This Week in WordPress #154

“Full steam ahead with Full Site Editing”

This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing Monday 8th March 2021

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey (@wp_paullacey), Anne McCarthy and Joe Casabona (@jcasabona).

You can find the Newsletter here which has all the links mentioned in this episode:
https://news.wpbuilds.com/issues/154/

We focus on the following stories:

What’s new in 5.7 (Joe did a great video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62bGNnpOVhM
and there’s this article from iThemes with 21 nice new features to nerd out on!
https://ithemes.com/wordpress-5-7-top-21-features-improvements/ 

First Look – Full Site Editing, a course by Carrie Dils
https://www.linkedin.com/learning/first-look-wordpress-full-site-editing 

New Full Site Editing Testing Challenge: Create a Custom 404 Page
https://wptavern.com/new-full-site-editing-testing-challenge-create-a-custom-404-page 
also:
https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/12/fse-program-build-a-homepage-testing-summary/ 
and:
https://make.wordpress.org/test/tag/fse-answers/
even more:
https://make.wordpress.org/test/2021/03/09/fse-program-testing-call-3-create-a-fun-custom-404-page/

3 Reasons to Use an Activity Log on Your Website
https://blogvault.net/3-reasons-to-use-an-activity-log-on-your-website/ 

OVH Data Center Fire Darkens Popular Sites Worldwide
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/ovh-data-center-fire-darkens-thousands-of-sites-worldwide/398485/#close 

Tips on how to reduce the carbon emissions of your WordPress website
https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/wp-admin/events/276720147/ 
Might be worth pointing to this as well:
https://blog.jacklenox.com/2018/06/04/delivering-wordpress-in-7kb/