This Week in WordPress #181

October 05, 2021 • 01:30:56
This Week in WordPress #181
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This Week in WordPress #181

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This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 27th September 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 #181 – “15 out of 10 for peskiness”

This Week in WordPress 181

With Nathan Wrigley, Rob Cairns, Michelle Frechette and Birgit Pauli-Haack.

Recorded on Monday 4th October 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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Gutenberg 11.6 Introduces New API for Locking Blocks
Gutenberg 11.6 was released this week with a new API for managing lock control at the block-type level. When defining a block, developers can now use the lock attribute to designate whether a block can be moved or removed. The PR introduces parts of the locking support mechanisms proposed by Matias Ventura in a separate issue earlier this year…
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Gutenberg 11.6 Improves the Global Styles UI, Adds Child Theme Support
Gutenberg 11.6 landed yesterday. Contributors added dozens of enhancements and bug fixes. Admittedly, there was not a whole lot that excited me as a user about this release. Typography options, Typography options, Converting old Gallery Blocks and more…

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How to Use the WordPress Block Pattern Directory (2 Ways)
Looking to build your website pages quickly? Learn how to use the WordPress Block Pattern Directory for pre-made layouts…!
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A Web Font API Possibly Coming to WordPress
Ari Stathopoulos announced a proposal for implementing a web fonts API in core WordPress. The goal is to standardize how theme authors register and enqueue font styles. It may also serve as the foundation of other features down the road…
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Gutenberg Times Live Q & A: From Classic Themes to block-based Themes
From building Classic Themes to building block-based Themes! Join us for a panel discussion with Ellen Bauer (Aino Theme), Carolina Nymark (TT1 Blocks Theme) and Anders Noren, (Eksell Theme). They…
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GoDaddy Payments — Now available with Online Pay Links and Virtual Terminal
Introducing GoDaddy Payments, now with Online Pay Links and Virtual Terminal. See how it can benefit your small business…!
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Announcing the GiveWP Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Suite
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising for GiveWP is here. Turn your WordPress website into a peer-to-peer fundraising platform…
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Ready Your Sites for Payments and Transactional Emails in WooCommerce | GoDaddy Events
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Inside Awesome Motive’s self-perpetuating marketing machine
Awesome Motive’s marketing machine powers millions of dollars in revenue. This post explores how it all works…

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Preview WordPress Block Pattern and Theme Combinations via New Site
Andrew Starr, the owner of UXL Themes, has cobbled together a new project around block patterns. His new site, aptly named WP Block Patterns, allows users to preview any WordPress.org-hosted block themes and patterns together…
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The Best WordPress Form Plugin – New Site
The only reason that I’m mentioning this is because they have a new site design and I really like it!!
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Podcast Hosting & Analytics – Another New Site
Here’s another nice redesign. This time Castos, designed by Mike Oliver and built with GenerateBlocks.
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Adding Blocks With Animated Backgrounds Using WebArea’s Latest Plugin
As always, I like to highlight some things on the lighter side of the WordPress world. We have had enough business acquisitions in the past week — the whole year, really — that we need to take a break and enjoy the more experimental developments that the community has to offer…
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New to Iconic: Plugin Updates for September 2021 – Iconic
Read about the latest WooCommerce plugin updates from Iconic. Including bulk updating WooCommerce product variations…
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Peek into the WooCommerce Blocks Roadmap
The WooCommerce team has been hard at work in bringing blocks to merchants and stores around the world. We believe strongly that blocks and full-site editing are important components for the future of WooCommerce so are taking time now to share the latest on the blocks-focused work we’re doing now and our current priorities for the future…

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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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PHP_SELFish Part 1 – Reflected XSS in underConstruction Plugin
Wordfence threat Intelligence found a reflected XSS vulnerability using PHP_SELF in underConstruction impacting over 80,000 sites…
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WordPress Vulnerability News, August 2021
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WooCommerce 5.7.0 Patches Security Issue that Could Potentially Leak Analytics Reports
WooCommerce shipped version 5.7.0 through a forced update for some users earlier this week. The minor release was not billed as a security update but the following day WooCommerce published a post explaining that the plugin was vulnerable to having analytics reports leaked on some hosting configurations…

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This is about common WordPress mistakes and how to get out of a pickle if things go wrong. With all the plugins, themes and community work in WordPress, it’s often surprising that any of it hangs together, and that WordPress websites even work at all.

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A hamster has been trading cryptocurrencies in a cage rigged to automatically buy and sell tokens since June – and it’s currently outperforming the S&P 500
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Widescale introduction of Google’s MUM AI Algorithm is an encouraging development for web publishers and ecommerce sites.
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