This Week in WordPress #193

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing Monday 17th January 2022

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

• What’s new in Gutenberg 12.4?
• Why are theme developers not flocking to create block based themes? There’s only 39 in the new repo right now!
• WP Careers Summit is a new event designed to help you seek employment and get the best candidates.
• Wicked Plugins have a new Block Builder plugin which makes it easy to create blocks.
• We talk a lot this week about open source and the people who maintain the movement. Are they getting burned out and fed up of being taken for granted?
• What the heck is Web3 and why is it not all that it’s cracked up to be?

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 #193 – “Open sauce is tasty”

With Nathan Wrigley, Taco Verdonschot and Gustavo Bordoni.

Recorded on Monday 24th January 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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https://wptavern.com/gutenberg-12-4-includes-accessibility-improvements-categories-reminder-and-a-tag-cloud-outline-style

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Gutenberg 12.4 Includes Accessibility Improvements, Categories Reminder, and a Tag Cloud Outline Style

Gutenberg 12.4 landed in the WordPress plugin directory earlier today. With the push to get WordPress 5.9 out the door next week, it can be easy to forget all the development behind the scenes, waiting to make its appearance in future versions of WordPress…

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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://wptavern.com/what-arent-more-wordpress-theme-authors-creating-block-themes

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Why Aren’t More WordPress Theme Authors Creating Block Themes?

Block themes are trickling into the official WordPress Themes Directory at a slow rate ahead of full-site editing’s debut in WordPress 5.9. There are now 39 themes that support site editing features, up from 28 in December 2021, when Matt Mullenweg commented on it during the State of the Word address…

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https://wptavern.com/wp-career-summit-opens-registration-calls-for-speakers-and-sponsors

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WP Career Summit Opens Registration, Calls for Speakers and Sponsors

WP Career Summit is a new event hosted by the Post Status community that will take place on April 8, 2022. The summit is the first of its kind in the WordPress space – an event entirely focused on job seekers and employers…

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https://nomad.blog/2022/01/15/so-you-want-to-talk-about-full-site-editing-5-9-edition

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So you want to talk about full site editing? 5.9 Edition

All the resources you need to speak about full site editing ahead of and after the WordPress 5.9 release…

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https://robertjacobi.com/how-wordpress-are-you.html

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How WordPress Are You?

Inspired by another newsletter (totally not in the technology arena), I bring you a quiz to see – How WordPress Are You..?

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https://buddy.works/webinars/how-to-design-accessible-websites

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How to Design Accessible Websites

Learn what kind of limitations people with disabilities may encounter when browsing websites, and how to avoid them during the design process…

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Post Status Comments (No. 6) — The State of the WordPress News European Edition

Get new perspectives on last years’ biggest news stories — which ones mattered most, to whom, and why? This is the European edition of the first Annual Post Status News Draft…

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https://wptavern.com/nick-diego-forks-core-wordpress-block-creates-social-sharing-plugin

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Nick Diego Forks Core WordPress Block, Creates Social Sharing Plugin

Raise your hand if you have seen this before. Yet another social sharing plugin. But, with the block system, all things are new again. Some things simply need to be ported over from their former PHP-based equivalents. Others are fresh takes on old ideas, and a few may set the standard for years to come…

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https://fluentforms.com/introducing-fluent-forms-4-3-0

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Introducing Fluent Forms 4.3.0 – New Features and Improvements

Another year, another update! This time Fluent Forms comes with a bang. Welcome to the release note of Fluent Forms version 4.3.0…

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https://wptavern.com/woocommerce-aims-to-produce-mvp-of-custom-tables-for-orders-by-q3-2022

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WooCommerce Aims to Produce MVP of Custom Tables for Orders by Q3, 2022

The WooCommerce development team announced today that they have started working on an implementation of custom tables for orders, a long-awaited improvement that promises significant performance gains for stores…

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BuddyPress 10.0.0 Released, Introduces Site Membership Requests and Visual Improvements to Activity Logs

This major release introduces a Site Membership Requests feature, which can be enabled in the Options screen of the BuddyPress settings menu in the admin. When active, it changes the registration process so that visitors can submit a membership request, which must be manually approved by a site administrator…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5fbGuTdPKw

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Connecting The Dots: Level up with Query Loop block

This video pulls together some of what can be done today ahead of the January 5.9 release. This video focuses on how using the Query Loop block can both help you level up your content and streamline your workflows, depending on what you’re trying to accomplish…

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https://wptavern.com/wicked-plugins-launches-ui-based-wordpress-block-builder

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Wicked Plugins Launches UI-Based WordPress Block Builder

Last week, Wicked Plugins launched version 1.0 of its Wicked Block Builder. I have kept my eye on this plugin since its November 2021 beta release. The project promised that developers would be able to “effortlessly build custom blocks,” and I was finally ready to put that to the test…

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https://wptavern.com/what-are-block-themes-what-you-need-to-know-before-wordpress-5-9

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What Are Block Themes? What You Need To Know Before WordPress 5.9

WordPress 5.9 is set to launch on January 25, and many users will be in for a surprise. The upcoming release will be the most monumental shift in how the platform works since the introduction of the block-based content editor in 5.0. Block themes, global styles, and the site editor will kick-start a new future for WordPress…

Deals

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https://wpbuilds.com/wpbuilds-deals/

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…

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https://wpbuilds.com/2022/01/20/262-online-summits-attendee-and-speaker-expectations/

262 – Online summits, attendee and speaker expectations

So this is something new to the podcast. I recorded this episode with Joe Casabona at the tail end of 2021, and this is the first time that he and I have created content to be shared across both of our podcasts…

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https://yoast.com/jobs/?_jobs_search=developer

Check out our job openings at Yoast – 7 currently

Want to work at Yoast? Over 10 million people worldwide use Yoast SEO software, which makes us one of the most influential companies in SEO and WordPress…

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https://wpbuilds.com/post-a-job/

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://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-tumblr-became-popular-for-being-obsolete

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How Tumblr Became Popular for Being Obsolete

The social-media platform’s status as a relic of the Internet has attracted prodigal users as well as new ones…

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https://mor10.com/web3-panacea-or-poisoned-chalice

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Web3: Panacea or Poisoned Chalice

This year I’m taking a deep dive into Web3 to make sense of what it is, how it works, what it promises, and whether those promises will come to fruition. So far I feel like I’m watching a thriller screaming “don’t open the door!” at my TV…

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https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2022/burden-open-source-maintainer

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The burden of an Open Source maintainer

Or: Why can’t you just merge my ten-line PR already?I maintain over 200 open source projects. Apparently (this is news to me) I am ranked in the top 200 GitHub users by followers, and there are 18,000 forks and 42,000 stars across my repos…

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https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/18/22889903/democrats-targeted-advertising-facebook-google-surveillance

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Democrats unveil bill to ban online ‘surveillance advertising’

Most targeted advertising would be banned.It could reshape the entire tech industry…

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Introducing Simple.css Version 2

I’ve been hacking on Simple.css recently, and all the changes have accumulated into a new major version. Say hello to Simple.css version 2…

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https://www.fastcompany.com/90712513/the-future-of-work-is-asynchronous

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The future of work is asynchronous

A veteran Googler who founded mulitpurpose messaging app Rock maintains that operating asynchronously lets work get done on time. People are less stressed and it allows for a wider talent pool, too..