And just like that we’re closing the week where we got WordPress 6.5.3. And a very controversial dot release at that. More on that below the fold.
We’re one month out from the 10th WordCamp Europe in Torino, and I’m getting excited about that! Will I see you there, my friend?
Anyway, on to the news!
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🗞️ Within WordPress News
Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- The WordPress 6.5 retrospective was published over on the Make WordPress Core blog.
- On that 6.5.3 specific release, btw, I’m finding myself very much in agreement with Syed Balkhi from Awesome Motive here.
- WordPress 6.6 is slated for the 16th of July, a relatively short cycle from 6.5 to 6.6. This is what is intended to go into 6.6.
One of the things I’m super excited about is that another aspect of our battle to get WordPress fully and properly multilingual is very likely being merged in core: Merge Proposal: Preferred Languages.
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- Delicious Brains published an overview of the results of the recent WP CLI Hack Day. You know, the actual features and enhancements that found their way in the sub-sequential 2.10 release of WP CLI.
- Gutenberg was updated to include the new solution for Pattern Overrides. Or, components, as Jamie Marsland likes to call them in his excellent video where he demonstrates this feature.
- Again, I’m not a gamer. But yeah, also again, maybe you are, and just maybe you find the fact that WordPress can run Doom wildly fascinating.
- Justin Tadlock takes us along beyond the basics of the Block Bindings API with his latest tutorial.
Related, did you know you can use custom sources with the WordPress Block Bindings API?
- While we’re all eagerly awaiting the release of Ollie Pro, Mike McAlister shared a lot of what we can expect with Rob Hope in this wonderful podcast.
- Lesley Sim is on a roll with her articles lately. This week she published an article about the v3 of Newsletter Glue.
- What is your favorite but not that famous WordPress plugin? Quite a few interesting gems can be found in the answer to this post on X.
- I don’t usually share this kind of blog posts, but this is a good one by Barn2 Plugins about how to make an entire WordPress site private.
- I’ve been using version control with my WordPress projects for well over a decade now. It’s one of those topics that you forget you’re very familiar with it, but lots of other folks might possibly not be. To help out close the knowledge gap, Brian Coords and Mark Szymanksi did a live stream about this very topic.
- Did you know you can create a Block without React, Node.js, and a bunch of other complexity? Well, outside of ACF’s solution, we have another option available to us.
A wonderful in-depth tutorial by Jonathan Bossenger (whom you may remember from a recent Within WordPress podcast I did with him).
- The A11Y Collective is announcing their GAAD day. For one day only, their courses on digital accessibility will be available on a pay what you want basis.
They will also be donating 20% of the proceeds to Sense: an organization that supports people who are deafblind.
🚀 Performance & Security
- WordPress VIP wrote about how switching from Memcache to the Memcached Extension led to big performance improvements.
- Mateus Guimarães wrote a small but sweet article on fine-tuning PHP and PHP-FPM.
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
Francisco Torres wrote an extensive blog post about how him joining the WordPress Plugin Review team changed his life. Loved reading this. Also looking forward to reading yours in due time, Barry 😉.
💡 Interesting Finds
- Discovered openpanel.div. An insightful open-source analytics tool as an alternative to Mixpanel.
- Mauro Bono shared a fantastic free app for reducing images maintaining a great quality: https://squoosh.app
🎁 Bonus
I wanted to share how we’re going to help debugging changes inside WordPress (not code) with Scanfully.
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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