WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #125 - WordPress 5.5 RC, WordCamp US cancelled and heaps of plugin news

August 03, 2020 00:28:59
WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #125 - WordPress 5.5 RC, WordCamp US cancelled and heaps of plugin news
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #125 - WordPress 5.5 RC, WordCamp US cancelled and heaps of plugin news

Aug 03 2020 | 00:28:59

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 27th July 2020:

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.5 Release Candidate

Upcoming in WordPress 5.5: Features and Changes Theme Authors Should Know About

Gutenberg 8.6 Adds Cover Block Video Positioning and Updates Block Patterns

Community

Big Orange Heart Opens 2020 Remote Work Wellbeing and Mental Health Survey

WordCamp US 2020 Canceled Due to Pandemic Stress and Online Event Fatigue

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

Fluent Forms 3.6.4 – Lots of new improvements and surprise goodies

Brizy 2.0 - Theme Builder, Mega Menu Builder, Brizy Sync, Lottie, Table & More

Malcare - 1 click cleanup

Toolset - What’s New in Types 3.4 and Toolset Blocks 1.3 Beta – Test the post relationships improvements

PublishPress Checklists Now Supports Yoast SEO, Internal Links and More

Bing Launches URL Submissions Plugin for WordPress

New Forminator Integration: FortressDB for Data Privacy, Security, and Speed and eSign Here: The New Forminator 1.13 Now Features eSignature and More!

Deals from this week

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PWA for WP - $59

Qubely Blocks - $49 lifetime deal

Essential Addons for Elementor - 25% off with code EA3

Pinpoint World Booking System - 20% off with code SUMMER2020

Flywheel Hosting - 3 FREE months with code FLYJULY20

Crello image editing - $49

GiveWP - 20% off

Brizy plugin and Cloud - 15% off with code WPBUILDS15

Continually live chat - $49

Quoters - for creating proposals - $49

Happy Forms Lifetime Deal - $49

Security

Critical Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Patched in wpDiscuz Plugin

WP Builds

190 – Content first v content later

Upcoming:

WordPress plugin startup – from 0 to 10k installs – Part 7 - 2pm on Tuesday 4th June at 2pm UK time

Let Piccia Neri review your website's UI / UX - 3:30pm on Wednesday 5th June at 2pm UK time

You can watch them both on the WP Builds LIVE page, or the WP Builds Facebook group is you are a member, which you should be!

Jobs

Nothing for you this week, but remember that I've started a jobs submission form on this page if you hear about a job!

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

AMP & SEO: Everything You Need to Know

Google Updates Search Console With More Structured Data Support

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