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📰 WordPress & Around
- Gutenberg 14.6 is released: You can add a variation picker to the Group block placeholder, generate color palettes automatically, and transform paragraph into heading via keyboard shortcut.
- Proposal to amend the inline documentation standards for multi-line comments: The proposal is to encourage multi-line comments to be done with slashes, same as single-line comments.
- Final releases of WordPress 3.7 – 4.0: The security team will be dropping support for WordPress versions 3.7 – 4.0 as of December 1, 2022.
- DevHub getting a new look: The design team has started with a new look for Developers documentation. Developers documentation is composed of handbooks and articles. At this time, the handbooks will not be redesigned.
- Meetup.com accessibility overlay update: In recent weeks, WordPress meetup organizers expressed their disappointment in Meetup.com’s new accessibility overlay, and brought this to the attention of the Community Team. Meetup.com was very receptive to the feedback and removed the accessibility overlay.
- New tool checks if Google Fonts are hosted locally: The makers of the Fonts Plugin, a commercial product with a free version on WordPress.org, have created a tool called Google Fonts Checker that will help website owners discover where their fonts are hosted.
- The lawsuit that could rewrite the rules of AI copyright: Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI are being sued for allegedly violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI. But the suit could have a huge impact on the wider world of artificial intelligence.
- YouTube brings photo editing & quizzes to community posts: YouTube is giving creators new tools to work with when publishing community posts, with the addition of photo editing features and interactive quizzes.
- Google Ads account managers shouldn’t contact clients directly: According to the reports, agencies who don’t respond to emails from Google Ads account managers are being met with threats from Google reps to contact clients directly.
- Google Search adds new spam policy: Policy circumvention: Google said if you violate this new policy, Google may restrict or remove the content from showing up in search or for some search features.
- Google is testing new Rewarded Ad Gate beta program for publishers: Google has just started testing a new rewarded ad beta program for publishers to serve their players long-form, playable ads.
- Google publishes document on more notable ranking systems: Google has published a new help document that talks about the more “notable” ranking systems Google has deployed over the years that are both currently in use and no longer in use in Google Search.
- Shopify is testing a new universal search feature: Google may have a new shopping competitor on its hands. Shopify is testing a new feature in its app that allows customers to search across all merchants on the platform.
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- WordPress Vulnerability Report – November 23, 2022: Regular report from iThemes
- Google pushes emergency Chrome update to fix 8th zero-day in 2022: The high-severity flaw is tracked as CVE-2022-4135 and is a heap buffer overflow in GPU, discovered by Clement Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis Group on November 22, 2022.
- 5.4 million Twitter users’ stolen data leaked online — more shared privately: Over 5.4 million Twitter user records containing non-public information stolen using an API vulnerability fixed in January have been shared for free on a hacker forum.
- Docker Hub repositories hide over 1,650 malicious containers: Over 1,600 publicly available Docker Hub images hide malicious behavior, including cryptocurrency miners, embedded secrets that can be used as backdoors, DNS hijackers, and website redirectors.
- Remote Code Execution vulnerability found in Windows Internet Key Exchange: According to a new advisory recently shared by security company Cyfirma, the discovered vulnerabilities could have been exploited to target almost 1000 systems.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Better image sizes plugin: It helps disable autogenerated image sizes and specify different focal point that will be in the focus while creating cropped versions of the image.
- HelpGent plugin: It allows you to have asynchronous video messaging to communicate with anyone, anytime, without needing to be available at the same time.
- VRTs – Visual Regression Tests plugin: It is a plugin to test your website for unwanted visual changes.
- DooBlockPatterns plugin: It helps create custom block patterns.
👥 Community News
- WooCommerce 7.2 Beta 1 is out: This release introduces a guided tour of the WooCommerce In-App Marketplace located in WP-Admin > WooCommerce > Extensions.
- WooCommerce Blocks 9.0.0 released: This release contains bug fixes and enhancements, including the option to customize the Products by Attribute template from the Site Editor and improving product blocks performance by removing cart fragments support.
- MainWP 4.3 is available: It has added features such as Client Management, a new and intuitive way of managing plugins, themes, updates and a new default theme.
- BuddyPress 11.0.0 to limit JavaScript and CSS asset loading: BuddyPress core will progressively move towards loading only the assets it needs in community areas. This update will still load JS and CSS everywhere but will offer a filter that users can add to their bp-custom.php files in order to keep BP assets on community pages only.
- Elementor 3.9 developers update: Elementor 3.9 and Elementor Pro 3.9 include interesting updates like smaller CSS assets, automating CSS generation, and lazy load for background images.
- Wordfence 7.8.0 is out: This release has several fixes to make Wordfence even more robust, and includes a fundamental change in the way the signup works.
- WP Mayor turns 12!: Congrats team!
- Meet Hurl: It is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format and can also be used for fetching data, testing HTTP sessions and testing XML / JSON APIs.
- Meet WordlePress: Wordle-style guessing game for WordPress from the Turbo Admın team.
- CodeWP – an AI code generator: It has been built and trained specifically for WordPress Creators. Covering PHP, JS, WooCommerce and several popular plugins.
- Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps: It means Tumblr would move from being only a niche blogging platform to becoming a part of a larger, decentralized social network of sorts.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- It’s time to take back our community: Mike McAlister from Ollie on OpenPress concept.
- WordPress nonprofits and GivingTuesday with Matt Cromwell: From Torque
- Here’s what I’d love to see from WordPress in 2023: From The WP Minute
- What would a sustainable WordPress community look like?: From Wholegrain Digital.
- Is WordPress becoming less ‘pluggable’?: From The WP Minute
- Not just for the government: Using the NIST Framework to secure WordPress: From Wordfence
- The road to 5000 photos, a retrospective: From Topher de Rosia, moderator of WP Photos project.
- Getting fired led me to build a crypto newsletter that makes $360K/year: From Starter Story featuring Dillon, Founder of CoinSnacks
- Hannah Smith on why we need to be making websites more sustainable: From WPTavern
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- How to implement domain privacy in WordPress: From Torque
- WordPress Autosave: How to use, change, enable, & disable this feature: From Jetpack
- Complete guide to creating a custom WordPress categories template: From Codeable
- The carbon footprint of your website and how to reduce it: From Yoast SEO
- 4 Best ways to add featured posts in WordPress: From RankMath
📆 Save The Dates
- State of the Word 2022 on December 15: If you want to participate in the Q&A session, you can either send your question ahead of time to [email protected] or ask during the event in the live stream chat on YouTube.
- WordFest Live on December 16: This will be the fourth 24-hour WordFest Live, and the theme is Transformation. You can register to speak.
- WordCamp Kolkata (India) on December 17-18: It will be an in-person event. Call for speakers is out.
- WP Wealthbuilder Summit on February 03: Learn how to grow your business profits and in turn build your personal wealth and secure your retirement from this online event.
- WordCamp Asia 2023 on February 17-19 at IconSiam, Bangkok Thailand: Organizers have announced the first round of speakers, and also unveiled its wapuu mascot.
- WordCamp Phoenix on March 24 & 25, 2023: About 400 attendees are expected for a weekend of reconnecting, making new connections and learning about WordPress.
- WordCamp Switzerland 2023 on March 31st to April 1st 2023: It is in the early planning stages.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: The preparations for WordCamp Europe 2023 have begun.
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