This Week in WordPress #169

June 29, 2021 • 01:35:35
This Week in WordPress #169
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This Week in WordPress #169

Jun 29 2021 | 01:35:35

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This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 21st 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 #169 – “New Platformitis”

This Week in WordPress #169 - from WP Builds

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey, Jamie Marsland and Philip Levine.

Recorded on Monday 28th 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 3
WordPress 5.8 Beta 3 is now available for testing! This software is still in development, so it is not recommended to run this version on a production site. Consider setting up a test site to play with it..

Community

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WordPress Theme Lock-In, Silos, and the Block System
For many years, I was a hardcore advocate of separating any non-design functionality from themes into their own plugins. I wrote extensively on the issue. Whether it was shortcodes, custom post types, user metadata, and any number of things related to a user’s content/data, I drew a deep line in the sand. This belongs in a plugin..
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CMS market share analysis
Every 6 months I analyze the CMS market share numbers provided by W3Techs in depth. See the biggest CMSes, the winners and the losers!
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5 Years of Elementor — Stats and Facts | Elementor
Discover how often a new website is built with Elementor, the top three countries Elementor users come from, the blog posts you loved the most and much more, in this…
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Pro FREE for Everyone
Local is a free local development environment designed to simplify the workflow of WordPress developers and designers. Download it for free today!
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How to Use Nested Blocks in the Gutenberg Editor
Nested blocks are a really useful feature in the Gutenberg editor. If you haven’t used them yet, you almost certainly will when the new “Full-Site Editing” changes arrive in WordPress 5.8…

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Zion Builder – AppSumo
Zion Builder is a new WordPress Page Builder plugin built with only one thing in mind: speed! Both in front-end and back-end…
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Orderable – All-in-One Local Ordering for WooCommerce
Accept pickup or delivery orders for food, goods, products or services from your business location. Take online ordering to a whole new level with Orderable.
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Build a WordPress Form With the Meta Box Plugin – WS Form
Automatically create forms that contain the fields you have made in Meta Box for any post type…
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WordPress Wireframe Block Templates
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Astra 3.5: Faster Theme with Improved Accessibility
Astra 3.5 introduces powerful CSS optimizations for faster loading and new controls in the customizer. This version also brings accessibility updates…
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Page Builder Framework – Let’s catch up on the latest…
We have released some new features with Page Builder Framework and they’re outlined in the email below. These changes were made based on requests from our amazing Page Builder Framework community..
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iThemes Security Pro 7.0 is Here to Make WordPress Website Security Effortless
The best WordPress security plugin just got even better! iThemes Security Pro 7.0 is officially here with significant improvements for everyone, whether you are a WordPress beginner or manage hundreds of websites for clients..

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Deals

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Ninja Forms 10 Year Anniversary Flash Sale – 80% OFF
Ninja Forms is celebrating 10 years! Join the party and get 80% off on memberships and top selling add-ons. June 28th – July 9th, 2021.

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WPScan is 10! WordPress Security on Twitter
Back on June 16th 2011 we released WPScan ALPHA to the world.We have had a tremendous impact on the WordPress security ecosystem. Working on verifying, triaging and cataloging thousands of vulns…
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WordPress Vulnerability Report: June 2021, Part 4
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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LIVE EVENT: WS Form Product Demo with Mark Westguard.
Just to let you know that I’m (Nathan Wrigley) doing a LIVE event with Mark Westguard from WS Form next week. Wednesday 30th June at 4pm (UK time). If you’ve not come across WS Form before, then you’re in for a treat, as it does pretty much every-single-thing that you’d want a form plugin to do. In fact I’m sure that you’ll be surprised just how much it does and how easy it is to use…
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235 – Use Newsletter Glue to create great emails… with Blocks!
If you’re creating newsletters for your content and you use WordPress, put that quill down and check out the podcast today. Newsletter Glue is a really great blocks product that I’m sure many of you are going to love…

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Frontend Developer – Gravity Forms
Our team is searching for a Front-end Developer to help build and maintain our various website properties, develop new templates for our site(s), collaborate with team members, outside partners, and guest contributors to hit deadlines, build unique solutions, and provide value to new users and current customers when navigating our front-facing web properties…

Not WordPress, but useful anyway…

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Brave Search Engine – Early Preview and Comparison
Brave Search may present a challenge to Google. Preview a new privacy-first search engine that respects publishers and is committed to unbiased results…
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The New Windows 11 Start Menu Is Already Upsetting People | Digital Trends
The redesigned Start Menu has garnered outrage but, fortunately, it can be customized..
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Chrome’s RSS-powered “Follow” button is like a rebooted Google Reader
For now, it’s an Android “experiment” that might get “a broader rollout in Chrome.”
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Say goodbye to Third-Party cookies and hello to new tracking methods. Learn more about what Google’s FLoC means for you…
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