Welcome back to the 135th edition of Within WordPress Newsletter. As we’re inching closer to WordPress 6.7‘s final release, we still have a RC2 to play with first. If you didn’t have time to read through the last two newsletters, now’s a good time to do so as we do have new things to learn!
Let’s jump in the rest of this newsletter!
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Here’s a fix that was 14 years in the making. If you’re running a no longer active WordPress plugin in your WordPress site, you will finally see a notice that lets you know this. Thanks to Maciek for sharing this wonderful fix.
- Speaking of release candidates, btw, WooCommerce 9.4 offers their last pre-release version for testing. And with Black Friday season ahead of us, it’s imperative that you test the this new WooCommerce version thoroughly.
P.s. have you seen the new Woo logo? This is what I posted on X about it:
It’s very rare to see a rebrand with a new logo where I immediately go “Wow, that’s a huge improvement, I love it”, but when I saw this last week, that’s exactly what I thought. LOVE IT.
- 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! 🙇🏼♂️
- Coming in WordPress 6.7: You can now make your custom Block Binding sources fully editable.
- Jamie Madden shared an interesting post on X about his favorite FSE plugins he uses: 1. Block Visibility 2. Responsive Navigation Block Now, these two are great finds already, but the comments to his post have a lot more interesting plugins in them. Check ‘m out.
- Some plugins are just so powerful. The combination of Gravity Forms and Gravity Wiz makes that statement even more real. The latter published a wonderful article on how to build Cloud Hosting Cost Calculator with both.
I wish we’d see more of these types of case studies!
- My friends over at Human Made published Lottie Lite and solves pretty much all of your animations in WordPress problems.
- Last week, WordPress contributors spend an hour in the Hallway Hangout: What’s next for DataViews and DataForm components (Oct 23, 2024). Well worth your click and read (and watch as you can watch the hangout on YouTube as well).
🚀 Performance & Security
- The Chrome team published an (updated) article on what they see as the most effective ways to improve Core Web Vitals. If you’re in the business of optimizing sites (and you really should be), this is a great read.
- If you’ve not already discovered Cloudflare and how it can help you out solving many of your performance problems, then perhaps this might trigger you into checking them out. A case study where the moved a application from AWS to Cloudflare. Resulting in: Simplified architecture, 83% lower cloud costs ($1,940 → $325/day,) Global performance boost, and they’re pProcessing 1B+ events daily. Like I said, quite the case study.
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt published an article that needs your eyes. It’s called The People Behind the Platform: How WordPress’s Community Drives its Success.
🎁 Bonus
🎙️ The Within WordPress podcast is looking for additional guests. Could that be you? Someone you know? Let me me know who I should have on the podcast and why by hitting reply on this email!
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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