This Week in WordPress #194

This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 24th January 2021

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

• There’s a whole new version of WordPress… 5.9 and it brings some ground breaking new options.
• What is a Block Theme and how can you start to work with them?
• If you’re offering your clients Care Packages, what do you include in them? MainWP might have some thoughts for you with their 2021 survey.
• There’s a real Groundhogg day, and it’s later this week. A one day event to help you get inspiration for your agency.
• Google has abandoned FLoC, but is the replacement any better?

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 #194 – “Groundhog’s are real!”

With Nathan Wrigley, Kathy Zant, Tiffany Bridge and Bet Hannon.

Recorded on Monday 31st 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.

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https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/josephine

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WordPress 5.9 “Josephine”

Introducing 5.9, “Joséphine”. Named in honor of acclaimed international jazz singer Joséphine Baker, this latest, most versatile WordPress release is here: download it or update it directly from your dashboard…

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https://wpreview.io/long-live-full-site-editing-wordpress-5-9-out

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Long Live Full Site Editing (WordPress 5.9 Out) – WP Review

After being delayed for more than a month, WordPress 5.9 is here as the first major release of 2022, and it’s a big one that ushers in the era of Full Site Editing. There’s also a new theme, a Block Patterns directory, and lots of features, so let’s dive in..!

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https://wptavern.com/wordpress-5-9-josephine-released-introduces-full-site-editing-and-new-twenty-twenty-two-default-theme

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WordPress 5.9 “Josephine” Released, Introduces Full Site Editing and New Twenty Twenty-Two Default Theme

This release is named for American-born jazz singer Joséphine Baker, who found success on broadway before moving to Europe and becoming very popular in France. She frequently made her way back the US in the 1950’s to advocate for the Civil Rights Movement, participating in demonstrations and boycotting segregated venues…

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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/01/04/block-themes-a-new-way-to-build-themes-in-wordpress-5-9

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Block themes, a new way to build themes in WordPress 5.9

WordPress 5.9 makes the official introduction to block themes in WordPress, which previously required the Gutenberg plugin to work and prioritizes working with the latest Full Site Editing features. The new default theme, Twenty Twenty-Two, ships with WordPress 5.9 and is the very first default block theme, which makes it a beautiful reference theme to learn from…

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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/12/15/using-multiple-stylesheets-per-block

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Using multiple stylesheets per block

Prior to WordPress 5.9, each block could (but not required to) have a stylesheet attached to it. The way blocks could register a stylesheet was by adding a style and/or editorStyle string in their block.json file…

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https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/08/20/gallery-block-refactor-dev-note

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Gallery Block Refactor Dev Note

To make the behavior of images consistent between the Image Block and Gallery, while avoiding code duplication, the core Gallery block has been refactored to save the individual images as nested core Image blocks using the standard core innerBlocks APIs…

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https://wptavern.com/looking-ahead-to-wordpress-6-0-the-early-roadmap

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Looking Ahead to WordPress 6.0: The Early Roadmap

With WordPress 5.9 only just stepping its toes out the door and greeting the world, the lead developers seem to have hardly taken a moment to catch their breath. Yesterday, Matías Ventura posted the preliminary roadmap for 6.0. It covers the general scope of the planned features to land this year..

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https://make.wordpress.org/meta/2022/01/13/wordpress-photo-directory-call-for-volunteers

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WordPress Photo Directory: Call for Volunteers

As announced in State of the Word 2021, WordPress now has a Photo Directory! The Photo Directory is both a curated source for high-quality images and a new submission tool…

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https://poststatus.com/can-five-for-the-future-fund-wordpress-research

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Can Five for the Future Fund WordPress Research?

How can WordPress attract and retain more contributors? How can we assess and improve contributors, leaders, governance, transparency, discourse, and diversity in this dynamic community..?

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https://www.groundhogg.io/groundhogg-day

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Groundhogg Day Live | February 2nd, 2022

1 Day, 12 Speakers, Unlimited Opportunity. Find the next product, strategy, sales or marketing tip that will accelerate your growth in 2022!

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If This Is Modern WordPress Theme Development, Sign Me Up

I have had a block theme idea rattling around in my brain for a while. For months, I have considered building a single-page profile/card theme, and I finally sat down and put in the work over the weekend. In part, I just wanted to do this for fun. However, another part of me wanted to see how block theming has progressed from a developer perspective…

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https://mainwp.com/the-mainwp-2021-web-care-survey-learned

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The MainWP 2021 Web Care Survey: What we learned

I wanted to do a web care survey for a very long time. I haven’t seen that anyone has done one in a while, so I thought 2021 was the right time to do the survey…

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https://europe.wordcamp.org/2022/call-for-speakers-is-now-open

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Call for Speakers is now open

Finally, the WordPress community meets again in person in Porto in 2022. Become a speaker or a workshop host at the greatest WordCamp..!

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https://yoast.com/open-source-story

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Open source: Better solutions and a more inclusive society

Open source is a collaborative model that leads to better solutions and a more inclusive society! Learn more about it in our digital story on open source…

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https://wptavern.com/new-proposal-aims-for-3-major-wordpress-releases-in-2022

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New Proposal Aims for 3 Major WordPress Releases in 2022

WordPress 5.9 has already been downloaded more than 12 million times since its release earlier this week. Millions of WordPress users are discovering full-site editing (FSE) for the first time. What will they think..?

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https://toolset.com/2022/01/toolset-blocks-1-6-2-compatibility-with-wordpress-5-9

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Toolset Blocks 1.6.2 – Compatibility with WordPress 5.9

WordPress 5.9 takes the first step towards Full Site Editing. It includes a new editor (in beta), which lets you edit visually the templates for posts and pages. Read about all the new things in WordPress 5.9 and what this release means for your Toolset-powered websites…

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Bricks – Query Loop Builder (for Posts, Terms, Users)

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…

Deals

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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…

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WordPress Vulnerability Report – January 26, 2022

The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities, and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website…

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https://ithemes.com/annual-wordpress-vulnerability-report

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2021 WordPress Vulnerability Annual Report

The iThemes Security Weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers newly-disclosed WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities. We compiled data from all of the vulnerability disclosures from our reports in 2021 to bring you the first WordPress Vulnerability annual report…

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https://wptavern.com/podcast/11-vinny-mckee-on-his-block-builder-plugin

#11 – Vinny McKee on His Block Builder Plugin

Vinny’s the creator of the Wicked Block Builder plugin, which is a tool to make the job of creating your own custom blocks as easy as possible…

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https://wpbuilds.com/2022/01/27/263-agreements-contracts-and-payments-series-1-episode-4/

263 – Agreements / contracts and payments – Series 1 / Episode 4

Welcome to another in our 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…

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!

Not WordPress, but useful anyway…

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Google Abandons FLoC in Favor of New Topics API, a Replacement for Third-Party Cookies

Google is burying FLoC (Federated Learning of Cohorts) in its sea of abandoned experiments. FLoC’s proposed mechanism for replacing third-party cookies grouped people together and labeled them using machine learning. The controversial origin trial caused a group of WordPress contributors to propose blocking it in core before it was even out of the experimental stage…