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Welcome to our Newsletter #99. We are just a week away from the century mark! Please let us know your feedback and also share it in your circles.
We are back after a wonderful trip to Goa. Getting together with your friends is always amazing.
We wish prosperity, love, and laughter to all our readers celebrating Hanukkah. Chag urim sameach! 🕎
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📰 WordPress & Around
- State of the Word 2022: Matt Mullenweg highlights Gutenberg’s progress, announces new community tools.
- Gutenberg 14.7 released: The latest 14.7 release adds color to template parts and reusable blocks in the list view, block toolbar, and block selection outlines.
- Drupal Gutenberg 2.6 released with Drupal 10 compatibility: Drupal Gutenberg, the Gutenberg module for Drupal created by Frontkom, has released version 2.6 with compatibility for Drupal 10.
- WordPress turns 20 in 2023: Stay tuned to this new website to find out how you can join the global WordPress community in celebrating our 20th anniversary in 2023. Also you can find the top websites powered by WordPress in the Showcase section.
- New WordPress sandbox project demos: WordPress Sandbox, an experimental project that uses WebAssembly (WASM) to run WordPress in the browser without a PHP server was introduced by Automattic-sponsored core contributor Adam Zieliński.
- The Block Editor is coming to WordPress’ support forums: WordPress.org’s Meta Team is now experimenting with how they can bring the block editor into the support forums. They intend to start with just four blocks available to forum users: paragraph, list, quote, and code.
- PHP 8.2 is now available on WordPress.com: PHP version selection is available to all WordPress.com Business and Ecommerce sites with hosting features activated.
- The WordPress team redesigned the Showcase section: Changes include supplementary metadata, simplified submission criteria, improvements to legacy content, and a much-improved mobile page layout.
- Twitter expands Community Notes to all users: Twitter is rolling out Community Notes worldwide, allowing everyone to view and rate fact checks contributed by other users.
- Twitter’s newsletter tool is shutting down on January 12th: Twitter will be shutting down its newsletter product, known as Revue on January 12th, 2023. People won’t be able to access their accounts after that date, and all the service’s data will be deleted.
- Google launches visual guide to search elements: Google launched a visual guide with illustrations and definitions of the most common search results features. Google also launched a new Google Search status dashboard.
- Google Question Hub to close down: Google will shut down the Google Question Hub on January 15, 2023, about two years after the service launched in the United States and several years after it quietly launched in regions like India.
- Google search retires Web Light: It was Google’s mechanism to serve pages and content faster. Google said this feature is no longer needed these days, as providers and devices are now faster. Google also joined Mozilla and Microsoft in removing support for TrustCor Systems certificates.
- Google Analytics 4 rolling out built-in landing page report: Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is rolling out built-in functionality that allows users to generate landing reports.
- Microsoft now requires verification for UK Financial Services advertisers: Microsoft will allow only advertisers duly authorized by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to present regulated financial promotions in the UK.
🚨Web Security & Vulnerabilities
- Healthcare data breach statistics 2023: 51% of healthcare organizations reported increased data breaches since 2019 and 61% of healthcare data breach threats come from negligent employees.
- Ransomware attack Statistics 2023: The first half of 2022 saw nearly 236.7 million ransomware attacks worldwide. Statistics reveal that a ransomware attack occurs every 2 seconds.
- Vulnerabilities found in the 3DPrint premium plugin: These vulnerabilities allow an attacker to delete or get access to arbitrary files and directories on the affected sites.
- High-severity memory safety bugs patched with latest Chrome 108 update: Google announced a Chrome update that resolves eight vulnerabilities in the popular browser, including five reported by external researchers.
🔌 New Plugins & Themes
- Course theme: A new block theme that is designed for creators and is compatible with Sensei LMS.
- Yuna theme: An FSE theme optimized for nonprofit and charity organizations.
- FluentAuth plugin: From the WPManageNinja team, It’s an authorization & security plugin.
- AI Content Writer plugin: AI content writer utilize the latest natural language processing (NLP) technology powered by OpenAI GPT-3 to create high-quality articles with minimal effort.
- CubeWP Forms – LeadGen & Contact Form plugin: You can quickly build any type of form using the drag and drop form builder.
- MartinCV OpenAi Post plugin: This plugin utilizes OpenAi DaVinci 003 to generated Blog Post based on the entered post title.
💵Investments, Acquisitions & Partnerships
- Strategy11 Acquires WP Tasty & Nutrifox: WP Tasty has just been acquired by Strategy11, known in particular for the form builder plugin Formidable Forms, and has thus become part of the WPBeginner Growth Fund. They have also acquired Nutrifox, which provides a nutrition label creation service.
👥 Community News
- Performance Lab Plugin to add new experimental SQLite integration module in upcoming 1.8.0 release: WordPress’ Performance Team contributors have merged a new experimental SQLite integration module. The new module allows the adventurous to test the new SQLite implementation.
- Mailchimp for WordPress plugin for sale in the ballpark of €1.6M: Danny van Kooten has indicated that he is interested in selling his plugin for somewhere in the ballpark of €1.6M.
- WooCommerce 7.2.0 released: It has new stack layout for product task and new actions and new filters.
- WooCommerce Blocks version 9.10 released: This release introduces the new Product Query-powered Products block in beta.
- Jetpack 11.6 released: Version 11.6 also introduces a patterns explorer, similar to the one found in the block inserter. Users can now interact with the various form templates as patterns.
- New features in WPCodeBox 2.0 (Beta): It has new PHP code editor and CSS code editor, SCSS partials and render HTML and PHP using Shortcodes and WooCommerce Actions.
- Wordfence launches free vulnerability database for commercial use and security portal: Wordfence launched an entirely free vulnerability database API and web interface, available for commercial use as part of a larger project known as Wordfence Intelligence Community Edition.
- WordPress VIP released a new tool: The tool will keep design systems in Figma synced with WordPress themes.
- Kinsta introduces Edge Caching: Kinsta’s newest and free feature for Managed WordPress Hosting customers has the capability to dramatically reduce the time it takes for website’s pages to be delivered to browsers around the world.
- Awesome Motive introduced SendLayer: It is a SMTP email service API that helps your website emails get into customer’s inbox without being marked as spam.
- WebDevStudios Charity Challenge 2022: The WebDevStudios Charity Challenge 2022 ends on December 31, 2022. You can donate as little or as much as you’d like.
- WP Awards 2022 winners announced: Top 5 winners by total vote count are ACF Pro, Gravity Forms, The Admin Bar, WordFence, and Elementor.
- MainWP Web Care Survey 2022 results are out: Most Web Care consultants charge by the month though they have other options and though most people still charge in the $25-100 range, prices are increasing.
- WordPress administration survey 2022 results released: The survey has shown that best practices are alive and well among the WordPress administrators’ community.
- WordPress Hosting Survey 2022: GoDaddy is the most popular host while WPEngine is the top-rated WordPress host of 2022.
- Meet Brush Ninja: Typing Ninja is an educational computer game developed by Ben Gillbanks. It helps you to improve your typing skills, such as speed and accuracy, by practicing typing simple words.
- Brizy raises $2.4M to develop the first multi-platform website builder: The funding from Fuel Ventures will help Brizy grow from a startup to the next step.
- The PublishPress plugin is now called PublishPress Planner: The team chose this name because this plugin helps you plan, manage, and schedule content in WordPress.
- Deborah Edwards-Onoro, the owner of Lireo Designs retires: After 25 years working in web design and development, she’s calling it a day. She will continue to publish blog posts but will focus more on birding, photography, and likely technology.
🔖Interesting Reads & Podcasts
- ChatGPT creates a working WordPress Plugin – On the first try: From WPTavern
- Rust vs Python: Which one is best for your project?: From Kinsta
- Spikes in attacks serve as a reminder to update plugins: From Wordfence
- WordPress Themes of 2023 with Brian Gardner: From Torque
- The most popular WordPress plugins released in 2022 on WordPress.org: From ILOVEWP.com
- A brief history of the BuddyBoss fork of BuddyPress: From BuddyBoss
- What will impact WordPress freelancers in 2023?: From The WP Minute
- Predicting the next opportunities for WordPress innovation: From Speckyboy
- The grumpy designer’s 2023 preview: From Speckyboy
- Beyond Site Editing, what’s next for WordPress 6.2?: From Torque
- How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg: From The Verge
- WordPress theme template tour: From WordPress.tv
- Dennis Dornon on how partnerships have helped grow his WordPress plugin business: From WPTavern
- Content creation for a WordPress brand: From WP Watercooler
- Learning to use the Site Editor: From Torque
🛠 Guide Zone – Howto’s and More
- Most common WordPress Plugin vulnerabilities & how to fix them: From Patchstack
- Leveraging theme.json and per-block styles for more performant themes: From WordPress Developer Blog
- Using a design system with the WordPress Block Editor Pt. 1: theme.json: From WordPress VIP
- Saving settings for a custom WordPress Block in the Block Editor: From CSS-Tricks
- Creating a call to action: From WordPress.tv
- Minimalism vs Maximalism: A guide for web design trends: From Beaverbuilder
- How to fix the “Aw, Snap!” error in Chrome: From Kinsta
- How to use Google Search Console: From YoastSEO
- A guide to LinkedIn content marketing: From Search Engine Land
📆 Save The Dates
- WP Wealthbuilder Summit on February 03: Learn how to grow your business profits and build your 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 Entebbe on March 10, 2023: It is the first in-person WordCamp scheduled in Africa.
- 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: Call for Sponsors is out.
- WordCamp Europe 2023 on June 8-10, 2023: Call for speakers is out.
- The WordPress Community Summit on August 22-23, 2023: In the early planning stages, the Community Summit is an “unconference,” without slides, selected speakers, or planned presentations.
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