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There are several acquisitions and vulnerabilities. Take a moment to reinforce the security measures of your website.
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📰 WordPress & Around
- Roadmap to WP 6.2: WordPress 6.2 is set to be released on March 28th. The main focus of this release is refinement and ease, with significant improvements in the site editing experience.
- WordPress 6.2 Beta 1 released: One of the major highlights of this release includes the new distraction-free mode, which offers a more focused writing experience that hides unnecessary interface elements from the editor. It is also confirmed that WordPress 6.2 will remove the Beta label from the Site Editor.
- New proposal calls for automated performance monitoring for WordPress Core: WordPress Core Committer Adam Silverstein has published a proposal for adding automated performance tooling that would offer continuous monitoring for performance issues so they can be resolved before major regressions are committed to core.
- Proposal to create a WordPress Contributor Mentorship Program: Hari Shanker proposed a project-wide WordPress contributor mentorship program to empower new and aspiring contributors by helping them succeed in the project through mentorship. Please share your feedback in the comments by February 20, 2023.
- WordPress.com introduces Browse Mode, Style Book, and Push to Global Styles features: Self-hosted WordPress users will get this update in a couple of months. Those who want these features now can get them today by installing the Gutenberg plugin.
- Apply to attend the 2023 Community Summit: The Community Summit is an intimate, in-person gathering of contributors from across the WordPress open source project. Attendance will be determined based on an application and selection process.
- Developer Hours is returning: They are discussion and question-and-answer events aimed at developers working with WordPress. Anyone is welcome to attend, whether you are a freelancer or work in an agency.
- Celebrate 20 years of WordPress with commemorative logos: To mark 20 years, a unique set of 20th-anniversary commemorative logos for everyone to use and enjoy have been published.
- The end of Phase 2 of the Gutenberg project is approaching: The overall scope and product experience is coming into place and out of its beta state. This doesn’t mean work on customization is complete. Like the post editor continued to evolve after WordPress 5.0, there’s plenty that will get better through refinements and further feedback.
- WordPress plugin developers alerted ahead of Twitter API changes: Beginning February 9, 2023, Twitter will turn off free access to its APIs and offer “a paid basic tier.”
- WP Community Collective names Alex Stine as first Accessibility Fellow: Alex Stine is a fully blind individual contributor working with the WordPress Accessibility team since 2016.
- OpenAI releases tool to detect AI-written content: The AI Text Classifier can be a valuable resource for flagging potentially AI-generated text, but it shouldn’t be used as a definitive measure for making a verdict.
- Microsoft announces ChatGPT capabilities coming to Bing: Microsoft is introducing ChatGPT-like capabilities to its Bing search engine and Edge browser.
- Google launches Bard, its answer to ChatGPT: Bard is an experimental conversational AI service powered by LaMDA, that was soft-launched to a set of “trusted testers.”
- Twitter is down, globally: Multiple sources and reports claimed that Twitter was down for users across the globe yesterday.
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- Multiple authenticated SQL Injection fixed in WP Statistics plugin version <= 13.2.10: These vulnerabilities allow any authenticated user with at least the Subscriber user role to perform SQL injection.
- Multiple vulnerabilities patched in Quick Restaurant Menu Plugin: This plugin is vulnerable to Missing Authorization, Insecure Direct Object Reference, Cross-Site Request Forgery as well as Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including 2.0.2.
- High-severity XSS vulnerability in Metform Elementor Contact Form Builder: The vulnerability, an unauthenticated stored cross-site scripting vulnerability, is arguably the most dangerous variant of cross-site scripting as it provides the easiest path to site takeover.
- Google Ads now hijacked to target password manager users: Cybercriminals have increasingly been abusing the Google Ads platform to trick unsuspecting users into clicking on fake websites that spread malware.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- MyWP Custom Login plugin: It helps customize your WordPress Login Screen.
- Omnibus Directive for Products plugin: This plugin adds a custom metabox to your Woocommerce Product editor and allows to display the lowest price and date of your product.
- AiWriter plugin: It uses AI technology to help you write beautiful, unique texts.
💵Investments, Acquisitions & Partnerships
- Netlify Acquires Gatsby Inc. : The acquisition of Gatsby is Netlify’s latest move to support its vision of empowering developers at companies such as Twilio, Mattel and Verizon to build a better web. Gatsby web framework will remain open source for all developers to use.
- Conductor acquires Searchmetrics: Conductor, a leading enterprise organic marketing platform, has acquired the European-based competitor, Searchmetrics, to expand its presence in the European market.
👥 Community News
- Upcoming BuddyPress 12.0 release: The release to focus on merging BP Rewrites into core, and moving Legacy Widgets into BP Classic Plugin.
- WooCommerce 7.4 Release Candidate is out: WooCommerce Blocks has been updated to 9.4.3, which contains a fix for changing the quantity inside the Cart and Mini Cart blocks in WordPress 5.9
- Jetpack 11.8 is out: You can now style individual form elements more easily in the Form block’s sidebar settings.
- Oxygen 4.5 Beta 1 now available: Oxygen 4.5 introduces the new Emmet input, which allows you to use Emmet abbreviations to rapidly build out designs in Oxygen.
- WP-Mix celebrates 11 years: WP-Mix was launched back in 2012 by Jeff Starr as a simple code snippets site.
- Sujay Pawar joined Automattic as a Co-Investor and Advisor: He is the co-founder of Brainstorm Force
- Meet WPShowOff: Project of Derek Ashauer, showing off websites built with WordPress since 2023
- WP Photos Info from HeroPress: Once a week, this site takes an image from the WPPhotos project, finds the photographer, and asks questions about the image.
- The WP Minute+ podcast: The WP Minute+ podcast will feature long form conversations and interviews, while the original WP Minute will continue to offer short-form news.
- What if we did another women/nonbinary-led release for WP6.4? Asked Josepha Haden Chomphosy. What do you think?
- Getty Images sues Stability AI for copyright infringement: Getty Images sues Stability AI for allegedly copying over 12 million photos, captions, and metadata without permission.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- A look under the hood at Engine Awesome: From WPTavern
- Biggest data breaches you need to know about: From Astra
- How malware can abuse the .htaccess File: from Jetpack
- The 50-Step WordPress SEO Checklist to boost your organic traffic in 2023: From RankMath
- How to speed up your WordPress website: From YoastSEO
- Most (and least) popular agency website navigation items: From The Admin Bar
- Still not using WordPress Blocks? The time is now.: From Judith Kallos
- How to travel to an international WordCamp: From MasterWP
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- An extensive guide to JavaScript Design Patterns: From Kinsta
- How to create a multi-column list in WordPress Block Editor: From Gutenberg Hub
- Creating custom block styles in WordPress themes: From WordPress Developer Blog
- How to Manage the WordPress Heartbeat API: From iThemes
- Typographic hierarchy in print, web & app design: From Pimp my Type
📆 Save The Dates
- WordCamp Cebu 2023 on February 11, 2023 in Mandarin: Grab your tickets.
- 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. You can also Ask Matt Anything
- WordCamp Entebbe on March 10-11, 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: It is the first regional WordCamp in Kerala, India. Call for Sponsors, Speakers and Volunteers are out.
- 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.
- php[tek] 2023 on May 16-18, 2023: It is the longest-running web developer conference in the United States that focuses on the PHP programming language.
- WordCamp Lisboa on May 19 & 20: It is one of the largest WordPress conferences in Portugal.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Tickets are available now.
- 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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