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WordPress In The Long View With James Farmerā€” Post Status Draft 129

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Cory Miller
James Farmerā€™s WordPress story goes all the way back to his launch of the first hosted WordPress multisite blogging platform ā€” just a few days ahead of WordPress.com. Edublogs currently hosts millions of studentsā€™ and educatorsā€™ blogs. James talks about successes and failures, his views on Gutenberg, how he stays competitive with Squarespace, and how he thinks the WordPress business community should respond to the loss of active install growth data at WordPress.org.

Learning and Pulling Together

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Dan Knauss
This week was all about revisiting and continuing conversations that have special value and maybe for that reason tend to continue on with a life of their own. Tom Willmot dropped a fine Twitter thread about the challenge all enterprise WordPress agencies face. This came in response to Magne Ilsas' featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. In a similar theme of industry peer cooperation, Eric Karkovack asks if WordPress product owners and developers can see a common interest in "voluntary standards." Could this clean up the plugin market? James Farmer thinks the WordPress business community can do more for itself too ā€” by sharing data. In Post Status Slack we're learning the tricks and trials of ranking in the WordPress.org plugin repository. How about plugin telemetry? Learn from the voices of experience.

Shiny New Releases

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Dan Knauss
Gravity Forms 7.1 Beta 1 ā€¢ the SpinupWP community ā€¢ Dollie 2.0 ā€¢ rtCamp's Easy Engine now with full custom Docker-Compose support ā€¢ Metorik ā€¢ Iconic ā€¢ Do the Woo ā€¢ Simple Ajax Chat Pro

WooCommerce 6.7, Release Cadence update, “If you could change one thing in Woo,” and Marius Vetrici is WooDev of the Week

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Bob Dunn
This week WooCommerce 6.7 was released along with WooCommerce Blocks 7.8.3. Our good friend Rodolfo Melogli polled the Woo community for his 400th issue of WooWeekly: If you could change one thing in WooCommerce, what would it be?" Multidots shares a fascinating case study they have on both migration and multisite for RHRSwag.com. And Marius Vetrici is the WooDev profile of the week. He's been writing code since 1994 and has 10+ programming languages under his belt and 20+ years of experience. Despite (or because of?) that, he's interested in low-code tools and refuses to buy shoes online. You've just got to try them on to get the perfect fit and feel of the shoe on the foot.

Post Status Picks for the Week of July 11

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Dan Knauss
From WP Tavern's Jukebox, itā€™s Felix Arntz on WordPress performance and what can be done now and in the future about it. Seeking Satisfaction has Tony Perez sharing his journey building, growing, and exiting Sucuri. The Shop Talk Show hosts a discussion about headless CMS platforms, including WordPress, and a little on WordPress and web components...

Footnotes #456

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Dan Knauss
Issue #456 ā€œOne of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldnā€™t as individuals.ā€ ā€” Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in termsā€¦

Wordfence reports that the official SendGrid…

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Dan Knauss

Wordfence reports that the official SendGrid for WordPress plugin is vulnerable to authorization bypass if run in multisite. The plugin is no longer maintained and no longer downloadable from the plugin repo, but it is reported to have 100,000+ activeā€¦

Timi Wahalahti has created a plugin…

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Dan Knauss

Timi Wahalahti has created a plugin that lets back end users choose a post from any site in a WordPress Multisite network through an ACF field. šŸ”Œ

WordPress 5.2.4 was released to address…

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Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.2.4 was released to address at least six security issues. šŸ”’ The first release candidate for WordPress 5.3 is available now, as well. šŸ Remember, this release includes and fully supports PHP 7.4! More information about 5.3 continues toā€¦

A new version of Gutenberg was…

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Dan Knauss

A new version of Gutenberg was released. It will be part of WordPress 5.2.1, which is close to a first release candidate.Ā Improvements to Gutenberg include the ability to set different widths for each column in the columns blocks, improved usabilityā€¦
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