This Week in WordPress #166

June 08, 2021 • 01:34:37
This Week in WordPress #166
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This Week in WordPress #166

Jun 08 2021 | 01:34:37

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This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 31st May 2021

Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including…

There’s a whole lot more than this, as there is each and every week, and you can find all that by scrolling down and clicking on the links!

This Week in WordPress #166 – “Look how dry the wood is, how do you not even use that?”

This Week in WordPress #166 - from WP Builds

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey, Jennifer Bourn and Joe Casabona.

Recorded on Monday 7th June 2021.
If you ever want to join us live you can do that every Monday at 2pm UK time on the WP Builds LIVE page.

WordPress Core

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WordPress Forced Updates vs Auto-Updates and Abusing User Defined Intent – NOC.org
On June 1st, Automattic’s JetPack plugin released an update to patch an exploitable vulnerability. The vulnerability was found in their Carousel feature. The release invites plugin users to update their version. It warns that while it’s not known to be actively exploited it could be now that it’s been released…

Community

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https://nomad.blog/2021/06/02/so-you-want-to-talk-about-full-site-editing
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So you want to talk about Full Site Editing?
As we’re nearing 5.8, there’s an increasing demand for people to speak about Full Site Editing and this post should help act as a resource guide to enable more people to do so…
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WordCamp Europe Schedule
If you’re interested in the WCEU lineup, here it is. Note: They’re still updating the schedule with the latest info, please check back later for all the details…
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Yoast Pivots Diversity Fund
Yoast has changed their Diversity Fund from sponsoring people to WordCamp to sponsoring people’s WordPress projects…
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https://torquemag.io/2021/05/why-wordpress-agencies-are-embracing-gutenberg
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Why WordPress Agencies Are Embracing Gutenberg
Now that the WordPress Gutenberg editor has become a viable option for building sites, agencies are starting to transition…
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Breaking Down WPMarmite’s 127-Shop Full Site Editing Study
Earlier today, the WPMarmite team released a massive study of 127 WordPress theme shops. It primarily focused on integration with the block editor. The team also surveyed 22 of the shops directly to dive deeper into what the future might look like when the Full Site Editing (FSE) project is entirely bundled into the core platform, which could be around the WordPress 5.9 release in late 2021…
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Ujwal Thapa, Co-Founder of the WordPress Nepal Community, Passes Away
“Here is my resume of professional Failures,” began his LinkedIn profile. On a site where most are apt to share success, Ujwal Thapa started with nearly a two-decade history of dreams that did not quite work out. Or, maybe they did in some ways…
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From Blogging to WordPress Communities: A Bolivian tale – De Blogger a comunidades de WordPress: Una historia boliviana – HeroPress
Carla Doria Medina from Cochabamba, Bolivia writes about changing careers into WordPress and the benefits of attending WordCamp…
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WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks
We test which budget friendly WordPress hosting is the fastest. Uptime, Load Testing, and Security tests..

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Create Your Own Block Patterns for Gutenberg / the Block Editor
Block Patterns in Gutenberg are a powerful way to make reusable content templates without having to grab all of the blocks and build them from scratch in the WordPress Block Editor. But currently there isn’t a native no-code way to create patterns. Luckily, creating your own is as simple as copying and pasting some code. Here’s how to do it from start to finish.
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3 pieces in a row: #1 – A WordPress Announcement of Epic Proportions
We’ve got some big news to share. If you want to feel the excitement and celebrate with us, you should check out this special episode of the Delicious Brain Waves…
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#2 – Reactions to the ACF purchase – WPTuts on Twitter
@wp_acf @dliciousbrains erm, no that does NOT sound fair at all. When people buy into a lifetime deal they expect to have it for the lifetime of the product, not the lifetime of the version..
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#3 – Brad Touesnard on Twitter
TL;DR – We have committed to honoring ACF lifetime licenses forever.Pleas read the full thread
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