This week’s WordPress news for the week commencing 13th October 2021
Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including…
- There’s no show with Paul, myself and guests. Sorry about that, we’ll be back next week!
- Gutenberg 11.5 adds widget grouping
- There’s a WordPress Translation day this month
- WP Engine launches Faust.js, a new headless framework
- David Waumsley talks about self hosting your Google fonts
- How to get started with Full Site Editing and Block based themes
- and researchers can now reveal whether you should transport your rhinoceros upside-down – I kid you not!
There’s a whole lot more than this, as there is each and every week, and you can find all that by scrolling down and clicking on the links!
WordPress Core
 Gutenberg 11.5 landed earlier today. It is a hefty release that includes extensive changes to the Navigation block, a new way for grouping widgets, and more block gap feature integration… |
Gutenberg 11.5 landed earlier today. It is a hefty release that includes extensive changes to the Navigation block, a new way for grouping widgets, and more block gap feature integration…
Community
 wptavern.com WordPress is restarting its in-person WordCamp program after more than six weeks of discussion on a proposal for how the WordPress community can return to hosting events. Applications are now open for in-person WordCamps, provided they meet the Community Team’s updated guidelines for organizing WordCamps during the pandemic.,, |
wptavern.com
WordPress is restarting its in-person WordCamp program after more than six weeks of discussion on a proposal for how the WordPress community can return to hosting events. Applications are now open for in-person WordCamps, provided they meet the Community Team’s updated guidelines for organizing WordCamps during the pandemic.,,
 2021.wpcampus.org WPCampus 2021 Online is a free online conference for the WPCampus community, a gathering of web professionals, educators, and people dedicated to the confluence of WordPress in higher education… |
2021.wpcampus.org
WPCampus 2021 Online is a free online conference for the WPCampus community, a gathering of web professionals, educators, and people dedicated to the confluence of WordPress in higher education…
 community.wpmrr.com The summit is on Tues, Weds, Thurs this week and has 6 – 7 speakers each day. Here’s the calendar of events for next week… |
community.wpmrr.com
The summit is on Tues, Weds, Thurs this week and has 6 – 7 speakers each day. Here’s the calendar of events for next week…
 wordpress.org WordPress contributors around the world are celebrating the sixth Global WordPress Translation Day throughout September 2021… |
wordpress.org
WordPress contributors around the world are celebrating the sixth Global WordPress Translation Day throughout September 2021…
 webdevstudios.com Accessibility matters. From the moment you conceptualize your website through development, always consider accessibility standards… |
webdevstudios.com
Accessibility matters. From the moment you conceptualize your website through development, always consider accessibility standards…
 wptavern.com WP Engine has launched Faust.js, a new headless framework that is open source and designed to work in any Node hosting environment. The framework is built on Next.js, which can handle both static site generation and server side rendering. It uses GraphQL for data fetching and is the only framework that allows developers to query the WPGraphQL API without having to know GraphQL queries ahead of time… |
wptavern.com
WP Engine has launched Faust.js, a new headless framework that is open source and designed to work in any Node hosting environment. The framework is built on Next.js, which can handle both static site generation and server side rendering. It uses GraphQL for data fetching and is the only framework that allows developers to query the WPGraphQL API without having to know GraphQL queries ahead of time…
 heropress.com Devin Maeztri writes from Indonesia about finding a place in the WordPress community despite not being a developer… |
heropress.com
Devin Maeztri writes from Indonesia about finding a place in the WordPress community despite not being a developer…
 youtube.com In this episode, co-hosts Paul Halfpenny (CTO & Founder of Filter) and Nathan Wrigley (of WP Tavern) are joined by Lucy Collins (Director of Web Usability) to discuss the important topic of web accessibility… |
youtube.com
In this episode, co-hosts Paul Halfpenny (CTO & Founder of Filter) and Nathan Wrigley (of WP Tavern) are joined by Lucy Collins (Director of Web Usability) to discuss the important topic of web accessibility…
 wptavern.com Last week, Konstantin Kovshenin launched Sail, a CLI tool for deploying WordPress applications to the DigitalOcean cloud. The project is free to use and open source. However, he has plans for an upgraded premium experience down the road… |
wptavern.com
Last week, Konstantin Kovshenin launched Sail, a CLI tool for deploying WordPress applications to the DigitalOcean cloud. The project is free to use and open source. However, he has plans for an upgraded premium experience down the road…
 poststatus.com Forget everything you learned in school or have been told about how to write a résumé… |
poststatus.com
Forget everything you learned in school or have been told about how to write a résumé…
Plugins / Themes / Blocks
 wordpress.com Find the perfect Gutenberg block plugin for your site. Compare key features & learn what to watch out for with our complete comparison chart… |
wordpress.com
Find the perfect Gutenberg block plugin for your site. Compare key features & learn what to watch out for with our complete comparison chart…
 logtivity.io Logtivity is a new service that helps you understand exactly what’s happening on your WordPress site… |
logtivity.io
Logtivity is a new service that helps you understand exactly what’s happening on your WordPress site…
 wptavern.com As a teen, I would visit my Uncle David’s house every other week or so. He was the only family member with a computer. It was an old, bulky monstrosity that ran whatever the latest version of Windows that existed at the time. It was one of my first introductions to dial-up, but my primary interest was not the internet. It was newsletters and home-printed magazines… |
wptavern.com
As a teen, I would visit my Uncle David’s house every other week or so. He was the only family member with a computer. It was an old, bulky monstrosity that ran whatever the latest version of Windows that existed at the time. It was one of my first introductions to dial-up, but my primary interest was not the internet. It was newsletters and home-printed magazines…
 webdevstudios.com Let’s go over WordPress FSE, or full site editing, with this guide on building a block-based theme using Gutenberg editor… |
webdevstudios.com
Let’s go over WordPress FSE, or full site editing, with this guide on building a block-based theme using Gutenberg editor…
 wptavern.com As I debugged issues with the new block gap feature added in Gutenberg 11.4 last week, I found the ticket introducing it. And, there was already a new ticket for one problem I had hit. However, there was some discussion over whether themes should be allowed to opt-out, rolling their own solution. There was no way to do it at the time.. |
wptavern.com
As I debugged issues with the new block gap feature added in Gutenberg 11.4 last week, I found the ticket introducing it. And, there was already a new ticket for one problem I had hit. However, there was some discussion over whether themes should be allowed to opt-out, rolling their own solution. There was no way to do it at the time..
Deals
 Find a deal in our searchable / filterable list. It’s like Black Friday, but every day of the year! |
Find a deal in our searchable / filterable list. It’s like Black Friday, but every day of the year!
Security
 ithemes.com Vulnerable plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities, and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website… |
ithemes.com
Vulnerable plugins and themes are the #1 reason WordPress websites get hacked. The weekly WordPress Vulnerability Report powered by WPScan covers recent WordPress plugin, theme, and core vulnerabilities, and what to do if you run one of the vulnerable plugins or themes on your website…
WP Builds
 WordPress themes are crucial, you have to have one, but will they continue to be so in an era of Full Site Editing? We talk on the podcast today all about themes, and nothing but themes! |
WordPress themes are crucial, you have to have one, but will they continue to be so in an era of Full Site Editing? We talk on the podcast today all about themes, and nothing but themes!
Jobs
 Post a Job If you know of a job in the WordPress community, please feel free to post it here… |
Post a Job If you know of a job in the WordPress community, please feel free to post it here…
Not WordPress, but useful anyway…
 bbc.co.uk Who knew? It’s actually safer to move a tranquilised rhino by its ankles than on its side or chest… |
bbc.co.uk
Who knew? It’s actually safer to move a tranquilised rhino by its ankles than on its side or chest…
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