This Week in WordPress #187

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 22nd November 2021

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

• WordPress 5.9 has been delayed until the New Year. Why did that happen and what does it mean?
• What are you thankful in the WordPress space this year?
• The ‘State of the Word’ is going to be live from New York and live streamed as well, perhaps you could throw a party?
• How do you feel about the impact that you website browsing and website building is impacting the environment?
• GoDaddy suffered a large data breach this past week with over 1.2 million passwords exposed.
• Did you get any Black Friday Deals this year?

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 #187 – “What a load of BF!”

With Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Ross Morsali and Adrian Tobey.

Recorded on Monday 29th 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.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvEG9XWD4JI

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Introducing WordPress 5.9

With more design options, more blocks, more patterns, and more tools to edit even more parts of your site, we can’t wait to see what you create with WordPres…

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https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-9-revised-release-date-confirmed-for-january-25-2022

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WordPress 5.9 Revised Release Date Confirmed for January 25, 2022

Last week WordPress 5.9’s release leads found a consensus for delaying the release after missing the deadlines for Beta 1 due to significant blockers. At that time they proposed a schedule for moving forward, and that is now confirmed. Beta 1 is planned for November 30, 2021, with subsequent betas in December. RC 1 is scheduled for January 4, 2022, and the official release is anticipated on January 25…

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https://wptavern.com/automattic-theme-team-releases-a-plugin-to-build-blockbase-child-themes

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Automattic Theme Team Releases a Plugin To Build Blockbase Child Themes

On Wednesday, Ben Dwyer announced a new block-based plugin on the Theme Shaper blog. The Automattic Theme Team had built a child theme creator for its Blockbase WordPress parent theme…

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https://wordpress.org/news/2021/11/watch-state-of-the-word-at-a-watch-party-with-your-wordpress-friends

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Watch State of the Word at a Watch Party with your WordPress Friends

Although attending State of the Word in person would be ideal, not all WordPress community members get to enjoy the experience of attending the speech live with friends.This year, as State of the Word is streamed live for the second time, we want to restore that in person camaraderie through State of the Word watch parties for WordPress Community members around the world…

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https://tommcfarlin.com/thanksgiving-2021

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Happy Thanksgiving | Tom McFarlin

Believe it or not, 2021 has been just about a weird as 2020 but for totally different reasons. Despite that, I’m grateful.

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https://wptavern.com/wordpress-blogging-and-the-things-we-are-thankful-for

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WordPress, Blogging, and the Things We Are Thankful For

On Saturday, one side of my family held our pre-Thanksgiving reunion. It had been two years since we were able to do it. I offered to host this year when our previous venue’s loss threatened to sideline the event for yet another year…

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https://www.wpracoon.co/black-friday-sales-2021-analysis

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The dark side of the Black Friday Sales

Do all WordPress products follow good practices and “fair play” principles? I looked into plugin prices and compared them. The results are shocking!

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https://wptavern.com/how-do-post-formats-fit-into-a-block-theme-world

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How Do Post Formats Fit Into a Block Theme World?

Over the weekend, Nick Bohle asked Ellen Bauer of Elma Studio how post formats fit into the block-theming world. The question was a proposal for her a WordPress theme and FSE chat she held yesterday via Twitter Spaces. I could not attend and see if Bauer touched on the subject, but the question is something I have given a lot of thought to not that long ago.

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https://github.com/10up/retro-winamp-block

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A Winamp-styled audio block for all your retro music player needs.

A Winamp-styled audio block for all your retro music player needs. 10up/retro-winamp-block: A Winamp-styled audio block for all your retro music player needs…

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https://codecanyon.net/item/carbon-footprint-calculator-for-wordpress/33185589

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Carbon Footprint Calculator For WordPress

Carbon Footprint Calculator For WordPress Monkey Carbon Footprint Calculator is a powerful Carbon Calculator that let’s users work out their Carbon Footprint and Carbon Usage…

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. Loads of great deals on one searchable / filterable page!

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https://wptavern.com/godaddy-data-breach-exposes-1-2-million-active-and-inactive-managed-wordpress-hosting-accounts

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GoDaddy Data Breach Exposes 1.2 Million Active and Inactive Managed WordPress Hosting Accounts

In a disclosure to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that was published today, GoDaddy announced a data security breach impacting its WordPress managed hosting customers. The company discovered unauthorized third-party access to its hosting environment on November 17, 2021, through an exploited vulnerability…

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/11/godaddy-tsohost-mediatemple-123reg-domain-factory-heart-internet-host-europe

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GoDaddy Breach Widens to tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg, Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe

Yesterday GoDaddy disclosed a massive data breach impacting over 1.2 Million customers. Today, we received confirmation from GoDaddy that multiple brands that resell GoDaddy Managed WordPress were impacted…

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2021/11/aws-attacks-targeting-wordpress-increase-5x

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AWS Attacks Targeting WordPress Increase 5X

The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been tracking a huge increase in malicious login attempts against WordPress sites in our network. Since November 17, 2021, the number of attacks targeting login pages has doubled.

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https://wpbuilds.com/2021/11/25/256-kickstart-your-website-copy-with-copyflight/

256 – Kickstart your website copy with Copyflight

One the more challenging things to do when creating a website is to write effective copy. Todd E Jones explains how Copyflight c…

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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://nomoregoogle.com

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No More Google

Privacy-friendly alternatives to Google that don’t track you…

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https://www.privacytools.io

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Privacy Tools: Encryption Against Mass Surveillance

You are being watched. Private and state-sponsored organizations are monitoring and recording your online activities. privacytools.io provides services, tools and knowledge to protect your privacy against global mass surveillance…

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https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/?subscribed=1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=email&utm_campaign=pni2021&utm_content=holiday_launch-kicker

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*Privacy Not Included

Be Smart. Shop Safe. How creepy is that smart speaker, that fitness tracker, those wireless headphones? We created this guide to help you shop for safe, secure connected products. Good job that there’s not tracking on this link!!!

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/nov/22/nasa-slam-spacecraft-into-asteroid-to-avoid-armaggedon

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Nasa to slam spacecraft into asteroid in mission to avoid future Armageddon

Test drive of planetary defence system aims to provide data on how to deflect asteroids away from Earth…

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https://blog.kraken.com/post/11905/your-fingerprint-can-be-hacked-for-5-heres-how

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Your Fingerprint Can Be Hacked For $5. Here’s How. – Kraken Blog

Fingerprint authentication is a convenient alternative to passwords and PIN codes. Who wants to spend time typing in a lengthy string of numbers, letters and characters when a simple tap will suffice…