In the week of 6.5 seeing
Anyway, lot’s to cover in this 109th
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Jamie Marsland shared 250 seconds of the majority of changes coming to WordPress 6.5
I very much enjoyed his “
- Tammie Lister, or
@karmatosed , has published her book. It’s called WordPress Styling with Blocks, Templates, and Themes . And it’s about… well, I think you can figure that one out.
Highly recommended. From a friend’s perspective, but also knowing the knowledge she has on the topic.
- Rafał Tomal and Chris Huffnagel (finally 😅) released their interpretation of what a perfect Site Editor compatible (FSE / Block Theme) WordPress theme looks like. It’s called
Rockbase and I’ve played with it already. It is indeed, uhm, rock solid.
I got my copy and can’t wait to stack it up against Mike and Patrick’s
- The first article over on Scanfully about one of our main features has also been published.
- Throw together a bunch of straight-shooting WordPress wizards, agencies, product owners, and enthusiasts in a virtual room with the Gutenberg Project’s chief brains, the Lead Architect and Product Owner. We might be paving the way for breakthroughs.
Brian Coords article about this meeting wonderfully translates the meeting on WP Tavern . All of us need to read this.
- Curious about all the
Woo stats ? Want to know how big WooCommerce actually is? Well, yeah, there’s a page for that.
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So yeah, if you really want to understand how sites can get hacked and what you can and cannot do about it… Or, what you must do to make the impact minimal… go watch that video.
- Figma to WordPress. Now, who doesn’t need that? As always,
there’s a plugin for that . Did you know?
- I wrote an article about how we can get rid of Google Analytics plugins for WordPress. And why we should. From a performance perspective, as well as “this is just a smarter way”.
With Zaraz .
- The
second part of the Block Bindings API tutorial is up. Super important you read up on this as this paves the way to use Custom Fields freely inside your content in a future edition of WordPress.
- Eric Karkovack wrote an excellent article over on The WP Minute about whether
we’re expecting too much from WordPress Core .
Good read. And my answer is: yes, we do.
🚀 Performance & Security
- Over on the Delicious Brains blog, Iain Poulson shared a wonderful scenario where
adding an index to your MySQL database makes a whole lot of sense . Because, done right, it will massively enhance performance.
- The Performance API is a set of standards for measuring and evaluating performance metrics with JavaScript. Geoffrey Graham demonstrates on the Smashing Magazine blog
how to use the Performance API to generate performance metrics directly in the DOM to create your own reporting .
- Calvin Alkan’s research, the reason he found the Bricks (and others) vulnerability in the first place lead him to the release of
Code Freeze .
A VERY interesting solution to limit anyone on/in your WordPress site with mal intent.
My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:
The best Front-end optimization plugin Cleaning up WordPress + script manager Cloud based performance optimizations
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
- Amber Hinds of Equalize Digital shared
wonderfully in-depth article about WCAG 2.2 and how you can test for it. Time to get your knowledge about accessibility expanded!
You should definitely also check out the
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
- The
most versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress - LocalWP, the
easiest to use local dev solution
💡 Interesting Finds
- Iveline Dimova shared a
wonderful list of Git tricks .
🎁 Bonus
Check out this wonderful list of
Lastly,
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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