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  • Security & Pro Dev Courses, Thread Block + New Performance Insights

    We’ve done a ton of for our next big feature inside Scanfully, called Priority Pages (more on that below). So, this week was a very productive one, as I managed to also collect a lot of interesting bits for this week’s newsletter as well. Hope you enjoy, and do forward this email to your friends…

  • Within WordPress – Selective Speculative Loading, ThemeSwitcher, and Composable WordPress

    It’s been two weeks without an edition of the Within WordPress newsletter. It has also been one week since I gave my talk at PressConf in Tempe, Arizona. And yes, these two facts are related 😅. I had planned to do at least one, but things just went differently. I’ve given the most raw and…

  • Cold Turkey Switch to FSE, bcrypt for WP 6.8 + MCP POC

    You know what I’ve learned twice in between sending this and the previous newsletter? I can’t count. Last week wasn’t number 148, it was 147. And, when moving over my podcasts to a separate ​YouTube channel for Within WordPress​ (← correct link this time, btw) I noticed I screwed up the number there as well.…

  • Inside WordPress Performance & AI with Felix Arntz: Improving Site Speed and Future Trends

     Join us in this episode of ‘Within WordPress’ as we dive deep into the world of WordPress performance and AI with Felix Arntz, a senior software engineer at Google and WordPress core committer. Felix shares his insights on crucial topics, including how he and his team work to improve WordPress performance, contribute to existing plugins,…

  • DataStore Caching, HTML changes for 2025, Woo 9.6 & More

    It seemed quieter on the socials this past week. I guess this means everybody focussing on setting 2025 up to be the best year ever. Right? I mean, I sure am with everything I’ve got going on. And that’s a lot. That said, I still managed to collect a bunch of interesting WordPress tools, WooCommerce…

  • Minimum PHP version requirement, WP 5.2 Beta 1 and Gutenberg 5.3 #012

    We’re getting ready for another big improvement for our favorite CMS. Today, I’d like to share with you the release of Gutenberg version 5.3 as well as the first Beta for WordPress 5.2. And, some exciting news on the minimum PHP version requirement for WordPress. Gutenberg 5.3 We’ve seen the release of Gutenberg 5.3 this…

  • New roles in the WordPress project, blocks and WordPress 5.1 #006

    Today’s roundup is a follow-up of my previous roundup, and it is a nice collection of interesting things that happened in the WordPress Community in the last couple of weeks. There’s some very exciting news about expanding the WordPress leadership team and I’ll discuss a couple of new features of the next version of WordPress.…