with an original swap of header and footer blocks.
  • Consus theme: Multi-purpose theme mainly designed for small businesses, startups, or personal portfolio websites and works perfectly with Kubio Page Builder.
  • Mahalo theme: Designed specifically for online newspaper and portal websites.
  • General News theme: Designed for news, blog, and magazine websites.

💵Investments, Acquisitions & Partnerships

👥 Community News

  • Yoast SEO 20.0 released: It has a new admin settings interface that also reorganizes the menu into four main sections: General, Content types, Categories and Tags, and Advanced.
  • Oxygen 4.4 released: It has a new Oxygen Stylesheets editor.
  • SEOPress 6.3 is now available: It has OpenAI integration to automatically generate meta titles and descriptions.
  • Beta version of WPML 4.6 is out: Look out for better automatic translation workflow, new language switcher block, and reviews for bulk automated translations.
  • Meet GPTZeroX: It is a new AI detection model built for educators and highlights portions of text that are most likely to be AI generated.
  • New MoonWP project: Ranuka Herath created MoonWP to gather together the most comprehensive collection of WordPress resources and present them to you in an organized, easy-to-use format. 
  • Introducing WooThumbs 5: WooThumbs 5 will not make your WooCommerce product gallery look better and increase conversions too.
  • ViewSource Podcast: A weekly conversation around tech, web development, and WordPress with hosts Aurooba Ahmed and Brian Coords.

🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts

🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More

📆 Save The Dates

🎁 WordPress Deals Of The Week

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