This Week in WordPress #190

December 21, 2021 • 01:22:30
This Week in WordPress #190
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This Week in WordPress #190

Dec 21 2021 | 01:22:30

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This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 13th December 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!

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This Week in WordPress #190 – “Plumbing new Christmas Depths”

With Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Anne McCarthy and Zach Tirrell.

Recorded on Monday 20th December 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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wordpress.org
WordPress 5.9 Beta 3
WordPress 5.9 Beta 3 is now available for testing. Help test to make the release as good as it can be…
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wordpress.org
WordPress 5.9 Beta 3
WordPress 5.9 Beta 3 is now available for testing. Help test to make the release as good as it can be…
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Community

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bigorangeheart.org
Sponsors urgently needed for Big Orange Heart
Sponsoring Big Orange Heart is an opportunity like no other because it’s a chance to feature across a globally unique service within the remote working communities. The positive brand association…
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bigorangeheart.org
Sponsors urgently needed for Big Orange Heart
Sponsoring Big Orange Heart is an opportunity like no other because it’s a chance to feature across a globally unique service within the remote working communities. The positive brand association…
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wptavern.com
State of the Word 2021: WordPress Passes 43% Market Share, Looks to Expand the Commons Through Openverse
Matt Mullenweg delivered his annual State of the Word address yesterday before a live studio audience in New York City. The majority of WordPress enthusiasts joined the event through the livestream on YouTube. More than 25 meetups gathered for in-person and online watch parties around the world – from Detroit, Singapore, Pakistan, and Medellín, to name a few…
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wptavern.com
State of the Word 2021: WordPress Passes 43% Market Share, Looks to Expand the Commons Through Openverse
Matt Mullenweg delivered his annual State of the Word address yesterday before a live studio audience in New York City. The majority of WordPress enthusiasts joined the event through the livestream on YouTube. More than 25 meetups gathered for in-person and online watch parties around the world – from Detroit, Singapore, Pakistan, and Medellín, to name a few…
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poststatus.com
Post Status Team Responses to the State of the Word 2021
Openverse. Diversity. Training. Future generations. A whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. These are our quick takes on SOTW ’21…
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poststatus.com
Post Status Team Responses to the State of the Word 2021
Openverse. Diversity. Training. Future generations. A whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. These are our quick takes on SOTW ’21…
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wptavern.com
Creative Commons Search Is Now Openverse
The Creative Commons search engine has been rebranded to Openverse and now redirects to its new home at wordpress.org/openverse.Users will find the revamped interface maintains the ability to search the same collections, narrowing results by use case, license type, image type, file type, aspect ratio, and more…
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wptavern.com
Creative Commons Search Is Now Openverse
The Creative Commons search engine has been rebranded to Openverse and now redirects to its new home at wordpress.org/openverse.Users will find the revamped interface maintains the ability to search the same collections, narrowing results by use case, license type, image type, file type, aspect ratio, and more…
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casabona.org
The way to learn WordPress is not by contributing – Joe Casabona
But when he was asked by Allie Nimmons and Michelle Frechette what new/young people can do to learn WordPress, he said that it’s easier than ever to contribute. Matt was basically saying if you want to learn WordPress, contribute to WordPress. While I encourage people to contribute, I don’t think the best way to learn WordPress is by contributing…
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casabona.org
The way to learn WordPress is not by contributing – Joe Casabona
But when he was asked by Allie Nimmons and Michelle Frechette what new/young people can do to learn WordPress, he said that it’s easier than ever to contribute. Matt was basically saying if you want to learn WordPress, contribute to WordPress. While I encourage people to contribute, I don’t think the best way to learn WordPress is by contributing…
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wpmudev.com
2021 Year-End Roadmap Roundup – The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!
If you’ve been waiting for us to spill the beans… your patience is about to pay off! We’re coming in hot with the latest, greatest, and best that’s yet to come from WPMU DEV’s world…
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wpmudev.com
2021 Year-End Roadmap Roundup – The Most Wonderful Time of The Year!
If you’ve been waiting for us to spill the beans… your patience is about to pay off! We’re coming in hot with the latest, greatest, and best that’s yet to come from WPMU DEV’s world…

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

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wptavern.com
The Next Generation of WordPress Theme Authors Will Design From the Site Editor
Last week, I played around with a new plugin that allows users to export a custom theme.json file. The project is still a little buggy at the moment, but I look forward to covering it in more detail soon. The export function was more of a secondary objective for the plugin, but it represents a feature I look forward to landing in WordPress one day…
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wptavern.com
The Next Generation of WordPress Theme Authors Will Design From the Site Editor
Last week, I played around with a new plugin that allows users to export a custom theme.json file. The project is still a little buggy at the moment, but I look forward to covering it in more detail soon. The export function was more of a secondary objective for the plugin, but it represents a feature I look forward to landing in WordPress one day…
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wptavern.com
Alara Block Theme Promises a New Pattern or Design Variation Every Week for the Next Year
One month ago, UXL Themes released Alara. It was a theme that carried with it one bold promise: every week for the next year, users could expect a new design variation, child theme, or block pattern…
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wptavern.com
Alara Block Theme Promises a New Pattern or Design Variation Every Week for the Next Year
One month ago, UXL Themes released Alara. It was a theme that carried with it one bold promise: every week for the next year, users could expect a new design variation, child theme, or block pattern…
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wptavern.com
David Gwyer Teases Block Theme Generator App, Plans for a Community of Creators
David Gwyer has been teasing ThemeGen over the last couple of weeks. It is his upcoming block theme generator app. Piece by piece, it has seemed to be coming together and could prove invaluable for theme developers. Currently, it is in beta testing…
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wptavern.com
David Gwyer Teases Block Theme Generator App, Plans for a Community of Creators
David Gwyer has been teasing ThemeGen over the last couple of weeks. It is his upcoming block theme generator app. Piece by piece, it has seemed to be coming together and could prove invaluable for theme developers. Currently, it is in beta testing…
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richtabor.com
Building WordPress Block Themes with the New Gutenberg Pattern Block
The new Pattern block, recently merged into the Gutenberg plugin, is a block that renders a pattern used within a template from a WordPress block theme…
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richtabor.com
Building WordPress Block Themes with the New Gutenberg Pattern Block
The new Pattern block, recently merged into the Gutenberg plugin, is a block that renders a pattern used within a template from a WordPress block theme…
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seopress.org
Dashboard rankings widget & email notifications
SEOPress Insights 1.3 is now available. We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features and improvements…
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seopress.org
Dashboard rankings widget & email notifications
SEOPress Insights 1.3 is now available. We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features and improvements…
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wptavern.com
10up Releases the Publisher Media Kit WordPress Plugin
Earlier today, version 1.0 of 10up’s Publisher Media Kit went live in the WordPress plugin directory. It is a preconfigured set of blocks and patterns for jump-starting a media kit page for small and medium-sized publications…
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wptavern.com
10up Releases the Publisher Media Kit WordPress Plugin
Earlier today, version 1.0 of 10up’s Publisher Media Kit went live in the WordPress plugin directory. It is a preconfigured set of blocks and patterns for jump-starting a media kit page for small and medium-sized publications…
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wpstackable.com
Learn – Basics of V3 Course
Stackable Version 3.Take this short course to learn about the new features in our latest update, Stackable Version 3!
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Learn – Basics of V3 Course
Stackable Version 3.Take this short course to learn about the new features in our latest update, Stackable Version 3!

Deals

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North Commerce Beta – Lifetime Deal
The only modern ecomm solution for WordPress.North Commerce helps you build beautiful, high converting ecommerce websites with any WordPress theme or builder…
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North Commerce Beta – Lifetime Deal
The only modern ecomm solution for WordPress.North Commerce helps you build beautiful, high converting ecommerce websites with any WordPress theme or builder…
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Up to 50% off AffiliateWP Pricing
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Security

searchenginejournal.com
Catastrophic Log4j Security Fail Threatens Enterprise Systems & Web Apps Worldwide
A serious code execution vulnerability in Log4j has security experts warning of potentially catastrophic consequences for enterprise organizations and web apps…
searchenginejournal.com
Catastrophic Log4j Security Fail Threatens Enterprise Systems & Web Apps Worldwide
A serious code execution vulnerability in Log4j has security experts warning of potentially catastrophic consequences for enterprise organizations and web apps…
log4j-tester.trendmicro.com
Log4j Vulnerability Tester
This web-based tool can help identify server applications that may be affected by the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046) vulnerability.
log4j-tester.trendmicro.com
Log4j Vulnerability Tester
This web-based tool can help identify server applications that may be affected by the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046) vulnerability.
wptavern.com
All In One SEO Plugin Patches Severe Vulnerabilities
The All In One SEO plugin has patched a set of severe vulnerabilities that were discovered by the Jetpack Scan team two weeks ago. Version 4.1.5.3, released December 8, includes fixes for a SQL Injection vulnerability and a Privilege Escalation bug…
wptavern.com
All In One SEO Plugin Patches Severe Vulnerabilities
The All In One SEO plugin has patched a set of severe vulnerabilities that were discovered by the Jetpack Scan team two weeks ago. Version 4.1.5.3, released December 8, includes fixes for a SQL Injection vulnerability and a Privilege Escalation bug…

WP Builds

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259 – How do we know what to charge? WordPress Business Bootcamp – Series 1 / Episode 2
Welcome to another in the WP Business Bootcamp series. It’s the series where we relearn EVERYTHING we know about building WordPress sites and running a web design business from start…

Jobs

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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!
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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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Look: Scientists just discovered a gigantic planet that shouldn’t exist
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Look: Scientists just discovered a gigantic planet that shouldn’t exist
The odd planet b Centauri AB b challenges scientists’ ideas about planet formation, due to the size of its home stars and its distance from its star…
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The Grumpy Designer’s 2022 Preview
These aren’t the play-it-safe web design predictions you’ll see elsewhere. They are the boldest of the boldest predictions for 2022…
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The Grumpy Designer’s 2022 Preview
These aren’t the play-it-safe web design predictions you’ll see elsewhere. They are the boldest of the boldest predictions for 2022…
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Keyframes.app | CSS Toolbox
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Keyframes.app | CSS Toolbox
Keyframes helps you write better CSS with a suite of tools to create CSS @Keyframe animations, box shadows, colors, & more…
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Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging
The vaccine enables the body to create antibodies that attach themselves to senescent cells, which are removed by white blood cells.
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japantimes.co.jp
Japanese scientists develop vaccine to eliminate cells behind aging
The vaccine enables the body to create antibodies that attach themselves to senescent cells, which are removed by white blood cells.

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