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It’s 2024! We wish all our dear readers a prosperous and successful year filled with joy, achievements, and exciting opportunities! Keep supporting us.

The call for release volunteers for the major releases in 2024 is now live. The Themes and Community teams also have new representatives for 2024.

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📰 WORDPRESS & AROUND

All the updates around WordPress and its closely related technologies

Call to action: 2024 major releases call for volunteers

The call for volunteers for the upcoming major releases of WordPress in 2024 is now live.

• WordPress end of year celebrations!: The post highlights a few of the projects from 2023 that the various teams are proud of.
• WordPress performance impact on Core Web Vitals in 2023: This post summarizes and highlights the impact that WordPress has had on Core Web Vitals (CWV) in the field in 2023, providing a metric-based retrospective at the end of the year.
• Gutenberg 17.3 released: The latest update introduces a summary of changes in global styles revision history, updates to the preference panel, and many more.
• Introducing new Themes Team representatives for the 2024 edition: The three new representatives are Acosmin, Ganga Kafle, and Shiva Shanker Bhatta.
• Community Team Reps for 2024: The selected reps for 2024 are Isotta Peira, Shusei Toda, Leo Gopal, and Junko Nukaga.
• A Year in Themes Team – 2023: The post provides a quick overview of the WordPress themes team’s contribution to Trac tickets as well as block theme stats in 2023. 1413 new Themes and 300 Block themes were made live.
• Training Team 2023 year in review: The Training Team has provided a quick recap of all their accomplishments in 2023. Three new programs were created for the Training Team and 49 badges were awarded to Training Team Contributors.
• Google may layoff 30,000 employees as AI improves operational efficiency: Google may potentially lay off 30,000 employees soon across its ad sales division.

🚨 WEB SECURITY & VULNERABILITIES

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

Critical SQL injection found in Porto Theme’s plugin:

The vulnerability that allows any unauthenticated user to perform SQL injection was recently patched. Users are to update to the latest version immediately.

• File inclusion vulnerability fixed in Essential Blocks 4.4.3: All users are to update to the latest version immediately.
• WordPress vulnerability & patch roundup December 2023: Monthly vulnerability report from Sucuri.
• WordPress vulnerability report — December 20, 2023: Weekly vulnerability report from SolidWP.
• Wordfence Intelligence weekly WordPress vulnerability report (December 11, 2023 to December 17, 2023): There were 16 vulnerabilities disclosed in 16 plugins.

🔌 NEW PLUGINS & THEMES

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

Trellick theme

A blog theme with four style variations.

• Qoe theme: A minimal theme.
• Travel Boost theme: A theme suitable for travel websites.
• Omnisend for Contact Form 7 add-on plugin: The plugin allows for automatically sending form data and contact information to Omnisend.
• Fast smooth scroll plugin: This plugin enhances user experience by enabling smooth scrolling for anchor links.

👥 COMMUNITY NEWS

Updates and News from the WordPress Community

MayaWP an AI SaaS for WordPress

MayaWP a project from Krishna Kant Chourasiya is a set of AI automation tools for WordPress.

• All new Conversion Bridge: With this users can add conversion tracking for many popular WordPress plugins with many privacy-focused analytics platforms in a single plugin.
• Wedges from Lemon Squeezy: An open-source design system & UI component library for React.
• Introducing TWC: A lightweight library to create Tailwind CSS Components in one line.
• React Aria from Adobe: A library of unstyled React components and hooks that help users build accessible, high-quality UI components.
• Drupal 10.2 is now available: The latest release improves content and block management, menu and taxonomy organization, permission administration, and more.
• A new Laravel Octane integration: FrankenPHP:  The latest Laravael Octane integration is with FrankenPHP, a modern PHP server, developed by Kévin Dunglas, that supports modern web features such as early hints, automatic SSL certificate management, and Zstandard compression.
• Brian Gardner has launched his YouTube channel: The announcement was made via X and the areas of focus for the channel will be design and WordPress.
• Advice by renowned founders of 100 WordPress businesses: WPfounders recently hit a major milestone, securing 100 stories from various WordPress business founders. They’ve compiled key advice from each story to inspire young entrepreneurs venturing into the WordPress ecosystem.
• Gravity SMTP Beta: Test it Today!: Beta 2 is now available and brings forth updated string prefixes throughout the codebase and database from gsmtp to gravitysmtp.
• What’s new in ZipWP: The latest update brings support for multisite, and preparations for the release of public APIs are going on.

🔖 INTERESTING READS & PODCASTS

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

• Storing my WordPress commits in day one: From Aaron Jorbin
• Plugins: Just sexism: From Half-Elf on Tech
• We can:has it all: From Ryan Mulligan
• OCS 2023 Fireside chat: Matt Mullenweg:  From COSS community
• Embracing the WordPress community: A year of growth and gratitude: From Jonny Harris
• Year in review 2023: Our highs, lows, and goals for the next year: From Freemius
• How do you manage a declining plugin?: From Cameron Jones
• Mamas, don’t let your babies replace writers with AI: From WP Product Writeup
• The business north star: From Kitchen Sink WP
• Reflections on State of the Word: From WordPress Briefing
• Thomas Fanchin on community engagement in WordPress sponsorship: From WP Tavern Jukebox
• Web design trends 2024: From Indystack
• What is a Content Security Policy (CSP): From Sucuri
• Exploring WordPress styling techniques: From WebDevStudios
• 40+ Best WordPress articles of 2023: From CodeinWP
• SEO basics: What is a keyword strategy?: From Yoast
• SEO year in review 2023: The year of generative AI: From Search Engine Land
• Google algorithm updates 2023 in review: Core, reviews, helpful content, spam and beyond: From Search Engine Land

🛠 GUIDE ZONE – HOWTO’S and MORE

Handpicked fresh guides from WordPress circle

• Extending plugins using custom SlotFills: From WordPress Developer Blog
• How to create a healthy GitHub repository: From Joost de Valk
• A hands-on guide to listing databases and tables in Postgres: From Kinsta
• How to hide a WordPress theme name: From RankMath
• How to create tables in WordPress: From Jetpack

📆 SAVE THE DATES

Do not miss a WordPress event ever again

• Kolkata CareerCamp 2024: The event will take place on 6th January, Saturday, 2024.
• NextGen Jakarta 2024: The event will take place on 27 January 2024. The call for volunteers is now open.
• WordCamp Asia on March 7-9, 2024: The third batch of tickets was released and are still available. WordCamp Asia is also searching for its 2025 location.
• WordCamp Europe on 13-15 June 2024: The call for speakers and sponsors is live.

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• 40% off for Fluent Forms plugin
• 50% off at Formidable Forms
• 40% off for FluentCRM plugin
• 60% off for WP Social Ninja plugin 
• Upto 95% off for PitchGround products 
• Upto 75% off WordPress Hosting plans at InMotion Hosting
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