WP Builds Newsletter #80 - Chrome kills Gutenberg, plugin updates, deals and no likes

September 16, 2019 00:32:27
WP Builds Newsletter #80 - Chrome kills Gutenberg, plugin updates, deals and no likes
WP Builds
WP Builds Newsletter #80 - Chrome kills Gutenberg, plugin updates, deals and no likes

Sep 16 2019 | 00:32:27

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 9th September 2019:

WordPress Core

Gutenberg Team Explores the Future of Full-Site Editing with New Prototype

First Look at Twenty Twenty: New WordPress Default Theme based on Chaplin

Feature plugin proposal: Privacy Data Request Form

Metaboxes overlap Gutenberg in Chrome 77

Community

Get ready for WordCamp Europe 2020

Carole Olinger joins WP&UP

Nexcess and Liquid Web Partner Together

Richard Best Releases Free Audio and Ebook: “A Practical Guide to WordPress and the GPL”

Plugins / Themes

Views 3 Beta Allows Building Beautiful Dynamic WordPress Sites

Oxygen goes GPL - scroll right to the bottom

WP Simple Chat - Just another Facebook Chat Plugin For WordPress

A New Era for the Genesis Framework: Recapping the Biggest Changes and How to Work with Them

Restrict Content Pro - Version 3.2 released with Stripe SCA compliance

Elementor - Introducing Background Slideshow & Fancy Dividers

Ultimate Addons for Elementor - Retina Image Widget

Google Releases Native Lazyload Plugin for WordPress

Beaver Team updates

Lifter Elements

Deals from this week

RelayThat - Instantly resize and remix brand assets into agency-level designs

Building Custom Blocks with ACF

Ocean WP - 50% off. Use code: OWP50OFF

Security

Wordfence Weekly September 04 2019 – September 10 2019

Dumb Password Rules Twitter feed

WP Builds

145 – Should we use templates more?

Webinar replay + 25% off Project Huddle

How to use Adobe Spark to create great social media graphics, WordPress featured images and more

Jobs

Gatsby - Staff Software Engineer (WordPress), Open Source Team

rtCamp - WordPress Developer

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Evolving “nofollow” – new ways to identify the nature of links

Uptime Robot - New Feature: Heartbeat Monitoring

Let's Encrypt makes certs for almost 30% of web domains

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