WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #134 - Full site editing closer, plugin news and Google going all-in on mobile search

October 19, 2020 00:31:12
WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #134 - Full site editing closer, plugin news and Google going all-in on mobile search
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WP Builds Weekly WordPress News #134 - Full site editing closer, plugin news and Google going all-in on mobile search

Oct 19 2020 | 00:31:12

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Show Notes

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This week's WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th October 2020:

WordPress Core

WordPress 5.6 to Introduce Application Passwords for REST API Authentication

Navigation Screen Sidelined for WordPress 5.6, Full-Site Editing Edges Closer to Public Beta

Are Block-Based Widgets Ready To Land in WordPress 5.6?

Community

How To Use Redis Full-Page Cache (RunCache) To Speed Up Your WordPress Performance

WordCamp Austin 2020 Finds Success with VR Experience for Sessions and Networking

Plugins / Themes / Blocks

Add other people to your Toolset Agency or Lifetime account

WPMUDev - Introducing: New and Improved Hub Tabs!

Gravity Forms 2.5 Beta 2 – Test it with Add-Ons!

WP Grid Builder - Query, Lay Out & Filter

Termageddon for MainWP

EditorPlus 1.9 Adds Animation Builder for the Block Editor

WooCommerce Payments Now Supports Subscriptions

Deals from this week

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NEW - WordPress Portal Lifetime - $49

TeliportMe - $79

HockeyStack - $79

Pixlr image editing- $49

Qubely Blocks - $49 lifetime deal

Pinpoint World Booking System - 20% off with code SUMMER2020

PWA for WP - $59

Brizy plugin and Cloud - 15% off with code WPBUILDS15

Coming Soon & Maintenance Mode - $39

Quoters - for creating proposals - $49

Happy Forms Lifetime Deal - $49

Essential Addons for Elementor - 25% off with code EA3

Security

High Severity Vulnerability Patched in Child Theme Creator by Orbisius

WordPress Vulnerability News, October 2020

WP Builds

201 – How to make your WordPress website run smoothly (even after a year) with Alexandru Covtun

Jobs

Nothing for you this week, but please submit and that you have here...

Not WordPress, but useful anyway...

Google Mobile First Index – Zero Desktop Content March 2021

PayPal to introduce £12/yr fee for 'inactive' accounts – act now to dodge it

pagereview.io - The website feedback tool for projects and teams

Stripe Acquires Paystack for $200M+

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