This Week in WordPress #183

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 25th October 2021

Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including…

• Gutenberg 11.8 rolls out with dozens of new features
• Assistant Pro (from the Beaver Builder team) is out and it’s such a great product, like Dropbox for everything WordPress
• WPChill take over Gutenberg Forms
• WordCamp Europe is happening next year and they need your help
• Automattic’s VideoPress has received some love and seems like a good video hosting solution
• Black Friday is coming, see the WP Builds Deals Page…

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 #183 – “Purple”

With Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Hazel Quimpo and Hashim Warren.

Recorded on Monday 1st November 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-11-8-adds-dozens-of-features-including-featured-patterns-and-automatically-generated-heading-anchors

Gutenberg 11.8 Adds Dozens of Features, Including Featured Patterns and Automatically-Generated Heading Anchors

Gutenberg 11.8 was released at about 12 pm (CDT) today. However, it hit a bump in the road toward its destination, the WordPress plugin directory. A mix-up with getting the release tagged was the culprit, so it sat in limbo for around eight hours. Technically, it was available via its GitHub and SVN repositories. However, the version shown on WordPress.org was stuck on 11.7.1 for much of the day…

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https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-contributors-focus-efforts-on-navigation-block-for-wordpress-5-9-navigation-editor-punted-to-future-release

Gutenberg Contributors Focus Efforts on Navigation Block for WordPress 5.9, Navigation Editor Punted to Future Release

Gutenberg contributors have shifted their efforts to focus on the Navigation Block ahead of WordPress 5.9, leaving the Navigation Editor for a future release. Recent check-ins on the progress have further narrowed the scope from what Matias Ventura previously projected to include “both the navigation block and navigation screen projects.”…

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https://assistant.pro

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Assistant Pro

Assistant Pro lets you save page builder templates and other design assets to the cloud. Start new client projects with ease!

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https://wptavern.com/wpchill-takes-over-gutenberg-forms-plans-to-shake-up-the-free-forms-market

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WPChill Takes Over Gutenberg Forms, Plans To Shake Up the Free Forms Market

WPChill is now the owner of Gutenberg Forms, a project created by Munir Kamal. While still rough around the edges a year ago, the plugin was updated regularly and was something to at least keep an eye on as it matured. Extendify acquired it alongside Kamal’s Editor Plus and Gutenberg Hub at the end of 2020…

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https://wpmayor.com/is-there-a-future-for-small-wordpress-businesses

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Is There a Future for Small WordPress Businesses?

Is there a future for smaller WordPress businesses with all this consolidation happening around us in the form of product acquisitions…?

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https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/porto-is-calling

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Porto is calling – WordCamp Europe 2022

Volunteers needed. Do you think that it’s too early to be going back ‘in person’, internationally?

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https://wordpress.com/blog/2021/10/11/videopress-remake

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VideoPress Remake

Introducing the new VideoPress. Still the finest video service for WordPress—now even better. Video is one of the most powerful tools on the web. It can spark ideas, emotions, conversations, sales, and much more. VideoPress already offers people the ability to upload and serve hours of high-quality video flawlessly around the globe, ad-free…

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https://aboutus.godaddy.net/newsroom/company-news/news-details/2021/GoDaddys-Point-of-Sale-Seamlessly-Integrates-With-WooCommerce-Making-In-Person-Sales-Quick-and-Easy-/default.aspx

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GoDaddy’s Point of Sale Seamlessly Integrates With WooCommerce, Making In-Person Sales Quick and Easy

In September 2021, GoDaddy launched GoDaddy Payments’ new point of sale (POS) hardware and industry-low credit card transaction fees, which rounded out GoDaddy’s commerce solution to offer businesses the ability to sell, track and manage sales in more places than any other comparable platform…

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https://wptavern.com/the-pattern-block-and-how-it-fixes-a-longstanding-issue-with-dynamic-data-in-html-templates

The ‘Pattern’ Block and How It Fixes a Longstanding Issue With Dynamic Data in HTML Templates

As I was perusing the latest block themes on WordPress.org, I came across a new favorite: Bai. The typography was on point for those who tend to write long-form content. Plus, it has a built-in dark mode design that did not make me want to rip my eyes from their sockets. I had planned to review it, but I did not have much to say. It is simply a solid design without much in the way of extras…

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https://fluentcrm.com/fluentcrm-2-3-0

FluentCRM 2.3.0: BuddyBoss, ThriveCart, LearnPress Integration and more!

FluentCRM 2.3.0 comes with lots of contact management feature improvements and Three new amazing integration! Learn more about it now…!

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https://mainwp.com/mainwp-dashboard-4-1-10-and-child-4-1-8-update

MainWP Dashboard 4.1.10 and Child 4.1.8 Update

The 4.1.10 update of the MainWP Dashboard continues where the 4.1.9 update left off, with this update also focusing on usability and cosmetic changes…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FftlCGo0lww

HappyFiles PRO 1.6 (beta) – Ready for Download & Testing

Help us test this the latest HappyFiles beta release by downloading it from your HappyFiles account now…

Deals

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https://wpbuilds.com/black-friday-cyber-monday-2021/

WordPress Deals Black Friday 2021

WordPress Deals for Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2021 The WP Builds Black Friday Deals Page is supported by… This could be you… Do you fancy having pride of place, you can do that too…

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/10/1000000-sites-affected-by-optinmonster-vulnerabilities

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1,000,000 Sites Affected by OptinMonster Vulnerabilities

On September 28, 2021 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for several vulnerabilities we discovered in OptinMonster, a WordPress plugin installed on over 1,000,000 sites…

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Site Deletion Vulnerability in Hashthemes Plugin

Update: a previous version of this article incorrectly indicated that this vulnerability could be used for site takeover, we have updated this for accuracy, as the impact is instead complete loss of site content…

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https://patchstack.com/wordpress-vulnerability

Patchstack

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…

WP Builds

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/10/28/252-let-someone-else-take-care-of-your-website-policies/

252 – Let someone else take care of your website policies

So… you build WordPress websites and you love it. You know what you don’t love? Policies. Admit it, you don’t do you? The last thing that you want to be spending your time on is ensuring that you’ve got all your websites, and those of your clients, up-to-date with the latest policies.

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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://pxlnv.com/blog/facebook-google-alleged-collaboration-to-fight-privacy

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Facebook and Google’s Alleged Collaboration to Fight Privacy

Twelve U.S. Attorneys General, led by Texas’ Ken Paxton, amended their suit against Google with fewer redactions and plenty more allegations than first seen ten months ago…

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https://swach.io

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A robust color management tool for the modern age

A robust color management tool for the modern age…

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Giant inflatable sails could make shipping greener

Michelin has developed a new kind of sail for cargo ships, one of a number of sail innovations that could help the industry to reduce carbon emissions…