What happened last week - issue #97
This week: WordPress, SQLite, Statamic and more
What happened last week
October surprised me work-wise. October is Cyber Security Month, so we launched a small extra event for our bounty program, allowing others to submit vulnerabilities for small and old plugins. We suspected 500-600 reports tops. It turned out that overall 1569 reports were submitted. Based on this, over 600 plugins are already closed in the official WordPress repository. In short, I think this is something called “making history” and being a part of this makes me proud.
Also, later this month I will be a speaker at WordCamp Wrocław, and again I will share a bit of my knowledge related to security. I’m both excited and happy that this is the last conference of the year. I’m in the middle of filling different CFPs for the next year and I have high hopes, especially for one conference 🤞
Oh, and one more thing before you go further - please vote for Patchstack in the TemplateMonster Awards. Thanks :)
Interesting links
We waited 14 years for this to get into the WP core. It’s still not there and probably we’ll spend a year discussing the messaging, but it’s a huge step forward, and finally, users will be able to see information about closed plugins inside of their WP Admin. Kudos to Dion Hulse for pushing this.
What’s new in WordPress 6.7: Zoom Out mode, Meta boxes, Block Pattern API, and much more — Carlo Daniele
Carlo is the best source of information about street food in Italy (Lampredotto ❤️) and about what changes in new releases of WordPress. This article is no other - WP 6.7 adds a lot of interesting changes and Carlo describes all the changes very thoroughly.
You Can't Build Interactive Web Apps Except as Single Page Applications... And Other Myths — Tony Alaribe
Tony wrote an amazing article debunking a lot of myths about MPAs. A lot of great examples. But what I liked the most, is the fact that this article also shows how browsers changed over the years and how much we can achieve.
Statamic released a new importer lately and it’s amazing. I love its support for Gutenberg. It’s very easy to convert blocks to Bard sets. Soon, I will release an updated tutorial on this.
Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite — Michael Buckbee
This amazing article explains why Wafris switched from Redis to SQLite. I love that their key reason was the simplicity to install by users and speed was just a nice side effect.
WordPress on Hiatus — Andy Fragen
Andy is one of the most amazing WordPress contributors out there. He also has this amazing plugin called Git Updater. Sadly, with all the commotion in the WP ecosystem, he decided to pause some of his contributions. And I fully understand his point of view. Also, we really just can’t lose people like Andy.
HTML Form Validation is heavily underused — Expression Statement
I hope that you’ll learn as much from this article as I did. I didn’t know about the setCustomValidity method and it looks powerful.
Is WordPress the Right Tool for Building MVP? A Comprehensive Guide — Paweł Madeja
Paweł makes a great point explaining why WordPress is so perfect for MVPs. While not perfect, it gives a great balance of stability, ease of use, and features.
And how was your week? Did you learn something interesting? Don’t hesitate to press the reply button or share your thoughts in the comment section.
Cheers,
Maciek