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This week in WordPress
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Can’t shake the feeling I’m looking at Windows ’95
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Did you do a double-take after updating to WordPress 5.3? "'The contrast is way too high and I can't shake the feeling that I’m looking at Windows 95.' Yikes 😯 looks like not everyone’s on board with the admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3," tweets WPMU DEV.
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They link to the unassuming post Noteworthy Admin CSS changes in WordPress 5.3 on the Make WordPress Core team’s blog. WordPress 5.3 introduced CSS changes to the admin for improved accessibility to match Gutenberg following the new editor’s accessibility audit in April. But not everyone’s thrilled with the UI changes. "Admin area looks like from 10 years ago. Old and ugly. Please fix it, or give us choice to use old / new styles," writes mastafu. "And yes, it is ugly. Not a personal opinion. It's the common opinion. If something looks ugly, you call it ugly," adds hydrogriff. Jean-Baptiste Audras, release co-lead of WordPress 5.3, has ruled out making accessibility optional in WordPress, despite calls to roll back the UI. "It would be against every design model, against W3C/WCAG guidelines and against the regulations/law in some countries," he writes, adding the changes are a first step that improves accessibility.
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Want the old UI back? There’s a plugin for that. Digital Shadow has released Old Style Admin UI to the WordPress plugin repository.
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10up has made plugin deployment to the WordPress.org repository a whole lot easier, releasing two GitHub actions to automate plugin projects. The first action allows developers to deploy plugins directly to the repository by tagging a release on GitHub.
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WordPress vulnerability roundup
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"Nice! #Gutenberg 6.9 🇦🇷 is out. 👉 experimental block pattern API added
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👉 themes can now define custom gradient presets 👉 new APIs. 👉 Support loading block templates from themes 👉 ResponsiveBlockControl,"
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Justin Tadlock from WP Tavern reports the Gutenberg team has released several features, most of which are aimed at developers. There’s a new Block Patterns API for plugin developers and theme authors can begin tinkering with the experimental gradient presets and block templates features.
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In other news...
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- - "We've acquired ownership of WP Mail Logging, used on 80,000 #wordpress sites. Yay!" tweets MailPoet, linking to WP Mail Logging Is Now Maintained by MailPoet.
- - Late-breaking news on the WordPress 5.2.4 Update that landed back on October 24: The announcement post forgot to acknowledge Simon Scannell of RIPS Technologies. "Simon has done a great deal of work on the WordPress project, and failing to mention his contributions is a huge oversight on our end," writes Jake Spurlock, Security Release Lead for WordPress.
- - WP Engine is Now Australia’s Largest WordPress Digital Experience Platform Provider. Big brands in Australia and New Zealand are hosting with WP Engine, including Bauer Media and Carsales.com.au.
- - "Lots of this resonates with me as a long-time WordPresser enjoying moving into headless CMS approaches and the JAMstack more," tweets developer Tom Hirst, linking to Scott Bolinger—co-founder of AppPresser and Static Fuse—on WordPress, JAMstack, and the future of the independent developer on the Post Status Draft podcast.
- - 24 WordPress Snippets ’til Christmas, Submissions Open for 2019, Justin Tadlock reports at WP Tavern. The annual 24 days of WordPress code snippets will kick off on 1 December.
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