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News & Articles

• Looking Ahead to WordPress 6.0: The Early Roadmap (wptavern.com)
  Version 6.0 is expected to be a conceptual wrap of Phase 2 of the Gutenberg project, covering the visual site-building tools. They will continue playing a crucial role in future development, but developers will likely shift much of their focus to Phase 3 for WordPress 6.1 and beyond.
• A Visual History of The WordPress Project – Closing in on Two Decades (wpmudev.com)
  May 27, 2023 will mark twenty years since WordPress officially launched. Its humble beginnings, a conversation sparked between Matt Mullenweg (an American developer) and Mike Little (a British developer), in a quiet corner of the internet. Its historical content nestled safely online, so you can see with your own eyes the very first stirrings of what would later become WordPress.
• Convesio Raises $5M Funding To Further Develop Its Scalable WordPress Hosting Platform (convesio.com)
  The round of funding was secured from a select group of private investors, some of whom had originally contributed to Convesio’s crowdfunding round in 2019, which raised over $1M from 800+ individual investors.
• Who is Post Status? (poststatus.com)
  
• Making the Web Better. With Blocks! (www.joelonsoftware.com)
  
• WordPress 5.9 Core Contribution Statistics (jeanbaptisteaudras.com)
  
• WordPress Vulnerability Report – February 2, 2022 (ithemes.com)
  
• Announcing Wordfence Care and Wordfence Response (www.wordfence.com)
  
• Ensuring Proper Attribution for Contributions to WordPress on GitHub (make.wordpress.org)
  
• The Value of WordPress: The World's First Study of the WordPress Economy (wpengine.com)
  

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Plugin News

• Find WordPress Plugins: 10 Best WordPress Directory Alternatives (torquemag.io)
  Since paid plugins aren’t allowed in the repository, downloading premium WordPress plugins requires looking elsewhere. But they can often be hard to find unless you already know where to look. Luckily, there are quite a few reputable sources for paid WordPress plugins online.
• Gutenberg 12.5 Introduces Global Styles Variations, Preserves Adjacent Button Styling, and Adds Alpha Transparency to Color Pickers (wptavern.com)
  With WordPress 5.9 now out into the wild, it looks like all hands are back on deck as we gear up for 6.0’s release in May. Last week, we covered the early roadmap, and some of the items from that list are already in this latest Gutenberg update in some shape or fashion.
• Buy Paid Plugins Directly on WordPress.com (wordpress.com)
  
• Look Under the Hood With the Block X-Ray WordPress Plugin (wptavern.com)
  
• Nesting and Grids: Super List Block Supercharges Lists in WordPress (wptavern.com)
  
• Lasso Review: The All-In-One WordPress Plugin for Affiliate Marketing (wpmayor.com)
  

Theme News

• Sensei LMS 4.0 Introduces New Block-Based Learning Mode Course Theme (wptavern.com)
  Full-site editing has come to Sensei LMS in the plugin’s latest 4.0 release. The headline feature of this update is Learning Mode – a new block-based theme that gives course authors the ability to customize the learning experience in ways that were not possible before.

Tutorials

• How to Create a Headless WordPress Site With Faust.js (In 9 Steps) (torquemag.io)
  If you need to run WordPress headless, a quality framework is a must-have. However, even with a little help from a modern framework, you may still struggle to preview your content effectively. That’s where Faust.js comes in. This new framework harnesses the power of Next.js and React, and combines this with convenient post previewing features. With Faust.js, you can view your content before hitting Publish, exactly the same as with a traditional WordPress website.
• Turn Your WordPress Site Into a Static Site With Aggressive Nginx Page Caching (spinupwp.com)
  There are real benefits to static sites but some downsides too. By configuring aggressive page caching rules for your WordPress site, you can achieve almost all the benefits of a static site without the downsides.
• WordPress Database/MySQL Optimisation Guide (www.commercegurus.com)
  
• How to Update PHP Version of a WordPress Site (The Easy Way) (wphive.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Courtney Robertson | Torque's Social Hours (torquemag.io)
  
• A Life of Learning, Products, and WordPress | Matt Report (mattreport.com)
  
• Accessibility Roundup with Amber Hinds | Post Status Excerpt (poststatus.com)
  
• Leveraging YouTube to Build Trust and get Leads with Jessica Freeman | How I Built It (howibuilt.it)
  
• How to Find a Buyer for Your Business: Chris and Artur of Extendify Explain(ify) | Freemius (youtu.be)