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WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy clarified that the 5% in Five for the Future is an aspiration, not a requirement. Pledges indicate contributors’ intentions but any amount they are able to offer is always welcome.
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- WordPress Executive Director says 5% in Five for the Future Program Is aspirational: Haden Chomphosy said “Contribution to open source is a question and indication of privilege. So the 5% is not a requirement, but rather it’s an aim. It could refer to 5% of your time or 5% of your resources,
- Toxic scorekeeping: The case against ‘Five for the Future’: “To move the community forward, we need to leave the ‘five percent’ pressure behind” says Rob Howard from MasterWP
- Call for supporters: Reactivating WordPress Meetups around the world: The Community Team is embarking on a global meetup reactivation project and is seeking Supporters who are willing to conduct personal check-ins and follow up with meetup organizers.
- WordPress 6.0 retrospective recap: This post summarizes the feedback received from the 6.0 retrospective.
- Proposal for a WordPress plugin checker: The post proposes a tool that analyzes a given WordPress plugin and flags any violations of plugin development requirements and best practices with errors or warnings.
- Proposed editorial process for the new Developer Blog: The name of the new site is ‘Developer Blog’ instead of the earlier “Developer News Blog”. The Meta team has almost finished setting it up.
- Twitter vows legal fight after Musk pulls out of $44 billion deal: Musk’s decision is likely to result in a protracted legal tussle between the billionaire and the 16-year-old San Francisco-based company.
- Google releases Ads Editor version 2.1 with 13 new features: The new update will include recommendations, warning dialogues, and custom questions for lead forms.
- Google offering concessions to avoid DOJ lawsuit: Google is offering to split the part of the business that auctions and places ads on websites and apps into a separate company under the Alphabet umbrella.
- Google Ads rolls out diagnostic insights: Diagnostic insights will help you identify problems preventing campaigns from showing, causing low engagement, making it hard to measure conversions, and more.
- Twitter tests CoTweets and co-authored tweets: The new CoTweet feature lets two Twitter users collaborate to gain additional visibility with a new audience. It is in limited testing.
- Pinterest adds 4 new features: Reacting to increased e-commerce demand, Pinterest added these features – Product Tagging on Pins, Video in Catalog, Shop Tab on Business Profiles, and API for Shopping.
- Microsoft launches auto-updates for shopping campaigns: The new feature aims to help advertisers sell more products by automatically updating prices and availability. It also launched Merchant Promotions Coupons that will allow advertisers to promote products directly from the Microsoft Shopping Campaigns inventory with special offer tag
🚨 Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Microsoft surreptitiously addressed ShadowCoerce vulnerability: Microsoft has acknowledged that it patched a previously known ShadowCoerce vulnerability, which could allow attackers to target Windows servers in NTLM relay attacks.
- CISA warns against exploitation of PwnKit Linux vulnerability: It grants an unprivileged attacker the administrative rights on the target machine which in turn compromises the host.
- RedAlert: A ransomware that targets multiple OS platforms: RedAlert (aka N13V), a new ransomware threat, has been found, that encrypts both Windows and Linux VMWare ESXi servers.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Davis Blocks theme: A clean, simple and fast block theme built for Full Site Editing from Anders Norén. WP Tavern has looked into this theme in detail.
- Bright Mode theme: A block theme from Brian Gardner for those who love modern design and vibrant colors. It is a work-in-progress.
- Lawson theme: A stunning and elegant theme made for the new WordPress Full Site Editor.
- Intrace theme: FSE theme for interior designer, architecture, real estate and furniture designer websites.
- Ajax Chat Pro plugin: SAC Pro makes it easy for your visitors to chat with each other on your website.
- Block Patterns for Food Bloggers plugin: A beautiful collection of block patterns for food bloggers. WP Tavern has looked into this plugin in detail.
💵 Investments & Acquisitions
- Pirate Forms has been acquired by WPForms: All Themeisle Membership users are eligible to get a one-year license of WPForms Pro for no extra pay.
👥 Community News
- A new starter site from Creative Themes – Catering: Check the demo here. It is ideal for small bakeries, take-aways and catering agencies.
- New enterprise-grade hourly hosting backups from WPMUDEV: It costs only $5/site/month. Also they have made their Client Billing free as it hit $500K volume Pprocessed.
- TasteWP introduced a pro version: The plans for this sandboxing solution start from 2.98 USD/month.
- The WP Awards 2022 Call for Sponsorships: Submit your interest for the Sponsorship Level as it has a first-come serve basis.
- WordPress Documentation team onboarding sessions published: Milana Cap, the Documentation co-lead has published the videos.
- World Wide Web Day is coming and WP Briefing wants you: The WP Briefing podcast is looking for 6-8 experienced WP contributors of diverse backgrounds. If interested, please get in touch here.
- 10 Principles for fair choice screens and effective switching mechanisms: In an open letter to those with the power to create effective user choice screens, the CEOs of DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, and Qwant’s President published a set of common-sense principles to improve this user experience online.
- 2022 World Usability Day Design Challenge: The submissions should showcase excellent user-focused design for a general audience. Last date for submission is September 20, 2022.
- Bobby App: A free app that backs up your Google Docs by converting them to usable formats to your local system.
- Matt Mullenweg thinks Tumblr can be a better Twitter than Twitter ever was: From TechCrunch
- HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 flipped the performance optimization script: From WebDevStudios
- GenerateBlocks, Kadence Blocks, and Stackable Blocks compared: From David McCan
- Lessons for WordPress from 1975: From MasterWP
- Working in the software industry, circa 1989: From Jim Grey
- Swapping Google Fonts for Bunny Fonts: From Ben Gillbanks
- 2022 Logo Trend Report: From LogoLounge
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- Turning a shortcode into a block: From Jonathan Bossenger
- How to create an FSE Theme: From WebDevStudios
- Beginner’s guide to Gutenberg Blocks: From Ask Design Blog
- Managing your WordPress site with Git and Composer: From Delicious Brains
- How to easily use AdSense in WordPress: From Torque
- How to improve First Input Delay (FID) in WordPress: From Jetpack
- How to reduce Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) on WordPress: From Jetpack
- How to fix the Elementor not loading error: From Kinsta
📆 Save The Dates
- Gutenberg Times to showcase the Pew Research Center’s “Block First Approach on July 22: The Live Q&A session will be co-hosted by Birgit Pauli-Haack and Anne McCarthy.
- 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: It will only have around 650 people – much lower than the 2,000 persons in the previous editions. You can read about it here.
- 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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