WP Builds Newsletter #93 - WordPress 5.3.1, plugin vulnerability and Compress or Die

December 16, 2019 • 00:27:35
WP Builds Newsletter #93 - WordPress 5.3.1, plugin vulnerability and Compress or Die
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WP Builds Newsletter #93 - WordPress 5.3.1, plugin vulnerability and Compress or Die

Dec 16 2019 | 00:27:35

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Show Notes

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

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.3.1 Includes Security and Bug Fixes, Accessibility Enhancements, and Twenty Twenty Changes

Gutenberg 7.1 Includes Welcome Modal, Improves Multi-Block Selection, and Adds Drag-and-Drop Featured Images

Twenty Twenty: animated scroll changes in WordPress 5.3.1

Community

WCEU talk and workshop proposals - Tips and advice for your submission

Designing the new WCEU identity: the journey

Plugins / Themes

Toolset Blocks 1.0 – Build Beautiful Dynamic Sites Quickly and Easily

PowerPack Update: Introducing Five Brand New Modules

Zero BS CRM 3.0 Improves UI, Changes Database Structure, and Becomes More Extendable

Elementor - Monthly Template Kits #5: The Travel Template Kit
plus New Color Picker & Dark Mode

Using Easy UIkit Flexbox on Beaver Builder Rows

WP Offload SES 1.4 Released: Email Health Report

PublishPress Checklists now has a free version on WordPress.org

Introducing ShareABlock: Brand New Way to Share and Download Free Gutenberg Block & Template Designs

Deals from this week

Yoast holiday calendar

Security

Ultimate Addons for Beaver Builder - Important Security Update!
the same for Ultimate Addons for Elementor
More on this from WebARX

WP Builds

158 - Keeping WordPress secure with Ryan Dewhurst from WPScan

Piccia Neri's monthly Live UI / UX review

Win a WP Forms Pro license with WP Builds

Jobs

Nothing this week.

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

What’s powering conversational search? Featured snippets, structured data and actions

Chrome now warns you when your password has been stolen

Compress or Die

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