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📰 WordPress & Around
- WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) now available: Please help test it
- WordPress 6.1 Field Guide: WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 1 is out and don’t forget to check it.
- Performance Field Guide for WordPress 6.1: WordPress 6.1 introduces a number of important performance improvements which will have an impact in all aspects. The most significant improvements are done in caching
WP_Queryas well as REST API. - WordPress 6.0.3 is now available: This release features several security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately.
- Gutenberg 14.3 has been released: It continues to build on recent writing flow improvements, refines image block creation via drag-n-drop, and adds an enhanced tools panel to the Styles interface.
- Active Install Data Story Update: Not a breach but abuse of an endpoint: John James Jacoby provided more technical details on the WPwatercooler podcast. But there is no news regarding getting the data back and Mark Zahra has summed up the incident in his tweet.
- Renaming WordPress.org Support to Documentation: The current “Support” page located at WordPress.org/support/, actually shows documentation and does not provide any method for visitors to interact with humans. Nicholas Garofalo has asked Meta to move ahead with re-titling the page and updating its nav item to “Documentation”.
- Content only editing and other locking updates in WP 6.1: WordPress 6.1 comes with content-only editing for blocks, patterns, and templates, as well as a template lock inheritance for the Column block.
- Fluid font sizes in WordPress 6.1: In WordPress 6.1, “Fluid font sizes” make their debut. This enables font sizes to adapt to changes in screen size.
- Simplified data access with new React hooks in WordPress 6.1: The
@wordpress/core-dataJavaScript package in 6.1 ships new React hooks that make accessing WordPress data easier than before. - Block API changes in WordPress 6.1: WordPress 6.1 introduces several new Block API features available via the
block.jsonfile. Many of the recent Block API features, including the ones in this post, depend onblock.jsonbeing available on the server. - Enhanced TypeScript support in WordPress 6.1: TypeScript developers can now build strongly typed data stores with autocompletion and static checks.
- WordPress 6.1 accessibility improvements: This post brings together the many accessibility improvements and fixes to look forward to.
- Miscellaneous Core changes for WordPress 6.1: Very helpful post for developers.
- New React hooks in WordPress 6.1: Another helpful post for developers.
- Roster of design tools per block: In this post, you will find a roster for quick reference showing which block has which controls.
- Global terms removed in WordPress 6.1: Global terms is an old feature from the MU days of WordPress and had been abandoned and unmaintained for a significant amount of time, and in WordPress 6.1, it has finally and officially been removed.
- Goodbye Google Webmaster Guidelines, hello Google Search Essentials: Google is launching a simplified version of the Google Webmaster Guidelines and rebranding it as Google Search Essentials.
- Google launching passkey support for Android, Chrome: The feature, which will roll out to all users “later this year,” will automatically enter saved passwords when a user’s credentials are verified.
- Google replaces title tags with site names for homepage results: Google appears to have stopped showing title tags for mobile search results for the entire website such as in searches for the name of a website which generally show the home page.
- Microsoft Bing is getting an AI image generator: Microsoft Bing is getting an AI image generator in the coming weeks, which allows users to turn text into digital art. Image Creator is powered by DALL-E 2 image generator technology developed by OpenAI.
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- WordPress vulnerability in Shortcodes Ultimate impacts 700,000 sites: The United States government National Vulnerability Database (NVD) published an advisory about Shortcodes Ultimate WordPress plugin, warning that it was discovered to contain a Cross Site Request Forgery vulnerability.
- Cloudflare DDoS threat report 2022 Q3: This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape – as observed across Cloudflare’s global network. It shows an increase in DDoS attacks compared to last year.
- Microsoft’s out-of-date driver list left Windows PCs open to malware attacks for years: Microsoft failed to properly protect Windows PCs from malicious drivers for nearly three years, according to a report from Ars Technica. A Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement, We have corrected this and it will be serviced in upcoming and future Windows Updates.”
- Cyberattackers spoof Google Translate in unique phishing tactic: The campaign uses a combination of tactics and a common JavaScript obfuscation technique to fool both end users and email security scanners to steal credentials.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- There are 160 Block themes in Repository currently.
- Molten theme: A theme for passionate chefs and restauranteurs.
- UniBlock theme: A beautifully designed theme from WPZOOM that is well-suited for businesses and freelancers.
- Bookwise theme: It is designed specifically to help independent authors & writer-preneurs showcase their work and market their personal brand.
- Plugin Dependencies Feature Plugin now ready for testing: It allows plugin authors to specify any WordPress.org-hosted plugin(s) that are required for their plugins to function. Testing will be open until December 1, 2022.
- DebugMe plugin: It helps view WordPress logs in a convenient and searchable way and revise your server settings.
- OnzAuth plugin: This plugin replaces the standard WordPress login form with one that enables passwordless email magic link and biometric login.
- Gift Pack for Woocommerce plugin: It will let customers add gift packing/wrapping to individual products from product pages or choose Gift Pack design directly from the product page with message for Gift Pack.
👥 Community News
- The New MyKinsta: The custom-built powerful dashboard has gone through a major overhaul to pave the way for Kinsta’s upcoming hosting solutions.
- WPTurbo from the WPMarmite family: The goal of this website is to help create WordPress websites faster and is intended for developers.
- 10up publicly releases its Gutenberg Best Practices: 10up publicly opened up and open-sourced its WordPress Gutenberg Best Practices documentation.
- Hosted WooCommerce solution coming to WordPress.com in 2023: WooCommerce is developing its own hosted, turnkey solution in collaboration with hosting partners and WordPress.com will be the first to pilot the product in February 2023.
- SEOPress 6.0 released: It has Matomo Analytics stats in WP Dashboard, huge performance improvement and Product schema updated.
- Nexcess to provide premium caching to all customers with new Object Cache Pro partnership: Valued at $95 a month, the premium plugin will be included free of charge on Managed WordPress, Managed WooCommerce, dedicated WordPress clusters, and flexible cloud plans.
- WordPress plugins begin adopting Cloudflare CAPTCHA Alternative Turnstile: Turnstile is a privacy-focused solution for blocking spammers from any kind of form that a user might fill out and doesn’t collect user information.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- WordPress 6.1: Hot Takes for enterprise content creators: From WordPress VIP
- WordPress 6.1 Beta: First look into the next major release: From Hostinger
- What’s new in WordPress 6.1: From Kinsta
- Adding a custom icon to the Social Links Block should not be this hard: From Cameron Jones
- WordPress’ secret world of JavaScript: From Brian Coords
- Web3 and WordPress: What to expect from the future (+Plugins): From Torque
- Solutions to the Active Growth problem: From WP Watercooler
- What should plugin developers expect from WordPress?: From The WP Minute
- The grumpy designer takes on WordPress malware: From Speckyboy
- Can WordPress avoid the pitfalls of the no-code revolution?: From MasterWP
- What is UX (and why bother)?: From YoastSEO
- What is a content audit?: From Search Engine Land
- Nick Diego on why you should be excited about the possibilities of WordPress Blocks: From WPTavern
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- How to create a WordPress block theme: From Torque
- Create Pro WordPress page layouts in just 10 minutes: From Jamie Marsland
- Let’s code: creating custom templates and template parts: From WordPress.tv
- Rendering external API data in WordPress Blocks on the front end: From CSS-Tricks
- How to fix the WordPress login redirect loop issue: From iThemes
- Effective methods to resolve WordPress permalinks not working: From RankMath
- How to find and fix every 404 error on your WordPress site: From Independent Analytics
- How to improve First Contentful Paint (FCP) in WordPress: From Jetpack
- Getting started with Google Analytics 4: From SEOPress
- WooCommerce SEO: The definitive guide for your online store: From Search Engine Journal
📆 Save The Dates
- Adobe MAX Creativity Conference on October 20: In-person event in Los Angeles. Attend virtually for free from 18–20 October.
- WordCamp Valencia (Spain) on October 21-22: It is the 1st WordCamp specialized in Design.
- WordPress Accessibility Day on November 2-3: A free, 24-hour virtual conference focused on building accessible websites in WordPress. Registration is now open and it’s free to attend.
- WordCamp Nagpur (India) on Nov 12: WordCamp Nagpur is now accepting speaker applications.
- WordFest Live on November 18: This will be the fourth 24-hour WordFest Live, and the theme is Transformation.
- WordCamp Kolkata (India) on December 17-18: It will be an in-person event
- WordCamp Asia 2023 on February 17-19 at IconSiam, Bangkok Thailand: Call for speakers and media partners is out. Last batch of tickets will be released on the 19th October.
- WordCamp Phoenix on March 24 & 25, 2023: More details awaited.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Call for organizers is out.
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