Block Styles — Recommended Read
Interesting proposal by Rich Tabor on improving block styles and transforms. Rich created a proposal for this on Github. Take a few minutes to review and consider.
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2020 WordPress Survey — Take it Today!
Have you taken the 2020 Wordpress Survey yet? Please use the link in this post to review the 2019 survey and complete the 2020 survey.
WordPress 5̶.̶5̶.̶2̶ 5.5.3
Ok, so not the most stellar performance by the Wordpress core team this past week. First a short cycle security release introduces a new issue and then the auto-update system pushes an "alpha" update to live sites including ones without auto-updates enabled.
Recommended Read — WordPress Plugin Roundup
Every month the folks over at iThemes do a nice recap on Wordpress plugins that were added or updated in the past thirty days. For October, they highlighted three that we are researching as possible additions to our toolset here at Outcome Labs.
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.