WP Builds Newsletter #85 - WordPress 5.3 RC, Automattic wealth and new Google products

October 21, 2019 00:33:27
WP Builds Newsletter #85 - WordPress 5.3 RC, Automattic wealth and new Google products
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WP Builds Newsletter #85 - WordPress 5.3 RC, Automattic wealth and new Google products

Oct 21 2019 | 00:33:27

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 14th October 2019:

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.2.4 Release Addresses Several Security Issues

WordPress 5.3 Release Candidate

What’s New in WordPress 5.3 (New Blocks, New APIs, Improved Admin UI)

Community

No Stress WordPress 2.0 - Live masterclass with Dave Foy
I'll be having a LIVE event with Dave Foy on Wednesday 30th October at 5pm UK time - you can register for that here. Or just go to the WP Builds LIVE page at the time mentioned above.

WP&UP to Bike to WCEU 2020

Mark Davies Joins Automattic as Chief Financial Officer

Celebrating 10 years of Yoast: YoastCon 2020!

Meetup.com Introduces RSVP Fees for Members, WordPress Meetup Groups Unaffected by Pricing Changes

Doing the Unimaginable – Kinsta Is Boosting Performance for Everyone up to 200%

Postmortem Of Gutenberg The Launch, So We Can Embrace Gutenberg The Product

Announcing the WP FeedBack & GoDaddy Pro partnership

Kioken Blocks Partners with Gutenslider Plugin

Nice list of WordPress / freelancer podcasts to listen to

Plugins / Themes

Page Builder Framework 2.1

Wallace Inline adds Elementor support, and ACF / Pods fields - 20% off until 23rd October with code: FALL

WPvivid Backup for MainWP

Beaver Team updates

Edit Flow Future in Flux: Here Are 5 Alternative Plugins

Deals from this week

Zapier Mastery Course - 50% off until Wednesday with code WPBUILDS

WP Fluent Forms Lifetime Deal - 50% off

50% off 'If So' plugin to customise your WordPress website
I made a video about this plugin a while back...

Security

Medium Severity Vulnerability Patched in Fast Velocity Minify Plugin

Fake UpdraftPlus Plugins

Protecting WordPress With the Security Team

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: October 2019, Part 1
and
WebARX version

WP Builds

Kinsta hosting on Google’s Cloud with Brian Jackson

Jobs

Sotic - Roles are based in Central Cardiff (by the University). You’ll be working on some of sports highest-profile websites and solving problems for our various tech solutions & platforms...
#1 - Software Engineer is on our engineering team working on our brand new statistics platform, supporting our existing tech stack and delivering solutions for some of our largest clients.
#2 - Cloud Engineer - is on our platform team working on our deployment & hosting environment.

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Loads of new Google products

Got YouTube regrets? Thousands do! - Mozilla
Great scrolling BTW!

Yahoo to Shut Down All Yahoo Groups on October 21st

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