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WordPress 5.0.2 Maintenance Release (wordpress.org) WordPress 5.0.2 is now available!
5.0.2 is a maintenance release that addresses 73 bugs. The primary focus of this release was performance improvements in the block editor: the cumulated performance gains make it 330% faster for a post with 200 blocks.
How to Focus Your Efforts Around Website Performance (pixelgrade.com) Website performance or speed is all the rage these days. At every corner, we are nudged towards pursuing that perfect site speed score as an end in itself. We want to help you resist that by getting the understanding to decide for yourself.
WordCamp US 2019 to be Held November 1-3 in St. Louis (wptavern.com) Dates for WordCamp US 2019 were announced, less than a week after wrapping up a successful camp in Nashville. Unlike all previous years held in December, next year’s event will take place November 1-3 in St. Louis, Missouri.
WordPress Plugin Directory Now Features a Curated Section for Block-Enabled Plugins (wptavern.com) If you visit the plugin directory, you will notice a new section at the top featuring block-enabled plugins. WordPress 5.0 has been downloaded more than 8 million times, just one week after its release, and users are looking for blocks to extend the new editing experience. WordPress.org is highlighting plugins to push the block ecosystem forward and will soon be doing the same for themes.
Best AMP WordPress Plugins Compared (motopress.com) To accomplish WordPress AMP integration, you need a good plugin that will add AMP support to your pages. But what is the best WordPress AMP plugin? I hope you’ll find the answer in this article: we’ve chosen the best AMP WordPress plugins and compared some keystone features of these plugins.
How to Make WordPress Page Cache Plugins Fly With Nginx (deliciousbrains.com) Anyone who’s trying to improve the performance of their WordPress site eventually turns to caching. There are a ton of WordPress page caching plugins available, but limiting yourself to cache plugins alone means leaving significant performance improvements on the table. Nginx FastCGI Caching works great when both Nginx and PHP run under the same system user. This is because the cached files are writable by PHP, meaning you can purge the cache directly from PHP, which is particularly important when publishing or updating a post in WordPress.