As always, we have the latest WordPress news for you before we head off for a well-deserved weekend: The WP community is celebrating 15 years of WordPress and the Gutenberg plugin is getting its 30th update. We also have a podcast on GDPR and photo law. And we'll show you what you should consider when hosting your WooCommerce store.

4 things you need to consider when hosting WooCommerce

With the WooCommerce plugin, you can turn your WordPress site into a fully functional online store in no time at all. Unfortunately, many site operators forget that a store places special demands on hosting due to its special functionalities. For this reason, we will show you which specifications and optimization measures are particularly important for WooCommerce hosting.

XML-RPC: The built-in WP vulnerability that hardly anyone knows about

XML-RPC actually serves as an interface for webmasters and developers. However, as it is rarely used, it is primarily one thing for many websites: a security risk. This is because bots and hackers can misuse it for brute force attacks. To prevent this, you can now deactivate XML-RPC on Raidboxes and make your site much more secure. We show you how the XML-RPC blocker works, what XML-RPC actually is and explain how brute force attacks work.

WordPress

15 years of WordPress - a story of ups and downs
On May 27, the WP community celebrated the 15th birthday of our favorite CMS. Michael Nelson has taken this milestone as an opportunity to look back at the beginnings of WordPress. If you're not yet familiar with the history, the crisis that gave rise to WordPress 15 years ago and the hurdles that have already been overcome, Nelson's look back reveals many exciting WP "fun facts".

The 30th Gutenberg update is here!
The update of the Gutenberg plugin to version 3.0 brings us a long list of improvements and fixes. Matias Ventura - co-lead of the Gutenberg team - emphasizes three highlights of the 30th Gutenberg update: an improved UX of the block inserter, the distinction between child and parent blocks in the inserter and extended possibilities for theme styles.

Why there are many small businesses with bad WP sites
Fred Meyer from WPShout addresses the problem that many WordPress sites created for small businesses are of poor quality: "Small business website clients tend to suffer the largest gap between what WordPress can be, and how it's implemented on their own projects." Meyer sheds light on the problem from both the client and developer perspective and provides an interesting proposal for a solution.

Business

What WP businesses say about their favorite and least favorite clients
Our colleagues at CodeinWP asked 32 agencies, freelancers and WP companies what kind of clients they like working with the most and which clients set off alarm bells. The WP professionals surveyed not only share exciting (horror) stories, but also have lots of valuable tips on how best to deal with problematic client relationships.

Web design

Podcast: GDPR and photography law - what is still allowed?
In their podcast "Rechtsbelehrung", Marcus Richter and lawyer Dr. Thomas Schwenke explain to you in an entertaining way what the situation is with photography law under the GDPR. Together with their guest Lars Rieck - a specialist lawyer for copyright and media law - they explore, among other things, the question of the extent to which photographing people is still permitted at all.