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WordPress has turned 20 and we turned 3 on May 27 🎂. It was truly a momentous occasion for us 🎉. We have made several exciting plans and we promise to be more active in the WordPress community and make more contributions.

Matt Mullenweg has officially launched the Audrey Scholars program. Gutenberg 15.9 will pack in some exciting new blocks built with the Interactivity API and also a critical vulnerability in Elementor was recently patched.

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📰 WORDPRESS & AROUND

All the updates around WordPress and its closely related technologies

Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress

WordPress is celebrating its 20th anniversary and Automattic-sponsored contributor Josepha quickly recounts the elapsed time and also talks about the future roadmap.

• WP20 & Audrey Scholars: Matt Mullenweg on the 20th anniversary of WordPress has officially launched the Audrey Scholars Program. Matt says, “ It is, like all things, an experiment, but I’m curious to see how it unfolds and perhaps one day an Audrey Scholar could even take the responsibility of leading WordPress, when my capacity to do so has passed.”
• Building Blocks: The evolution of WordPress: The second edition documenting WordPress growth from 2013-2023 is now available to the general public. The series of documents covers the changes to the software and almost everything that WordPress faced, overcame, and much more.
• Automattic launches wp-now: The wp-now project currently in its alpha stage will allow users to create a local development environment. This is essentially a NodeJS app with a built-in PHP server powered by WordPress Playground.
• WordPress and Drupal Co-Founders Discuss Open Source, AI, and the Future of the Web: The private event brought the founders together for the first time. The areas of discussion were the benefits of open-source collaboration and also how AI is changing the developer experience.
• WordPress 6.2 Server Performance Analysis Summary: The WordPress 6.2 performance analysis report is now live and the results are promising. The report show improved template loading and rendering for classic themes, improved rendering of block widgets, and so on.
• Core Editor Improvement: Smoother Site Editing: Automattic sponsored contributor Anne McCarthy summarises the key areas of feedback that have been raised over the months and years with the FSE Outreach Program, particularly around revisions and the ability to preview themes.
• A glimpse into Gutenberg 15.9: Luis Herranz, an Automattic-sponsored contributor on Twitter gave us a glimpse into the new features we can expect with Gutenberg 15.9.
• Design Share: May 8—May 19:  The design team has shared an update on a few projects they have worked on over the past couple of weeks.
• Summary: Curating the Editor and building block themes for clients: A quick summary of the Hallway Hangout that was attended by 40 community members is now live. Also, the focus area for the next Hallway Hangout has also been proposed and will most probably be on building block themes.
• Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11: Incorporating AI into Windows 11 will bring a host of features such as co-pilot, extending Bing chat plugins to Windows,  a new Dev Home, and many more useful features.

🗣️TALK OF THE TOWN

🔥WordPress Turns 20

• WordPress is used by 63.2% of all the websites whose content management system we know. This is 43.1% of all websites.
• WordPress is turning 20, so let’s celebrate 20 ways WordPress has evolved: Get to know a bit more about WordPress, and its achievements over these long 20 years as WordPress VIP shares some interesting data.
• History of WordPress: A Twitter thread from Automattic explaining how it all started and how WordPress has grown over the last 20 years.
• 20 Years of WordPress: On the 20th anniversary of WordPress, Jonathan Wold explores what WordPress has to face in the coming 20 years.
• Travel through 20 years of WordPress and the Internet with WP Time Machine: A project from WPEngine to celebrate the 20th anniversary of WordPress.

🚨WEB SECURITY & VULNERABILITIES

A collection of web security and vulnerability news and updates for the past week

Wordfence Firewall Blocks Bizarre Large-Scale XSS Campaign

Wordfence has blocked nearly 3 million attacks against more than 1.5 million sites, since May 23, 2023, and attacks are ongoing.

• Wordfence Intelligence Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report (May 15, 2023 to May 21, 2023): 82 vulnerabilities were disclosed in 59 WordPress Plugins and 11 WordPress themes.
• WordPress vulnerability report – May 24, 2023: Weekly vulnerability report from ithemes.
• WordPress Elementor Website Builder Plugin <= 3.13.2 is vulnerable to Broken Access Control: The Broken Access Control vulnerability was patched in version 3.13.3  and users are advised to update to the latest version.

🔌 NEW PLUGINS & THEMES

Be one of the first ones to explore some fresh plugins and themes

Blockera theme

A block based starter theme with two style variations.

• Ogma theme: A fully customizable newspaper and magazine WordPress theme. The theme is RTL ready and WooCommerce compatible.
• Daytrip theme: A travel WordPress theme to showcase all your adventures across the globe.
• WPML GraphQL plugin: This new plugin will make it easier to build headless multilingual WordPress websites as it bridges WPML and WPGraphQL, enabling multilingual support within the GraphQL schema.
• RioVizual: WordPress table block plugin: The plugin allows users to create responsive tables quickly.
• BE Starter theme: A free starter theme to help you build hybrid WordPress themes.
• Product image hover addon for WooCommerce plugin: With this plugin, users can easily add an additional image that will be visible on mouse hover.
• Category wise posts with thumbnails plugin: A easy to use plugin to display posts category wise in the sidebar, a list of linked titles, and thumbnails of posts category wise.

👥 COMMUNITY NEWS

Updates and News from WordPress Community

Introducing the new Gravity Forms nonprofit license

This new nonprofit license will give users access to all Gravity Forms’ built-in functionality, all of its current add-ons, licensing for three sites, standard support, and more.

• Diversity & WordPress: Q&A with WordCamp Europe Global lead Evangelia Pappa: Rae Morey engages in a deep conversation with WordCamp Europe Global Lead Evangelia Pappa to learn about how WCEU is going to tackle the diversity issue.
• Yoast SEO 20.8: Fixes, enhancements, and a new Premium feature: The latest release improves the language analysis, a new feature to monitor inclusive language scores and also includes security and bug fixes.
• WP White Security is being rebranded:  WP White Security is being rebranded into Melapress. The rebranding is purely cosmetic and nothing else.
• Announcing WordPress Security Survey 2023: The WordPress Security Survey for 2023 is now live and aims to gain a clearer picture of the state of WordPress security in 2023 as well as identify trends from last year’s survey.
• The WP World: a WordPress Visual Directory: A visual directory of people in the WordPress community, created by Marcus Burnette.
• Find your muse In WordPress: The WP Photo directory needs photos!: The photos directory is in need of specific photos and is a good way to start your contribution to the WordPress project. There are also two campaigns running to increase community participation.
• Blog post idea generator: WPBeginner has launched a new free blog post generator to help users when it comes to generating content ideas.

🔖INTERESTING READS & PODCASTS

More blog posts and podcasts from WordPress Community you don’t want to miss

• WordPress at 20: The CMS that revolutionized the web: From Yoast
• 20 amazing WordPress facts at 20 years old #wp20: From 20i
• Celebrating 20 years of WordPress: From Torque
• History of WordPress: From InMotion
• How to secure your online store: A ecommerce security primer: From Sucuri
• Mario Santos and Luis Herranz on what the Interactivity API is and how you can use it: From WP Tavern Jukebox
• What to know about WordPress Playground:  WP Briefing
• What Is a Keylogger?: From Sucuri
• Press This: AI’s Place in a WordPress Agency: From Torque
• WordPress; 20th anniversary, a mini Series. episode 2 With Meher Bala, Robert Windisch, Simon Kraft and Tammie Lister: From WP Tavern Jukebox
• What makes for a great WordPress Product Brand, and Why you might want to rebrand now: From WP Product Talk
• WordPress offers two very different paths: That’s a good thing: From Speckyboy
• It’s time to get rid of the WordPress Gutenberg Plugin: From Pootlepress
• SEO copywriting: the ultimate guide: From Yoast
• Top 7 AWS vulnerability scanners in 2023: From Astra Security
• What is a security audit – A comprehensive take: From Astra Security
• Hands-on with Google’s new Search Generative Experience: From Search Engine Land
• 16 Best Keyword Research Tools For SEO: From Search Engine Journal

🛠 GUIDE ZONE – HOWTO’S and MORE

Handpicked fresh guides from WordPress circle

• Authentication in Laravel using Breeze: From Kinsta
• WordPress salts explained and why they matter for web Security: From Patchstack
• Curating the Editor experience with client-side filters: From WordPress Developer Blog
• Customizing core block style variations via theme.json: From WordPress Developer Blog
• A complete guide to the WordPress Block Editor: From Jetpack
• How to create a Headless WordPress site with React.js: From Kinsta
• Building a page with only patterns: From Learn WordPress
• How to add a blog or news page to any WordPress website: From Learn WordPress
• How to lazy load in WordPress (images & videos): From Jetpack
• The definitive guide to WooCommerce security:  From WooCommerce

📆 SAVE THE DATES

Do not miss a WordPress event ever again

• WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Tickets are available now.
• WordCamp Cartagena on June 10-11, 2023: Tickets are available now.
• WordCamp Iloilo on July 8, 2023: Call for sponsors is now open.
• 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. 
• WordCamp US 2023 on Aug 24-26, 2023: Call for sponsors is now open.

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