This Week in WordPress #191

January 11, 2022 • 01:28:30
This Week in WordPress #191
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This Week in WordPress #191

Jan 11 2022 | 01:28:30

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This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 3rd January 2022

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 #191 – “Flying horses”

This Week in WordPress #191

With Nathan Wrigley, Michelle Frechette, Ronald Gijsel and Angela Jin.

Recorded on Monday 10th January 2022.
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 5.8.3 Security Release
This security release features four security fixes. Because this is a security release, it is recommended that you update your sites immediately…
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wptavern.com
WordPress 5.9 to Fix Lazy Loading Performance Regression, Resulting in 30% Faster Page Loads in Some Cases
WordPress sites may soon see a slight performance improvement on page loads, thanks to a fix for a performance regression in the core lazy loading feature. An analysis published in July 2021 showed that lazy loading applied too aggressively can have a negative impact on performance and that it’s better to eagerly load the images within the initial viewport…
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make.wordpress.org
WordPress 5.9 Performance Improvements
Whether you’re using the latest and greatest with full site editing features or not, there are performance enhancements that everyone can look forward to with WordPress 5.9 set to launch January 25th, 2022. At a high level, you can expect improvements to the Inserter, Block Themes, List View, and more…
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wordpress.org
Block Pattern Directory
I know that this is not real Core, but it’s so great!Add a beautifully designed, ready to go layout to any WordPress site with a simple copy/paste…
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make.wordpress.org
Proposal: Approving Block Pattern Directory Submissions
The Block Pattern Directory will soon be live and ready to accept custom Block Pattern submissions! In anticipation of this new directory, questions have been raised around best practices for submitted Block Patterns.To help encourage contributors to submit Block Patterns, I propose that some basic automated checks, along with spam filters, are implemented…
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make.wordpress.org
A Year in Core – 2021
Here’s some aggregate data for 2021 about WordPress Core contribution on Trac… Kinda fun to see all this in charts and tables!
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Community

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wptavern.com
WP Engine Acquires Brian Gardner’s Frost, Opens It to the Public
Brian Gardner announced today that WP Engine has acquired his latest project, Frost. In an email sent out to all customers, Gardner said his team had issued refunds to all current customers. The business model is changing, and Frost will be a freely-available project going forward and focus on full site editing…
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books.perishablepress.com
Wizard’s Collection: SQL Recipes for WordPress
Over 300 time-saving SQL recipes for WordPress! Includes PDF/eBook (200+ pages) w/ full-color syntax-highlighted code snippets. Plus free lifetime updates…
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themes.gutenberghub.com
WordPress Themes | Explore Block Themes
Choose the best theme for your WordPress website…
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europe.wordcamp.org
A sneak peek at WCEU2022
As we get close to opening our Call for Speakers, we want to share a sneak peek into what the Organising Team is planning for the first in-person WCEU in 3 years…
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glassmountains.co.uk
What is a static WordPress website?
At its heart, WordPress is a highly popular, highly extensible, content management system that powers over 455 million websites. ….yes, isn’t that a big number? The problem with big numbers…
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rosswintle.uk
Hang on, PHP IS a static site generator!
Regular followers will have heard me talk about Turbo Admin. And you may also know that I am, where possible, trying to #DitchTheBuild and use vanilla HTML, CSS and JS as much as possible…
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wpcs.io
WPCS.io raises seed funding to promote multi-tenant WordPress
WPCS.io, an Amsterdam-based provider of the world’s first multi-tenant WordPress cloud platform to create SaaS solutions with WordPress, announced today the raising of a substantial seed investment…

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

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seopress.org
Regex and conditions in redirects, Page Speed and Core Web Vitals redesign, accordion for FAQ block
SEOPress 5.3 is now available. We encourage you to update your site as soon as possible to take advantage of the latest features and improvements. New Regular expressions…

Deals

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WP Funnels Lifetime Deal
Visualize, build, and implement sales funnels directly in WordPress…
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WordPress Deals for WP Builds readers / listeners
WordPress Deals for the WP Builds Community. It’s like Black Friday, but every day of the year…

Security

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patchstack.com
New Improved WordPress Login Page Protection
With the latest version of the Patchstack plugin, we have re-introduced WordPress login page protection… With a twist…
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patchstack.com
If You Approach WordPress Security Like This, It’s Easy
Once you address these 4 issues, you’ll understand that WordPress security is much easier than thought and everyone can do it…

WP Builds

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260 – Image compression for faster websites with EWWW
Compress your images for a quick way to get a faster website with the EWWW plugin. See how it works on the podcast today with founder Shane Bishop. Go listen…

Jobs

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WordPress Product Developer
We are looking for a WordPress Product Developer with 2 – 4 years’ experience to join our GiveWP team. Someone who is excited to learn and has a passion for WordPress, who knows how quality themes and plugins are built and have built a few themselves…
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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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simplecss.org
Simple.css – A classless CSS framework
A classless CSS framework that makes semantic HTML look good…
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protocol.com
Can Matt Mullenweg save the internet?
Arming decision-makers in tech, business and public policy with the unbiased, fact-based news and analysis they need to navigate a world in rapid change…
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bbc.co.uk
Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny
Amazon has fixed its voice assistant so that it will not suggest the dangerous “challenge” again… Good grief!
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archive.org
78rpm Records Digitized by George Blood, L.P. Free Audio!
Through the Great 78 Project the Internet Archive has begun to digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery with the help of George Blood, L.P.. 78s were mostly made from shellac, i.e., beetle resin, and were the brittle predecessors to the LP (microgroove) era…
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theguardian.com
Your attention didn’t collapse. It was stolen.
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. We need to reclaim our minds while we still can…
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casabona.org
2022: The Year of Retreat
In 2021, there was a lot of good, but there was also a lot of stress.As I considered my yearly theme for 2022, I did a bit of an exercise. I wrote down what I felt worst about in 2021. Here’s the list…
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linkedin.com
“No Code is great”. But here’s why we need *Yes* Code.
The hardest part about creating with code isn’t the code. For years, people in the tech industry have talked about. But as great as these No Code tools are, there are lots of meaningful problems, and joyful creations, that can only be addressed by writing code. We need Yes Code…
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yoast.com
We have big news: Yoast SEO is coming to Shopify!
We’re really excited to announce we are bringing Yoast SEO to another platform: Shopify! Find out more about what’s coming in this post.
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shopify.com
Sell NFTs on Shopify | Join the NFT Beta Program
Mint, list, and sell your own branded NFTs with Shopify and Shopify Payments—right from your store…
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theguardian.com
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying
Whether it’s taking fruit to work (and to the bedroom!), being polite to rude strangers or taking up skinny-dipping, here’s a century of ways to make life better, with little effort involved…

Check out some recent podcast episodes…
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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…
16 Dec 2021
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258 – Tired of WooCommerce? Try North Commerce
You use WooCommerce, because you need an eCommerce platform and you like WordPress. It’s kind of the default isn’t it? WordPress + eCommerce = WooCommerce. Well, on the show today…
9 Dec 2021

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