This updates fixes two cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities and a path traversal issue.
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This updates fixes two cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities and a path traversal issue.
David McCan @ youtube.com • 1 month ago
WordPress is encouraging us to turn on automatic updates, but that seems a bit risky. In this video I discuss update strategies, look at a new feature coming with WordPress 6.6, and also look at the free Fatal Error Notify plugin for reporting on PHP errors.
Paul Bearne @ make.wordpress.org • 1 month ago
WordPress has an API for storing and loading options, the Options API. Some changes to the Options API are coming with WordPress 6.6. One of the settings when creating an option is if the option should be auto loaded with each page. Up until now, the default when an option is created was “yes” to auto load it. However, a large amount of auto-loaded data can hurt page performance. The default is being changed to “null” and a ceiling on the size of auto-loaded options is being introduced. These and other changes are discussed in this article on the make blog.
James Giroux @ jamesgiroux.ca • 1 month ago
During Matt Mullenweg’s Summer Update at WordCamp EU he listed eleven principles for guiding the future of WordPress. In this article James Giroux reviews the list and provides his take on them.
Ryan Welcher @ developer.wordpress.org • 2 months ago
The Transients API is used to store information across page loads. Here is a good tutorial on the Transients API and how to use it.
Dennis Snell @ make.wordpress.org • 2 months ago
This proposal on the Make blog using “Bits” as dynamic tokens as a replacement for shortcodes. Bits are placeholders for content and use an HTML comments syntax.
Aaron Jorbin @ make.wordpress.org • 2 months ago
A small maintenance release, 6.5.4, is planned for June 5th. It is to help address the issue on plugin activation that was introduced in 6.5 where nothing happens after clicking “activate” (except the button goes gray). It will provide a redirect hook.
Akshaya Rane @ make.wordpress.org • 3 months ago
There was a retrospective survey of participants in the WordPress 6.5 release. For the first time the anonymous responses of the teams were made public (previously there was a summary). It is very interesting to note the comments about leadership or lack of it. Issues around the Font Library got a number of mentions. Here is the spreadsheet for those who are curious.
Anne McCarthy @ make.wordpress.org • 3 months ago
Anne McCarthy posted a round up of what’s being worked on for WordPress 6.6. It is a very large list. Regarding the Block Binding API for custom fields and a UI for editing them, it is not certain yet if that will ship in 6.6.