Hi,
It was a hectic week in the WordPress world. Acquisitions, proposals, new launches, security issues – all were there.
Things are on track for the next major release version 6.1 planned for later in 2022.
So grab your favorite drink and get to the news we have gathered for you.
Stay happy and safe.
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📰 Latest from WordPress
- WordPress 6.0.1 maintenance update released: WordPress 6.0.1 contains 13 bug fixes in Core and 18 bug fixes for the Block Editor.
- Gutenberg 13.7.0 RC1 released: Please help test it.
- WordPress Themes Directory adds Block Themes to Filter Menu: Meta contributors added a new “Block Themes” menu item to the filter menu on the directory homepage, a solution that some classic theme developers fought tooth and nail to discourage.
- WordPress Themes Team contributors get pushback on Proposal to Improve Block Themes’ Visibility in the Directory: Starting with WordPress theme developer and Themes Team contributor Dumitru Brinzan commented with strong opposition to the idea of promoting block themes.
- WordPress seeks user input on Homepage and Download Page redesign project: This project needs more diverse input from contributors across the ecosystem and regular WordPress users who visit the website. You can comment directly on the post if you have thoughts or suggestions.
- WordPress Performance Team proposes adding Persistent Object Cache and Full Page Cache to Site Health Checks: This proposal seeks to integrate two new Site Health checks for Persistent Object Cache and Full Page Cache into WordPress core, targeting the WordPress 6.1 release
- WordPress Performance Team is working on a module for SVG uploads: They are first aiming to allow users to upload SVG files without scripts and provide an SVG preview in the Media Library and have identified WordPress 6.2 as a realistic goal for proposing the module for core.
- Google adds 4 new features for Performance Max campaigns: The new features are Seasonality adjustments, Data exclusions, Explanations, and Optimization Score.
- Google launches Ad Creative Studio: The new feature allows advertisers to change ads aimed at multiple audiences and demographics dynamically.
- Google My Business mobile app has stopped functioning forever: This was expected when Google rebranded from Google My Business to Google Business Profile last November. Google had told us then that the Google My Business app will be retired completely in 2022.
- Google Analytics 4 has three new metrics: The new metrics added are Bounce rate, UTM term and UTM ad content & Conversion rate.
- An eSignature tool coming into Google Docs for its business users: the feature will work like a drag and drop, allowing you to add aspects, including signature and date signed to a Google Docs file.
- Twitter now lets you remove unwanted mentions: Twitter is rolling out a new feature called Unmentioning that will allow people to untag themselves from conversations.
- TikTok launches Inventory Filters for safe ad placements: The Inventory Filter provides brands with options to show or not show their content near brands or videos that aren’t similar.
- Instagram Subscriptions test adds 3 new features: The new features are now available to thousands of creators and will give them the ability to provide exclusive content to paid subscribers.
🚨 Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Sudden increase in attacks on Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons vulnerability: Please remove the now closed plugin from your website.
- Google confirms bug affecting ads & Analytics Reporting: Google Ads and Analytics are impacted by an ongoing issue affecting how data is reported.
- Mantis Botnet behind the largest HTTPS DDoS attack targeting Cloudflare customers: The most attacked industry verticals include internet and telecom, media, gaming, finance, business, and shopping.
- Microsoft Teams security vulnerability left users open to XSS via flawed stickers feature: The vulnerability was patched in March and the researcher was awarded a $6,000 bug bounty.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Axton theme: A free minimalist block portfolio WordPress theme for full site editing. It is suitable for a portfolio, photography showcase, or even a business website.
- Catch FSE theme: A block-based theme built in accordance of Full Site Editing features and comes with 15 different block patterns and 15 FSE Templates.
- Bonum theme: The first WooCommerce Full-Site Editing theme, Bonum is fully responsive and cross-browser compatible.
- Basti theme: A fully customizable, minimalist Block Theme for WooCommerce.
- Poe theme: A clean, flexible and fast block theme built with portfolios and blogs in mind from Anders Noren. Named in honor of the author Edgar Allen Poe.
- Variation Swatches for WooCommerce plugin: Use this plugin to convert dropdown boxes into highly engaging variation swatches.
- Database Access with Adminer plugin: A database administration tool that allows viewing and editing of databases tables, routines, triggers, etc.
- Fluent Query Logger plugin: This plugin will save all the selected database queries with useful information like backtrace, execution time and SQL statement.
- Multiple Carts, Persistent Carts, Abandoned Carts, MultiVendors for Woo plugin: A powerful, completely free multicart, multivendor and multiaddress extension with abandoned carts feature for your WooCommerce.
- Blocks Detector Finder plugin: The plugin analyzes your pages and posts to find all Gutenberg Blocks that are used, not used or missing on certain pages and posts.
💵 Investments & Acquisitions
- Equalize Digital sells WP Conference Schedule Plugin to the Events Calendar: “WP Conference Schedule was a distraction from our mission to improve accessibility in WordPress and took development and marketing time away from Accessibility Checker” said Equalize Digital CEO, Amber Hinds.
- WPLift.com sells for $160k: Daan Tol had acquired WPLift for $205k from Oliver Dale in 2016.
- Netflix, Microsoft partner for ad supported subscription plan: Microsoft announced that they had been selected as the new partner to help bring an ad-supported subscription plan to Netflix.
👥 Community News
- 100 Block themes supporting full-site editing: There were 100 FSE themes in the directory on 18th July but dropped to 98 on 19th July.
- Ellipsis launched WordPress Weather Report: According to the report, WordPress has been down -10.4% since January.
- StellarWP announced launch of LearnDash Cloud: LearnDash Cloud is a fully-hosted WordPress website that comes with LearnDash pre-installed. Also read “The marketing ‘Why’ behind LearnDash Cloud” from James Giroux
- WooCommerce 6.7 released: Please create a backup of your site and make sure that your theme and any other plugins are compatible before updating.
- Easy Digital Downloads version 3.0 is out: It’s been completely rebuilt with a custom database structure that is faster, more scalable, and more robust than anything happening in the WordPress community.
- Yoast SEO 19.3 is out: It has Schema improvements and new word complexity assessments bringing readability improvements to both humans and machines.
- The impact of the pandemic on the WordPress community: From CodeinWP
- Finding a second chance in life through WordPress: From HeroPress about Hari Shanker, Community Wrangler at Automattic from Kerala, India.
- Felix Arntz on WordPress and performance: From WP Tavern
- Converting your site to FSE: From WPwatercooler
- How to build an amazing product: From Matt Report
- Are millions of WordPress sites really under attack?: From Patchstack
- Why we need more recognition In WordPress: From James Giroux
- Contributing to WordPress: The good, the bad & the Polyglot: From Freemius
- Two proposals for Coding Standards in WordPress: From MasterWP
- An introduction to Block Templates: From WP Engine
- Builder basics – Designing advanced layouts with Core Blocks: From WordPress.tv
- 37 WordPress security statistics 2022: From HowToWP
- A WooCommerce migration and multisite case study with Multidots: From Do the Woo
- Wordle is becoming a board game: Wordle, the viral internet word game, is becoming a board game for sale in October. It will be called “Wordle: The Party Game.”
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- The beginner’s guide to WordPress Custom Fields: From ACF
- How to create a WordPress Child Theme: From Jetpack
- How to find, access, & edit wp-config.php in WordPress: From Jetpack
- How to fix the “Your Site Has No Hreflang Tags” Error in Google Search Console: From TranslatePress
- How to do a schema markup audit: From Search Engine Land
- How to set image description reminder in Twitter: From Twitter
📆 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.
- WooSesh on October 10-14: A live, virtual conference for WooCommerce store builders.
- WordPress Accessibility Day on November 2-3: A free, 24-hour virtual conference focused on building accessible websites in WordPress. Call for speakers is now open.
- WordCamp Asia 2023 on February 17-19 at IconSiam, Bangkok Thailand: Call for speakers and media partners is out.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Call for organizers is out.
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