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November 2017 WordPress News
WordPress 4.9 “Tipton”
• Draft and schedule customizer designs to go live on a
specific date
• Send customizer design preview link to colleagues
• Customizer design locking (similar to post locking)
• Prompt to save new customizer drafts
• Syntax and error checking for CSS, HTML & PHP
• New Gallery widget
• Add media button on widgets
• + lots lots more
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November 2017 WordPress News
Gutenberg 1.7
• Replacement “block” editor set for WordPress 5.0
• Currently in very early alpha stage (download plugin)
• iframes for meta boxes has been dropped
• Paves way for nested blocks
• Multi-block transform (e.g. select multiple pictures to
transform into a gallery)
• @ autocompletes for current site users (@DeveloperWil)
• Documentation now at
https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/handbook/
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November 2017 WordPress News
Black Friday (24 Nov) & Cyber Monday (27 Nov) deals
• Round up of great deals and discounts at WP Mayor
October 2017 WordPress attack report
Security statistics on WordPress attacks last month (Wordfence)
• Total attacks from the top 25 attacking IPs were down 3% from
September.
• Brute force attacks made up 95% of total attacks for October, up
slightly from September.
• With 13 of the top 25 IPs, Turkey dominated the list for the second
consecutive month. PP SKS-Lugan from the Ukraine once again
dominated the very top of the list, hosting four of the most active
malicious IPs.
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November 2017 WordPress News
Plugin banned from wp.org repo for crypto mining
• “Animated weather widget by weatherfor.us” banned for
downloading embedded code which used a cryptocurrency
miner. Read more.
2017 WordPress survey
• Only takes a few minutes to fill out the survey. Stats are use
for “State of the Word” at WordCamp US
WordCamp US Tickets available
• General Admission and Livestream tickets