This Week in WordPress #182

October 12, 2021 • 01:31:39
This Week in WordPress #182
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This Week in WordPress #182

Oct 12 2021 | 01:31:39

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This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 4th October 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 #182 – “Herkle Derkling”

This Week in WordPress #182 - WP Builds

With Nathan Wrigley and Bob Dunn.

Recorded on Monday 11th 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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First Look at WordPress’ Upcoming Twenty Twenty-Two Default Theme: “The Most Flexible Default Theme Ever Created for WordPress”
Twenty Twenty-Two, the new default theme coming in WordPress 5.9, was unveiled today on WordPress.org. The design goes full steam ahead in support of full site editing and new customization…
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Default Theme Releases May Become More Frequent Following WordPress 5.9
Contributors have just 40 days before the scheduled Beta 1 release on November 16 to get the theme ready. While that seems like an impossibly tight deadline, more frequent default theme releases may be ahead on the horizon…

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The Page Builder Summit – 18th to 22nd May 2021. It’s FREE!
Join us for The Page Builder Summit. It’s all happening again in a few week… 18th – 22nd October 2021. Go sign up for your FREE place and check out the great list of speakers…
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HeroPress Expands Into The HeroPress Network
After a year of planning, the answer to “What to do with HeroPress?” was to grow it into The HeroPress Network. The HeroPress Network is a collection of individual websites that share a collaborative mission to simplify access to the information and resources that help both veteran and new users thrive in WordPress, for free…
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WordCamp US 2021 Draws More Than 3600 Attendees
WordCamp US took place online last Friday. Organizers pulled off a successful one-day event with an engaging group of speakers who highlighted timely and important topics. There were 3,608 people registered for the event and the livestream had as many as 400 concurrent viewers at a time…
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Announcing #Contribute2WP A Two-Day WordPress Contribution Event
WordPress, which is perhaps the most widely-recognized open source project in the world, now powers more than 42 percent of the web due in no small part to the mostly-volunteer work of its community members. Without its thriving community, WordPress would not be what it is today…
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The Next Web Publishes Storyblok-Sponsored Hit Piece on WordPress
Last week, under its news section, The Next Web published what could only be described as a hit piece: Developers hate WordPress — and so should marketers. The claim was that, despite its current 40% market share, folks should start looking at alternatives for a better experience…
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CaboPress Breaks the WordPress Event Mold
I just returned from CaboPress and it is unlike any WordPress conference, period. I almost feel like that’s all the should be said, go to the site, read up on it, and you’ll understand. In short it’s a business conference created by the highly respected writer, speaker, and business coach, Chris Lema…
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#8 – Lee Shadle on How Blocks Create New Opportunities
On the Jukebox podcast today we have Lee Shadle. Lee is a WordPress developer at WP Draft, and by his own admission is obsessed with building block based themes, plugins and websites. He’s been using WordPress for many years and as soon as the Gutenberg project was announced, he decided he was going to explore it and learn how it worked…
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Centralized DNS for Faster, Safer and Easier Hosting
The new SiteGround Centralized DNS provides faster, safer and easier domain management. Enhanced redudancy, blazing fast resolving and seamless migrations…!
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Web Monetization for WordPress – Web Monetization for WordPress
Welcome to the Web Monetization for WordPress site. You can dive straight into the articles below, find out more about this site, contact me or read the blog.

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iThemes Sync Gets a Refresh for Speed
iThemes Sync is lighter and faster than ever. See how easy it is to manage all your WordPress sites from one place with iThemes Sync…
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WP Engine Launches Atlas Content Modeler
WP Engine […] today announced the launch of Atlas Content Modeler (ACM), a free WordPress plugin to create custom post types and fields for Headless WordPress sites…
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Logtivity is the new Activity Log solution for WordPress
Logtivity is a event monitoring solution for WordPress. This plugin will capture events/actions on a WordPress site and send them to Logtivity for logging, reporting and checking for alerts…https://robertjacobi.com/cabopress-breaks-the-wordpress-event-mold.html
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Introducing Tove
Tove, my first WordPress theme built entirely around Full Site Editing, is live on the WordPress.org Theme Directory…
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ProjectHuddle is Joining the Brainstorm Force Team!
I have some exciting news that I am thrilled to share with you! ProjectHuddle is joining Brainstorm Force, the company behind Astra theme, Ultimate Addons for various page builders, Convert Pro, Schema Pro, and other innovative products for WordPress…
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Introducing the Future of Funnel Building
CartFlows introduces two brand new features that take sales funnel building to the next level. Increase sales and manage sales flow efficiently…

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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: October 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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High Severity Vulnerability Patched in Access Demo Importer Plugin
On August 9, 2021, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team attempted to initiate the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability that we discovered in Access Demo Importer, a WordPress plugin installed on over 20,000 sites. This flaw made it possible for authenticated attackers with just subscriber level access to upload arbitrary files that could be used to achieve remote code execution…

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So you have a WordPress website and it’s all built and handed over to the client. You’re done! Hurrah! Wait a minute, you’re not done are you? Chances are that…

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Introducing Cloudflare’s S3-compatible Object Storage service, with zero egress bandwidth charges and automatic migration from S3-compatible services…
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Facebook Outage Rekindles Push for a Free and Open Web
Facebook, Workplace, Instagram, and WhatsApp went down today for roughly six hours due to a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configuration error. Cloudflare describes BGP as “the postal service of the Internet.” It is responsible for routing Facebook’s traffic and making all of its domains accessible to visitors…
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Mark Zuckerberg breaks silence to say the Facebook whistleblower’s claims ‘don’t make any sense’
“I don’t know any tech company that sets out to build products that make people angry or depressed”…
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