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Widgets in WordPress 5.8 and Beyond (wordpress.org) WordPress 5.8 brings the power of Gutenberg blocks to widget areas — which means the highly customizable layout and styling options bring you closer to a WYSIWYG editing experience.
Is WordPress Development Really All That Hard To Get Into Today? (wptavern.com) Lately, there has been a growing conversation around the difficulty of overcoming WordPress’s current barrier to entry for developers. This has been an ongoing discussion for a few years now, but the latest flare-up comes on the heels of a tweet by Chris Wiegman.
2021 Mid-Year WordPress Security Report: A Collaboration Between Wordfence and WPScan (www.wordfence.com) Wordfence has collaborated with WPScan to conduct a 2021 mid-year review on the state of WordPress security. Using attack data from Wordfence’s internal threat intelligence platform, and vulnerability data from WPScan’s vulnerability database, they were able to analyze the current trend of attacks on WordPress and assess the current state of WordPress security.
Discourage Search Engines from Indexing This Site: What It Means and How to Use It (kinsta.com) If you’ve poked around the WordPress backend, you may have noticed a setting that says “Discourage search engines from indexing this site” and wondered what it meant.
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Or maybe you’re looking for a way to hide your site from unwanted visitors and wondering if this one little checkbox is enough to keep your content safely private.
What does this option mean? What exactly does it do to your site? And why should you avoid relying on it — even if you’re trying to hide your content?
WordPress Learning Curve (courtneyengle.com) There is a unique tension in the past few years within WordPress. While the block editor experience has improved the content creation and even website assembly side of this process, it can be said that the learning curve for developing with code for WordPress via plugins or themes has become more complex. This is especially true when planning training materials, and retraining developers who began without these extra layers of complexity.