WP Builds Newsletter #77 - WordPress 5.3, auto updating old sites and prevent tracking

August 26, 2019 00:26:43
WP Builds Newsletter #77 - WordPress 5.3, auto updating old sites and prevent tracking
WP Builds
WP Builds Newsletter #77 - WordPress 5.3, auto updating old sites and prevent tracking

Aug 26 2019 | 00:26:43

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 19th August 2019:

There will not be a WP Builds LIVE News this week due to the fact that I'm holiday. Sorry about that. Normal service will be resumed next week!

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.3 Schedule and Scope
and
WordPress 5.3 Development Kicks Off: UI Polishing, Editor Improvements, and New Twenty Twenty Default Theme
and
WordPress 5.2.3 RC 1

WordPress Poised to Begin Implementing Proposal to Auto-Update Older Sites to 4.7

A Nofollow Option for Links Is Coming to Gutenberg

Community

WP Notify Kick off meeting announcement
more here...

WordCamp Asia Logo: A Design Journey

Discussion: How to handle conflict of interest situations

What Is WebP And How To Enable It On Your WordPress Website?

SiteGround Gets a New Hosting Dashboard – No More cPanel

How to Set Up Google Site Kit in WordPress

Colibri - WordPress page builder that gives you design superpowers

Plugins / Themes

Astra 2.0 — Setting New Standards for WordPress Themes! - 20% off (possibly too late?)

Groundhogg - What's new in version 2.0?

Popular WordPress Themes Remove Obtrusive Admin Notices to Conform to New Theme Directory Requirement

What’s New in Genesis 3.1

Genesis DEV Pack

Fabrica Dashboard Plugin Brings a CMS Overview to Multi-User Editorial Sites

Pretty Links Turns 10! - Get 60% off - use code PL1060

Security

Wordfence Now Works on WP Engine and with Load Balancers

WP Builds

Easy life… store your layouts in the cloud with Andrew Palmer

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

WebKit Tracking Prevention Policy

Zero to Summit Bootcamp!

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