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This Week at WordPress.org (May 23, 2022)
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This Week at WordPress.org (May 23, 2022)

ByCourtney Robertson
Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don’t want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we’ve got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with your product and project managers. Are you interested in giving back and contributing…

WordPress 4.9.6 Beta is now available,…

ByDan Knauss
WordPress 4.9.6 Beta is now available, with 10 bug fixes and 34 enhancements and feature requests. Of particular interest are the additions and changes related to privacy, which were motivated by the GDPR deadline later this month. Developers should start testing with this version now. Assuming all goes well, 4.9.5 should be out on May…

Carl Alexander has a new post on…

ByDan Knauss
Carl Alexander has a new post on the subject of “acceptance testing,” which is testing whether your code meets the needs and expectations of the end users who will use your software. Carl talks a bit about popular PHP acceptance testing frameworks — Behat and Codeception — and how developers can use them. In the end, trust is the…
OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin
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OptinMonster aims to be the dominant WordPress conversion plugin

ByBrian Krogsgard
WordPress lead generation or conversion plugins are not typically my type of thing. In fact, I’ve hated every instance I’ve ever seen of them. But Syed Balkhi and Thomas Griffin have created OptinMonster, their take on a WordPress conversion plugin that I don’t hate. That’s a strong compliment for this kind of plugin from me….

Rapid, automatic upgrades are pivotal to the future of WordPress

ByBrian Krogsgard
Mika Epstein has a way of being super logical and level-headed about everything. She has written a post in defense of the WordPress REST API — that really is applicable to security in WordPress in general — that I wish I wrote. I highly recommend reading her entire post. We’ve been paying a lot of…

Here’s a good reminder from Ben Cullimore…

ByDan Knauss
Here’s a good reminder from Ben Cullimore that designers should avoid the temptation to overuse icons and start with user needs. Icons have their advantages, but Ben noticed in some of the use cases he shares that some icons do more harm than good. After lots of lab testing and pop-up sessions, his team ended up…