First off, I’d like to thank you for welcoming into your inbox with WordPress news every Friday! And a special Friday at that. I mean, it’s the Friday where we’ve gotten
But let’s focus on some good news, shall we? WordPress news it is. Hope you enjoy it just as much as you’ll enjoy WordPress 6.6.1 🤓
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- If there’s one thing I think that are a must in modern WordPress development, then it’s development workflows. And I love it when things like
selective push from production to staging environments is solved at the level of hosting. Like Kinsta has done. That is a pretty sweet integration!
- My most favorite WordPress Performance tools, NitroPack,
has been acquired by WP Engine. Congratulations to all involved! This is huge.
- Rebecca Gill published a very in-depth article about the True Price of a WooCommerce Store.
Very thorough read .
- WordCamp Europe published a list with all the WCEU recaps written by everyone. And many have been mentioned in earlier newsletter here, but there are a lot of gems out there.
So many learning to catch up on .
- Learn WordPress is
asking for feedback to test the new site .
- WP Crontrol 1.17 now allows you to
create a WordPress cron event which sends an HTTP request to a URL without you needing to write any code to do it. Hella neat!
- Silvan Hagen published a cool tutorial on how to create a Mega Menu with Blocks.
Excellent write-up !
- WordPress 6.6, as I’m sure you’ve seen, is out and about. One of the cool things it ships is Section Styles. Fränk Klein
did a wonderful explainer on the topic .
- A wonderfully rich resource full of information on how to uso
improve the editor experience in WordPres s was shared by Nick Diego. Like, a LOT of cool stuff is mentioned.
- This is especially true if you work with WordPress in Multisite mode, but the
Miscellaneous Developer Changes in WordPress 6.6 article is required reading.
- Sybre Waaijer shared an issue you need to be aware of in terms of SEO with a FSE theme in use on your site and comment pagination. If all three boxes intrigue your curiosity,
then this is the link for you .
- Turn WordPress into a community plugin BuddyPress has been updated to
version 14.0.0 . With many improvements across the board.
🚀 Performance & Security
- Some important changes to autoloaded options are coming to WordPress 6.6.
Read about them here . - The WordPress Performance team just released a set of updates to the performance feature plugins. Included is a rename of our auto-sizes plugin to
Enhanced Responsive Images , which now includes optimizations for image sizes attributes.
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
Fellow metalhead Paul, aka WPTuts, shared a very important video he’s created. And it’s a bold one, but incredibly needed. I highly recommend you check it out and learn from that what you can. Because we desperately need to improve this, and we can only do this if we all start prioritizing this!
💡 Interesting Finds
- With pretty much all* of the Windows powered computers down today, it seemed fun to share this
Disk Defragmenter in the browser ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ - David Gwyer shared his collection of
Machine Learning Resources . Quite extensive!
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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