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Footnotes #456

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Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a…

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Dan Knauss
Design
BuddyPress 9.0 “Mico” was released a day before WordPress 5.8 with 10 new blocks. It was a short time frame development cycle, so kudos to the team for pulling it off. 🙌 I’m excited to see the block editor used…

Rich Tabor gets deeper into the…

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Dan Knauss

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…

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Dan Knauss

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…

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Dan Knauss

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…

Starting in WordPress 5.8, Greg Ziółkowski…

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Dan Knauss

Starting in WordPress 5.8, Greg Ziółkowski notes the block.json metadata file should be used as the canonical way to register block types. There are many benefits to this move, including (but not limited to) the WordPress Plugins Directory's ability to…

Attention WordPress themers — there is…

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Dan Knauss

Attention WordPress themers — there is a call for testing theme.json for Full Site Editing. 🧪 The theme.json file contains settings to enable or disable theme features and set default styles for a website and its blocks. It’s all done…

Charts Blocks for Gutenberg is a…

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Dan Knauss

Charts Blocks for Gutenberg is a plugin for creating interactive charts in blocks. If the demo on the Github page is any indication, this looks like a good way to get a pie chart or bar graph on your site…

This week WP Engine announced the…

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Dan Knauss
Security
This week WP Engine announced the launch of Premier, their enterprise WordPress platform. Premier offers security features and other items that belong in enterprise-level hosting: staging sites, developer environments, and automatic plugin updates. They also include custom blocks for WordPress.…

Alex Barashkov explains on Twitter that…

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Alex Barashkov explains on Twitter that you can connect your Gutenberg blocks to React components with Gatsby and “get crazy flexibility in terms of content editing driven by CMS.”

Upcoming Events 📆 New: WordFest Live 2021,…

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Dan Knauss

Upcoming Events 📆 New: WordFest Live 2021, happening July 23, is looking for sponsors, media partners, and community partners. There's a call for speakers now too. 🧡 WordSesh 2021 was announced with sessions on May 25 – 27 and workshops from…

The Age of Widgets

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Dan Knauss
WordPress News
Widgets became a part of the WordPress lexicon when they entered core in 2005. Full Site Editing will eventually replace them with blocks.

Allison Rivers reviews three Gutenberg block…

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Dan Knauss

Allison Rivers reviews three Gutenberg block plugins for WooCommerce stores: ProductX's Gutenberg WooCommerce Blocks, which extend the basic WooCommerce block options; Toolset's WooCommerce Blocks, for more extensive customizations; The core blocks built into WooCommerce.

Jem Turner shares six things she…

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Dan Knauss

Jem Turner shares six things she does to make Gutenberg development easier. 6️⃣ These include making the editor full width, adding the Reusable Blocks to the left-hand menu, and using the breadcrumb trail and list view. Jem includes some handy…
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