WP Builds Newsletter #74 - Gutenberg nesting, community news and the death of flash

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 29th July 2019:

WordPress Core

Gutenberg 6.2 Adds Nesting Capabilities to Cover, Media & Text Blocks

Community

WordPress Contributors Explore the Possibility of a Global Accessibility Event

WordSesh EMEA Coming September 25: A New Virtual WordPress Event for Europe, Middle East, and Africa

WordCamp Central America Organizers Prepare Proposal for 2020 Event in Managua, Nicaragua

WordCamp Asia - Call for Speaker

Ninja Forms Parent Company Saturday Drive Acquires CalderaWP

WordCamp US 2019 to Offer Free On-Site Childcare and here

WP Engine Acquires StudioPress: A Year Later

An Introduction to WP-CLI

Flywheel launches Local Pro

Plugins / Themes

WordPress Security Team Discusses Backporting Security Releases to Fewer Versions

Introducing Elementor’s Monthly Template Kits

Meta Box Plugin Introduces MB Blocks, a PHP-based Extension for Creating Custom Blocks

Pinterest for WooCommerce

Theme Sniffer v1.1.0 and WPThemeReview v0.2.0 release

SVG image backgrounds in the Customizer

More than grids – using Bootstrap 4 components on Toolset-based sites

Security

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: July 2019, Part 2
and
Wordfence Weekly July 24 2019 – July 30 2019

Neapolitan Backdoor Injection

WordPress Proposes Plan for 61% of WP Sites Using Outdated PHP

Proposal for increasing recommended PHP version in WordPress

WP Builds

A better way to manage your media library with Stuart Brameld

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Google Chrome 76 arrives, makes it harder to use Flash and easier to dodge paywalls

CSS Flexbox #1. Creating Your First Flexbox Layout

AWS’ new text-to-speech engine sounds like a newscaster

The best books on Marketing