News & Articles

• WordPress 5.1.1 Patches Critical Vulnerability (wptavern.com)
  WordPress 5.1.1 was released yesterday evening with an important security update for a critical cross-site scripting vulnerability found in 5.1 and prior versions. The release post credited Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies for discovering and reporting the vulnerability. Scannell published a post summarizing how an unauthenticated attacker could take over any WordPress site that has comments enabled.
• How Brexit Will Affect WordPress Plugin and Theme Sellers (freemius.com)
  Brexit may have wide-ranging effects for WordPress plugin and theme sellers with customers in the EU. Learn how the upcoming tax changes may affect your business and what you can do to prepare.
• 7 Reasons to Host WordPress Yourself (deliciousbrains.com)
  Four years ago Ashley published part 1 of what would become Delicious Brains's most popular posts to date, their Hosting WordPress Yourself series. The article jumps right into setting up your server, but doesn’t ask the question: Why host WordPress yourself?
• Gender Balance is a Business Issue (en.blog.wordpress.com)
  
• Google Announces Season of Docs Program to Match Technical Writers with Open Source Projects (wptavern.com)
  
• WordPress Community Sessions at 2019 Nonprofit Technology Conference a Big Success! (mrwweb.com)
  
• Sarah Drasner on Learning to Learn (wpshout.com)
  
• WordCamp London's Round of Speakers (2019.london.wordcamp.org)
  

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Plugin News

• To Fund WordPress Plugin Development Through Sponsorship, or More Traditional Models? (cmljnelson.wordpress.com)
  How do you make money when you give your product away for free? Let's consider the common open-source business models, and explore the viability of supporting development entirely through sponsorships.
• 7 WordPress Contact Form Builders That Drive Engagement in 2019 (wpbuffs.com)
  Because WordPress does not come with a contact form builder out of the box, it’s up to you to find the best WordPress contact form plugin for your client’s website. While it might seem like a simple enough decision to make, you’ll quickly learn that’s not the case once you start to test some of the plugins available.
• The Block Directory, and a New Type of Plugin (make.wordpress.org)
  
• Dark Mode WordPress Plugin Up for Adoption (wptavern.com)
  
• XSS Vulnerability in Abandoned Cart Plugin Leads To WordPress Site Takeovers (www.wordfence.com)
  

Theme Releases

Simplified Lite (wordpress.org)

Shopstore (wordpress.org)

Catch Vogue (wordpress.org)

Theme News

• Chipmunk WordPress Theme Review (wpliving.net)
  Every now and then, a theme pops up that challenges Will Ellington's expectations of what WordPress can do. The Chipmunk WordPress theme is one of those rarities. It was designed specifically for content curation and resource building. In this review, he takes a look at the theme's core functions, consider its strengths and weaknesses, and offer some insight into its potential uses.

Tutorials

• Three Ways to Level-Up your NPS (blog.satismeter.com)
  What are the great things you can do with your customer feedback which aren’t quite so obvious? If you’ve already got the basics up and running, can you squeeze out some extra value without a whole lot of effort? We spend a lot of time thinking and learning about tools to use with NPS, and we believe the answer is yes!
• How to Serve Images in Next-Gen Formats with WordPress (premium.wpmudev.org)
  Just when everyone thought WebP images were done, they came back in a big way. WebP images are smack in the middle of their comeback story, now that Firefox and Microsoft Edge have recently started supporting WebP images. In this post, we're going to show you how to start using WebP images on your WordPress site. We’ll go over how to convert your images to WebP and how to serve them up for compatible browsers.
• Advanced Search using SearchWP and FacetWP (www.billerickson.net)
  
• Learning PHP for WordPress Development: Understanding PHP’s return (wpshout.com)
  
• Developing Gutenberg Blocks with Parcel.js and Astroturf (roots.io)
  
• Selling WordPress Maintenance Plans (www.wpelevation.com)
  
• Data Visualization in WordPress: How to Do It (With Examples, Plugins and Tools) (www.codeinwp.com)
  

Podcasts and Videos

• Aaron Edwards: Introduction to WordPress Multisite | WordPress.tv (wordpress.tv)
  
• RIP Alex, Facebook Moderators, and Shorter Release Cycles | WPWeekly (wptavern.com)
  
• Best Practices for Writing SEO Friendly Content | SEObits.fm (www.seobits.fm)
  
• Outsource What You Don’t Like Doing | WPGears (wpgears.com)
  
• Interview with Mr Retirement Asif Rahman | Mastermind.fm (mastermind.fm)
  
• Sara Cope | Hallway Chats (hallwaychats.com)