This Week in WordPress #184

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This Week in WordPress #184

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 1st November 2021

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

Do you want to take part in a global WordPress Secret Santa, well, now you can
WordCamps are back, at leat in Birmingham (USA) anyway
Vote for your most loved WordPress things in The WP Awards, (hint, there’s a podcast section!)
Jetpack has taken over WPScan, what does this mean for you?
Are Block based themes starting to look like the future, Justin Tadlock thinks that they are
Find all the best Black Friday deals
and control all your light from one little fun, wall-mounted widget…

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 #184 – “Darlek Audio”

With Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Ben Townsend and Bernhard Gronau.

Recorded on Monday 8th 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://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/11/03/performance-team-meeting-summary-november-2-2021

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Performance team meeting summary – November, 2 2021

If this is the first time you are hearing about the WordPress performance team, this post might be a good place to get you up to speed with the huge number of tasks which need completing…

Community

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https://wptavern.com/birmingham-to-host-first-in-person-wordcamp-february-4-5-2022

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Birmingham to Host First In-Person WordCamp, February 4-5, 2022

WordCamp Birmingham is the first in-person WordCamp on the schedule for 2022. The event will be held at the Sidewalk Film Center and Cinema in downtown Birmingham on February 4-5. It is one of the first cracks in WordPress’ iced over event landscape after the pandemic brought in-person gatherings to a halt…

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https://www.elfster.com/gift-exchanges/008374ea-384e-41f4-be86-237b29efcdca/?join=mda4

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WordPress Community Gift Exchange 2021

Like Secret Santa, but for everyone in the WordPress community, anywhere in the world…

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https://wordpress.org/news/2021/10/people-of-wordpress-ecommerce-ronald-gijsel

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People of WordPress: Ronald Gijsel

Ronald Gijsel on his path from chef to WordPress e-commerce specialist, in the latest People of WordPress feature…

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https://wptavern.com/wordpress-has-never-offered-an-ideal-writing-experience

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WordPress Has Never Offered an Ideal Writing Experience

It needed to be said. I know some of you loved writing in the classic editor. I know some of you enjoy the current block editor. Some of you may have even been thrilled with the platform’s earlier attempt at a distraction-free writing mode.

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https://poststatus.com/wp-career-summit-save-the-date

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WP Career Summit – Save the Date!

WP Career Summit – the first of its kind – will be held online April 8, 2022. While still in the early stages of planning, we can promise it will be an amazing event…

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https://thewpweekly.com/awards

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The WP Awards 2021: The Best in WordPress for & by Users!

Vote for your favorite WordPress Plugins, Themes, Tools, and Services at The WP Awards 2021 event. Voting is open now till Nov 30, 2021 and award results in Dec 2021…

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https://www.templatemonster.com/awards

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Monster`s Award – WordPress Community Product Award 2021

Join the most prestigious WordPress community award in 2021 â© Vote for the best themes, plugins, hosting, blogs, and Youtube channels, and let your favorite win.!

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https://wptavern.com/jetpack-launches-new-licensing-portal-for-agencies

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Jetpack Launches New Licensing Portal for Agencies

Jetpack is finally formalizing its approach to agency licensing with a new portal launched this week. The program is aimed at streamlining product setup and account billing records for agencies and professionals who use Jetpack on client projects…

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https://jetpack.com/2021/11/04/jetpack-acquires-wordpress-vulnerability-database-wpscan

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Jetpack Acquires WordPress Vulnerability Database WPScan

Jetpack is acquiring WPScan, a WordPress vulnerability database used across the WordPress ecosystem to learn about new vulnerabilities…

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https://wphunts.com

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WPHunts A Product Hunt For WordPress Products

An alternative to Product Hunt for WordPress products. Find new and interesting WordPress plugins, themes, tools and more. Upvote and share your thoughts…

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https://buddy.works/webinars/update-wordpress-plugins-git-updater

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How to update WordPress plugins with Git Updater

Learn how to seamlessly release your in-house plugins without the need of using the official plugin repository…

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https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/pull/1736

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Webfonts API

This API solves the problem of inefficient font loading which is a known “performance bottleneck” that can impact the user experience…

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https://blog.bigorangeheart.org/2021/11/announcing-wordfest-live-2022

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Announcing WordFest Live 2022

2022 is fast approaching and with it the next WordFest Live! Big Orange Heart and the WordFest Live volunteers kick off another global tour of the WordPress community. March 4, 2022…

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https://wptavern.com/the-wordpress-block-theme-revolution-is-quietly-picking-up-momentum

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The WordPress Block Theme Revolution Is Quietly Picking Up Momentum

It is only a matter of time before the floodgates are flung open. Many of the block themes released in the past year have been little different than your typical starter theme. However, there is a quiet momentum building that might just surprise some folks in a few months…

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https://www.groundhogg.io/updates/groundhogg-pipeline-3-0

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New features your sales team will gush over. Groundhogg Pipeline 3.0

These new improvements will make Groundhogg even more accessible to scaling teams managing their leads in WordPress..

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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/10/29/thunks-in-gutenberg

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Thunks in Gutenberg

Gutenberg 11.6added support for thunks. Thunks expand the meaning of what a Redux action is. Before thunks, actions were purely functional and could only return and yield data. Common use cases such as interacting with the store or requesting API data from an action required using a separate control…

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Admin Notices Manager for WordPress

Use the Admin Notices Manager plugin to better manage your website’s admin notices, read them at your own convenience and never miss an important WordPress core and developer message…

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https://wptavern.com/ona-by-deothemes-just-raised-the-bar-for-wordpress-block-theme-design

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Ona by DeoThemes Just Raised the Bar for WordPress Block Theme Design

No sooner than I said the floodgates of block theme development would be open, a couple of more FSE-capable themes landed in the WordPress.org directory. I checked the review system, and three more were queued up…

Deals

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

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WordPress Deals Black Friday 2021

WordPress Deals for Black Friday / Cyber Monday 2021. Loads of great deals on one searchable / filterable page!

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/11/vulnerability-in-wp-dsgvo-tools-gdpr-plugin-allows-unauthenticated-page-deletion

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Vulnerability in WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR) Plugin Allows Unauthenticated Page Deletion

Vulnerability allows attackers to permanently delete any page on a site without logging in…

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https://ithemes.com/blog/wordpress-vulnerability-report-november-2021-part-1

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WordPress Vulnerability Report: November 2021, Part 1

The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Reportcovers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities for the first week of November, 2021…

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https://patchstack.com/patchstack-weekly-update-november-4th-2021

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Welcome To The First Patchstack Weekly Update

Welcome to the Patchstack Weekly Update! This is the first of a weekly series where you can get yourself up to date on recent events…

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https://wptavern.com/podcast/9-tara-king-on-encouraging-developers-towards-a-gutenberg-future

#9 – Tara King on Encouraging Developers Towards a Gutenberg Future

Tara has recently begun working for Automattic in the developer relations role. Tara will lead a newly formed team who will get out and about; trying to understand the pain points which people are having with the new Block Editor and Full Site Editing. They will then report their findings back to the developer and contributor teams, and hopefully establish a feedback loop to make the editor better….

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/11/04/253-w-is-for-writing/

253 – ‘W’ is for Writing

Writing is such a complex process. When we started to think about this topic, we thought that it would be really straightforward, but after some reflection, it turns out that there’s a LOT to this subject. Go listen…