WordPress News

WordPress 5.8 Release Candidate 4 is…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

WordPress 5.8 Release Candidate 4 is out with a handful of bugs fixes. The final release is still scheduled to happen this Tuesday, July 20. 📅 It looks like there’s some adjustment coming to WordPress’s core lazy-loading implementation! 💤

Felix Arntz explains how it was…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Felix Arntz explains how it was recently discovered that the current WordPress core implementation might regress the Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) metric “when hero images above the fold are being lazy-loaded.” Felix notes the adjustments for WordPress 5.9 will likely…

WordPress 5.8 brings a few new…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

WordPress 5.8 brings a few new features and tweaks to the block editor API. Riad Benguella goes into some detail about them. For example, if you’re creating your own custom block patterns, there’s a new blockTypes property that will allow…

Justin Tadlock has a good summary…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Justin Tadlock has a good summary of the changes coming in WordPress 5.8 related to the media library. Highlights: Infinite scroll replaced with AJAX button (which improves accessibility), “Copy URL to clipboard” button, WebP support, and image_editor_output_format (for developers who…

With WordPress 5.8 launching on July…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

With WordPress 5.8 launching on July 20th, Anne McCarthy has compiled a list of the most important resources that will best prepare theme authors. 📚 If you had to choose only the top 3, Anne recommends: Review the Make Themes…

Rich Tabor gets deeper into the…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Rich Tabor gets deeper into the process of building and publishing block plugins to the WordPress block directory. 🤿 “Eventually, the Block Directory will become the de facto way to discover new blocks. It is on each of us to…

Christopher John announced his first WordPress…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Christopher John announced his first WordPress plugin on Twitter: Wayfinder. When you’re hovering over blocks in the editor, the plugin displays the block type and class names, “making it easier to identify and select the blocks you’re trying to edit.”…

On July 13th a critical vulnerability…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

On July 13th a critical vulnerability with WooCommerce and the WooCommerce Blocks feature plugin was identified. 🔓 Beau Lebens at WooCommerce says it’s not clear yet if data was compromised: “Our investigation into this vulnerability and whether data has been…

Wordfence has a created a whitepaper…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Security

Wordfence has a created a whitepaper aimed at developers and security researchers to share how coding flaws can introduce some of the most common and significant WordPress vulnerabilities — and how to prevent them. 🔒

Meaghan McBee from Veracode shares a…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Meaghan McBee from Veracode shares a few results from their State of Software Security: Open Source Edition report. I noted this stat: “79 percent of the time developers never update third-party libraries once they’re in a codebase.” I like this…

Laura Coronado asks “why Headless WordPress…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Laura Coronado asks “why Headless WordPress is trending” and shares some articles to help one get a handle on the basics. Useful reading if you haven’t been keeping up on the past year, but I’ve heard “headless” enough to know…

Joost de Valk shows how the…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Joost de Valk shows how the new Algolia implementation in Yoast SEO Premium can improve site search results. 🔎

Pantheon has raised $100 million (USD)…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Pantheon has raised $100 million (USD) from SoftBank Vision Fund. 😮 Frederic Lardinois notes that with this round, Pantheon has reached “unicorn status” — a term used in the venture capital industry to describe a privately held startup company with…

Tiny, the folks behind TinyMCE, has…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Tiny, the folks behind TinyMCE, has announced they acquired Setka, a no-code WYSIWYG editor. TinyMCE powers the classic editor in WordPress and many other CMSes. ⌨️ I’m not sure I will count this primarily as a “WordPress acquisition.” Setka does…

Yash Rana lays a finger on…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

BusinessDesign

Yash Rana lays a finger on common mistakes and mixed messages that many product makers are unknowingly making on their pricing pages. The list includes: not creating urgency (or overdoing it), not reducing exit points, keeping design and copy simple,…

Bill Erickson shows how to use…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Bill Erickson shows how to use an SVG for a site favicon. This allows you to modify the favicon styling based on a dynamic color scheme, including a dark mode.