Focus on WordPress Core this week with Block Binding, Inline Commenting, and making WooCommerce Tax better. Also, tracking new things week: Fluent Community, Seating Addon, Payable Invoices, and Term Loop Builder.
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What’s Buzzing in WordPress 💖
- The Next Big Launch… a new ‘Fluent’ brand product from the WPManageNinja team is almost here. Check the all new Fluent Community plugin that promises a fully self hosted community forum on the WordPress platform without slowing down your server with focus best performance and no bloat.
- Seating Addon for Events… the team at The Events Calendar has released a new Seating addon that allows you to create interactive Seating Maps of your venue and sell specific seat types like general admission, accessible, discount, VIP, and more.
- Woo Back in Stock… Robert DeVore has released a free Back In Stock Notifications plugin for WooCommerce users. It shows how many customers want specific products back and also triggers an automatic email when a product is restocked.
- Freelancer Directory… Nelson Miller over at Pee-Aye Creative has launched a Freelancer Directory featuring Divi professionals and skilled freelancers who are members of the Divi Adventure Club.
New Features: SureCart, Breakdance, Greyd, & VRTs
Payable Invoices… SureCart 2.40v has introduced one of the most requested feature of Payable Invoices which allows you to generate invoices which your customers can pay, all wrapped around Surecart features.
Term Loop Builder… Breakdance Builder 2.2v has introduced a brand new Term Loop Builder element. It allows you to create custom layouts for term data and display them in a list, grid, or slider.
Dynamic Templates… Greyd Suite has upgraded the dynamic templates functionality. Now you can create templates directly from the editor, reset all dynamic content with a single click or convert templates into static content.
Visual Regression Tests… Steffen Bewersdorff has released 2.0v of VRTs, which automatically tests as soon as an update for the WordPress core, plugin, theme, or language is available, to immediately catch any issue(s).
Extended WordPress Buzz 🔥
- LiveCanvas & WP Shortcodes… besides the built-in shortcodes to recall template elements, LiveCanvas works well with WordPress shortcodes. For example, check this video on ways to insert shortcodes, including how to integrate plugins like Gravity Forms into your LiveCanvas pages.
- Plugin Closure Status… Maciek Palmowski shared (Links X) the latest update about the plugin closure status information, displayed on the plugins page within the WordPress dashboard panel.
- Frontend for YOURLS… Hardeep Asrani at Themeisle shared (Links X) about creating an internal JS-based frontend to create short links using YOURLS API. It is available on GitHub for anyone wanting to extend further.
- Local Smart Assistant… the team at WordPress .com has launched Studio Assistant smart chatbox integrated with Studio, a free and open source local development app for WordPress users.
- Gravatar Integrations… making it easier to integrate Gravatar’s avatar and profile management features into your mobile applications, the native integrations for the Gravatar Mobile SDK is now available for both iOS and Android.
Core Features: Block Binding, Inline Comments, Woo Tax
Block Binding Values… the functionality to bind block attributes to custom fields directly from the Block Editor will be possible out of the box in WordPress 6.7, which is scheduled for release on November 12, 2024.
Inline Commenting… check the first and experimental version for inline commenting that is brewing for the WordPress core. This was from Pooja Bhimani, developer and project manager at Mulidots, shared via Birgit Pauli-Haack over at Gutenberg Times.
Better WooCommerce Tax… how can tax management on WooCommerce be made better? Share your feedback to shape the future of tax functionality within WooCommerce.
Quick Bits 👍
- New Kadence’s CloudSprout Template for business websites.
- New Woo Logo looks cool (Links X) for sure, coming in 2025.
- WordPress 6.7 Release Candidate 2 is available for testing.
- Swag shipments paused for WordCamps, Events, & Meetups.
- WordCamp Europe: Call for host city for WCEU 2026 edition.
- GoDaddy’s site builder API Integration for 3rd party platforms.
- Insightful: The 3rd edition of State of Frontend 2024 report.
Matt vs WP Engine: Latest Updates
Automattic has published details of its legal response to WP Engine’s complaint. “Automattic and Matt have filed three separate documents today, including: Motion to Dismiss WP Engine’s Complaint, Motion to Strike (under anti-SLAPP law), and Opposition to the Preliminary Injunction”.
Matt at TechCrunch Disrupt… the latest interview in which Matt talks about the ongoing case with WP Engine. Also, he said “company was short-staffed after the exodus of 159 employees, who took a six-month severance offer earlier that month”.
PMP Leaving WordPress Org and a Threat!
Jason Coleman explained in detail why the Paid Memberships Pro plugin free listing is leaving WordPress Org and how it affects existing users. The community had its focus on private communication between Matt and Jason.
“Two days after we closed the Paid Memberships Pro listing in the .org repository, Matt sent a direct message to me (Jason) on the WordPress.org Slack Workspace threatening to… take over your listing and make it a community plugin like we did to ACF”.
More Coverage from the Community
WordPress Contributions… the team at Rocket .net is clocking good growth and plans to double down on WordCamp and the core project contributions. “Today, we have 8 contributors pledging 75 hours per week across 10 teams. That puts us in the top 20 Pledges in Five for the Future.”
So Long WordPress… Chris Wiegman, with 14+ years of contributions, has decided to leave the WordPress project. “With this I’ve archived my last remaining WordPress projects, Kana and the theme for this site, until such a time as there is proper governance in the WordPress project.”
Community Drives WordPress… Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk have emphasized that community plays a key driver in WordPress’s success. “The WordPress journey from a simple blogging tool to the world’s leading CMS has been made possible by the passion and dedication of its community.”
GPL and Nulled Plugins… Matt Mullenweg published a clarification on GPL understanding. “I was not speaking about their right to charge money for nulled plugins. GPLv2 prohibits that because they aren’t providing physical copies or support.”
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