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Recorded on Monday 19th July 2021.
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It is hard not to look through a list of upcoming WordPress 5.8 changes and not find at least a little something to whet your appetite. With so many enhancements headed our way, even we have not been able to keep up with them all here at WP Tavern. The next release will bring a few much-needed media-related upgrades… |
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The third release candidate for WordPress 5.8 is now available! WordPress 5.8 is slated for release on July 20, 2021, and we need your help to get there – if you have not tried 5.8 yet, now is the time… |
 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... |
 “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… |
 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… |
 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.. |
 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… |
 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.. |
 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… |
 Come to celebrate the upcoming launch of our new Community home – The Elementor Hub – launching July 19… |
 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… |
 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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On July 13 2021, a critical vulnerability was identified in WooCommerce. Learn more about what this means and how it was resolved. |
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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… |
 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! |
 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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Google quietly concluded its FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) origin trial this week. The trial was part of Google’s Privacy Sandbox initiative, a suite of new technologies designed to replace third-party cookies, fingerprinting, and other commonly-used tracking mechanisms.. |
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Castos’ mobile app is the easiest way for your Private Subscribers to listen to your exclusive podcast content on iOS or Android.. |
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