This Week in WordPress #187

November 30, 2021 • 01:27:34
This Week in WordPress #187
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This Week in WordPress #187

Nov 30 2021 | 01:27:34

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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…

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!”

This Week in WordPress #187 - WP Builds

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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Introducing WordPress 5.9
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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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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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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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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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WordPress, Blogging, and the Things We Are Thankful For
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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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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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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…

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WordPress Deals Black Friday 2021
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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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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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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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