WP Builds Newsletter #76 - Gutenberg improvements, riding a bike and plugin updates

August 19, 2019 • 00:30:35
WP Builds Newsletter #76 - Gutenberg improvements, riding a bike and plugin updates
WP Builds
WP Builds Newsletter #76 - Gutenberg improvements, riding a bike and plugin updates

Aug 19 2019 | 00:30:35

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th August 2019:

WordPress Core

Gutenberg 6.3 Improves Accessibility with New Navigation and Edit Modes

Community

Foolish English folk ride 3,000 km for a great WordPress cause - WP&UP

My Final Goodbye to the Tavern
and this Tweet

WordCamp US - Community Track Round 3
and
WordCamp US schedule

Attend the Great WP Virtual Summit for Free: August 19-23

Automattic — the maker of WordPress.com — has purchased Tumblr
and
Matt Mullenweg's reaction - Tumblr the Day After

Automattic Acquires Zero BS CRM, Considers Rebranding it as Jetpack CRM

WordPress Theme Review Team Scraps Trusted Authors Program Due to Gaming and Inconsistent Reviews

WP Engine Platform Becomes 40% Faster

The JavaScript for WordPress Bootcamp

We benchmarked Amazon’s new Aurora database for use with WordPress

New mycamp.rocks Newsletter Launches with Tips for Conference Organizers, Speakers, and Attendees

Plugins / Themes

Elementor - Celebrating 3 Million Active Installations!

WooCommerce 3.7 Has Landed
and
WooCommerce 3.7 Introduces New Blocks, Updates Minimum WordPress and PHP Requirements

WPMU DEV 2019 Q3 Roadmap Roundup…It’s Getting Better all the Time

Translate Brizy Page Builder sites using TranslatePress

Project Huddle - Goodbye logins, hello easy!

iThemes - Plugin Roundup – August 2019

Security

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: August 2019, Part 1

New Windows malware can also brute-force WordPress websites

Cracking WordPress Passwords with Hashcat

WP Builds

Feeling insecure about security (Part 2)

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Google Just Revealed a Brilliantly Simple Trick to Totally Destroy Telemarketers

How to opt out of human review of your voice assistant recordings

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