This Week in WordPress #159

“XML files are fun”

This week’s WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 12th April 2021

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey (wp_paullacey), Michelle Frechette (@michelleames) and Tim Nash (@tnash).

You can find the Newsletter here which has all the links mentioned in this episode:
https://news.wpbuilds.com/issues/159/

We focus on the following stories:

WordPress 5.7.1 Security and Maintenance Release

Full Site Editing Go/No Go | April 14, 2021

Full Site Editing Is Partly a ‘Go’ for WordPress 5.8
and
Proposal: Treat FLoC as a security concern

Wix and Their Dirty Tricks
and
Dear Matt Mullenweg: Another Open Letter from Wix’s CEO, Avishai Abrahami

FSE Outreach Round #5: Venturing out a Query Quest

HeroPress Adopts Hallway Chats

Michelle Frechette on Diversity and Inclusion of Underrepresented Groups in Tech

Zerodium Temporarily Triples Payout to $300K for WordPress Exploits