This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 12th August 2019

This weeks WordPress news – Covering The Week Commencing 12th August 2019:

WordPress Core

Gutenberg 6.3 Improves Accessibility with New Navigation and Edit Modes

Community

Foolish English folk ride 3,000 km for a great WordPress cause – WP&UP

My Final Goodbye to the Tavernand this Tweet

WordCamp US – Community Track Round 3andWordCamp US schedule

Attend the Great WP Virtual Summit for Free: August 19-23

Automattic — the maker of WordPress.com — has purchased TumblrandMatt Mullenweg’s reaction – Tumblr the Day After

Automattic Acquires Zero BS CRM, Considers Rebranding it as Jetpack CRM

WordPress Theme Review Team Scraps Trusted Authors Program Due to Gaming and Inconsistent Reviews

WP Engine Platform Becomes 40% Faster

The JavaScript for WordPress Bootcamp

We benchmarked Amazon’s new Aurora database for use with WordPress

New mycamp.rocks Newsletter Launches with Tips for Conference Organizers, Speakers, and Attendees

Plugins / Themes

Elementor – Celebrating 3 Million Active Installations!

WooCommerce 3.7 Has LandedandWooCommerce 3.7 Introduces New Blocks, Updates Minimum WordPress and PHP Requirements

WPMU DEV 2019 Q3 Roadmap Roundup…It’s Getting Better all the Time

Translate Brizy Page Builder sites using TranslatePress

Project Huddle – Goodbye logins, hello easy!

iThemes – Plugin Roundup – August 2019

Security

WordPress Vulnerability Roundup: August 2019, Part 1

New Windows malware can also brute-force WordPress websites

Cracking WordPress Passwords with Hashcat

WP Builds

Feeling insecure about security (Part 2)

Not WordPress, but useful anyway…

Google Just Revealed a Brilliantly Simple Trick to Totally Destroy Telemarketers

How to opt out of human review of your voice assistant recordings

This is the second episode about WordPress security. In this podcast we talk about the range of security plugins that we've heard of. It's by no means an exhaustive list, bit we cover some of the main options that you've heard of. We discuss these WordPress security plugins; what options do they offer, do we understand what they're doing and how do we pass on the responsibility for security to our WordPress website clients? Have a listen and post your comments...

This is the second episode about WordPress security. In this podcast we talk about the range of security plugins that we've heard of. It's by no means an exhaustive list, bit we cover some of the main options that you've heard of. We discuss these WordPress security plugins; what options do they offer, do we understand what they're doing and how do we pass on the responsibility for security to our WordPress website clients? Have a listen and post your comments...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 5th August 2019

This is the first in a two part podcast about WordPress and security. In this episode we go over all of the potential problems that you might encounter with your WordPress website. There's the usual things such as uptime monitoring, backups and implementing a firewall, but there's also some other, more unusual topics. Do you make sure that you're keeping your client data safe? Are you expunging backups and SSH keys that you no longer require in case your system is compromised...

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 29th July 2019.

If you've been using WordPress any length of time, you'll have run into the frustrations that the Media Library can present. It's a pretty decent UI, but it's not as good as services that we're using such as Google Drive or Dropbox. WP Media Manager aims to fix that. Not only does it look great but it stores all of your assets in Amazon S3 or Microsoft Azure with all of the benefits that this brings... highly scalable, secure, permissions based. I think that this plugin is certainly worth a look... PS... Sorry about the poor audio this week!

This weeks WordPress news - Covering The Week Commencing 22nd July 2019

Today, the podcast talks about tasks. Not so much the tasks themselves, but more the way that we approach them. We discuss the way that different people have the ability to move happily from task to task, whilst other people need to complete one task before they can move onto another one. I guess that there's no 'right' way to accomplish tasks, but it's interesting to see whether or not we think that other people's approaches are batter than our own. It's a fun episode for sure!