Hi,
Did you make it to WordCamp Asia? Our team was there, and guess what? One of our teammates won an Apple Watch at YoastSEO’s lucky draw!
And we were so excited to find several fans of this newsletter! Eagerly waiting for the next WordCamp Asia.
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📰 WordPress & Around
- WordPress 6.2 Beta 2 released: Beta 2 includes fixes for ~71 issues along with the most recent Gutenberg plugin 15.1 release. It also has an important fix for how lazy loading is handled in block themes.
- Industry-wide tech layoffs impacting WordPress professionals: Layoffs.fyi, a layoffs tracking website, has logged 376 tech companies with total of 107,930 employees laid off. WP companies like GoDaddy, XWP, Human Made have already published their layoff plans. Easily Amused, Trew Knowledge, SiteCare, and other companies across Twitter, Mastodon, and LinkedIn are stepping up to help people find new work.
- Meetup.com follows through on commitment to improve website accessibility: Accessibility team reports that Meetup.com has completed an assessment with Deque, a well-respected accessibility consultancy. The assessment identified 732 issues that need to be resolved, which Meetup.com plans to address through two phases.
- LinkedIn: Top 10 in-demand skills in 2023: The top five skills in demand for 2023 are management, communication, customer service, leadership, and sales. The top five hard skills include software development, SQL, finance, Python, and Java.
- Susan Wojcicki, the CEO of YouTube, is stepping down: Susan Wojcicki has been with Google since its infancy, in fact, the first Google offices were out of her garage.
- Microsoft proposes AI ads in Bing: Microsoft has not provided a timeline for when brands can directly purchase ads within the chatbot.
- Google warns against using 403 or 404 status codes for Googlebot crawl rate limiting: Google is warning against using 404 and other 4xx client server status errors, such as 403s, for the purpose of trying to set a crawl rate limit for Googlebot. Instead, Google recommends you use Google Search Console’s crawl rate feature.
- Meta is bringing the blue verification badge to Facebook and Instagram: Meta Verified now allows users to acquire the highly sought-after blue verification badge on their Instagram and Facebook accounts. Users can achieve this by verifying their identity for a monthly fee of up to $15. Meta Verified is now available in New Zealand and Australia
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- Authenticated Local File Inclusion (LFI) vulnerability in Rank Math SEO plugin: This vulnerability allows any authenticated user with minimum Contributor role to perform local file inclusion with limited .php file extension on the WordPress server. Please update the plugin to at least version 1.0.107.3.
- Vulnerability in ShortPixel Enable Media Replace plugin: A high severity vulnerability was discovered in the plugin that could allow an attacker to upload arbitrary files.
- WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin: About 50 WordPress blogs have been backdoored with a plugin called fuser-master. The plugin contains JavaScript code that mimics the activity of a real visitor: scrolls the page, clicks on links, etc.
- GoDaddy fingers hacking campaign for 3-year run of breaches: Internet domain registrar GoDaddy says it is the victim of a yearslong hacking campaign that installed malware on internal systems and obtained source code.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Remove WP Admin Bar plugin: This plugin is helpful for removing the admin bar based on selected user roles.
- TinyPress plugin: An easy-to-use URL shortener that streamlines the process of sharing links online.
- Liquid ChatGPT plugin: You can effortlessly generate high-quality articles, pages, and posts.
- Royal Luxury Hotel theme: A Luxury Hotel WordPress Theme for hotel owners.
- Dark Fitness theme: A lite theme designed for fitness, gym, and workout websites.
- Blog Explorer theme: A simple blogging WordPress theme that can be used for blog sites
- Shopping Cart Woocommerce theme: A fully-featured e-Commerce theme designed for online stores and marketplaces.
👥 Community News
- Laravel v10 released: It introduces argument and return types to all application skeleton methods, as well as all stub files used to generate classes throughout the framework.
- Meet ChatWP: ChatWP is an AI answer bot that directly answers your WordPress questions. It’s been trained on all the official WordPress documentation and gives great answers about how to use, develop, and participate in WordPress.
- Wordfence 7.9.0 has been released: It lets you give your users the ability to configure 2FA on their profile pages.
- BuddyPress 11.1.0 maintenance release: This maintenance release fixes 3 bugs. Please update to BuddyPress 11.1.0 today.
- Meet AI Commits: A CLI that writes your git commit messages for you with AI.
- NeevaAI now available worldwide: NeevaAI, the ad-free and tracker-free AI-powered search tool is now available to users worldwide. It combines the capabilities of large language models like ChatGPT with the accuracy and up-to-date information of the Neeva search engine.
- WordCamp Asia 2024 in March 2024: Taipei, Taiwan will be the host city. Call for organizers is out.
- WordCamp London in early planning stages for September 2023: It has been nearly four years since London hosted a WordCamp. Those interested to attend can sign up for updates on the placeholder website, or follow the camp on Twitter or Mastodon.
DigitalOcean waves goodbye to 11 percent of staff: DigitalOcean told staff it was laying off about 11 percent, or approximately 200 employees. It has also conducted a management reorganization. Carly Brantz, chief marketing officer for DigitalOcean, will depart on April 1, 2023. - Redundancies at Human Made: This happened at the company for the first time and it is trying to connect laid-off employees with opportunities elsewhere.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- Is AI content helping or hurting your website?: From YoastSEO
- Top 10 WordPress security recommendations: From iThemes
- How WordPress media management can be improved: From Speckyboy
- Press This: Headless eCommerce with Bryan Smith: From Torque
- What is ChatGPT doing … and why does it work?: From Stephen Wolfram
- Paul Halfpenny on adding personalisation in WordPress: From WPTavern
- Tech layoffs for underrepresented people: From Underrepresented in Tech
- Quirks of WordPressers: From Kitchen SinkWP
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- How to improve First Contentful Paint (FCP) in WordPress: From CodeinWP
- Create and customize a Docusaurus site (With blog feature): From Kinsta
- Your guide to organizing the WordPress media library: From Barn2
- How to set up Google login in WordPress?: From Cozmoslabs
📆 Save The Dates
- 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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