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News & Articles

• WordPress Playground (developer.wordpress.org)
  Experience a WordPress that runs entirely in your browser. WordPress Playground is a collective effort, and it benefits the most from passionate and talented people like you. By contributing, you can help evolve the project to solve all kinds of challenges.
• State of the Word 2022 (www.cloudways.com)
  Today will mark Matt Mullenweg’s 15th annual State of Word presentation about the vision for the Open Source project. The play on the State of Union speech started at regional conferences and, since the pandemic, has taken a new form based as a one off event in NYC. The event is available to all streaming on YouTube and from WordPress.org.
• WordPress Administration Survey 2022 Results (www.wpwhitesecurity.com)
  The survey has shown us that best practices are alive and well among the WordPress administrators community. This is especially true among websites that have larger user bases, showing that website growth is more sustainable when getting the basics right.
• WPMarmite 2022 Advent Calendar (wpmarmite.com)
  
• The WP Awards 2022: Top Winners & Votes (thewpweekly.com)
  
• PHP 8.2 is Now Available on WordPress.com (developer.wordpress.com)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – December 14, 2022 (ithemes.com)
  
• Brizy Raises $2.4M to Develop the First Multi-Platform Website Builder (www.brizy.io)
  
• New WordPress Sandbox Project Demos: Test-Drive Themes and Plugins in the Browser (wptavern.com)
  
• Wordfence Launches Free Vulnerability Database For Commercial Use – And Launches Security Portal (www.wordfence.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Visual Regression Tests Is Live! (bleech.de)
  Visual Regression Tests is a WordPress Plugin to test your site for visual changes and notifies you upon alerts automatically.
• Performance Lab Plugin to Add New Experimental SQLite Integration Module in Upcoming 1.8.0 Release (wptavern.com)
  WordPress’ Performance Team contributors have merged a new experimental SQLite integration module that is on track to be included in the upcoming version 1.8.0 of the Performance Lab plugin. The new module allows the adventurous to test the new SQLite implementation, with the understanding that the overall user experience will still be rough.
• Spikes in Attacks Serve as a Reminder to Update Plugins (www.wordfence.com)
  
• Mailchimp for WordPress Plugin for Sale in the Ballpark of €1.6M (wptavern.com)
  
• 5 Best WooCommerce SMS Notification Plugins for WordPress (2023) (flownotify.com)
  

Theme News

• Course: A New Free Block Theme Compatible with Sensei LMS (wptavern.com)
  

Tutorials

• A Primer to Website Accessibility (creativethemes.com)
  According to the World Health Organization’s statistics, there are more than one billion people worldwide who live with some kind of disability, and due to the aging population, this number is growing every year. Thus, targeting the expanding disability market is not only a moral or legal issue anymore but also an important business imperative, which is still largely unrealized.
• How to Add a Popup Contact Form in WordPress - A Step-by-Step Guide (tripetto.com)
  Your contact form can help with lead generation, customer support, and much more. However, you’ll need the user to know how to navigate to it. This could reduce your engagement levels and erode the User Experience (UX). However, if you add a popup contact form to WordPress, you can mitigate some of these drawbacks.
• The Key to Locking Blocks (learn.wordpress.org)
  
• How to Display Audio with Shortcodes on Your WordPress Site (barn2.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Content Creation for a WordPress Brand | WPwatercooler (wpwatercooler.com)
  
• Interview With Product Lead Jessica Frick At Pressable | Post Status Draft (poststatus.com)
  
• The WP Agency Journey with D’nelle Dowis of Berry Interesting Productions | Post Status Draft (poststatus.com)
  
• Gutenberg 14.7, What’s New for Block Themes, an Upcoming Live Q&A in January | Gutenberg Changelog (gutenbergtimes.com)
  
• Dennis Dornon on How Partnerships Have Helped Grow His WordPress Plugin Business | WP Tavern Jukebox (wptavern.com)