This Week in WordPress #176

August 31, 2021 • 01:25:27
This Week in WordPress #176
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This Week in WordPress #176

Aug 31 2021 | 01:25:27

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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…

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”

This Week in WordPress #176 - WP Builds

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.

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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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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…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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…

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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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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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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…

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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…?

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Google Search Completes Rollout of Link Spam Update
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Jeremy Keith Resigns from AMP Advisory Committee: “It Has Become Clear to Me that AMP Remains a Google Product”
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Mastodon now a non-profit organisation
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