How time does fly! You’re reading the 126th edition of the Within WordPress newsletter, and I’m amazed at the positive feedback each and every edition still yields.
I appreciate every single one of you subscribing. Really do. Let’s see what this week’s about,
🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- If it feels like WordPress 6.6 came incredibly fast after 6.5, you’re right. This is what’s called a short-cycle release. As we’ve literally hit the final stages of releasing WordPress 6.6, it’s really time to take a deep dive into the
6.6 Fields Guide .
Speaking of WordPress 6.6, Anne McCarthy published a couple of videos on YouTube around WordPress 6.6 you ought to see:
Bringing a Modern Patterns Experience to Classic Themes Negative Margins, Grid Block, & Custom Shadows The power of a shared publishing flow & unified extensibility APIs
- Jetpack seems to go through a string improvements and additions. Thinks like an UTM Builder, for instance.
Interesting move .
Assembler allows you to combine all kinds of things from various themes. Rich Tabor explains more about it in his post about 720 unique theme styles .
- Ollie Pro got released! And it’s gorgeous <3
- The WooCommerce team dropped version 9.0. They call it
most accessible version yet. It features an improved check-out experience, the next iteration of Product blocks, new REST-API endpoints for the refunds to name but a few things.
- WP Campus is a virtual event that’s held next week by my friends at Human Made. Its subtitle says it all: “Discover Enterprise WordPress on a University Budget”. It’s a free event and you can
register here .
- I’ve been using WordPress multi-site since 2008 for many different purposes. The multi-site mode allows us to use it for many different scenarios such a building a high performant multilingual site. But there are other scenarios as well. One such example is reducing a maintenance burden. Exactly what this
use case by WebDevStudios talks about .
- Matt Medeiros talks with Kevin Geary about the future of (building with) WordPress. Specifically from a page builders perspective vs native WordPress perspective.
Very interesting discussion, indeed .
🚀 Performance & Security
- Chrome:
The Long Animation Frame API has now shipped - Very interesting speaker deck:
Boost your PHP apps with 103 Early Hints
My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:
- NitroPack:
Cloud based performance optimizations - Perfmatters:
Clean up Scripts in WordPress - WP Rocket:
The best Front-end optimization plugin
🔆 Within WordPress Highlight
An outside influence of where we need to put our attention as builders of the web is the European Accessibility Act. Why? Because it will be implemented in 2025 and its impact on websites is HUGE! Good friend Nathan Wrigley interviewed another good friend Rian Rietveld about exactly this.
You need to listen to or read this:
Related to this is the
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
💡 Interesting Finds
Go Access was designed to be a fast, terminal-based log analyzer. Its core idea is to quickly analyze and view web server statistics in real time without needing to use your browser. - Tom Wilmot
shared Granola as an AI notepad for people that do a lot of meetings. Another contender is Limitless AI in this space.
🔎 Scanfully Updates
🎁 Bonus
If you are a night owl by natural inclination, you’ve no doubt heard your whole life that that’s a productive state. Turns out,
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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