wpMail.me wpMail.me issue#598 - The weekly WordPress newsletter. No spam, no nonsense. - January 25, 2023
News & Articles
WordPress Big Picture Goals 2023 (make.wordpress.org) To round out the excellent vision-setting done in both the State of the Word and Letter to WordPress, here are some goals and projects that we can anticipate in the WordPress project this year.
Project Overview: Learning Needs Analysis (make.wordpress.org) In January 2021, the idea to brainstorm a new learning needs analysis was brought up in the team. During the Contributor Day at WordCamp Europe 2022, the Training Team table began discussing what this could look like.
WooCommerce 7.3 Introduces New Products Block in Beta (wptavern.com) WooCommerce 7.3 was released this week with the new Products block now in beta. In December 2022, the Products block went into testing in WooCommerce Blocks version 9.1.0. It’s based on the Query Loop block and is intended to replace all of WooCommerce’s current product-displaying blocks.
Hardening MySQL for your WordPress site (www.wpwhitesecurity.com) In this article, which is primarily aimed at those managing their own MYSQL, we offer several tips and tutorials on how to secure MySQL. Even so, the extensive list of best practices presented in this article is worth a read for anyone managing WordPress websites.
How To Add Meta Boxes and Custom Fields To Posts in Gutenberg (kinsta.com) If you’re wondering what is the best way to use WordPress custom fields both in Gutenberg and the Classic Editor for WordPress developers, the quick answer is “creating a plugin that works for both the Classic Editor and Gutenberg”.
But don’t worry too much. If creating a plugin to manage custom fields in both editors could be a little tricky, we’ll try to make the process as straightforward as possible.