WordPress Auto-Updates — Yes or No?
Wordpress 5.5 introduced an unattended update feature for themes and plugins. Have you considered or are you using this new feature?
Recommended Read—Good gzip Overview
This week's recommended read is from the folks at Elegant Themes. It is a good overview on how to use GZIP to speed up your site.
Recommended Read: What’s Next in Gutenberg
With the upcoming Beta 1 deadline for Wordpress 5.6, we strongly recommend taking a few minutes to stay current and have a solid plan for what to do when 5.6 rolls out.
Testing the new Widgets tool
The Gutenberg team has issues a call for testing for the new block-based Widgets tool. We took it for a spin on one of our sandbox sites.
September WordPress Updates
Fair amount of shifting this month as Wordpress Core team locks down what will be in Wordpress 5.6. Here is the run down.
Recommended Read—Top WP Plugins Breached by Hackers
Today's recommended read is a good overview from NOUPE of recent vulnerabilities discovered in a number of leading Wordpress plugins.
Learn About Full Site Editing
Carolina Nymark is a team representative on the WordPress Themes Review team. She recently released a course to help people learn about Full Site Editing.
Prepping for WordPress 5.5
Wordpress 5.5 is moving forward to it's planned release on August 11, 2020. Our team at Outcome Labs is evaluating to plan for deployment next month.
Full Site Editing and Block-based WordPress Themes Discussion
Interesting discussion moderated by Bir git Pauli-Haack of Gutenberg Times from last Friday on full site editing and block-based themes. Great way to learn more about this major feature of the Block Editor that is under active development.