This Week in WordPress #175

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 16th August 2021

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

• Is WordPress getting harder to work with, especially if you’re new to the platform?
• Why have new plugins begun being blocked from the WordPress repository if they start with ‘wp-‘?
• Automattic is now worth a jaw dropping $7.5 billion!
• Are the hackers getting smarter in hiding their payloads in plain site?

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 #175 – “Should I get a standing desk?”

With Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette and Tim Nash.

Recorded on Monday 23rd 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

make.wordpress.org

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/gutenberg-11-3-introduces-dimensions-panel-adds-button-padding-support-and-speeds-up-the-inserter

WP Tavern

Gutenberg 11.3 Introduces Dimensions Panel, Adds Button Padding Support, and Speeds Up the Inserter

Earlier today, Gutenberg 11.3 landed in the WordPress plugin directory. The latest update introduces a new dimensions panel for toggling spacing-related block options. The Button block now supports the padding control, and the Post Featured Image block has new width and height settings.

Community

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https://ma.tt/2021/08/funding-buyback-hiring

ma.tt

Funding, Buyback, and Hiring

In February of this year, Automattic closed a new primary funding round of $288M, bringing in some great new partners including BlackRock, Wellington, Schonfeld, and Alta Park. Existing investors ICONIQ and Aglaé (Bernard Arnault) also participated. This round was common stock, and like all funding since 2011, included a proxy assigning me the right to vote the shares…

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https://us.wordcamp.org/2021/call-for-speaker-nominations

WCUS

Call for Speaker Nominations

We’re looking for nominations of the brightest minds in the WordPress space to share their stories…

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https://wpmrr.com

WPMMR

The 2021 WPMRR Virtual Summit

September 21, 22 & 23. An online conference 100% focused on actively helping as many people as possible responsibly achieve their MRR goals.

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https://wptavern.com/a-discussion-with-gutenberg-project-lead-matias-ventura-on-the-barrier-to-entry

WP Tavern

A Discussion With Gutenberg Project Lead Matías Ventura on the Barrier to Entry

Last week, I published an opinion piece on the barrier to entry in the modern WordPress era. The article followed a tweet and post by Chris Wiegman that stated the current learning curve was extremely high, regardless of past experience. Members of the community responded with a flurry of articles, podcasts, and videos…

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

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https://wptavern.com/wordpress-org-experiments-with-rejecting-plugin-submissions-with-the-wp-prefix-to-mitigate-potential-trademark-abuse

WP Tavern

WordPress.org Experiments with Rejecting Plugin Submissions with the “WP” Prefix to Mitigate Potential Trademark Abuse

Many in the WordPress developer community were surprised to learn that WordPress.org is rejecting plugins with the “WP” prefix in the name after Joe Youngblood tweeted the rejection note he received. Although that restriction was put into place approximately seven months ago, there was no official communication on the change…

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https://elementor.com/pages/elementor-3-4

Elementor

3.4 -Additional Breakpoints For Limitless Designs

Elementor 3.4 is packed with new features that give you even more control over your designs and keeps your pages running smoothly. Create designs for any screen, speed up your page load, & more…

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https://www.gravityforms.com/introducing-the-official-advanced-post-creation-add-on-v1-0

Gravity Forms

Introducing the Official Advanced Post Creation Add-On v1.0

Gravity Forms is excited to announce the official launch of the Advanced Post Creation Add-On. Previously in beta, Advanced Post Creation has now become a fully-fledged Gravity Forms Add-On!

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https://wptavern.com/new-boilerplate-speeds-up-building-nearly-headless-wordpress-themes

WP Tavern

New Boilerplate Speeds Up Building “Nearly Headless” WordPress Themes

Alex Standiford, a WordPress developer at AffiliateWP, has released a boilerplate for what he is calling a “nearly headless” WordPress theme. It uses Underpin ,Nicholas, and AlpineJS to provide an app-like experience for a website while providing the flexibility for rendering specific pages using PHP instead of Javascript…

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

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/xss-vulnerability-patched-in-seopress-affects-100000-sites

Wordence

XSS Vulnerability Patched in SEOPress Affects 100,000 sites

On July 29, 2021 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability that we discovered in SEOPress, a WordPress plugin installed on over 100,000 sites. This flaw made it possible for an attacker to inject arbitrary web scripts on a vulnerable site which would execute anytime a user accessed the “All Posts” page…

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/wordpress-malware-camouflaged-as-code

Wordfence

WordPress Malware Camouflaged As Code

In today’s post we discuss emerging techniques that attackers are using to hide the presence of malware. In the example we discuss below, the attacker’s goal is to make everything look routine to an analyst so that they do not dig deeper and discover the presence of malware and what it is doing. We describe how this technique works, and we touch on the psychological underpinnings of the technique the attacker is using..

WP Builds

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/08/19/243-a-different-way-of-doing-hosting-servebolt-with-remkus-de-vries/

243 – A different way of doing hosting: Servebolt with Remkus de Vries

If I got you to list out all of the things that you’d like your WordPress websites to be, I’m pretty sure that the word “fast” would be pretty close to the top of the list. Let’s see how Servebolt makes that happen shall we…?

Jobs

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https://wpbuilds.com/post-a-job/

Post a job for FREE!

Post a Job If you know of a job in the WrdPress community, please feel free to post it here.
It’ll go in this newsletter FREE OF CHARGE!

Not WordPress, but useful anyway…

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https://www.helves.co

Helves

Standing Desks Sustainably Manufactured in the UK

This really is nothing to do with WordPress! I was just curious about whether any of you use a standing desk, or something like this, which makes a regular desk a “standing” one. I’d love to hear your thoughts?Helves standing desks are adjustable desks. Ideal for Home office and working from home the desks turn any desk into a variable standing office desk that improves posture. Shop Helves…

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https://webdevstudios.com/2021/08/19/keeping-remote-work-culture-fun

Web Dev Studio

Keeping Remote Work Culture Fun

Across the world, companies and organizations are struggling with building a work-from-home or hybrid workplace model to accommodate our changing times. WebDevStudios (WDS) is a fully distributed WordPress agency. We have been since day one. In fact, not only do we know how to successfully build a remote work culture, we know how to keep remote work culture fun…

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https://managewp.com/blog/what-is-webp

ManageWP

What Is WebP (And Why Is It Important)?

Do you want to use high-quality images on your site without sacrificing performance? Learn why you should consider using WebP images on your WordPress site…!