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Mel Choyce-Dwan has given us a…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Mel Choyce-Dwan has given us a preview of the Twenty Twenty One theme, which will appear in the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release. Twenty Twenty One is "designed to be a blank canvas for the block editor" and uses a modified…

SkyVerge & GoDaddy

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Brian Krogsgard
BusinessHosting
The team at SkyVerge is joining GoDaddy in a full company acquisition. All SkyVerge extensions and Jilt will go under the GoDaddy umbrella. In the announcement from SkyVerge, they gave a hint as to what is next: "While we’ll be…

Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful tips on how to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations. 🎨 The depth of this post makes it worth a bookmark even if you aren't building a visualization. I found it helpful…

If you’re using the popular File…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
If you're using the popular File Manager plugin (700k+ installations), be sure it's upgraded to the latest version. A recently discovered vulnerability allows "unauthenticated users to execute commands and upload malicious files on a target site." 🎯 A patch was…

If you are a designer, front-end…

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Dan Knauss
Design
If you are a designer, front-end developer, or just someone looking for some design ideas, ColorDoo is a tool site that shows “trending” color collections and gradients. 🎨

Joe Howard explains at Torque how…

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Dan Knauss
Security
Joe Howard explains at Torque how to begin developing headless WordPress sites. The main advantages are flexibility and control, easier multi-channel content publishing, and better security and speed. 👤🪓 Joe names three tools to help you get started: GraphQL API,…

Jonathan Bossenger posted a recent update…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Jonathan Bossenger posted a recent update about the WP Notify project. It looks like things are off to a good start: the GitHub repository has been created. Code and design decisions are being made. đź‘Ť

PHP 8 is in feature freeze,…

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Dan Knauss
Security
PHP 8 is in feature freeze, and Beta 1 has been released. There are also new security releases for stable PHP versions 7.2.33, 7.3.21 and 7.4.9. đź”’

Matt Medeiros has moved to Castos,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Matt Medeiros has moved to Castos, a company that focuses on podcast hosting — and also has a WordPress plugin. Matt is the new Director of Podcaster Success. 👍

How a Virtual CFO Can Help…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
How a Virtual CFO Can Help Your Business Jeff Meziere of Business Value Academy is hosting a free webinar on the benefits of having a virtual Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on your team. It will take place on July 16…

If you dabble in CSS animations…

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Dan Knauss
Design
If you dabble in CSS animations and CSS scroll effects, Zach Saucier has a great overview of scroll technologies that target specific and more general scroll behaviors. 📜 Also from CSS Tricks, Chris Coyier shares some different perceptions of Developer…

ReviewSignal, already known for its WordPress…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
ReviewSignal, already known for its WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks, recently added a separate performance analysis report for WooCommerce Hosting. Hosts specializing in WooCommerce — like GreenGeeks, Nestify, Pressable, Seravo, Servebolt, SiteGround, and Wetopi — are among those who participated in…

Gutenberg 8.3 has been released. It…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Gutenberg 8.3 has been released. It features a few additions to the design tools for blocks, including a new padding control on the cover block. This release consolidates a new organization of block categories that groups blocks into text, media,…

WordPress 5.4.2 is a security and…

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Dan Knauss
Security
WordPress 5.4.2 is a security and maintenance release that rolled out on June 10. It features 23 bugfixes and enhancements. Make sure your sites are updated if that hasn't happened automatically. One maintenance update was also deployed back to versions…
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