WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #119 - WordPress requiring PHP 7.2, Yoast acquires Duplicate Posts and Instagram is massive

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 15th June 2020:

WordPress Core

WordPress Bumps Minimum PHP Recommendation to 7.2

Gutenberg 8.3 Updates Block Categories, Includes Parent Block Selector, and Adds New Design Controls

WordPress 5.5 to Include Extensible Core Sitemaps

Community

Duplicate Post joins Yoast and
Yoast Acquires Duplicate Post, Brings on Creator Enrico Battocchi as a Senior Developer

Grant For The Web Accepting Proposals Through June 22

New Documentation and Training Courses for Toolset

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

Fluent Forms 3.6.0 is here, and it is full of user-suggested features!

Build Forms via the Block Editor With Gutenberg Forms

WooCommerce 4.3 Beta Available for Testing

Deals from this week

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Security

Nothing this week that I know of - phew, this never happens. I bet I missed something!

WP Builds

184 – Limited client access v’s full access

WordPress plugin startup - from 0 to 10K installs

Jobs

Page Builder Framework x2 - Gutenberg Developer and Writer

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Instagram to Surpass Twitter As a Popular News Source

Is AppSumo Worth the Hassle for WordPress Plugin Developers?

Just a nice story from 'Stack' about being saved by their customers