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WordCamp Asia is just around the corner and our team has already landed in Thailand! If you are coming, please meet us and say hi.
Also tickets are out for our WordCamp Kerala. Grab yours before they are over and don’t miss the chance to visit ‘God’s own country’.
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📰 WordPress & Around
- Gutenberg 15.1 adds Openverse integration: Gutenberg 15.1 was released this week with Openverse integration in the Media tab. Another major highlight in 15.1 is the ability to add custom CSS on a per-block basis.
- Global Community Sponsors for 2023 announced: Gold-level sponsors include Bluehost, Weglot, GoDaddy and Automattic, while WooCommerce is a Bronze-level sponsor.
- WordPress.com is testing AI-generated images and content: WordPress.com is currently testing two new blocks (developed through a partnership with OpenAI, creators of ChatGPT and DALL·E) for generating images and paragraph content using AI.
- WordPress’s Wapuu joins the #WP20 celebration: Sporting a celebratory party hat and riding a WP20th Anniversary balloon, Wapuu is ready to party.
- Microsoft Advertising launches audience segments for Valentine’s Day: Microsoft Advertising has updated its platform with several new features, including automated bidding and last-touch attribution, in-market audience segments, and conversion tracking enhancements.
- Microsoft: Bing saw the largest relevancy jump in search in two decades: Bing Search saw “the largest jump in relevance in two decades” after applying the AI model to the Bing core search ranking engine.Also over one million people signed up to try the new AI-powered Bing
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- WordPress Vulnerability Report – February 8, 2023: Regular report from iThemes
- Hackers breach Reddit to steal source code and internal data: Reddit suffered a cyberattack Sunday evening, allowing hackers to access internal business systems and steal internal documents and source code.
- Malicious Google ads sneak AWS phishing sites into search results: A new phishing campaign targeting Amazon Web Services (AWS) logins is abusing Google ads to sneak phishing sites into Google Search to steal your login credentials.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Code Blog theme: Code Blog is a clean and minimal blog theme perfect for bloggers.
- Fasterly theme: Fasterly is fast, fully customizable & beautiful WordPress theme suitable for blog, personal portfolio, business website and WooCommerce storefront.
- Effortless Email Marketing Automation for Your Funnels – Mail Mint plugin: It is specially built for marketers and funnel creators to use email marketing automation easily
- Download Monitor & Paid Membership Pro integration plugin: To allow only certain Paid Membership Pro groups users to download from your website and set a maximum number of downloads based on their subscription duration.
- AVIF Support plugin: It supports AVIF images in WordPress by overcoming wp issues and limits regarding uploading, displaying and generating AVIF images.
💵Investments, Acquisitions & Partnerships
- WPLift officially joins the UnlimitedWP family: Launched in 2019, UnlimitedWP is an international WordPress development company based in Boston, USA, and Ahmedabad, India. One of the most significant changes you’ll see on WPlift down the line is a new series of interviews with top WordPress developers worldwide.
- FeedHive acquired TinyKiwi: FeedHive users can now create beautiful visuals and final touch images directly from FeedHive.
- iThemes is partnering with Patchstack: Patchstack’s vulnerability database and Threat Feed will power the iThemes Security Site Scan feature and provide early warnings about potential vulnerabilities in WordPress sites protected by iThemes’ security plugins.
👥 Community News
- Wildebeest: the Fediverse on Cloudflare: An open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare’s Supercloud.
- wp.new from InstaWP: Use it to test something quick in WordPress. Sites live for 8 hours. No login is required, but creating a free account can increase the limit to 48 hours
- Introducing the Rocket.net Private Cloud for WordPress: Rocket.net launched the World’s first edge-first platform leveraging a global network in front of every hosting server.
- Meet Setary: It helps bulk edit WooCommerce products and variations in a lightning-fast spreadsheet environment.
- The Team Experience Index from TeamWP: Founded by James Giroux, Team Experience Index is the only employee engagement survey designed specifically for WordPress product and service companies. You can join the Beta now.
- WooCommerce to launch WC Blocks extensibility monthly chat: The chat is being run as a three-month pilot program with different topics each month.
- Yoast SEO 20.1 is out: Mastodon integration and inclusive language improvements are the highlights.
- Stackable 3.7.0 released: It introduces a new Horizontal Scroller Block and the new Countdown block.
- New updates available for all WPML Form plugins: WPML team released updates to the WPML glue plugins that let you create multilingual forms with Gravity Forms, WPForms, Ninja Forms, and Contact Form 7.
- WPMarmite celebrates its 12th anniversary: They also have a giveaway.
- GoDaddy to lay off 8% of its workforce: Most impacted roles are in the U.S., affecting multiple levels in the company and every division. The layoffs are due to slower growth in a prolonged, uncertain macroeconomic environment.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- What’s new in WordPress 6.2: From GoDaddy
- Wordfence Intelligence CE Weekly Vulnerability Report: From Wordfence
- What is vulnerability: An in-depth understanding: From Astra
- Omnichannel Ecommerce: Brick-and-mortar not required: From WooCommerce
- 5 Web design trends to expect in 2023: From CodeinWP
- If Python is too slow for you, Crystal could be your savior: From TNW
- Torque Social Hour: Using CodeWP and AI to generate WordPress snippets: From Torque
- How I built 3 WordPress plugins in 10 MINUTES using ChatGPT AI: From Jamie Marsland
- Building a Freemium Model: From MasterWP
- Naoko Takano on the importance of the first WordCamp Asia: From WPTavern
- WordCamp Asia 2023 builder tips from the speakers: From Do_the Woo
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- Quick tip: Creating a custom webpack configuration file: From Gutenberg Times
- How to fix your WordPress memory exhausted error: From weDevs
- How to use social media to reach your audience: From YoastSEO
- Creating social proof elements with Oxygen: From Oxygen
- Largest Contentful Paint explained: How to improve your time: From Kinsta
📆 Save The Dates
- WordCamp Asia 2023 on February 17-19 at IconSiam, Bangkok Thailand: You can watch it via livestream.
- 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. Tickets are available now.
- 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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