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Recorded on Monday 26th July 2021.
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Introducing 5.8 “Tatum”, our latest and greatest release now available for download or update in your dashboard. Named in honor of Art Tatum, the legendary Jazz pianist. His formidable technique and willingness to push boundaries inspired musicians and changed what people thought could be done… |
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WordPress 5.8 “Tatum,” named in honor of jazz pianist Art Tatum, landed earlier today. It is the second major release in 2021. It includes duotone media filters, block-based widgets, theme-related blocks, template editing, and theme JSON file support. The release also ships tons of other notable features, such as support for new Emoji and an Update URI field for plugin authors to offer custom updates. The latest update also drops support for IE11, saying goodbye to the era of Internet Explorer… |
 Text-to-Give for GiveWP allows you to receive donations via SMS text message. Make it easy for your donors to give through text. |
 Tiny, the makers of TinyMCE, have acquired Setka, a content design and editing platform, for an undisclosed amount. Founders Katya Bazilevskaya, Alexey Ametov, Vasily Esmanov, Roman Khudonogov, and the rest of the Setka team will join Tiny as part of the agreement… |
 Pooja Derashri shares the story of how she went from being an introverted girl from a small village in India to becoming a developer, thanks to the WordPress community… |
 Marieke van de Rakt from the Netherlands writes about her journey towards leadership. |
 Substack and ghost have popularised the creation of free and paid newsletter, but you can create a Substack newsletter in WordPress… |
 If you are unsure about whether WordPress is the right solution for you, in this post we weigh its pros and cons to help you decide… |
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At KadenceWP we’re all about providing the support and tools to create highly effective websites. We stand behind this (like, really). We have made it our goal to put powerful tools in the hands of our users that enable them to create in an effective and efficient manner… |
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The Gutenberg plugin continues to march forward. Yesterday’s release, coming merely a day after the launch of WordPress 5.8, brings several new features and nearly three dozen bug fixes. The big-ticket items are drag-and-drop blocks in the list view and a much-needed upgrade for border support… |
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Yesterday, the WordPress pattern directory went live to the world as the development team behind it put the finishing touches on the project. It will work similarly to the theme and plugin directories in time. Along with WordPress 5.8, users can browse and use block patterns directly from the post editor… |
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BuddyPress 9.0 was released one day before WordPress 5.8. As all major BuddyPress releases are named for pizza joints, this one has been dubbed “Mico” in honor of Pizzéria Chez Mico, a small restaurant on the French riviera, where you just may find capers and anchovies on your pie… |
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Christopher John, a Seattle-based designer and UX engineer, released his first project to the plugin directory yesterday. Announced via Twitter to high praise, Wayfinder is a block outline solution for the WordPress editor… |
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WordPress has long had the ability to schedule content to be published in the future, but it can only make immediate changes to posts that are already published. If you want to schedule changes to published content, a plugin is necessary… |
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This joint release of Toolset plugins ensures full compatibility with WordPress 5.8. It also includes fixes more than 150 bugs and usability issues… |
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We are excited to announce the launch of the new Gravity Forms reCAPTCHA Add-On. With this add-on you will find support for Google reCAPTCHA v3, helping to prevent spam form… |
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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.. |
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PHP 8.1 is very much in progress, and is slated to come out in November. While WordPress developers often (and reasonably) don’t use many of the features of PHP 7, nevermind PHP-8-only features, some of these things are at least worst knowing about… |
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Akamai software update triggers bug in DNS taking world’s biggest and most popular sites offline. Akamai pledges to review update process… |
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