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THE WEEK IN ANALYSIS

Tonya Mork / make.wordpress.org


WORDPRESS 5.9 REVISED RELEASE SCHEDULE

— With an updated release schedule for WordPress 5.9, the new final release is
planned for January 25, 2022. Causes for the delay mostly can be pinned on
issues related to major features planned for the release, including Full Site
Editing. With WordPress 6.0 likely coming out in April, the core team felt this
would have been too long for the community to wait if those features were
punted. Tonya Mork explains the decision-making process and notes that there
were "seasonal considerations" with not enough people available to develop,
test, and review critical items in December. Link
POST STATUS ANALYSIS


Remember when WordPress 5.0 launched with Gutenberg? Many people called for a
delay then, but Matt pushed forward:

> Deadlines are not arbitrary, they’re a promise we make to ourselves and our
> users that helps us rein in the endless possibilities of things that could be
> a part of every release.

Gutenberg’s initial release was challenging. The release date pressed volunteers
to ship 5.0 before the State of the Word, a high-pressure deadline. Over the
next six months, Josepha did a lot of listening, reflection, and communication
on the breakdowns that occurred.

More than serving an ecosystem of products, the WordPress project also has to
keep in mind its user base and community contributors. What is in their best
interest? This time the consensus was to postpone a major release. That’s
something everyone can be proud of, for the growth it indicates.

Roman Pronskiy Roman Pronskiy / blog.jetbrains.com


THE PHP FOUNDATION

— A number of companies, including Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Symfony,
and JetBrains, have collectively formed a PHP Foundation. It will be a
"non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the long life and prosperity
of the PHP language." This was prompted by the departing of a key PHP
contributor Nikita Popov. (Nikita left on good terms but is spending spend
significantly less time on PHP.) The idea for a PHP Foundation isn't new. It was
brought up earlier this year — with this timely post from Joe Watkins. Joe
responded favorably to the new organization after it was announced. He called it
"an excellent opportunity for budding internals developers and experienced
developers alike.") And now it has been kicked into high gear:

> "With the projected donations from all the participating companies so far, we
> expect to raise about $300,000 per year. JetBrains intends to contribute
> $100,000 annually... We expect to be able to pay market salaries to PHP core
> developers. The more we collect, the more developers will be able to work
> full-time on PHP."

The primary goal of the foundation is to fund PHP development. A temporary
administration will be put in place. These people will collaboratively decide
who receives funding. The Foundation is looking to fund both part-time and
full-time developers. Applications are being accepted now. Link
POST STATUS ANALYSIS


PHP powers 78% of the web, but not many people realize how fragile it is with
its reliance on open source maintainers and contributors. Being overwhelmed and
experiencing burnout are real dangers to contributors, just as they are in
WordPress and other open source communities. I’m glad a PHP Foundation has been
put in place and hope it will add some stability. Time will tell what kind of
impact this makes, but if there’s confidence to be had it’s that the major
members of the Foundation are heavily committed to PHP’s continued success.

— David

Mark Maunder / www.wordfence.com


GODADDY BREACHED – PLAINTEXT PASSWORDS – 1.2M AFFECTED

— Starting with a recently published disclosure on the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC) website, GoDaddy shared with the public and its
customers that a data breach occurred with their Managed WordPress customers in
September. It appears the breach also affected to tsoHost, Media Temple, 123Reg,
Domain Factory, Heart Internet, and Host Europe. GoDaddy said an unauthorized
person used a compromised password to gain access to their systems around
September 6. GoDaddy said it first discovered the breach last week on November
17. This breach impacts up to 1.2 million WordPress customers — and potentially
more sites since customers can and often do have more than one site in their
account. The attacker had access to user email addresses and customer numbers
plus the original WordPress Admin password that was set at the time of
provisioning as well as SSL private keys. Wordfence also notes the sFTP and
database usernames and passwords of active customers were accessible to the
attacker. This was possible because the "sFTP passwords [were stored] in such a
way that the plaintext versions of the passwords could be retrieved, rather than
storing salted hashes of these passwords, or providing public key
authentication, which are both industry best practices." For now, anyone using
GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress hosting should assume their sites have been
compromised and change their passwords, enable two-factor authentication where
possible, and watch out for odd emails. If you run an ecommerce site, Mark
Maunder warns that "you may be required to notify your customers of the breach"
depending on regulatory requirements in your jurisdiction.     Link
POST STATUS ANALYSIS


This isn’t something you want to see happen at all, especially on a Black Friday
week after a big acquisition you made the week prior. There are likely to be
some far-reaching consequences and repercussions here but it’s too soon to tell.

— David

The timing and nature of this attack bring back memories of a similar breach
that came to light on Black Friday weekend in 2009 at Media Temple before
GoDaddy acquired it. Have hosts become more diligent about security in the past
decade? News of big data breaches have become so commonplace they seem less
remarkable now. At least disclosures about security failures seem to be more
complete and forthcoming once they are detected. But that isn’t much consolation
to customers whose sites are hacked.

— Dan


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THIS WEEK AT WORDPRESS.ORG (NOVEMBER 22, 2021)

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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: MARK WESTGUARD

— Mark Westguard is the founder of WS Form and an invested member of the
WordPress Community.


NEWS FOR THE WORDPRESS PROFESSIONAL

Jeremy Felt / jeremyfelt.com


WRITING WITH WORDPRESS 5.0 TO 5.8

— Jeremy Felt shared his experience writing in WordPress with Gutenberg. He
finds there's a "slight delay" in text appearing, perhaps based on browser
complexities or "the editor has to account for so much non-text-typing stuff."
He currently writes in Ulysses, previews his posts as HTML, copies the HTML, and
pastes it in Gutenberg. And he'd like to work with anyone interesting in
improving the situation:

> "If there’s an organized (open source) effort to provide a world-class writing
> experience in WordPress, I would absolutely invest my time."

Link

Tonya Mork / make.wordpress.org


WORDPRESS 5.9 REVISED RELEASE SCHEDULE

— With an updated release schedule for WordPress 5.9, the new final release is
planned for January 25, 2022. Causes for the delay mostly can be pinned on
issues related to major features planned for the release, including Full Site
Editing. With WordPress 6.0 likely coming out in April, the core team felt this
would have been too long for the community to wait if those features were
punted. Tonya Mork explains the decision-making process and notes that there
were "seasonal considerations" with not enough people available to develop,
test, and review critical items in December. Link

Cassidy Williams /


LIFT AS YOU CLIMB

— Cassidy Williams at Netlify has a nice post about building relationships and
how much giving back can be rewarding:

> "As you move up in the tech industry, lift people along with you. They’ll fill
> in the gaps you leave behind, and the industry is so much better when
> everybody gives back. You get a lot by giving."

Link

Shelby DeNike / poststatus.slack.com


HOW DO YOU MANAGE SCHEDULED POSTS ON A CALENDAR VIEW?

— Shelby DeNike asked on Post Status Slack if anyone had a suggestion for "a
good way to manage scheduled posts on a calendar view," and if you are wondering
the same thing a few good suggestions are offered in the thread. Link

Josepha Haden / wordpress.org


TAKE THE 2021 WORDPRESS ANNUAL SURVEY — AND VIEW THE 2020 RESULTS!

— Don't forget to take the 2021 WordPress Annual Survey. It will be open until
the end of the year. Last year more than 17,000 responses were collected. This
represented "the highest submission volume in four years," but that number is a
tiny fraction of the total number of WordPress professionals working around the
world. Josepha Haden summarized the 2020 survey results and noted the pandemic
has had a major impact on how we operate as a community:

> "With few in-person events, many community members continue to find it
> challenging to balance community contributions with their own personal and
> professional obligations."

Link

Scott Anderson / webdevstudios.com


WORDPRESS AUTOSAVE AND REVISIONS

— Scott Anderson compares the difference between autosaves and revisions in
WordPress — a good link to share with beginners and clients. Link

motion.page


MOTION.PAGE

— I found this on Twitter recently: motion.page is an "advanced motion effect
and animation builder for WordPress." Apparently based on Greensock, a
professional-grade JavaScript animation library, motion.page includes a visual
editor and library system. Link

Matthew Guay / capiche.com


THE SOFTWARE INFLATION RATE IN 2021: 1.4%

— Matthew Guay examines the software inflation rate in 2021:

> "After a decade where software got 62% more expensive...software prices,
> largely, haven't inflated nearly as much as the broader market this year."

There are some good insights here and observations about services and software
getting more expensive, even if it was only a slight increase in the case of
MailChimp and SurveyMonkey. It's getting harder for larger companies to
determine the cost of software because the software aimed at them "increasingly
hides pricing, requiring a sales call first before sharing an estimate of what
it'd cost for your team." Link

Michelle Barker / www.smashingmagazine.com


A GUIDE TO MODERN CSS COLORS WITH RGB, HSL, HWB, LAB AND LCH

— Michelle Barker looks at the best ways to use colors in a design system and
what we can expect from colors in the not-too-distant future. She covers new CSS
Color Functions such as HWB — hue, whiteness, and blackness. Link

Pods Team / twitter.com


PODS 2.9 IS FULLY FUNDED

— Congrats to the Pods Framework team — Pods 2.9 is now fully funded: "Thanks to
increased support from Gravity Forms we reached met our fundraising goal!" You
can view the current Pods 2.9 roadmap to see where this release is headed. Link


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 * wpreview.io / Nov 12, 2021
   
   WP REVIEW: THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION

 * wpcoffeetalk.com / Nov 16, 2021
   
   WPCOFFEETALK: JILL BINDER ON INCLUSION IN TECH

 * www.rework.fm / Nov 16, 2021
   
   THE REWORK PODCAST: NO TIME IS NO EXCUSE

 * distributed.blog / Nov 18, 2021
   
   THE DISTRIBUTED PODCAST: DYLAN FIELD, FIGMA CO-FOUNDER, TALKS DESIGN, DIGITAL
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 * syntax.fm / Nov 17, 2021
   
   SYNTAX.FM: POTLUCK — COPILOT × GLASSES × DATABASES × DEALING WITH STRESS ×
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 * wptavern.com / Nov 02, 2021
   
   WPTAVERN JUKEBOX: TARA KING ON ENCOURAGING DEVELOPERS TOWARDS A GUTENBERG
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 * pressingmatters.fm / Nov 16, 2021
   
   PRESSING MATTERS: BLACK FRIDAY

 * howibuilt.it / Nov 22, 2021
   
   HOW I BUILT IT: HOW TO PROPERLY NICHE AND GROW YOUR MEMBERSHIP WITH COREY
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   INDIE HACKERS: MONEY, KIDS, AND CHOOSING YOUR MARKET


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   FIVE WAYS TO PARTICIPATE IN FIVE FOR THE FUTURE

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   THIS WEEK AT WORDPRESS.ORG (NOVEMBER 9, 2021)

 * Nov 09, 2021 - 10:13 PM
   
   SPEAKING AT WORDCAMPS AS PART OF YOUR JOB SEARCH

 * Nov 04, 2021 - 11:19 PM
   
   BUSINESS NAMES, DBAS, AND TRADEMARKS WITH NELLIE AKALP

 * Nov 03, 2021 - 09:35 AM
   
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