This Week in WordPress #192

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 10th January 2022

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

• WordPress 5.9 is just around the corner. There’s a lot in there and Marcus Kazmierczak has a field guide to help you figure it all out.
• Will the Customizer be going away anytime soon? Justin Tadlock has some thoughts on that.
• Is Open Source in need of change? Morten Rand-Hendriksen wants you to have a re-think? It’s a very thought provoking piece.
• The WP Builds LIVE UI / UX Show is making a comeback next week with Piccia Neri. Get your website looked at through her expert eyes.
• Extendify has a a new way of getting their Block Patterns into your posts and pages. It’s free, with an upgrade, and there’s lots of designs.
• Is Wordle taking over your life, the internet, this show? It seems so (you’ll have to wait until the end).

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 #192 – “Peak Wordle”

With Nathan Wrigley, Jess Frick, Bet Hannon and Davinder Singh Kainth.

Recorded on Monday 17th 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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https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-9-rc-2

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WordPress 5.9 RC 2

The second Release Candidate (RC2) for WordPress 5.9 is available! The final release is slated for January 25, 2022…

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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/10/wordpress-5-9-field-guide

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WordPress 5.9 Field Guide

WordPress 5.9 might be the largest release of Gutenberg features since the initial Gutenberg launch in WordPress 5.0. The latest version includes a full suite of site editing tools bringing the block editor to the full screen. This includes a new way to build themes, new ways to create templates, and style your site. Plus a dozen new theme blocks to load dynamic content…

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https://wptavern.com/customizer-will-disappear-for-some-block-theme-users-with-wordpress-5-9

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Customizer Will Disappear for Some Block Theme Users With WordPress 5.9

WordPress 5.9 will launch with several of the final components of Full Site Editing. The centerpiece of these features will be a new theme system, which allows themers to build designs entirely out of blocks. Once such a theme is active, users can edit their site’s front end via the site editor and global styles system…

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https://make.wordpress.org/community/2022/01/10/proposal-mandatory-safety-measures-for-in-person-wordpress-events-in-2022

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Proposal: Mandatory Safety Measures for In-person WordPress Events in 2022

Last year, the Community Team opened up a pathway to return to In-person WordPress meetups, WordCamps, and do_action charity hackathons. In addition to following local laws and safety guidelines, the Community team’s current guidelines recommend that only individuals who are fully vaccinated, recently tested negative, or recently recovered from COVID-19 could participate in in-person WordCamps..

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https://mor10.com/open-source-considered-harmful

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Open Source Considered Harmful

Those who profit from open source have inhaled too deeply of their own success and forgotten the millions of volunteers who helped them on their way. Now we all run the risk of losing ourselves to an unfinished and deeply privileged ideology that saw the world not as it is or even how it could be, but as it would be were we all Richard Stallman. It is time to rethink the foundations of open source…

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https://wptavern.com/extendify-launches-new-pattern-library-plugin

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Extendify Launches New Pattern Library Plugin

Extendify has simplified access to its pattern library with a new plugin that offers patterns and full-page layouts for WordPress sites using Gutenberg-friendly themes. The company has high expectations for the product, publishing it under the name “Extendify” as its flagship free plugin in the official directory…

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https://webdevstudios.com/2022/01/11/react-for-wordpress-developers

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React for WordPress Developers

WebDevStudios Backend Engineer, Lax Mariappan, shares helpful advise on learning React for WordPress developers. Follow his tips now…

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https://wptavern.com/microsoft-bing-releases-new-indexnow-plugin-for-wordpress

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Microsoft Bing Releases New IndexNow Plugin for WordPress

The IndexNow API, which debuted in October 2021, is the next evolution of the Bing URL submissions API, created by Microsoft Bing and Yandex…

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https://wpbuilds.com/ui/

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WP Builds UI / UX LIVE show. Submit your site for a FREE review

Let Piccia Neri review your website’s UI / UX Next session is on Tuesday 25th January 2022 at 3pm (UK time). Every month Piccia Neri is going to be reviewing some websites, so submit your work for review…

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https://bhmbizsites.com/resolve-to-have-an-accessible-website-in-2022

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Resolve to Have an Accessible Website in 2022

If one of your New Year Resolutions is to have an accessible website here are some resources to help you with your Website Accessibility…

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https://ithemes.com/blog/introducing-restrict-content-3-0

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New! An Easy and Free Way to Sell Premium Content with WordPress

With the new, improved, and FREE Restrict Content plugin, you now have access to a plugin that puts you in control of who can access premium content on your WordPress site. With powerful content restriction options and the ability to sell memberships with access levels, you get everything you need to sell premium content in one easy-to-use plugin…

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https://formality.dev/whats-new

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What’s new? – Formality form plugin

Completely rewritten frontend scripts and lightweight assets. Introducing border radius support, filled input style and 5 new templates….

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https://wptavern.com/automattics-livro-is-a-minimal-block-theme-for-writers

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Automattic’s Livro Is a Minimal Block Theme for Writers

Sometimes the sweetest things in life are the simplest. Automattic’s latest block theme landed in the review queue yesterday, and I had to give it a spin. What I found was a minimally-elegant design that I fell in love with…

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https://wp-shifty.com/best-wordpress-cleanup-plugin

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WP Shifty – WordPress Cleanup Plugin

With WP Shifty you can forgot bad Web Vitals scores. Shifty can easily remove unecessary CSS and JS and disable plugins by page, post type, URL, device, user role, etc…

Deals

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WPSmartPay Lifetime DeAppsumo

Set up payments and collect donations on your WordPress site with just a few clicks…

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https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/01/84000-wordpress-sites-affected-by-three-plugins-with-the-same-vulnerability

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84,000 WordPress Sites Affected by Three Plugins With The Same Vulnerability

On November 5, 2021 the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a vulnerability we discovered in “Login/Signup Popup”, a WordPress plugin that is installed on over 20,000 sites…

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https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected

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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer.The sabotaged versions produce an endless string of illegible text…

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https://wpbuilds.com/2022/01/13/261-getting-a-brief-and-scoping-the-project-wordpress-business-bootcamp-series-1-episode-3/

261 – Getting a brief and scoping the project. WordPress Business Bootcamp – Series 1 / Episode 3

Welcome to another in the WordPress 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 to finish. Today we’re talking about briefing and scoping with new clients…

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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://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

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My first impressions of web3

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than I am the latest NFT drop…

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https://yanmaani.github.io/proof-of-stake-is-a-scam-and-the-people-promoting-it-are-scammers

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Proof of stake is a scam and the people promoting it are scammers

Proof of stake is a scam. When I say that, I mean that proof of stake is (1) claimed to be a consensus system, and (2) constitutionally incapable of actually producing a consensus.To understand why this is the case, we must first study how proof of work works, to be able to see why proof of stake is not an adequate drop-in replacement for it…

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https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/web3

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A not so gentle intro to web3

You’re not too stupid to understand what’s going on.Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto. Although the distributed part of blockchain technology is sort of neat, it’s not that ground-breaking, as having stuff distributed is the whole basis of internet technology since the very beginnning…

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https://twist.com

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Twist: Async messaging for the flexible future of work

Collaborate on your timeline, not everyone else’s. No presence indicators, no endless group chats, no pressure to respond *now*…

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https://growthdesignkit.growmodo.com/gdk-lp20

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Growth Design Kit

Create a complete website design strategy in minutes by imitating the most successful websites on the internet…