This Week in WordPress #177

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…

• Beaver Builder have a major new update, the highlight being their new ‘overview panel’
• Automattic have acquired the developers of Frontity, so that they can work full-time on Gutenberg
• There’s a whole load of plugin updates including a new social plugin from the makers of Fluent Forms
• 1 million sites are compromised in Gutenberg Template Library & Redux Framework compromise
• Do you want to see some funny animal images? Of course you do, and they’re in this week as well! What more could you want?

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.

WordPress Core

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https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-11-4-overhauls-galleries-adds-axial-padding-for-buttons-and-lays-groundwork-for-global-spacing

WP Tavern

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…

Community

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https://wptavern.com/automattic-acquires-frontity-founders-to-work-full-time-on-gutenberg

WP Tavern

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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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPcPM7eHq8c

Sabrina Zeidan

Performance Updates in WordPress 5.8

Exciting stuff happening in WordPress 5.8 to benefit the performance of WordPress websites…

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https://richtabor.com/block-styles

Rich Tabor

How to add and remove Gutenberg block styles with Javascript

Extending the editor with block styles is a quick way to add, or remove, styling defaults to any Gutenberg block. Among adding block patterns and variations, block styles are a clever way to standardize creative elements of a site running on Gutenberg…

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https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-contributors-get-organized-to-move-block-based-navigation-forward

WP Tavern

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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https://community.wpmrr.com/c/wpmrr-virtual-summit/speaker-announcements-round-3

WPMMR

Speaker announcements round 3

Official 3-day schedule of all talks & roundtables will be up soon at wpmrr.com.

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https://www.altis-dxp.com/introducing-altis-v8

Atlis

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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https://www.wpbeaverbuilder.com/summer-update-bb-2-5/?fla=878

Beaver Builder

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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https://elementor.com/blog/introducing-elementor-pro-3-4/?ref=1673

Elementor

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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https://www.kadencewp.com/blog/conditional-headers/?ref=299

Kadence WP

New! Conditional Headers

This powerful feature allows you to create unique headers for specific pages. This way you can target your audience with relevant content based on the page they’re viewing, rather than distracting them with information that could take away from their experience on your website…

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https://fluentforms.com/fluent-forms-4-2/?ref=152

Fluent Forms

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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https://wpsocialninja.com/?ref=152

Social Ninja

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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https://wptavern.com/announce-your-plugin-to-the-world-shout-it-from-the-rooftop

WP Tavern

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…

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://ithemes.com/wordpress-vulnerability-report-september-2021-part-1

iThemes

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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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/09/over-1-million-sites-affected-by-redux-framework-vulnerabilities

Wordfence

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…

WP Builds

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/09/02/245-s-is-for-seo/

245 – ‘S’ is for SEO

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…!

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://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computing

wimvanderbauwhede.github.io

Frugal computing

On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing…

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https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/comedy-wildlife-photography-awards-2021-scli-intl/index.html

CNN

Animals captured at their funniest in the Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards 2021

Gophers goofing around, a laughing snake and racoons seemingly sharing their secrets are among the shortlisted images for the 2021 Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards…

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https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/wildlife-photographer-award-2021-scli-intl-scn/index.html

CNN

Stunning images released by Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021 competition

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..