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Last we celebrated the 6th anniversary of our parent company Awsm Digital Innovations. Though spread across 2 countries now, we had a great time.
Happy Independence Day to all our American friends who celebrated July 4th yesterday. Count your blessings and appreciate your freedom.
See you next week.
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📰 Latest from WordPress
- WordPress contributors propose improving Block Themes’ visibility in the directory: There are currently only 86 themes that support the full range of WordPress site editing capabilities.
- WordPress Performance Team revises proposal for WebP by default: The proposal includes providing a JavaScript snippet that detects browsers that lack WebP support and loads JPEGs instead. Revisions to the proposal have so far received mixed feedback.
- Proposal: Better REST API handling in JavaScript: The proposal extends the useEntityRecord hook to support editing and deleting WordPress data. Please share your feedback before July 18th.
- WordPress 6.1 is coming: WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy discusses planning for the major release and how you can get involved in the WordPress 6.1 release cycle.
- CMS market share monthly: 64.2% of sites use WordPress: WordPress is currently used by 64.2% of websites that have a CMS while Shopify is a distant second for June 2022 and accounts for 6.3%.
- Software Freedom Conservancy calls for GitHub boycott: The SFC contends that Microsoft and GitHub are exploiting FOSS for profit and that its behavior, relative to its peers (Amazon, Atlassian, and GitLab), is markedly worse when it comes to supporting FOSS.
- TikTok advertisers can now set custom attribution windows: An ‘attribution window’ refers to the time it takes for a customer to take action after an ad is clicked or viewed. Meanwhile, U.S. FCC commissioner declared TikTok a national security risk and requested Apple and Google remove TikTok from app stores.
- YouTube disables hidden subscriber counts: To fight creator impersonation, YouTube is disabling the option to hide subscriber counts.
- Google’s ‘deceptive’ account sign-up process targeted with GDPR complaints: Consumer rights groups in Europe have accused the advertising giant of deceptive design around the account creation process that they say steers users into agreeing to extensive and invasive processing of their data.
- New Firefox privacy feature strips URLs of tracking parameters: Mozilla Firefox 102 has a new privacy feature that strips parameters from URLs that are used to track you around the web.
- Meta’s shutting down its digital wallet, Novi: Meta says the wallet is shutting down on September 1st, 2022, and asks users to withdraw their funds “as soon as possible.”
🚨 Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Jenkins warns of security holes in 25 plugins: Jenkins, an open-source automation server for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), has published 34 security advisories covering 25 plugins used to extend the software.
- Gitlab patches critical RCE bug in latest security release: Users are urged to update to the latest version.
- Chromium browsers vulnerable to dangling markup injection: A recently-patched security hole in Chromium browsers allowed attackers to bypass safeguards against dangling markup injection’.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- X3P0 Legacy Widget plugin: X3P0 Legacy Widget enables the core WordPress Legacy Widget block for the WordPress block editor.
- Create Block Theme plugin: It can create standalone block themes and child themes. Also read WP Tavern‘s review of the plugin.
- Exclusive Blocks plugin: It adds extra bandwidth to the Gutenberg editor with a set of handy and powerful blocks.
- Smart Blocks plugin: It adds advanced and powerful Gutenberg Blocks and helps create websites without touching a single line of code.
- Juicy Contact Button plugin: The plugin displays a floating contact button with a flashing «Online» light and optional fields.
💵 Investments & Acquisitions
- Raidboxes becomes part of the team.blue family: Raidboxes is a leading WordPress hosting provider with over 16.000 customers in 55+ countries. Torben and Johannes, founders of Raidboxes, will keep leading the company.
👥 Community News
- WPBeginner turns 13 years old: Congrats team!
- SEOPress 5.8 is now available: It has better integration with the Block Editor and automatic cleaning of media file names.
- Rocket.net introduced WordPress access logs from the Edge: This unique feature will help customers understand the visitor side of activity on their sites.
- Bluehost Creator Awards 2022: The last date for entry submission is August 16. The awards seek to recognize and honor the talent and effort of business owners/bloggers and creative professionals in WP.
- Cloudways Agency Partners Directory launched: Members get access to exclusive benefits in order to grow more.
- WordCamp US 2022 tickets sold out: Demand was extremely high for tickets this year, and all available General Admission tickets and MicroSponsor tickets have been sold out in just 82 minutes. Tickets are refundable, so consider checking their page periodically.
- Envato Studio is shutting down: Envato Studio will be shut down by the end of August 2022 as Envato is making changes to its strategic direction.
- WPLift.com on sale: The current asking price is USD $50,500. Established in 2010, it is one of the largest and longest established blogs about WordPress in existence.
- Rich Tabor added the source code for his Gutenberg blocks in blocks repo: Do check it out.
- WP Engine’s Open web commitment: Genesis: From WP Engine
- WordPress Gutenberg Block news: From Jamie Marsland
- Open secrets: Forced updates in WordPress: From Post Status
- Why use WordPress: Pros and cons: From TranslatePress
- Sean Blakeley: The block pattern revolution: From WordPress.tv
- Coping with downward market trends: From Post Status
- How did the pandemic affect WordPress contributors?: From MasterWP
- Why the web is turning away from WordPress: From CloudCannon
- The impact of COVID-19 on WordPress and eCommerce: From Freemius
- Raquel Landefeld on the Power of community: From Women in WP
- Demystifying WordPress tech: Where can curiosity take you?: From The Kadence Beat
- Ten hottest eCommerce trends for 2022 and beyond: From WooCommerce
- Should you use an APM tool for your WordPress website?: From Torque
- Accessibility work is hard and shouldn’t be treated as spec work: Nicolas Steenhout on being asked by a large company to help them “understand best practices in terms of process & tools” without payment.
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- How to create a Gutenberg background shape generator: From Gutenberg Hub
- Using the React Hook useEffect: From WebDevStudios
- Why you should be using one page checkout in WooCommerce: From Kinsta
- How to add a cost calculator to a WordPress website: From WPLift
- How to add JavaScript to WordPress pages and posts: From Jetpack
- A guide for developers who want to become better writers: By Jonathan Bossenger
- How to create a headless WordPress site with multi-lingual functionality: From WP Engine
- Faster WordPress rendering with 3 lines of configuration: From Stoyan Stefanov
- Guide to WP-CLI command structure: From Delicious Brains
- What is Bot traffic and why you should care about it: From Yoast
- How to migrate to Google Analytics 4: From Search Engine Land
📆 Save The Dates
- How to develop a WordPress developer on June 30: Courtney Robertson sits down with a couple of folks to talk about mentorship, the benefits of being a mentor, and ways that you can get started
- WordCamp US 2022 on September 9-11: The Kim Parsell Memorial Scholarship also returns after 2 years. It will only have around 650 people – much lower than the 2,000 persons in the previous editions.
- WordCamp Nederland 2022 on September 15 & 16: Save the dates.
- Inclusive Design 24 on September 22: A free 24-hour online event for the global community to celebrate inclusive design and share knowledge and ideas.
- WordPress Accessibility Day on November 2-3: A free, 24-hour virtual conference focused on building accessible websites in WordPress.
- WordCamp Asia 2023 on February 17-19 at IconSiam, Bangkok Thailand: Call for sponsors is out.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Call for organizers is out.
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