This Week in WordPress #174

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 9th August 2021

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

• Yoast has been bought and there’s quite a bit of interest in who bought them
• What’s coming up in WordPress 5.9 (now that WordPress 5.8 is safely in the wild)
• Is WordPress becoming too hard to develop for these days?
• Is Gutenberg Killing WordPress Themes?
• Has Apple gone too far with their efforts with iOS and photos stored on your iPhone?

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 #174 – “We’ve all got the same arm… and mic”

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey and Brian Gardner.

Recorded on Monday 16th August 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.

WordPress Core

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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/08/13/preliminary-road-to-5-9

Preliminary Road to 5.9

This is a quick overview of the main areas and features currently underway for 5.9 in Gutenberg. Some are in more advanced stages than others, but together they paint a picture of what we are looking forwards to…

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https://wptavern.com/early-wordpress-5-9-look-the-road-toward-deeper-responsive-block-design

Early WordPress 5.9 Look: The Road Toward Deeper Responsive Block Design

Gutenberg project lead Matías Ventura announced the Preliminary Road to 5.9 on the Make Core blog earlier today. He covered several big picture items, including several sub-points for each. He also linked to a GitHub issue with specific tasks and tickets that need work…

Community

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https://wptavern.com/fse-outreach-round-9-building-a-higher-ed-header

FSE Outreach Round #9: Building a Higher Ed Header

It feels like it has been ages since the WordPress community has had a call for testing Full Site Editing (FSE) features. The FSE Outreach Program was on a small hiatus. However, the WordPress 5.8 launch was also underway last month…

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https://wptavern.com/podcast/6-cory-miller-on-the-wordpress-mergers-and-acquisitions-landscape

#6 – Cory Miller on the WordPress Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape

On the Jukebox podcast today we have Cory Miller and he’s here to talk about the WordPress Mergers and Acquisitions Landscape. Recently there’s been a uptick in the number of acquisitions (no kidding) and we hear Cory’s take on it…

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https://mobile.blog/2021/08/11/building-an-editor-by-sharing-code-between-android-ios-and-web-with-react-native

Building an Editor by Sharing Code Between Android, iOS, and Web with React Native

When WordPress began rolling out the powerful new Gutenberg editor for building web pages (and, soon, entire websites), we were excited to bring that power to our users on mobile…

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https://wptavern.com/is-wordpress-development-really-all-that-hard-to-get-into-today

Is WordPress Development Really All That Hard To Get Into Today?

Oh, how easily we forget the WordPress of 10, 15 years ago. We are spoiled. We are spoiled by the gluttony of documentation and tutorials, a wealth of knowledge created over more than a decade. We are spoiled by our own expertise, built-in our more vigorous youth, now sitting on our haunches as we have aged along with our beloved platform…

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https://chriswiegman.com/2021/08/the-changing-wordpress-ecosystem

The Changing WordPress Ecosystem

WordPress development isn’t what it used to be… but that isn’t a bad thing. Here is what has changed and what you can expect getting started with WordPress..

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

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https://wptavern.com/yoast-joins-newfold-digital-team-to-stay-in-place

Yoast Joins Newfold Digital, Team To Stay in Place

Yoast CEO Marieke van de Rakt announced the company had been acquired by NewFold Digital. Yoast and its SEO-related business are expected to continue operating as usual with its current team and maintaining its product line..

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJAje6JveCw

Is Gutenberg Killing WordPress Themes? Challenges for a Theme Developer in a Gutenberg World.

In this video I’m highlighting some of the challenges developers are currently facing when adding Gutenberg support to their theme. We are in this strange transition phase currently where theme support for Gutenberg has been anything else but straightforward…

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https://wptavern.com/google-site-kit-plugin-ships-hot-fix-for-critical-error-that-caused-broken-websites

Google Site Kit Plugin Ships Hot Fix for Critical Error That Caused Broken Websites

Google published an update to its Site Kit plugin for WordPress this afternoon with a hot fix for a critical issue affecting an unknown number of users. Reports of broken websites were popping up on Twitter and in the plugin’s support forum on WordPress.org..

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https://toolset.com/2021/07/how-the-new-query-loop-block-in-wordpress-5-8-compares-to-the-toolset-view-block

How The New Query Loop Block in WordPress 5.8 Compares to the Toolset View Block – Toolset

WordPress 5.8 includes the first feature towards Full Site Editing – the new Query Loop block. In this post, we compare between the Query Loop block and Toolset’s View Block…

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https://graphql-api.com/blog/released-graphql-api-v08

Released new version 0.8 of the GraphQL API for WordPress

Supporting WP 5.8, an upgraded GraphQL schema, additional GraphQL spec items, extensibility, and more…

Deals

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https://wpbuilds.com/wpbuilds-deals/

WordPress Deals for WP Builds readers / listeners

WordPress Deals for the WP Builds Community. It’s like Black Friday, but every day of the year…

Security

WP Builds

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/08/12/242-q-is-for-quibbles/

242 – ‘Q’ is for Quibbles

It’s another A-Z of WordPress. Today is for Q for Quibble, which is a slight objection or criticism about a trivial matter and here we are looking at those objections and criticism from both outside the WordPress community and from within. There’s so many little things that we wish we could change and they add up to quite a lot, but looked at individually, they’re really not too bad. Go check out the podcast…

Jobs

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