This Week in WordPress #142

“Auto Update All The Things”

This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing Monday 7th December 2020

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey (Dickiebirds Studio), Sabrina Zeidan (@sabrina_zeidan) and Leo Mindel (@WFCKeego).

You can find the Newsletter here which has all the links mentioned in this episode:
https://news.wpbuilds.com/issues/142/

We focus on the following stories:

WordPress 5.6 “Simone” Includes New Twenty Twenty-One Theme and Improved Editor – WP Tavern

WordPress 5.6 Introduces a New Risk to Your Site: What to Do – Wordfence

Application Passwords: Integration Guide – make.wordpress.org

A poll about updating WordPress Core – WP Builds Facebook Group

State of the Word 2020 – wordpress.org

Black Friday Pricing – Gridbuilder

MailPoet joins WooCommerce – MailPoet

Elementor Cloud. The Fastest Way to Create WordPress Websites – Elementor

WordPress Community Team Discusses Return to In-Person Events – WP Tavern