Welcome to the 128th edition of the Within WordPress newsletter. I planned to send this one two Friday’s earlier, but life got in the way. By way of me catching something nasty. I’m almost at 100% again, but yeah… that happened.
This 128th edition introduces the Within WordPress Community Sponsors. I’ve introduced the
Lots of news to cover, so let’s dive in, shall we?
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- It’s the end of the year, so that means we’re getting ready for the new default WordPress theme being built. And indeed, the
process has started for Twenty Twenty-Five . Or TT5 for aficionados. Congrats on Carolina Nymark and Juan Aldasoro for co-leading the development. TT5 will be launched with the upcoming WordPress 6.7 version. You can find the full 6.7 Release Squad here .
- WordPress Playground
is available now for offline mode as well as introduce PWA Support . Imagine the things you can build with WordPress now. No, really… imagine. Because the Playground has vastly increased the things we can build with WordPress now. We just need to imagine them.
- Patchstack has released their
Patchstack Academy . Pretty neat initiative as I believe you simply cannot receive too much education on all things security.
- Speaking of security, I like how Kinsta has made it possible now to
lock down SFTP/SSH and phpMyAdmin access with IP allowlists
- The “What’s new for developers?”
edition of August 2024 has been published and it’s a must read to get you fully up-to-date with the latest.
Related to this: the
- The WooCommerce team is very actively working on making Woo better with each new version and one of the things it’s improving on is the accessibility side of things. They published an interview with Amber Hinds and Chris Hinds to give us
some insight on how we can also prioritize accessibility on your e-commerce journey.
Well worth a read!
Oh, and Chris also published an interesting tutorial on
- As mentioned above, WooCommerce is very much focused on improving their product. Beau Lebens, Interim CEO of WooCommerces,
explained their vision for the future in great detail recently .
I mean, I’ve been a fan of WooCommerce since they forked Jiggoshop, but I really enjoy the focused direction it’s gotten in 2024. Look at this “
Very bullish 🐂
- One of my favorite WordPress tools has improved a lot. Namely, WP CLI has been
upgraded to 2.11.0 . My favorite new features is the wp site generate command
- Katie Keith and Matt Cromwell did a great presentation at WordCamp Europe about the how to build a (WordPress) product business. It’s information based on more than 50 different WordPress product owners.
This talk has been published on WordPress.tv now .
So many insights. Lovely talk.
- Perfmatters, one of my favorite performance tools, has seen a very lovely update to 2.3.2. This version introduces and updated CSS parsing library which should help with correctly parsing mathematical operations inside CSS property values. And thus, improving compatibility dramatically with products like Elementor and AutomaticCSS.
Check it out .
🚀 Performance & Security
- WordPress 6.6 came with a bunch of performance improvements. Adam Silverstein
listed them all for us here .
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
It has been two years since I built the current version of my site (
Because there are so many decisions to make, I thought it would be fun to document the entire process. I wrote about
I will document the entire process in the shape of videos, so do subscribe to
💡 Interesting Finds
- If you dabble with Laravel alongside WordPress, surely you’ve come across some of Aaron Francis’ tutorials. I’m a big fan of his work and him as a person. As such I’m sharing a great article of his where he makes
a great argument for logging off . - Google announced its reversal on third-party cookie policies.
Yoast wrote about what that means for you . This is pretty big.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
Best, Remkus
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