WP Builds Newsletter #81 - Gutenberg 6.5, Automattic worth $3 billion and Google spying

September 23, 2019 00:28:32
WP Builds Newsletter #81 - Gutenberg 6.5, Automattic worth $3 billion and Google spying
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WP Builds Newsletter #81 - Gutenberg 6.5, Automattic worth $3 billion and Google spying

Sep 23 2019 | 00:28:32

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 16th September 2019:

WordPress Core

Gutenberg 6.5 Adds Experimental Block Directory Search to Inserter and New Social Links Block

EditorsKit Adds Nofollow Options for Links, Fixes Bug with Gutenberg Metaboxes Overlapping in Chrome

Behind New Packages Project Lead, Theme Review Team Launches Admin Notices Solution

Community

Automattic Raises $300M in Series D Investment Round, Valuation Jumps to $3 Billion

WooSesh - Registration now open

The Ultimate List of Best Free Elementor Learning Resources

Justin Tadlock Joins WP Tavern

New Attock WordPress Meetup Empowers Pakistani Women Freelancers and Business Owners

Let’s Make it Official… Introducing WPMU DEV Hosting!

How to Have a $100k+ WordPress Product Launch

Plugins / Themes

MainWP Custom Dashboard Extension

WPHindi Plugin Instantly Converts Text from English to Hindi in the Block Editor

Deals from this week

Sticker Mule - bumper stickers $19 for 50 down from $97

ThemeiIsle on AppSumo

Amelia booking plugin on AppSumo

Security

Fake Human Verification Spam

Misuse of WordPress update_option() function Leads to Website Infections

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: September 2019, Part 1

Researcher Drops phpMyAdmin Zero-Day Affecting All Versions

VirusDie

WP Builds

Refining our website building process with James and Martin Coates

WP Builds Facebook group member builds plugin, just to be nice!

Struggling with difficult clients - WP Builds Facebook group

Jobs

I've got nothing for you this week, but please let me know of any jobs you hear about...

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Revealed: catastrophic effects of working as a Facebook moderator

Privacy is Hard: Analytics

Google has secret webpages that feed your personal data to advertisers, report says

Introducing US payments with GoCardless

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