The WordPress news from the last week, which commenced on Monday 16th May 2022
Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including…
- Firstly, sorry that there was no This Week in WordPress show, I tried really hard to make it happen, but sometimes events conspire against you, and this was one of those times. We’ll be back next week!
- Have you tried the new Pattern Creator tool? It’s really neat and can help you get your patterns into the Pattern Directory. Listen to a podcast about it.
- MainWP have added a cool new cache control feature to their plugin!
- There’s a few deals this week, especially in Affinity desktop tools.
- WP Tavern is hiring! Do you like to write about WordPress? This could be just for you.
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
wordpress.org WordPress 6.0 Release Candidate 3 is now available for testing! You candownload and help test RC3 in three ways. 6.0 is planned for general release on May 24, 2022… |
Community
make.wordpress.org The Community Team is launching a one-week writing sprint from Monday, May 23 through Monday, May 30, 2022. You are invited to contribute, or even just watch. Every contribution, however small, is valuable… |
wptavern.com One of the positive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is local meetups are more frequently broadcasting their events online, giving people outside the immediate area the opportunity to attend and learn new skills. Searching meetup.com for WordPress, filtered to show Online Events, will show upcoming events that anyone can attend… |
wptavern.com That legacy PHP code is often used by the developers that are starting to enter the world of programming, and the issue with that is they can learn some bad programming patterns. That in turn means they will reuse the poorly written code, increasing the amount of bad code in the world… |
wptavern.com The Pattern Creator is the way to create patterns so that they can be submitted, reviewed, and hopefully accepted into the Pattern Directory.We’ve got two perspectives on the podcast today from people who come at it from different angles… |
wptavern.com In the ruling, US District Court judge Josephine L. Staton stated that the GPL introduces “an additional contractual promise separate and distinct from any rights provided by the copyright laws:”… |
tommcfarlin.com Let’s not forget there’s more to WordPress than FSE and headless technology with other languages, tools, and frameworks that are available. |
Plugins / Themes / Blocks
sitespot.dev The Beaver Builder Conditional Rows and Columns plugin lets you control the visibility of any of your rows according to the user’s location, time, or themer/shortcode output… |
kb.mainwp.com MainWP Cache Control allows you to automatically purge the Cache on your child sites after performing an update of WP Core, Theme, or a Plugin through the MainWP Dashboard… |
wordpress.org Performance plugin from the WordPress Performance Group, which is a collection of standalone performance modules… |
wptavern.com The plugin’s development team is now calling for developers, agencies, and hosting companies to test migration to its first implementation of customer order tables… |
Deals
From the smoothest, fastest photo editing and graphic design software to the most powerful publishing software, Affinity apps are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology… |
Team WP Social Ninja is offering a special discount on all licenses before the price update. Get your version before it’s too late… |
Find a deal in our searchable / filterable list. It’s like Black Friday, but every day of the year! |
Security
wordfence.com On April 5, 2022, the Wordfence Threat Intelligence team initiated the responsible disclosure process for a set of vulnerabilities in the Jupiter and JupiterX Premium themes and the required JupiterX… |
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… |
wordfence.com The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team has been tracking a large-scale attack against a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Tatsu Builder, which is tracked by CVE-2021-25094 and was publicly disclosed on March 24, 2022 by an independent security researcher… |
WP Builds
Another episode of the WordPress Business Bootcamp where we try to go right back to the start and unpick the process of building sites for clients. Today we’re on to design aesthetics and how you can get the site to look the way that you and your client want… |
Jobs
WP Tavern is looking for talented writers who are eager to report on WordPress news every day. We cover a wide range of topics, including (but not limited to) the Gutenberg project, core development, e-commerce, community, plugin and theme ecosystems, events, and the wider world of open source software. We are looking for writers who can inform, engage, and inspire readers with their work… |
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…
searchenginejournal.com Deal to purchase Twitter paused as Tesla CEO Elon Musk seeks more details on estimate that just 5% of accounts are spam and fake users… |
searchenginejournal.com Meta Facebook Transparency Report shows that the most popular content might not be what you think it is… |
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