Hi,
Last week, the WordPress world was buzzing in reaction to Matt’s comments on revamped WordPress homepage and download page. What do you think? Was his criticism uncalled for?
Yesterday India celebrated its 75th Independence Day. All Indians took part in ‘Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav’ to mark this glorious occasion.
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- This is not a good use of time…we have better places to spend our development time: Matt Mullenweg: He commented on the post about developing the redesigned Home and Download Pages by Alex Shiels, an Automattic-sponsored core contributor. “33 days since project kickoff doesn’t feel quick to me”, Matt said kicking off a storm.
- The owner of WordPress complaining (to his volunteers) that a block theme takes too long: Brian Coords from MasterWP criticized Matt’s comments in his tweet.
- Ben of LayerWP tweeted “More drama in WordPress land. F*ck me it’s like an episode of Eastenders.”
- Daniel Schutzsmith of #WPtalks was more concerned about the manner in which an employee-cum-volunteer was treated publicly. Matt replied that “Regardless of whether someone is a volunteer or sponsored, open source developers need to be able to debate and discuss our work in public, as we have since the dawn of wp-hackers, so that we arrive at the best outcome for users.” Daniel suggested “to learn to Lead With Empathy and Emotional Intelligence.”
- Chris Teitzel of Cellar Door Media and Lockr also thinks “the comments demeaning, they counter the very vision and direction the project is heading” besides being “publicly shamed for your work by the project lead.”
- Sé Reed of Kerredyn Collaborative feels that Matt’s comments “exemplifies WP’s “sponsored volunteer” problem. At the very least, this sponsor/employer crossover is awkward”.
- WordPress creator Mullenweg: Designing in Wix is faster: From Search Engine Journal on the same issue.
📰 Other WordPress News
- Twenty Twenty-Three default theme — Project kickoff: The new default theme for WordPress has begun development. There is now a repository for a stripped-back and minimal version of Twenty Twenty-Two, which can serve as the base theme.
- WordPress launches new Homepage and Download Page designs: Amidst the furore caused by Matt’s comments, WordPress.org is now sporting a new look with a refreshed, jazzy design that complements the recently updated News pages.
- Standardize npm script naming in the Gutenberg project: The naming was standardized to make understanding each script’s role easier and avoid confusion over conventions used when new scripts need to be added.
- Proposal to stop merging experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core: Adam Zielinski proposes restricting the experimental APIs to the Gutenberg plugin and never merging it to Core. He has called for contributors to stabilize APIs before merging them into core. Please submit your feedback before September 7th.
- Call for Ideas: WordCamp US 2022 Contributor Day: The Community Team wants your input on the tasks they should focus.
- Google no longer recommends using dynamic rendering for Google Search: Google has updated the dynamic rendering help documentation to now say Google no longer recommends using dynamic rendering and this is a workaround and not a long-term solution.
- Microsoft Bing adds Coupon Codes to shopping searches: Microsoft Bing is adding new annotations to shopping search results, including active coupon codes for retailers’ websites. Microsoft is also now showing ads for Microsoft 365 in Office 2021
- IndexNow attributed for 7% of all new URLs clicked on in Bing in the past month: Also Czech search engine Seznam.cz has adopted IndexNow.
- LinkedIn lets you add clickable links to photo posts: This gives you another way to drive traffic to your website from your business’s LinkedIn page or your personal profile.
- Wix integrates Google URL Inspection API: Wix is integrating Google’s URL Inspection API directly into the new Wix Site Inspection Tool, providing users with an easy way to achieve and maintain a good search presence.
- Facebook’s popularity plummets as YouTube takes top spot with teens: Fewer US teens are using Facebook, according to a new study that finds preferences are shifting toward YouTube and TikTok. Facebook is also testing default end-to-end encryption and encrypted backups in Messenger
- New privacy features on WhatsApp: WhatsApp announced three new privacy features: leaving groups silently, deciding who gets to see if you’re online, and screenshot blocking.
🚨Web security & Vulnerabilities
- Google Search outage causing major issues with search quality and indexing: A Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa caught on fire and caused these issues in Google Search.
- WordPress Vulnerability Report – August 10, 2022: Regular report from iThemes
- Google fined $60 million over Android location data collection: It is for misleading Australian Android users regarding the collection and use of their location data for almost two years, between January 2017 and December 2018.
- Zoom’s latest update on Mac includes a fix for a dangerous security flaw: The flaw could let a hacker take over your system
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- wp-tiranga plugin: It shows Indian national flag representation on the website for the occasion of the 75th Indian Independence day.
- CoSchool plugin: This LMS plugin has all the necessary tools to create, manage, and sell your courses.
- Carousel Module for Divi plugin: Helps Divi users to create beautiful and premium carousel sliders on websites.
- SEO Quick Images plugin: Helps you add images in your WordPress posts, based on titles.
👥 Community News
- WooCommerce 6.8 released: It includes Smart Shipping for new sites, Shop Base Tax for Local Pickup filters and creating a backup of your site is recommended before updating your website.
- OrganizeWP relaunched with “Old School Software Pricing Model”: The new product is now out of beta and for $29.00, users get access to updates and support for Version 2. OrganizeWP is selling licenses for the current major version with no subscription.
- New Divi Theme Builder Library with Divi Cloud Storage: The Divi Theme Builder Library is a new place where you can save your Theme Builder templates and template sets and is integrated with Divi Cloud, which means you can easily access your Theme Builder templates on every new website you build.
- WooCommerce will not register Customizer options for Block themes: Starting at version 6.9, WooCommerce will no longer register Customizer options when a block theme is active.The problem is that site owners can get confused by having both the “Edit site” and “Customize” menu links in the admin.
- ServerPress is shutting down: ServerPress, makers of DesktopServer, a WordPress local development tool, announced it is shutting down after 12 years in business. Founder Steve Carnam said he may have more news in the near future.
- WooCommerce bids goodbye to Yoda conditions: Deviating from the WordPress conventions, the WooCommerce team has decided that Yoda conditions are no longer a requirement or are even forbidden — depending on the part of the code — for the WooCommerce codebase.
- Newsletter Glue closes free plugin on WordPress.org: Five months ago the plugin’s authors warned users that they would be closing the free version and would no longer be updating it as of May 1, but the process of removing it was delayed until yesterday.
- Mailchimp’s Co-founder and CEO Ben Chestnut moving into a founder-advisor role: He is stepping down as CEO after 21 years. Rania Succar, who leads the QuickBooks Money team, will be Mailchimp’s new CEO.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- A “New” bug – PHP Object Injection via insecure instantiation; From Patchstack
- 10 Best cyber security audit companies: From Astra Security
- Core web vitals tools to boost your web performance scores: From SmashingMagazine
- Ukrainian website threat landscape throughout 2022: From Wordfence
- Rethinking WordPress product pricing models: From Jon Christopher
- Designing for long-form articles: From CSS-Tricks
- Paul Bearne on how working with WordPress allows for different lifestyles: From WPTavern
- What’s new in PHP 8.2: From Kinsta
- The legacy of CSS-Tricks: From Changelog
- Customer support at Visual Composer and 10 ways to improve your customer experience: From Visual Composer
- Why I’m not sold on ‘Five For The Future’: From Cameron Jones
- Pay transparency, mutual respect, and the community we need: From Post Status
- ServerPress closing: Reflecting on 12 years of business: From Matt Report
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- WordPress Action Hooks: From Learn WordPress
- What is an XML sitemap and why should you have one?: From Yoast
- Debugging in Local (by Flywheel): A beginner’s guide: From Torque
- How to switch your WordPress site from HTTP to HTTPS: From DeliciousBrains
- Guide to WordPress brute force protection: From Jetpack
- The definitive guide to finding and reporting fake Facebook pages: From Kinsta
- How to detect & remove malware from a WordPress site: From Jetpack
- 3 ways to enhance custom layouts with the WordPress Block Editor: From Speckyboy
📆 Save The Dates
- Online Workshop on Taking Block Patterns to the Next Level: Jon the online event hosted by Nick Diego on August 19, 2022.
- Web Accessibility in Mind Conference on September 7 & 8: This virtual conference will provide conference participants with content that will help them mature their practice in digital accessibility.
- WordCamp US 2022 on September 9-11: The schedules are out.
- 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.
- Adobe MAX Creativity Conference on October 20: In-person event in Los Angeles. Attend virtually for free from 18–20 October.
- 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.
- WordFest Live on November 18: This will be the fourth 24-hour WordFest Live, and the theme is Transformation. 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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