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News & Articles

• What to Expect in WordPress 6.2 (ithemes.com)
  With WordPress 6.2, you’ll be able to customize blocks globally or individually faster than ever before. Navigating through page templates to edit them and their sub-components is much easier now, thanks to a new Browse Mode in the site editing experience. Internal previews and a Style Book make it possible to see your changes live before saving them.
• WordPress 6.2 Release Candidate 3 (wordpress.org)
  It’s the final countdown: the third (and last) scheduled release candidate (RC3) for WordPress 6.2 is ready! The WordPress 6.2 release is scheduled for March 28, 2023—just one week away! Now is your last opportunity to test it before the general release.
• Introducing the WordPress Developer Blog (wordpress.org)
  With much activity happening in the WordPress development space every day, keeping up-to-date with the latest updates can be challenging. The new WordPress Developer Blog is a developer-focused resource to help you stay on top of the latest software features, tutorials, and learning materials relevant to the open source project.
• WordCamp Buffalo 2023 (central.wordcamp.org)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – March 22, 2023 (ithemes.com)
  
• Laravel vs WordPress: A Head-to-Head Comparison (kinsta.com)
  
• Navigating the New Era of AI-Assisted Code Generation in WordPress (wptavern.com)
  
• The Mercantile Reopens with Limited Edition 20th Anniversary WordPress Swag (wptavern.com)
  

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Plugin News

• WPForms Free Alternative for User Registration Forms: The Best Option (www.cozmoslabs.com)
  WPForms is a very flexible WordPress form plugin that’s more than capable of creating a custom WordPress user registration form. However, the WPForms User Registration add-on is only available on the $399 Pro license, which means creating those registration forms won’t be cheap. Profile Builder is a WPForms free alternative that lets you create WordPress registration and edit profile forms with just as much flexibility as WPForms – if not more, in some areas.
• Admin Menu Tree Page View 2.8 Now Supports All Public Post Types (wptavern.com)
  The Admin Menu Tree Page View plugin, which adds a tree-view layout of content in the WordPress admin, has been refactored to support more content types. The plugin is an admin utility similar to Hierarchy or the commercial OrganizeWP plugin that reworks the CMS to show content in one place, but it offers a simpler set of features for free with no ads or upsells.
• 9 Best WordPress Lead Generation Plugins in 2023 (www.elegantthemes.com)
  
• WP Offload Media 3.2 Released: New Status Indicators and Peace of Mind (deliciousbrains.com)
  
• Is Smush the Best WordPress Plugin to Compress and Optimize Your Images? (wpmarmite.com)
  
• Equalize Digital Raises Pre-Seed Funding for Expanding Accessibility Checker Plugin Development (wptavern.com)
  

Theme News

• Meet Inspiro Blocks (www.wpzoom.com)
  
• Hallway Hangout: Community Themes Initiative (make.wordpress.org)
  

Tutorials

• Loco Translate Tutorial & Best Alternative for WordPress (translatepress.com)
  Loco Translate is a free, open-source translation plugin for WordPress. It helps you edit WordPress translation files in your browser, and provides integration with automatic translation services such as Google, DeepL, Microsoft, and Lecto AI.
• WP REST API – Custom Fields, Authentication, and Testing (learn.wordpress.org)
  In this session, we will look at how to create or update custom field values in your REST API endpoints, the built-in authentication options for authenticating WP REST API requests, and how to test REST API routes and endpoints using a third party too.
• How to Show Custom Fields on WooCommerce Product Pages (2023) (www.studiowombat.com)
  
• What Are WordPress Shortcodes? A Comprehensive Step-by-Step Guide (www.cloudways.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Getting Started with React inside WordPress | viewSource (viewsource.fm)
  
• Chris Reynolds on Why To Use Composer With WordPress | WP Tavern Jukebox (wptavern.com)
  
• Cloudfest WordPress Hackathon, Changes at Yoast, and Thanks to the Plugin Team | The WP Minute (share.transistor.fm)