This was a grueling week for me. I won’t bore you with all the details, but let’s just say the “moving house and office twice in 6 months is too much of a “good” thing” was a large part of it 😅.
Luckily, I managed to catch a wonderful newsletter worth of WordPress news for you as well as a nice little RC for WordPress 6.6.2!
Let’s dive in, shall we?
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- We have a fresh roadmap for the final WordPress release of the year! Version 6.7 will, most notably, deliver TT4 as our new default theme.
- Tammie Lister has focused on default WordPress themes for the past 6 months and wrote about the sponsorship that allowed her to do that, and what could be next.
- Curious how to add an Open AI integration to a Gutenberg block? Brian Coords created a block that reads your article, writes a sharable tweet about it, and shows up as a “Click to Tweet” callout.
Love these little experiments that help you grasp what you can do with Blocks.
- Just like Brian, Nick Diego also likes to experiment with our new tools. In Nick’s case particularly, Nick’s building Block Extensions with linked Group Blocks. How he built it, the code, and a Playground demo are available on his blog.
- For all of you using WP CLI a lot in wp-env, Weston Rutter offers a solution to run the commands way less verbose. I like it!
- WordPress plugin developers that publish to the WordPress repository, in less than a month you will be required to have 2FA enabled for your WordPress.org account.
The question is, though, why haven’t you enabled it already?
- This is pretty wild for “just a WooCommerce add-on plugin”: Barn2 spent spent a full year building a user-friendly table builder. Pretty wild. Pretty smooth.
Never seizes to amaze me the number of plugins out there that generate serious money and that you may never heard of.
- There’s an update about the GatherPress project which is meant to replace the whole of Meetup.com stuff that’s happening under the WP.org umbrella.
- Marcus Burnette has been busy extending The WP World. Last month he added a free Business Directory, and this week’s he added a WordCamp Toolkit.
🚀 Performance & Security
- Just a very solid reminder that doing performance is not a checklist
- This video dives into the different types of browser cache, and how to inspect and manage them in Chrome DevTools.
- Brendan Kenny discusses common mistakes regarding LCP optimization and presents real data to show where developers should focus their efforts.
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
- WP Café Show is a podcast (video) by Mark and Keith from Highrise Digital. They consistently share interesting things they’ve learned as they’re building WordPress sites. FSE blocks, included.
- Go check ’em out!
🎁 Bonus
The latest Within WordPress podcast went live today, and it’s with Cristian Raiber. We talk a lot about what it takes to go from “a WordPress plugin builder” to “owning a WordPress business” and everything that comes with that transition. Listen or watch in your favorite way🎙️.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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