Welcome to number 103. In the week where we saw 6.4.3 RC made available, it’s good to know the first 6.5 beta (
There’s a joke in there as well about something else, but I’ll let you figure that one out yourself.
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Here’s what I saw happening this past week:
- Matt, the Medeiros kind, referencing the Mullenweg kind,
wrote about WordPress’ upcoming path to Data Liberation (as mentioned in the State of the Word 2023 ).
It’s a great read, and wonderful to see WordPress putting a big focus on that in the years to come. And Matt, the Medeiros kind, is right with his conclusions in his article. It needs to happen within WordPress as well.
- Christian Raiber wrote
a wonderful reply to a user of one of his plugins. The reply answered the user’s plead for a cheaper version of Christian’s plugin.
- Maciek wrote an
introduction of Statamic for WordPress developers . You know, if you’re keen on exploring other CMS’s.
I’m not.
- Brian Coords and Paul Charlton (WP Tuts) did an
interesting live stream on YouTube, hosted by Mr Medeiros, of the Matt kind, on whether to use WordPress Site and Block Editor or Blocks (one of the latest and greatest page builders).
Now I have zero interest in adding Bricks to my toolbelt, but if I did have to use one, I’d seriously look into it. I find it’s more solving developers problems than user’s, but it’s very much focused on performance and I love that about it.
- Phase 3 of the Gutenberg Project is in full swing already, but you may have not known that t
he Media Library is due to be undergoing a huge overhaul as well. If you want to have your say in where that’s going, then this post is for you .
- Tom McFarlin wrote about
how to identify anonymous functions programmatically (in WordPress).
- Brian Gardner launched
Powder v1.0 . It boasts 80+ patterns, ultra-light < 200kb zip, vibrant colors, and according to Brian, an endless design.
Both Powder and
- The folks over at ACF published a tutorial on
how to extend ACF Blocks with Blocks Supports .
I’ll happily admit ACF Blocks are still my favorite way to create blocks. Just don’t leave the declaration in the database and move them to a plugin, but yeah.
- Many people think wp_mail() inside WordPress is broken. It’s really not, and
Konstantin Kovshenin expertly explains why .
- Joost published a wonderful solution to create true multi-currency pricing for EDD products.
He’s using Cloudflare for it , and it’s a super smart solution.
Love it.
🚀 Performance & Security
- Just a very solid reminder that we now have
the option to prime the option caches in WordPress .
Have you already made use of that? You probably should.
Pre-render pages instantly in Chrome Devtools with the speculation rules api & debug them
- Per Søderlind released
WP Loupe , a faster and better WordPress search. Lawd knows WP’s search can be improved a lot, yes.
My favorite performance optimizing tools in WordPress:
The best Front-end optimization plugin Cleaning up WordPress + script manager Cloud based performance optimizations
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- Patricia Brun Torre published a proposal on the Make WordPress Community blog that aims to replace Meetup.com.
It’s called GatherPress , and it needs you to get involved.
Some of my favorite WordPress tools:
- The
most versatile and accessible form solution for WordPress - LocalWP, the
easiest to use local dev solution
💡 Interesting Finds
- Alex Panagis
shared the outcome of a much needed study on AI versus human-generated content. The outcome is somewhat obvious, but still a good read. - What if you wanted to lace your image inside a fancy frame with only CSS. What if you want it to have wavy edges on all the sides, and only using CSS.
This is how you’d do it .
🎁 Bonus
I published an article on how to achieve
That’s it for this week’s edition of Within WordPress. Thanks for reading!
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