This Week in WordPress #176

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 23rd August 2021

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

• The Classic Editor has been given a new lease of life! You can now use it until the end of 2022. But is this a good thing?
• How did you get started with WordPress?
• Do the WordPress team listen enough to the suggestions and desires of the WordPress community?
• Google is flying a package every second with its ‘Wing’ project.

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 #176 – “A professional boat of rapids people”

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey, and Remkus de Vries.

Recorded on Monday 30th 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://wordpress.org/news/2021/08/an-update-on-the-classic-editor-plugin

wordpress.org

An Update on the Classic Editor Plugin

Before the release of WordPress 5.0 in 2018, the Classic Editor plugin was published to help ease the transition to the new block editor. At the time, we promised to support the plugin through 2021 and adjust if needed as the deadline got closer. After discussing this with Matt, it’s clear that continuing to support the plugin through 2022 is the right call for the project as well as the community…

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https://wptavern.com/gallery-block-refactor-expected-to-land-in-wordpress-5-9

WP Tavern

Gallery Block Refactor Expected To Land in WordPress 5.9

Last week, a GitHub pull request I had been watching since October 2020 on the Gutenberg repository was finally merged into the codebase. It changes the structure of the WordPress Gallery block to be a container for nested Image blocks. The new format is expected to land in WordPress 5.9…

Community

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https://community.wpmrr.com/c/wpmrr-virtual-summit/planning-for-the-2021-wpmrrvs-is-underway

WPMMR

The 2021 WPMRR Virtual Summit

An online conference 100% focused on actively helping as many people as possible responsibly achieve their MRR goals.

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https://matiasventura.com/post/the-theme-json-horizon

matiasventura.com

The theme.json horizon

A new mechanism called theme.json that allows themes to control various aspects of the block editor, from presets to settings to the appearance of blocks, was introduced in WordPress 5.8.…

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https://gutenbergtimes.com/podcast/changelog-50-preliminary-roadmap-to-wordpress-5-9

Gutenberg Times

Preliminary Roadmap to WordPress 5.9, Gutenberg 11.3 release and Navigation Screen and Block

Birgit Pauli-Haack and Grzegorz Ziolkowski discuss the preliminary roadmap to WordPress 5.9, Gutenberg 11.3 and Navigation Screen and Block…

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https://wptavern.com/why-did-you-start-using-wordpress

WP Tavern

Why Did You Start Using WordPress?

If there was a question that ever made me start feeling old, it might be this one. Last week, Marcel Bootsman asked via Twitter, “Why did you start to use WordPress?”…

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https://wordpress.org/news/2021/08/episode-15-a-very-wordpress-blooper

wordpress.org

Episode 15: A Very WordPress Blooper

Ever wonder what it’s like behind the scenes of WP Briefing? Listen in on this episode for a little levity and Josepha’s bloopers..

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https://wptavern.com/wordpress-contributors-actually-do-listen-to-feedback-and-engage-with-the-community

WP Tavern

WordPress Contributors Actually Do Listen to Feedback and Engage With the Community

I am a writer. That gives me a license — not to be overused — to steer into hyperbole once in a while. I get to be critical, sometimes overly, because I can come back the next day and shower the WordPress project with praise. Perhaps, at times, I forget to be as fair or kind as I should be…

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https://wptavern.com/adding-custom-html-attributes-with-the-block-attributes-plugin

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Adding Custom HTML Attributes With the Block Attributes Plugin

Earlier this week, websevendev released its fourth WordPress plugin to the official directory named Block Attributes. The extension allows end-users to add any HTML attribute to nearly any block…

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https://gravitywiz.com/documentation/gravity-forms-inventory

Gravity Wiz

Gravity Forms Inventory by Gravity Wiz: Flexible Inventory Management

Gravity Forms Inventory provides easy, flexible inventory management for Gravity Forms. Find out everything you need to know about this Perk here.

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https://wpmudev.com/blog/stripe-subscriptions-wordpress

WPMU Dev

Forminator Pro Now has Stripe Subscriptions for Recurring Payments, Pricing Plans, and Much More!

With Forminator Pro’s Stripe Subscriptions, recurring payments, pricing plans, and other improvements, your payment forms just got better! Learn how to implement these amazing features and hear about some other recent advancements in this article…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2g127cxcWY

Presto Player

Announcing 3 New Features For Presto Player 1.6

Presto Player is the ultimate media solution for WordPress. See what’s been added to version 1.6 in this YouTube vid

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https://www.evernote.com/shard/s5/sh/b463f28b-fffe-46b0-904a-bb4ca6800b58/c1db8a82a41aa94bf72c29ceafc3f6e7

Happy Files

HappyFiles 1.6 … is coming

It’s time for a long-overdue status update on what is going on with Happy Files. First of all, HappyFiles is NOT dead, as some people thought. Quite the opposite actually! There are two reasons why HappyFiles hasn’t seen any updates in the last couple of months. Let’s get to them…

Deals

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https://member.wishlistproducts.com/lifetime-deal

Wishlist Member

Lifetime Deal – WishList Member

Get Lifetime Deal Get Lifetime Access to Updates and Support. Offer available for a limited time…

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/nested-pages-patches-post-deletion-vulnerability

Wordfence

Nested Pages Patches Post Deletion Vulnerability

On August 13, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team responsibly disclosed two vulnerabilities in Nested Pages, a WordPress plugin installed on over 80,000 sites that provides drag and drop functionality to manage your page structure and post ordering.

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https://patchstack.com/wordpress-vulnerability

Patchstack

WordPress Vulnerability News, August 2021

WordPress vulnerability news is a weekly digest of highlighted WordPress plugin or theme vulnerabilities. Make sure to update these ASAP..

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/08/critical-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-patched-in-booster-for-woocommerce

Wordfence

Critical Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Patched in Booster for WooCommerce

On July 30, 2021 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability that we discovered in Booster for WooCommerce, a WordPress plugin installed on over 80,000 sites. This flaw made it possible for an attacker to log in as any user, as long as certain options were enabled in the plugin…

WP Builds

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/08/26/244-r-is-for-resources/

244 – ‘R’ is for Resources

There are so many tools that you open up each day to do your job as a WordPress website builder or developer. What do we use…?

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.searchenginejournal.com/googles-not-fooled-by-fake-lighthouse-scores/417593

Search Engine Journal

Google’s Not Fooled By Fake Lighthouse Scores

Google advises SEOs that they won’t boost search rankings by faking their Lighthouse scores.

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https://wptavern.com/google-search-completes-rollout-of-link-spam-update

WP Tavern

Google Search Completes Rollout of Link Spam Update

Google announced today that it has completed its rollout of the link spam update, which was started a month ago. In an effort to combat sites using spammy links to manipulate rankings, the search engine has developed more effective ways to identify and nullify link spam across multiple languages…

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https://wptavern.com/jeremy-keith-resigns-from-amp-advisory-committee-it-has-become-clear-to-me-that-amp-remains-a-google-product

WP Tavern

Jeremy Keith Resigns from AMP Advisory Committee: “It Has Become Clear to Me that AMP Remains a Google Product”

Jeremy Keith, a web developer and contributor to the web standards movement, has resigned from the AMP Advisory Committee. Keith was selected for the committee last year, despite his well-documented criticisms of the AMP project. In his resignation email, he cites Google’s control of the project and its small percentage of open source parts as reasons for his growing resentment…

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https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/08/mastodon-now-a-non-profit-organisation

Mastodon

Mastodon now a non-profit organisation

In June, I was able to officially register Mastodon gGmbH after nearly 8 months of legal work (“gGmbH” means “non-profit limited liability company”). A non-profit limited liability company in Germany…