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As I’m heading out to CloudFest “right now” and look forward to connecting with friends again as well as making new ones, I hope you enjoy this week’s Within WordPress.
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Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- WordPress 6.5
will not include the ability to override content in synced patterns . This allows more time for feedback and testing to ensure it can really shine.
- Pascal Birchler created a blog post covering his talk at WordCamp Asia. It’s called Performance for Everyone:
Democratizing Performance in WordPress , and it’s about what the WordPress core performance team is doing to make it possible for everyone to have a fast website.
- Grid CSS is one of the neat features added to WordPress 6.5. Jamie Marsland
demonstrates here in a short video what it allows you to do. Nick Diego shared with us the first addition to that feature we’ll see in a future version of WordPress but already shipped by Gutenberg.
- For those of you on WP Engine and Flywheel, LocalWP 8.3 now comes with
a much richer Connect feature . Pretty epic, actually. Push and pull is much flexible now. Almost magic.
I just wish they’d allow for easier ways to integrate LocalWP to any hosting using any plugin. It can’t be that we’d have to use a dozen different local dev solutions to solve this particular problem. Right?
- Katie Keith from Barn2 published
a very insightful blog post about her experience sponsoring and attending WordCamp Asia .
I particularly enjoyed her thoughts on ROI. Something we’re going to have to start thinking about with
- Toby Cryns over at the WP Tavern shared an interesting article covering
surprising tech trends in WordPress (but not limited to).
- Another article on the Tavern is from Brian Coords, and he talks about how
Automattic is spending a lot of EXTRA time, energy (and money, surely) in connecting with the WordPress Developer Community.
- Lesley,
of the pizza loving kind , published a very important article to read for anyone contributing to WordPress (or any open source project, really). It’s called the The oxygen mask approach to WordPress .
- The
Scale Consortium where, an amazing group of top-tier enterprise WordPress agencies, are working together to grow Enterprise WordPress for all published their website.
- I personally prefer to build blocks with ACF so I can stick to PHP. With 6.5 it’s cool that
Block Variations in PHP are a lot easier to do now as well .
🚀 Performance & Security
- WordPress 6.5 does a wonderful levels up with Performant Translations integrated fully. You can expect faster, more efficient localizations and the
introduction of l10n.php files for streamlined language support . - I published:
How To Use WP CLI When Your Site is Hacked . - Cloudflare published their Security Week 2024 wrap up. It’s
a roundup of new security products and features . The list is long, but well worth your time to glance over. - INP (Interaction to Next Paint) officially became a Core Web Vital this week, replacing FID (First Input Delay). It’s a much better input responsiveness metric.
You should focus on it .
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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Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
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💡 Interesting Finds
Open Source DocuSign alternative ? Yes please! - The best 35 minutes you can spend to understand of
how responsiveness and smoothness works at the browser level.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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