This Week in WordPress #177

September 07, 2021 • 01:25:27
This Week in WordPress #177
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This Week in WordPress #177

Sep 07 2021 | 01:25:27

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This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 30th 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 #177 – “I let out a bit of liquid”

With Nathan Wrigley, Paul Lacey and Rob Cairns.

Recorded on Monday 6th September 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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Gutenberg 11.4 Overhauls Galleries, Adds Axial Padding for Buttons, and Lays Groundwork for Global Spacing
Sometimes I jump the gun and install a development version of the plugin to understand an upcoming feature, such as the new “block gap” style setting. Other times, I like to be surprised with enhancements like the new vertical/horizontal padding controls for the Button block…

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Automattic Acquires Frontity, Founders to Work Full-Time on Gutenberg
Automattic has acquired Frontity, the company behind an open source framework for building WordPress themes with React. The acquisition comes more than a year after the company raised €1M in funding in a round led by K Fund, with Automattic covering 22%…
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Performance Updates in WordPress 5.8
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How to add and remove Gutenberg block styles with Javascript
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Gutenberg Contributors Get Organized to Move Block-Based Navigation Forward
The block-based Navigation editor screen got a status check last week as part of a Hallway Hangout meeting aimed at identifying what needs to happen to bring the screen out from behind the “experimental” flag. Once the Navigation screen is available by default in the Gutenberg plugin, the team working on the feature will be able to gather more feedback…
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Speaker announcements round 3
Official 3-day schedule of all talks & roundtables will be up soon at wpmrr.com.
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Introducing: Altis v8 – Altis
Altis v8 includes powerful new functionality to improve publication workflows and accelerate content creation, streamlining editorial processes to empower agile teams…

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Summer Update – BB 2.5, YouTube, Assistant Pro, and More! | Beaver Builder
Hey Beaver Builders! I hope you’ve all had a great summer. We have a ton of exciting things to share with you so be sure to read the post all the way to the end…
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Introducing Extended Ecommerce Capabilities
Meet Elementor’s new extended ecommerce capabilities — a complete set of improvements of the Menu Cart widget, Dynamic WooCommerce Tags, and more..
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Fluent Forms 4.2 with Massive Features
Read this release note of Fluent Forms 4.2 to learn about new features such as Google Autocomplete, Subscription, Embedded Checkout, and more…
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The Best All-in-one Social Media Plugin for WordPress
Grow your business with WP Social Ninja. WPManageNinja brings the most promising WordPress social tools plugin that takes care of your social feeds and social chat too! Just like a swiss knife…
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Announce Your Plugin to the World, Shout It From the Rooftop
The easiest way to kill your WordPress plugin is to fail to let the world know about it. If you cannot manage a tweet, blog post, or quick note on Facebook, you may as well sign the death certificate then and there…

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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…

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WordPress Vulnerability Report: September 2021, Part 1
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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Over 1 Million Sites Affected by Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework Vulnerabilities
We discovered in the Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework plugin, which is installed on over 1 million WordPress sites. One vulnerability allowed users with lower permissions, such as contributors, to install and activate arbitrary plugins and delete any post or page via the REST API…

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So today on the podcast David and Nathan talk about SEO. David certainly knows more about this than Nathan does, but neither of us claim to be experts. It’s the usual nonsense…!

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A number of stunning entries to the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been released, including images of an Iberian lynx framed in a doorway, cheetahs swimming in a raging river and blood dripping from the muzzle of a lioness..
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