One week until Black Friday! That is today. And you can kinda tell the world of WordPress is quite focused on that because it’s been a bit of a quiet week in terms of news.
Today’s edition is somewhat dev oriented, but I tried to include some fun bits for everyone here and there. And there are for sure some fun bits!
Hope you enjoy it!
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Patchstack released a most excellent list of
things you need to be doing to get your WooCommerce site in its most secure version .
- Remember that Within WordPress Hightlight that makes your WordPress site more privacy friendly
a few episodes back ? Here’s another one that I like. My friend Andrew Norcross has a plugin on Github that makes sure no real IP addresses are stored in WP comments .
Deryck Oñate wrote a lovely tutorial about WordPress Block Development. It’s a very complete guide to multiple Blocks and the Interactivity API.
- It seems John Blackbourn is on a roll with building cool additional tools. He’s now created a GitHub Action for plugin developers which
generates an attestation for the plugin ZIP file on WordPress·org each time you release a new version.
- Ian Svoboda
wrote a post on what’s new for Generate Blocks 2.0. One of the coolest things is an all new Query Block, and I gotta say, I’m a fan of what he’s cooking for Generate Blocks!
- WooCommerce is hosting
a “Let’s talk Themes” session with Ellen Bauer. This event will serve as an informal opportunity for you to share your initial thoughts, feedback, and questions about Woo Block Themes.
- If you didn’t know, Jamie Marsland has recently started in his role as Head of the WordPress YouTube channel. This week,
he shared how things are going and what they’ve (it’s not just him) discovered so far.
- Here’s a fun one. Guillermo Rauch deployed
WordPress on Vercel Functions using ServerlessWP . I mean…
- Anne McCarthy shared an update of where we are with Phase 3 of Project Gutenberg over on the Make WordPress blog. Keyword for this phase is “
collaborating “.
I’d say that if you want to know what the next product (like the Block Editor and the Site Editor) produced by Project Gutenberg will be, that’s the article to check out.
- Mark Howells-Mead wrote an interesting article about how
shortening long naming conventions in CSS can be beneficial .
- Brian Coords sat down with Mike McAlister to talk
about this future of WordPress we’re right in the middle of .
I’m with Mike here, btw. Mike shares a very realistic (and yes, optimistic as well) view of what our future holds. And I find myself nodding along a lot with his assessments.
- Ryan Welcher shared how you
don’t need to customize Webpack for your WordPress build in this thread on X .
🚀 Performance & Security
- Tammie Everts did a great presentation on
Performance is Good for Brains . - PHP 8.4 is now released. It now supports: Property hooks, Asymmetric visibility, New DOM features and HTML5 support, Object API for BCMath, and a new MyClass()->method() without parentheses. And
so much more .
BTW, here’s a
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
This is one of the most incredible things I’ve seen built in WordPress. I’m not going to share more than this screenshot below.
💡 Interesting Finds
Cool read on how We Are AG combined all their management tools into just Slack. They went all in on Slack and ditched Notion and Trello, for instance. - Conflicts are inevitable, but how we handle them defines us. Are you helping to calm the storm or stirring the pot? Find out more on our
latest Future of Team podcast . - Aaron Francis talks about how they are
delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18 .
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
Best, Remkus
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