Today officially marks the end of the summer, doesn’t it? Time to get ready for the last third (ish) of 2024! There’s a lot happening in the world of WordPress as well as with
Anyway, I’ve got some really nice WordPress and related new for you in the 130th edition, so I hope you enjoy it!
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- I generally don’t highlight Gutenberg updates (anymore), but Gutenberg 19.1 is worth the exception. Why? Well, it’s
introducing a Plugin Template Registration API , and that’s incredibly neat. Justin Tadlock wrote about it over on the WordPress Developer blog as well.
I mean,
Literally the greatest news I’ve heard in years (and I had a baby last year).
- This Plugin Template Registration API together with the up and coming Data Views feature is what I’m super excited about for the next version of WordPress. Have you
studied the Data Views feature yet? It powers the Site Editor screen already, for instance.
- We’re about to have 500 MILLION more WordPress sites. Well, “about to” still means that the people who are going to build this still need to be hired (some of them), but the fact that
Automattic is converting Tumblr to WordPress is a huge push for WordPress. Do apply if this is your cuppa!
- It should be obvious now that WordPress has entered its maturing phase. I mean, it is of legal drinking age, isn’t it? 🤪. But I love seeing hosting companies like Kinsta matching that and matching their offering accordingly
with ISO certification .
I’m curious to learn if this is something you need in your WordPress projects, so please reply and let me know, {{ subscriber.first_name | strip | default: “my friend” }}!
- Congratulations to Jeff Starr from Perishable Press for being online for 20 years helping us
to cool solutions and great content .
- As mentioned, I’m in the middle of rebuilding my personal site. One of the things I need to solve better is my email marketing for those who are interested to learn about when I launch my courses. I’ve started using
Omnisend for that and will report on that more later in process of rebuilding. For those of you new to Omnisend, it’s a super complete All-in-one ecommerce marketing platform.
- InstaWP launched a super cool hackathon project that allows anyone to win prizes building cool things with WordPress. The project is called
Anyone can WordPress and the first-place winner receives $3,000, the second-place winner gets $1,000, and the third-place winner earns $500. Quite significant, I’d say.
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🚀 Performance & Security
- Chrome Dev Tools
added console error insights 😍 - Harry Roberts from CSS Wizardry shares a very cool deep dive into how he debugged and fixed an issue that was slowing down pages for no obvious reason. Vague, I know, but you’re just going to have to
click this link . - Speaking of fixing slow pages, over on the Web.dev blog they shared common misconceptions about
how to optimize LCP . One of the Core Web Vitals the solution in the box below fix, btw.
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
Listen to Rich Tabor explain why
I am very much in agreement with Rich on this one. Very much.
💡 Interesting Finds
- DNS can be used as a filesystem. Yes, you heard that right.
DNSFS is a project to store files in other peoples DNS resolver caches. - AI is everywhere now, but did you that we now have a code editor with AI fully natively integrated that is has a LOT of folks raving? It’s called
Cursor .
🔎 Scanfully Updates
We’ve added a big feature to Scanfully to help your site stay healthy and secure.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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