All the News & tools for your WordPress Toolbelt

Welcome to the last Inside WordPress newsletter.

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Yeah, you read that right. This is the final edition of Inside WordPress. Though, I might have made it sound more dramatic than it actually is 😏.

I’ve decided move it under the Within WordPress brand I was already using for my podcast. There are a few reasons why I’m doing this:

1. One less brand to maintain. And since I already have the Within WordPress account on X, and on LinkedIn, I’ve chosen for WWP.
2. Since I’ve opened up sponsoring for my podcast end of last year, I realized it made much more sense to work with one brand for all cross-channel sponsor opportunities.
3. I like the alliteration of Within WordPress better than Inside WordPress. Silly reason, perhaps, but hey, that’s me.
4. Lastly, a newsletter is easier to rebrand than a podcast. BobWP agrees with me on that one, so this is the way it’s gotta be.

So… on to the news!

🗞️ Inside WordPress News

Here’s what I saw happening this past week:

• My good friend Ronald Huereca published a tutorial on InnerBlocks. Different from the tutorial I shared with you last week because his tutorial focuses on Nested Blocks.

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• Ajay published a tutorial on how to use PHPStan in the context of WordPress and Visual Studio.

Now, you may use a different editor, but you should definitely check out what PHPStan does if you’re writing code.

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• Princeton University recently released a WordPress plugin called Editoria11y. Editoria11y (“editorial accessibility ally”) is a Accessibility Checker, and with that a quality assurance tool.

Apart from the quirky name, we need to see more of these kinds of tool. And you, dear reader, need to start adding tools like this to your tool belt.

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• Over on the Developer Blog there’s a wonderful overview of all the new things that have been added recently.

And again, if you haven’t checked out the new design and just general UX, you’re missing out. A LOT has changed and pretty much all for the better!

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• Did you know there’s a URL where you can keep track of everything happening with Gutenberg. It’s a great index for understanding what’s coming our way for the next editions of WordPress.

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• Tanner Record shares the many ways that’s he’s using Github Actions in conjunction with WordPress. Some great tips here.

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🚀 Performance & Security

• Here’s why you should never rotate your WordPress Salts.
• And here’s another from Calvin. This is a deep-dive on how WordPress uses Authentication Cookies & Sessions.

My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:

• The best Front-end optimization plugin
• Cleaning up WordPress + script manager
• Cloud based performance optimizations

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🔆 Inside WordPress Highlight

• Once again, NitroPack and Google unite to bring you another value-packed webinar. Tune in on the 25th of January to “Beyond the First Click: Loading Pages Instantly,” and learn how to provide seamless, instant web page loading. Dive into the synergy between Chrome’s browser capabilities and NitroPack’s solutions and discover how they transform user engagement and experience.

Grab your free seat now!

Some of my favorite WordPress tools:

• The most versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress
• LocalWP, the easiest to use local dev solution

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💡 Interesting Finds

• I discovered Cursor.sh. And it’s way cool. I can just ask my editor “what does this do?” and it explains in human language HOW the code works, and WHERE it’s being used 🤯

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🎁 Bonus

There are various articles I want/need to have published before I release my Unlock the True Power of WP CLI course. For this reason, but also because it’s a super neat thing you can do, I wrote a tutorial on How To use WP CLI Commands in Scripts

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That’s it for this final edition of Inside WordPress. Thanks for reading!