This Week in WordPress #167

June 15, 2021 • 01:28:59
This Week in WordPress #167
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This Week in WordPress #167

Jun 15 2021 | 01:28:59

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This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 7th June 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 #167 – “Elephant in the room”

This Week in WordPress #167 - from WP Builds

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey, Cate DeRosia, Bernhard Gronau.

Recorded on Monday 14th 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.

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WordPress 5.8 Beta 1
WordPress 5.8 Beta 1 is now available for testing! Highlights: Powerful Blocks, Handpicked Patterns, Better Tools, no more Internet Explorer 11 (yay!), Blocks in Widgets Area…
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Core Editor Improvement: Improve your workflow with List View
As blocks increase, patterns emerge, and content creation gets easier, new solutions are needed to make complex content easy to navigate. List View is the latest and greatest to add to your toolbox when it comes to jumping between layers of content and nested blocks. It’s currently visible in the Top Toolbar and will remain open as you navigate through your content…
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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. As always, I would love contributions from the wider community to build this out into an even more comprehensive resource!
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WordPress 5.8 Introduces Support for WebP Images
WebP support is coming to WordPress 5.8. This modern image file format was created by Google in September 2010, and is now supported by 95% of the web browsers in use worldwide…

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Open Invitation To Contribute to the WordPress Block Pattern Directory
The upcoming block pattern directory is launching alongside WordPress 5.8 in July. The goal is to make several high-quality designs available for users right off the bat. However, the official submission process will not open until the directory launches…
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An App Store for WordPress – Jonathan Wold
In the Benefits and Tradeoffs of Decentralization I wrote about WordPress’ nature as an open source operating system and the decentralized ecosystem that has grown around it. WordPress as an Operating System has three key audiences: Creators, Extenders, Hosting Providers. While each of these audiences enjoys the benefits of decentralization, they experience the tradeoffs and as WordPress grows those tradeoffs create more problems…
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A New Design is Coming to WordPress News
After many years of a tidy, white-space filled design on WordPress.org/news it’s time to bring new life to the way we present our content. So much has changed since this site was first created: the people who read it, the type and variety of what is published, even the way WordPress works has changed..
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Overlay Fact Sheet
#accessibility
Some newer overlay products aim to fix any problems in the site’s code that are preventing assistive technology from being used easily. They apply a script to the page which scans the code and automatically attempts to repair the problem…
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Shutting of the alarm at midnight
When I laid down that night, the possibility of storms was there. It might mean power issues (although not often for us). As I started to fade to sleep, I could hear it outside beginning to intensify. So, when my CPAP machine shut off (and thus my ability to breathe on my back) I wasn’t too surprised. But what happened next jolted me from any slumber I was in.
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Plugin Rank – From Lockdown Side Project to My First Exit via @polevaultweb
This is the story of Plugin Rank, a SaaS app for WordPress plugin developers from building it to selling it within 12 months..
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Is the WordPress acquisition space too much? (WP Builds Facebook Group membership required)
Open question, no answer unwelcome… is the WordPress acquisition market too much? Does it bother you that company X is buying up all-the-things, or is this just a maturation of the WordPress ecosystem?
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Are WordPress Plugin Acquisitions Too Much? – Kev Quirk
Nathan Wrigley asked a question on Twitter, but the 240 characters Twitter provides wasn’t enough, so I thought I’d post a note here instead. Nathan asked. I’m not that familiar with many of the plugins getting acquired every 5 minutes. But that’s mainly because my needs are simple and I prefer to code features, rather than add more plugins…

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Introducing Fluent Forms 4.0 (The Biggest Update Ever) inc. conversational forms
Welcome back to another Fluent Forms release note. This is where I am going to reveal the biggest feature update of Fluent Forms. For this release, our team was working for the last 4 months and finally, we just released version 4.0..
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A sneak preview of Assistant Pro. Store and manage your WordPress website assets
Things are about to get much more exciting with Assistant Pro that lets you store and retrieve your assets from the cloud as well as share and collaborate with others…
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Engage Your Website Visitors With the New Video Playlist & Hotspots Widgets | Elementor
With Elementor Pro 3.3, users are now able to up-level their web creation skills by adding unique video playlists and creating interactive images with Hotspots…
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Gravity Forms File Upload Pro – Gravity Wiz
GF File Upload Pro reimagines what a Gravity Forms file uploader can be with a hand-crafted redesign and a bundle of professional features that’ll crop your socks off. Enhance your File Upload fields with image previews, modern icons for non-image file types, and support for zooming and cropping…
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Jilt is shutting down on April 30, 2022 – Jilt
We’re no longer accepting new accounts, but current customers will be able to continue using Jilt until the service shuts down on April 30, 2022..
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Block Pattern Builder
Visually build your own block patterns. No coding skills needed! Assign them to (custom) categories and optionally add any keywords…
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SG Security
A new security plugin for you to take a look at: “SG Security is the all-in-one security solution for your WordPress website”..

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WordPress Vulnerability Report: June 2021, Part 2
Vulnerable plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities, and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website…
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Wordfence is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
Today, we are excited to announce that Wordfence is authorized by the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®) Program as a CNA, or CVE Numbering Authority. As a CNA, Wordfence can now assign CVE IDs for new vulnerabilities in WordPress Core, WordPress Plugins and WordPress Themes…

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Group of pachyderms that has been criss-crossing the countryside photographed lying down outside a village in Xiyang township…
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