This Week at WordPress.org (December 20, 2021)

ByCourtney Robertson Posted onDecember 21, 2021May 6, 2022 Updated onMay 6, 2022

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.

News

WordPress 5.9 Beta 4.
Help Test WordPress 5.9 Features.
Take the 2021 WordPress Annual Survey — and view the 2020 results. Please encourage everyone you know to take the survey!

Community

Proposal: Automatically send emails to WordCamp attendee requesting details about their accessibility accommodation or life-threatening allergy.

Core

Design

Redesign of Openverse

Marketing

Help contribute to social media materials for the 5.9 release

Themes

Gutenberg and Themes: Week of Dec 5.

Training

Team Goal Setting 2022.

TV

Proposal: Auto-populate WordCamp video details using the WordCamp JSON API.

Openverse

CC Search Now Redirects to Openverse.

Polyglots

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WordPress News

Matt Mullenweg on the internet as the fifth estate

ByBrian Krogsgard January 26, 2013January 31, 2015

Matt nicely describes how the internet has managed to triumph in the modern world as an underdog. Today, an individual blogger’s voice can be heard by hundreds of millions of people near-instantaneously. Bloggers’ cumulative voices can spark change in government, fortune 500 companies, and more. WordPress is helping by further democratizing publishing.

Security

Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal…

ByBrian Krogsgard March 22, 2019

Felix Arntz explains how the Fatal Error Protection feature had to be dropped from WordPress 5.1 due to several security concerns. It appears error protection is here to stay, however, and Felix goes into detail about the completely new approach that had to be taken to revamp the feature. He’s asking for feedback from the developer…

Security

Dissecting a WordPress brute force attack

ByBrian Krogsgard July 23, 2013January 31, 2015

If you’ve ever wanted a tour through the internals of a WordPress brute force attack, this is the post for you. Tony Perez, of Sucuri, uses an example attack to teach about what happens during such an attack. Tony also gives some practical advice for preventing this sort of attack from happening to you. It…

WordPress News

Pay What You Can for WordPress Maintenance – A Discussion

ByBrian Krogsgard April 25, 2013January 31, 2015

I’ve been toying with the idea of providing a pay-what-you-can WordPress maintenance service & I want to gauge the interest of the WordPress community.

Business | Design

Taking a new product from concept to launch

ByBrian Krogsgard October 5, 2017October 5, 2017

When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past eight years, to the point that I’m actively looking forward to the first failed launch….

Business

BackupBuddy Gold and unlimited updates

ByTravis Northcutt April 30, 2014

This week, the iThemes launched “BackupBuddy Gold” – a new pricing tier for their BackupBuddy plugin. They already had a $150 tier, which included a license to use the plugin on unlimited sites, as well as support and updates for one year. The only difference with the Gold tier (currently priced at $297) is that it includes lifetime…

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