This is the April 2022 version of \”This month’s\” This month this month Use codeinwp \”in WordPress.
Hey, WordPress fans.
We came back all the most important WordPress news last month. March is a variety of months, but it is mainly in the business of WordPress.
Although we did publish WordPress security and maintenance versions in the form of WordPress 5.9.2, the most striking news involved two new high -end expansion markets on WordPress.com and two interesting in the field of WordPress Purchase and detailed information about WordPress security pictures began in 2021.
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] WordPress.com will expand its advanced expansion market
In the major news of this month, Donna from WordPress.com outlines the new high -end theme and plug -in market vision of WordPress.com Essence
At present, wordpress.com is testing this market by selling its own plug -ins. However, the ultimate goal is to expand it so that developers can also list their own themes and plugins in the market.
One of the biggest advantages of this market is that it will have no friction. WordPress.com already has more than 2 million users’ payment details. These users only need to click the button a few times to buy advanced expansionexhibition.
More importantly, users do not need to manage the license key from one million different websites from one million different websites ——Is will have everything in one place.
For developers, the audience of 2 million users is obviously valuable.
There are two precautions here:
I don’t know that they have released any details about the commission of WordPress.com in exchange for the market on the market. This number will obviously play an important role in the happiness (or unhappy) of developers. At present, the market seems to be specifically for business or e -commerce plans for WordPress.com. However, I think it can expand to a self -custody station running Jetpack. I
without
I saw any hint -from my perspective, this seems to be a long -term route that is beneficial.
Although I think end users will appreciate the convenience of such an integrated market, I think there is one thing that will make many users who use WordPress for a long time. ]
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. Based on the current implementation of Automattic’s own products, users will subscribe to the purchase expansion on a monthly or year -on -year subscription instead of many WordPress users who are familiar with one -time purchase of support/update.
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In the past few years, a large number of acquisitions have been performed in the field of WordPress . If you read our monthly news posts, you may have seen that we have written a lot. In fact, in the next section, I will write an article about another WordPress acquisition.
However, I listed this acquisition alone because it was one of the more surprising pickups I have ever seen.
In March, the popular cloud hosting service DigitalOcean acquired CSS-Tricks, which is a popular blog about CSS and WordPress.
Why I think this acquisition is very interesting because it is a custody service acquisition
content website
instead We acquire plug -in or themes in many acquisitions we saw in liquid web.
This does show the value of content and visibility in the search engine. The brand will only acquire a website for the scope of content and search engine, which has not really seen in the past.
Another example, you can consider Backlinko, which was acquired in January 2022 in January 2022. Backlinko is one of the most popular SEO blogs. Although Backlinko does have some content products, the acquisition is mainly to get Backlinko’s position in Google. Similarly, CSS-Tricks will expand the influence of DIGITALOCEAN in SERP, and also allows them to expose a large number of potential DigitalOcean customers and designers.
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WordPress 5.0 released on December 6, 2018; this is what you need to know. Gutenberg 2.7, the theme review rules change ️ WordPress news W/Codeinwp #WORDPRESS 5.4, WooCommerce 4.0, remote work in April 2020 ] Newfold Digital acquired Yith (WooCommerce plug -in manufacturer)
In another large WordPress acquisition, NewFold Digital has just acquired Yith The latter isThe development companies behind more than 100 WOOCOMMERCE plug -ins (
are YITH as the brand name
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If you are unfamiliar The parent companies behind many largest network hosting services, including Bluehost, Hostgator, etc.
Newfold Digital also owns many products and services, such as Constant Contory. In 2021, NewFold Digital became a heavy news by acquiring YOAST SEO.
With the acquisition of YITH, we see the NewFold Digital further extended to the field of WordPress plug -in.
However, I don’t think this acquisition
is just
to sell plug -ins.
On the contrary, I think this is about network hosting. More specifically, the trend of special WOOCOMMERCE programs bundled with plug -in with plug -ins, so that people already have everything required to create normal operating stores.
Basically, these consoles tried Experience. One of the existing biggest examples is Godaddy’s Woocommerce hosting program, which is bundled with a series of official Wookommerce extensions without additional costs. Godaddy also acquired Skyverge for Godaddy to bundle these plug -ins. liquid web is also another popular choice, because their hosting Woocommerce hosting plan comes with many bundle tools. Liquid Web has also followed similar strategies and acquired many WordPress plugins that can be tied to its services, such as iThemes, RESTRICT Content Pro, The Events Calendar, Kadence, etc.
Bluehost has added some bundle extensions for Bluehost Woocommerce hosting plan. But I think we will soon see that Bluehost customers can access all Yith WooCommerce plugins for free.
In a wider range, I also think that we will continue to see the growth of this trend, whether in the field of WOOCOMMERCE or in general WordPress custody.
The network host is looking for ways to make themselves different and create more \”integrated\” WordPress experiences, and these types of acquisitions help them do this. Note -Newfold Digital said they did not plan to delete any plug -in from WordPress.org or change the experience of existing Yith customers
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Therefore, although I do think that Newfold Digital will seek to integrate Yith with other brands, I think the website owner does not need to worry about anything now.
In smaller news, there were some other noteworthy last month worth noting Plug -in acquisition: Static WordPress host Strattic acquired WP2Static, which is a plug -in helping you export WordPress to the static HTML site.
WPExperts acquired the Post SMTP plug -in, which is the popular branch/restart of the popular postman SMTP plug -in. The plug -in allows you to send WordPress emails with your own SMTP provider.
] PatchStack published its WordPress security status report
If you are not familiar with PatchStack, it is a popular WordPress security service, which was called Webarx before 2021.
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A key feature of PatchStack is to detect and prevent vulnerabilities in the WordPress plug -in. This is some of the most common security issues of the WordPress website.
As part of this function, PatchStack has a large amount of data and insights on WordPress vulnerabilities, which prompts them to release a WordPress security report.
This paper has some interesting opinions …
The main point is that Patchstack detected that the plug -in vulnerability increased by 150%compared with 2020. In 2020, they detected about 600 vulnerabilities, and more than 1,500 vulnerabilities were detected in 2021.
This does not necessarily mean that growth is actually so large. For example, Patchstack does better in detecting vulnerabilities. However, the differences are so large that the security incident seems to have increased.
There are some other interesting data in this paper:
91.38% of the vulnerabilities are in free plug -ins, and only 8.62% are in advanced plug -ins. This is a very amazing difference. Essence In terms of security, there is no essential difference between free plug -in and paid plug -in, but high -end plug -in developers are indeed more motivated to repair and detect problems. Advanced plug -in developers can also spend more time to protect the plug -in because they can get income from it.
Compared with 2021, WordPress users use less plug -ins, but these plug -ins are more outdated. I am not sure what the explanation is, or whether it is just noise, but I still think it is interesting.
malicious actors usually attack vulnerabilities that are easy to use, rather than more complicated vulnerabilities. Basically, they would rather pursue the fruits that can be obtained. If your goal is to use as many websites as possible, it makes sense.
Malicious actors still often target \”old\” vulnerabilities -even a loophole a few years ago. This is why the update plug -in is very important, because malicious actors will not give up just because vulnerabilities are not the most advanced.
If you want to view all data and insights, click here to read the complete report of PatchStack.
WordPress performance performance The team launch function test version plug -in
This is not a big news, but if you are rightWordPress and Performance are interested, which is a cool little news.
In order to help improve the default performance optimization of WordPress, the performance team has just released its own performance laboratory plug -in on WordPress.org. The plug -in is an experimental field that will eventually be merged into the core.
It has the same idea as the independent Ginberg plug -in, and it provides a test platform for new features that will eventually merge into the core editor.
Since these functions are still being tested, you may not want to use this plug -in on a real -time website. However, it is still very concise because it can give you a glimpse of what is about to happen and the way new features.
At present, the Performance Lab plugin has added automatic webp conversion to JPEG (if the server supports).
It also added a lot of performance -centered inspections and audits to the site health dashboard:
WebP support check.
The long -lasting object cache check.
Options for auditing queuing assets in the operating status of the site (CSS and JavaScript).
The option is automatically loaded in the operating status of the audit site.
I think inspections related to site health will be particularly useful, because they should make it easier for people to review the performance of their sites without special technical knowledge.
As for the improvement of WebP, the performance team also proposed to open the webp by default in the final version 6.0 version.
This summarizes our WordPress news review in April 2022.
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