WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #123 - WordPress 5.5 goodness, major security breach and redesigned Gmail

July 20, 2020 00:30:41
WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #123 - WordPress 5.5 goodness, major security breach and redesigned Gmail
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #123 - WordPress 5.5 goodness, major security breach and redesigned Gmail

Jul 20 2020 | 00:30:41

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 13th July 2020:

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2

Block Patterns in WordPress 5.5

Call for Block Plugins: The WordPress Block Directory Is Open for Business

Community

WordCamp Europe 2021 will be online

Introducing Gutenberg Blocks Library & More - and this

Admin 2020 Reimagines WordPress Admin and Media Library

Strattic releases support for Gravity Forms, Polylang and WPML (this is a little old, but I missed it)

Pixelgrade - Transparency Report #11 - very cool that they do this.

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

Celebrating 1 Million Active Installs! The Highest Number a WordPress Theme Has Achieved - 25% off until 21 July 2020

CSS Variables, Global Colors & Global Color Palette - Page Builder Framework

Table of Contents for Beaver Builder

ShortPixel Adaptive Images and here

Accelerate Your WordPress Static Sites

Deals from this week

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Astra Theme - 25% off until 21st July 2020

Qubely Blocks - $49 lifetime deal

OceanWP - 25% off all packages

Crello image editing - $49

Zapier Mastery Course - 50% off with code SCREWCOVID

GiveWP - 27% off because they got to 2.7

Brizy plugin and Cloud - 15% off with code WPBUILDS15

Continually live chat - $49

Quoters - for creating proposals - $49

Happy Forms Lifetime Deal - $49

Security

2 Million Users Affected by Vulnerability in All in One SEO Pack

Fake WordPress Plugin SiteSpeed Serves Malicious Ads & Backdoors

WP Builds

188 – Headless v’s not headless

WordPress Plugin Startup - 0 to 10K installs archive

Jobs

Nothing for you thins week...

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Google Just Gave Millions Of Users A Reason To Keep Gmail

Huge Atlas statue to guard Sicily's Temple of Zeus once more

Chrome 84 Handles 3rd Party Cookies Differently – How it Affects Publishers

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