I’d like to start with a request first. A request to all of you. I’m preparing to build a dedicated site for my Within Newsletter and Within Podcast.
For that site, I’m looking to add (small) testimonials for both. If you’ve liked what you’ve read and listened to, please comment on this newsletter with your quote, your photo, and a link 🙏🏻. Thank you!
Now, onto some WordPress news and tools, eh? Oh, and also, hellooo
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- WordPress 6.7 saw its
first “new release”-style video featuring Rich Tabor under the management of Jamie Marsland, head of WordPress.org YouTube channel.
Well done, chaps! I like where this is going for the WordPress.org YouTube channel.
- Speaking of Rich Tabor, he’s also shared his now famous thread on X where he does a rich feature (yeah, yeah, I saw what I did there) explanation.
Well worth a look .
- PressConf tickets are available!
PressConf is the spiritual successor to PressNomics and it’s spearheaded by Raquel Manriquez. It will literally held in the same location as the last PressNomics in Phoenix Arizona. Anyone interested on the “business side of things of WordPress” should really consider going. Really, really.
- WooCommerce released 9.4.1 this week. They skipped 9.4.0 because of some issue, but 9.4.1 is where it’s at for the 9.4 branch.
A reminder that WooCommerce now has
- Woo also shared a developer advisory about the full deprecation of WooCommerce Navigation.
Check out what this might mean for you .
- WordPress hosting company Servebolt reported
a performance boost up to 500% on their new own Servebolt Linux 8 platform. 500% 😳
- Reading someone else’s journey in WordPress never seizes to fascinate me. Steve Jones shared
his journey in WordPress, accessibility , and everything in between. From his early days of coding to where he is now. Fun read!
- While
WordPress’ Data Liberation project is yet to get up to full steam, Robert DeVore already created a very interesting plugin that sort of tackles this in part. It’s a plugin that allows you to export WordPress content into Markdown files . Which in turn are super easy to use in static site generators after that.
While you’re on his site, do check out his other plugins. He’s got a bunch of great ones!
- John Blackbourn, famous for his most wonderful Query Monitor plugin, created a new tool for the WordPress ecosystem called RAVE. It allows you to reproduce WordPress builds and verify that the official and unofficial packages haven’t been tampered with.
All the info here .
- ICYMI, WordPress 6.7 handles the loading of translations a bit differently. Learn more about
what you need to be on the lookout for .
🚀 Performance & Security
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
Mike McAlister, Ollie WP famous Mike McAlister, shared a great article about an upcoming huge change to WordPress. It’s called the
💡 Interesting Finds
Katie Keith shared a fun solution to get insightful quotes from any YouTube video. It’s a free AI YouTube Video Quote Generator/Extractor built by DocsBot / Aaron Edwards.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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