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News & Articles

• WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 2 (wordpress.org)
  Here it is: the second release candidate (RC2) for WordPress 6.2 is ready! WordPress 6.2 is scheduled for release on March 28, 2023—which is only two weeks away. Now is your perfect opportunity if you haven’t tried it out yet. Your feedback and help filing bug reports are what keep the WordPress experience stable, smooth, and delightful. It’s important work and a great way to contribute to the project.
• Join the Mindspun Payments Beta Program (www.mindspun.com)
  Mindspun is simply the easiest, most hassle-free way to seriously boost performance of your WordPress site. This is next-generation performance, utilizing concepts currently employed by the world’s largest, and fastest, sites. It embraces JAMstack philosophy, while recognizing that not everyone has the time or money to migrate their entire website to a more modern architecture.
• Toot the Word Survey Finds Mastodon Increasingly Important to WordPress’ Community of Tooters (wptavern.com)
  More than 200 users on Mastodon who consider themselves part of the WordPress community, responded to the recent Toot the Word 2023 Survey, which was conducted by the admins of five WordPress-oriented Mastodon instances. The purpose of the survey was to help those running these instances understand how important Mastodon is for the WordPress community and what they can do to improve their instances to foster a better meeting place.
• 20 Years of WordPress Jazz (wp20.wordpress.net)
  
• WordCamp Entebbe 2023: An Amazing Recap (masterwp.com)
  
• Gutenberg 15.3 Adds New “Time to Read” Block (wptavern.com)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – March 15, 2023 (ithemes.com)
  
• The State of WordPress Security: Community and Collaboration Help Us All Win (ithemes.com)
  
• WooCommerce 7.5.0 Introduces 3 New Blocks, Expands Support for Global Styles (wptavern.com)
  

Plugin News

• Best Free WooCommerce Plugins for Your Online Store (translatepress.com)
  While WooCommerce is amazing out of the box, there are several ways you can enhance your abilities to make your online store even better for you and your customers. There’s a huge volume of free WooCommerce plugins out there that will help you achieve your goals. In fact, the list is so long that it can be hard to tell what’s worth trying. We’re here to help you narrow down the list.
• Pattern Manager Beta Registration (wpengine.com)
  WP Engine is currently seeking beta testers for an exciting new developer tool called Pattern Manager. This plugin helps WordPress creators build and manage pattern designs for the WordPress block editor.
• SweepPress Pro 3.5 (www.dev4press.com)
  
• MarketKing WordPress Plugin: An In-Depth Review of the Multi-Vendor Solution (barn2.com)
  
• Patchstack Tracks 328% More Security Bugs Reported in WordPress Plugins in 2022 (wptavern.com)
  
• Mastering Migrations: Faster, Easier, and Safer Ways to Move Your WordPress Sites (deliciousbrains.com)
  
• WordPress.com Owner Automattic Acquires an ActivityPub Plugin so Blogs Can Join the Fediverse (techcrunch.com)
  
• Open Letter to the WordPress Community Concerning the Plugin Review Team and the Review Process (themekraft.com)
  

Theme News

• Full Site Editing Study: Will WordPress Theme Shops Embrace This New Paradigm? (2023 Update) (wpmarmite.com)
  

Tutorials

• A Straight-to-the-Point Guide to WooCommerce Custom Payment Gateways (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  There are a few major solutions available at your disposal that help you add custom payment gateways to WooCommerce. You can either use a plugin or get a WordPress expert to add a custom code to your site that would help accept custom payments or offer another way to make payments for your users.
• How to Create a Dropdown Menu in WordPress (wpmarmite.com)
  Today, we are all used to surfing on different types of websites: stores, social networks, newspapers, blogs, forums… For each of these categories of websites, we have the same reflex: to check the menu. The menu forms an important aspect of the user experience (UX) and today more than ever, you have to keep it at the forefront of your mind when creating websites.
• Block Deprecation (developer.wordpress.org)
  
• 17 Time-Saving CSS Tips For WordPress Users (wpmudev.com)
  
• Fix Color Contrast – Web Accessibility for Text & UI Design (pimpmytype.com)
  
• Block Theme Templates: the Easy Way to Build an Elegant Grid of Posts (developer.wordpress.org)
  
• Make Your Transaction Process Smooth with Optimized WooCommerce Checkout Process (wedevs.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• EveryAlt | Torque Social Hour (youtu.be)
  
• Is Routine a Rut? | WP Briefing (wordpress.org)
  
• WordCamp Asia 2023 | Press the Issue (masterwp.com)
  
• More AI Coming to WordPress | The WP Minute (share.transistor.fm)
  
• The Right Approach to WordPress Accessibility | Post Status Live (poststatus.com)
  
• WordPress 6.2 Preview, Gutenberg 15.2 and 15.3 | Gutenberg Changelog (gutenbergtimes.com)
  
• Interview With Product Lead Brandon Dove Of Pixel Jar | Post Status Draft (poststatus.com)
  
• Launching a WordPress Product in Public: Session 4 | Post Status Podcasts (poststatus.com)
  
• Talisha Lewallen on How CertifyWP Is Hoping To Offer WordPress Certification | WP Tavern Jukebox (wptavern.com)