The WordPress news from the last week which commenced Monday 2nd September 2024
Another week, and we’re bringing you the latest WordPress news from the last seven days, including…
- What’s coming up in WordPress’ 6.7 roadmap?
- What is the WordPress Design System and how can it be used to create a more useful WordPress brand?
- If you’ve ever contributed to WordPress, what did you get out of it. Tammie Lister gives her side of things.
- If you’re a product / service owner you need to be ramping up for Black Friday… yesterday!
- How is GatherPress going to replace Meetup.com for WordPress events?
- Which is better at design, Nathan or a potato? Mmm…
There’s a lot more than this, so scroll down and take a look…
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WordPress Core
WordPress 6.6.2 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is available for testing! Some ways you can help test this minor release: Use the WordPress Beta Tester plugin As this is a minor RC release…
WordPress 6.7 is set to be released on November 12th, 2024. Along with a new default theme, there are new features, like the ability to zoom out to compose content with patterns, and new APIs, and more…
We’re excited to introduce a long requested initiative focused on consolidating and enhancing design system efforts across WordPress.org. The goal, specifically, is to bring together existing tools […] into a unified design system reference site that anyone can use to contribute back to WordPress…
Community
Today is the release of the first episode of The Accessibility Show on WPBuilds. […] The Accessibility Show is going to focus on one issue per show: just one interface component or just one accessibility issue, then examine it in a set of various sites. Where are we sourcing the sites? The WordPress Showcase...
He’s on the podcast today to explain some of the ways that you can learn WordPress with up to date, freely available content. We discuss the goal of making WordPress learning accessible globally, especially for those who can’t afford expensive courses…
Explore the WordCamp Toolkit to get ready for your first WordCamp experience. Find essential tips, terminology, articles, videos, and advice to help you make the most of your WordCamp journey. Perfect for beginners and seasoned attendees alike…
Starting September 17, open source and WordPress professionals from around the world will touch down in Portland, Oregon, for four days of learning, connecting, and collaborating…
For the past six months I have been sponsored by Automattic for 2 days a week to focus on the default theme task force. First, I want to say thank you to everyone that supported and enabled this focus work…
WooCommerce has unveiled the results of its 2024 summer survey, shedding light on how store owners, developers, and partners gear up for Black Friday Cyber Monday…
WP Campus Connect is a month-long initiative that partners with four different colleges to introduce students to the world of WordPress through hands-on workshops. Over four weekends, students across these campuses will learn how to build websites, explore career opportunities in web development, and engage with the WordPress community…
Give your child the opportunity to be part of something truly special—Skopje’s first-ever WordPress Youth Hackathon! This unique event is designed to inspire creativity, problem-solving, and more…
Plugins / Themes / Blocks / Code
We were invited to give regular updates about GatherPress. Here are the significant advancements made by GatherPress since our initial proposal. GatherPress continues to evolve, thanks to the active participation and feedback from community members. Here’s a detailed overview of our progress…
Yoast […] today welcomes its latest AI feature, Yoast AI Optimize. Designed to make SEO tasks easier for small businesses, freelancers, content strategists and marketing professionals…
Something that has always annoyed me is how verbose it is to run WP-CLI commands in wp-env projects. For example, to list out all posts: The “npm run wp-env run cli” part I have to copy for each command, and I often forget the right order or miss a component…
Version 4.0 of WooCommerce Product Table has a table builder which makes it easier to create tables than ever before, plus more new features…
This WordPress Editor extension lets you make a Group block clickable while maintaining internal link functionality…
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Deals
Security
Each week, we report the latest vulnerabilities in WordPress plugins and themes. Vulnerable WordPress plugins and themes are among the reasons WordPress sites get hacked…
WordPress.org is committed to protecting accounts that play a crucial role in the WordPress ecosystem. Accounts with commit access can push updates and changes to plugins and themes used by millions of WordPress sites worldwide…
Discover WordPress security statistics and insights from Melapress’ WordPress security survey 2024 edition…
Vulnerabilities discovered in two of the most popular WordPress contact form plugins could affect over 1.1 million installations…
On August 4th, 2024, we received a submission for an Arbitrary File Deletion vulnerability in MP3 Audio Player – Music Player, Podcast Player & Radio by Sonaar, a WordPress plugin with over 20,000 active installations…
WP Builds
Today on the podcast Matthias Pfefferle joins me to discuss the integration of WordPress with the Fediverse through the ActivityPub protocol. Mathias talks about the differences between traditional social media…
Jobs
Not WordPress, but useful anyway…
A writer with no technical background recounts his incredible journey into the realm of coding and its lessons about the modern world…
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