WP Builds Newsletter #83 - WordPress 5.3 Beta 2, WordCamp U.S. tickets and Facebook decryption

October 07, 2019 00:26:53
WP Builds Newsletter #83 - WordPress 5.3 Beta 2, WordCamp U.S. tickets and Facebook decryption
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WP Builds Newsletter #83 - WordPress 5.3 Beta 2, WordCamp U.S. tickets and Facebook decryption

Oct 07 2019 | 00:26:53

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 30th September 2019:

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.3 Beta 2

Preparing Themes For WordPress 5.3

Date/Time component improvements in WordPress 5.3

Community

WordCamp US tickets on sale

Brian Gardner Steps Down From StudioPress and here

WordPress Theme Review Team Brings Back Review Shindigs

First Look at PHP 7.4 for WordPress Developers

Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson Discuss WordPress Market Share, Monopolies, and Power in Open Source Communities

Kinsta - Automatic MySQL Database Optimizations, Self-Healing PHP, GCP Firewall and More Disk Space (SSD Storage) on All Plans

Gutenberg Tips

Plugins / Themes

Here Comes Hummingbird 2.1 With Compressed Caching & Cookies

BuddyPress 5.0 Introduces BP REST API, Paving the Way for Blocks

Automattic Has Discontinued Active Development on Edit Flow Plugin

SmartSlider3 - New template - Portfolio Categories

Deals from this week

Piotnet Addons For Elementor

Yay Images - $59 for 1,000 images

Security

WordPress “Theme Editor” Plugin: Multiple Vulnerabilities

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: September 2019, Part 2

A New Wave of Buggy WordPress Infections

WP Builds

Spinning up a WordPress optimised server in minutes with Spinup WP

LIVE - UX and UI audit with Piccia Neri WP

Jobs

Nothing this week, but please let me know if you have a vacancy!

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Facebook, WhatsApp Will Have to Share Messages With U.K.

Spotify now lets you add podcasts to playlists

Google Announces New Ways to Hide Personal Activity, Including Incognito Mode in Maps

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