Happy Friday to you all! Last week’s edition just didn’t work out, so apologies for those of you who had to wait an extra week for your next Within WordPress fix!
But, today’s edition is full one with lots of cool tools, and news, and what not. Hope you enjoy it!
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🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- We’ve got a new list of things WordPress developers will want to know. This list includes a lot of stuff that’s added to WordPress 6.7. Things like Content Only Editing, Fields package, and updated SavePost filters and much more. Go do that deep dive, you know you should 😉
- WooCommerce 9.4 integrates Brands functionality into WooCommerce, offering free access to brand management, product assignment, and customization options. The new Brands feature lets you create and manage brands for stores and assign them to products, similar to categories and will be released end of this month.
- Great news for anyone submitting a plugin to WP.org! All new plugin submissions are now checked automatically by Plugin Check Plugin. Big step forward for the Team, as we save time for most obvious checks and more!
The queue for new plugins to be processed has been fully cleared as well now. Huge kudos to the Plugins team for making this possible! 🙇🏼♂️
- Jonathan Bossenger WordPress Educator, shared a very nice way of how WordPress Playground is being used on the new Learn.WordPress.org site.
- Kinsta now allows for Site add-ons. You can add additional site(s) to any of your plan which is good for agencies who onboard new clients one by one.
- WooSesh, The virtual conference for WooCommerce store builders designed to help grow your business, is scheduled for the end of this month again. You should check it out if you’re doing anything with WooCommerce.
- Web AI and the new Chrome built-in AI are a game changer and a huge opportunity for WordPress to democratize AI-assisted publishing. Pascal Birchler shared more about what we can do with this over on his blog.
- Learn how to register several static and dynamic blocks with the official WordPress create-block scaffolding tool.
- Inline blocks are coming to WordPress! They’re called bits (for now) and they are looking quite cool already. Check out this video to get an idea of what they look like and facilitate.
- Tanner Record wrote an interesting article for those of us in need to understand the Filesystem API a little better.
- Jeff Matson introduced Wormhole Sync as well as the Wormhole API. Sync is a tool for syncing/merging WordPress plugins/themes from external sources and the API is a drop-in replacement for the WordPress plugin/theme repositories.
LOVE this. This is a great solution to help decentralizing WordPress plugins and themes where you would need to.
🚀 Performance & Security
- Google’s released CrUX Vis – a new experimental CrUX tool to allow you to visualize CrUX History API data.
- Learn how to (auto)load WordPress options efficiently. A wonderful tutorial by Felix Arntz.
- Cloudflare is now allowing you to easily add a security.txt file via a smart wizard.
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
For mostly technical reasons, implementing generative AI features in WordPress harder than in other places on the internet. This is exactly the problem Felix Arntz is solving with his AI Services plugin for WordPress.
💡 Interesting Finds
- Equalize Digital published a general framework for an accessibility statement and suggests a few additional sections to consider adding. Quite useful!
- Bartosz Gadomski shared an article about how running GitHub Actions on non-draft Pull Requests only reduced the “minutes usage” in a project of his by 70%.
- sq is a free/libre open-source data wrangling swiss-army knife to inspect, query, join, import, and export data. You could think of sq as jq for databases and documents.
🔎 Scanfully Updates
Can you guess what we’re building next for Scanfully?
We also published a bit of an explainer on what we’re doing differently with our Uptime Monitor for WordPress inside Scanfully. And why a standard uptime monitor just doesn’t cut it.
🎁 Bonus
🎙️ The Within WordPress podcast is alive and kicking again after a long vacation break. The first conversation has been published today and it’s with Jean Baptiste Marchand-Arvier, who’s the co-founder of WP Rocket. One of my favorite performance tools.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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