WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #128 - WordPress 5.6 started, end of themes and something .new

August 24, 2020 00:30:26
WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #128 - WordPress 5.6 started, end of themes and something .new
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #128 - WordPress 5.6 started, end of themes and something .new

Aug 24 2020 | 00:30:26

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Show Notes

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This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 17th August 2020:

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.6 Development Kicks Off with All-Women Release Squad

Why WordPress 5.5 is Breaking Sites

Community

11 Fastest WordPress Themes in 2020 (Based on Thorough Testing)

WordPress Documentation Team Discusses Modifying External Linking Policy Following Opposition to the Ban on Commercial Links

Full Site Editing in WordPress: Lowering Barriers to Entry or the End of Themes?

No Minimum PHP Version Bump This Year, WordPress to Support PHP 5.6 for a While Longer

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

Exploring the First Block Patterns to Land in the WordPress Theme Directory

User Submitted Posts

Enable jQuery Migrate Helper Plugin Passes 10K Active Installs

WooCommerce 4.4 Updates Blocks and Centralizes Coupon Management

WPMU Dev - The Hub Client

Deals from this week

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Stackable - $69

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

Pixlr image editing- $49

Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode - $39

Brizy plugin and Cloud - 15% off with code WPBUILDS15

Quoters - for creating proposals - $49

Happy Forms Lifetime Deal - $49

Security

10 WordPress Security Mistakes You Might Be Making

High-Severity Vulnerability Patched in Advanced Access Manager

WP Builds

193 – Helping people to learn WordPress on YouTube

Managing Code Snippets with Cameron Jones

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...

Do something .new

Apple to Enforce 1-Year Limit on SSL/TLS Certificate Lifetimes on September 1, 2020, Mozilla and Google to Follow Suit

Google Chrome to Start Warning Users About Insecure Forms

Google to Remain Default Search Engine on Firefox

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