What happened last week - issue #98
This week: WordPress, Security, Statamic and more
What happened last week
Funny story - the number of conferences drained me a bit and I promised myself that WordCamp Gdynia will be the last one this year. During WordCamp Gdynia, I got “forced” (not that I protested too much) to submit for WordCamp Wrocław and I planned that Wrocław was really the last one.
But… I forgot that I submitted at some point for 4Developers Łódź, where I will be a speaker on 4th December :D But this is the last one this year - I promise.
Also, I got accepted for one conference in 2025. It’s huge, and I’m excited about it. Soon, I will post more information about it.
I’m giving Bluesky 🦋 a try. I don’t want to judge it too hastily, but it seems really good. It's much more polished than Mastodon - if you want to follow me there, just click here. It seems like good old Twitter.
Interesting links
Migrating Gutenberg blocks using the Statamic Importer — Maciek Palmowski
I released an updated version of my article explaining how to migrate your posts from WordPress to Statamic using the Importer Addon.
Nearly 1000 Plugins Closed During WordPress Security Cleanup — Maciek Palmowski
It turns out you need one month and 37 ethical hackers to remove 977 plugins from the official repository because they were vulnerable. It was a crazy month for us - you should read exactly how Patchstack is making WordPress repo a safer place.
Chrome has an amazing idea of how to make popups great again. I love this idea for all Picture in Picture cases or similar. Also, it seems it would work with MPAs.
Laravel announced Nightwatch during the Laracon AU. It’s a monitoring app designed for Laravel. It’s really nice to see how Laravel is pushing forward.
WordPress Extensibility and how it used to drive development in core — Fabian Kägy
Great article by Fabian about how Gutenberg affected Core’s extensibility. I totally agree with him on this topic. In the pre-Gutenberg era, extending the core was simple thanks to hooks and filters. It came with a cost, but it pushed WP forward. Now you either just don’t do it or use some weird hacks to make some stuff work.
Also, let’s not forget that wp-admin will get a redesign which might make it even worse.
CraftCMS - Migrating from WordPress
Not only Statamic has created a WordPress importer. CraftCMS did this too. Their wp-importer tool looks really neat. Also, they added a guide explaining in-depth how what Craft is, but WP developers.
Unfair Advantage — Brent Roose
Brent is working on Tempest, a brand-new PHP framework. In this article, he explains what is the main advantage of Tempest:
“It is the ability to start from scratch and the courage to question and rethink the things we have gotten used to.”.
And, he’s right. When you have a market share, you can’t change something that easily. When you are starting from scratch you can experiment and break things.
PHPStan 2.0 Released With Level 10 and Elephpants! — Ondrej Mirtes
Congrats are in order. PHPStan just got released with many cool features including Level 10 and many performance changes.
Web Almanac - Jamstack — Mike Neumegen
You can find a lot of interesting data here regarding Jamstack and static websites. I found it very interesting to see how strong Hugo still is and that Astro is becoming more and more popular in this space too. Also, it’s interesting to see the growth in adoption of static and hybrid websites.
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