This Week in WordPress #148

“What are Contributor Tools?”

This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 22nd February 2021

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey (@wp_paullacey), Michelle Frechette (@michelleames) and Bernhard Gronau (@quasel).

You can find the Full Newsletter here which has all the links mentioned in this episode:
https://news.wpbuilds.com/issues/148/

We focus on the following stories:

WordPress Roadmap Update: Full-Site Editing Targeted for 5.8 Release in June 2021

Big Picture Goals 2021

Automattic Launches the Blank Canvas WordPress Theme for Building Single-Page Websites

Introducing Elementor 3.1: Experiments, Performance Enhancements, And a New Landing Page Workflow

Plugin Team Draws a Line: Plugins Must Not Change WordPress’ Default Automatic Update Settings

Toolset Blocks 1.4 Brings Dynamic Sources and Inline Fields to Popular Block Plugins

Jump-Start a Year’s Worth of Content via the Launch With Words Plugin

The Wordfence 2020 WordPress Threat Report

Apple’s Tim Cook warns of adtech fuelling a ‘social catastrophe’ as he defends app tracker opt-in

An Open Invitation to the GiveWP 100K Celebration

New Free Add-on: GiveWP Donation Modules for Divi