This Week in WordPress #172

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 12th July 2021

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

• WordPress 5.8 is just around the corner and is bring some significant updates
• There’s been a critical vulnerability in WooCommerce which you need to know about
• Automattic have bought the popular podcasting app Pocket Casts, taking them deeper into the podcasting space
• and Awesome Motive buys WP Search…

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 #172 – “I look like I’m a skateboarder in my late 40’s”

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey and Joe Casabona.

Recorded on Monday 19th July 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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https://wptavern.com/podcast/5-robert-jacobi-on-why-hes-putting-gutenberg-first

#5 – Robert Jacobi on Why He’s Putting Gutenberg First

Robert is Director of WordPress at Cloudways. He’s been working with open source software for almost twenty years, and has been the president of Joomla, a member of Make WordPress Hosting and contributor to ICANN At-Large. He is well known for his public speaking about open source and so the discussion today is broad and thought provoking...

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https://wptavern.com/edupack-is-tackling-higher-ed-with-wordpress-looking-for-development-partners

Edupack Is Tackling Higher Ed With WordPress, Looking for Development Partners

“We’re basically building the Jetpack for Higher Ed,” said Blake Bertuccelli as he pitched me on the idea of Edupack, a project still in its early stages. He and his team are looking for more advisors to join the eighth round of their once-monthly braintrust events. It is a project they began in November 2020, now coming to fruition…

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https://wptavern.com/instawp-launches-new-service-for-disposable-wordpress-testing-sites

InstaWP Launches New Service for Disposable WordPress Testing Sites

Competition in the sandboxing products space is heating with the entrance of InstaWP, a new service for setting up disposable WordPress testing sites. Founder Vikas Singhal created the tool to provide a quick way to set up live testing sites online or to show something to a client or team…

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https://wptavern.com/contributing-to-open-source-is-better-than-any-college-degree

Contributing to Open Source Is ‘Better Than Any College Degree’

Aweek ago, I published my thoughts on the block system from a developer’s perspective. Taking a weekend-afternoon deep dive into creating custom block types meant learning some tough lessons and familiarizing myself with a programming language I had little experience using..

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https://www.evernote.com/shard/s5/sh/9a44aa96-eb9c-4b68-8e2a-fec924c3a46f/d195587269adb93ca81f3a7311e7a253

10Web receives $2mln funding from AI Fund and Sierra Ventures.

We’re thrilled to announce that our Automated WordPress Platform has received a total of $2 mln investment from 2 of Silicon Valley’s VCs: AI Fund and Sierra Ventures…

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https://searchwp.com/searchwp-is-joining-the-awesome-motive-family

SearchWP is Joining the Awesome Motive Family – SearchWP

With over 30,000 websites, SearchWP is the leading WordPress search plugin on the market. Today, I’m extremely excited to share that SearchWP is joining the Awesome Motive family..

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https://www.cloudways.com/blog/restore-server

No More Waiting in Line: Recover Lost Servers and Applications in Less Time Than a Lunch Break

In the past, if you needed an application or server recovered, you’d have to go to Live Chat support, or create a ticket. With the new recovery feature, however, you can now easily recover your deleted application from the last available backup, on the same server as before or on a different server…

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https://events.elementor.com/community-x-hq

Community X HQ | Elementor Events

Come to celebrate the upcoming launch of our new Community home – The Elementor Hub – launching July 19…

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https://fluentforms.com/whats-new-on-fluent-forms-4-1-5/?ref=152

What’s new on Fluent Forms 4.1.5 – Fluent Forms

Welcome back to another Fluent Forms feature update release note. In this update, we mainly improved existing features and speed up few workflows that will help you to build high-performing forms easily. Let’s dive into the new features and updates in this release…

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https://elementor.com/pages/elementor-3-3/?ref=1673

Elementor | Revolutionizing the Way You Create Websites

Introducing Elementor 3.3 Revolutionizing The Way You Create Websites Watch video Elementor 3.3 is packed with new features that will take your web creations to the next level..

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https://wpbuilds.com/webinars/newsletter-glue-plugin-demo-with-lesley-sim/

Newsletter Glue Plugin Demo with Lesley Sim

DEAL ALERT: 15% off the Newsletter Glue Plugin with coupon code WPBUILDS15.
If you’ve not come across the Newsletter Glue WordPress plugin before, then it’s really worth a look. In fact it’s what I used to create this email AND post – at the same time!

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/07/15/238-0-is-for-open-source/

238 – ‘0’ is for Open Source

If something is free then it’s likely not very good. That’s the generally accepted wisdom is most aspects of life, but not with WordPress! WordPress like many other software platforms is free to use and free to modify. It’s yours to use as you see fit, and you don’t have to pay a penny for it…

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Not WordPress, but useful anyway…