WP Builds Newsletter #87 - WordPress 5.3 RC 3, plugin news and deals

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 28th October 2019:

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.3 RC3

A Simple Guide to Help You Prepare for WordPress 5.3

Community

WordCamp Europe 2020 - Call for Workshops

Cloudways - Get Better Insights with Application Performance Monitoring Feature

Hilarious Web Design Stories of Nightmare Clients

Jason Schuller Launches DSKO, a Discovery Network for Creators and Brands

Plugins / Themes

Toolset and Divi 4 Issues

Google Releases its Site Kit WordPress Plugin Out of Beta

WP User Frontend Pro Review: Ultimate Frontend Solution

KeyPress DNS Manager

How To Add Security Headers + More New Defender Features

iThemes Security Pro’s Passwordless Login Now Supports WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads & LifterLMS

Automatic Image Alt Tags and More with Image SEO

Deals from this week

SO MANY on the WP Builds Halloween Deals Page

Security

New Chrome 0-day Bug Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser Now

Give WP < 2.5.10 - Multiple Issues

Quick way to remove Broken Link Checker plugin from your Child Sites

WordPress Vulnerability News, October 2019

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: October 2019, Part 2

WP Builds

Riding a jolly long way for the WordPress community with Dan Maby and Carole Olinger

Jobs

Nothing this week, but remember that you can contact me at wpbuilds.com/contact if you have one!

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Hello, Ghost 3.0

The slow death of Flash continues as Google begins to remove it from search

NordVPN Breached

Google brings its ‘.new’ domains to the rest of the web, including to Spotify, Microsoft & others

ePrivacy Regulation (European Union)

Google brings in BERT to improve its search results