Before you start your well-deserved weekend, here's the latest WP news: Now that the release date for WordPress 5.0 has been announced, there is of course hardly any other topic left. The first WordPress 5.0 beta is already available for testing, there is a new default theme and more and more plugin and theme manufacturers are releasing new Gutenberg features. To make sure you're fully prepared for WordPress 5.0, we're bringing you our brand new Gutenberg e-book today.
E-Book: WordPress 5.0 & Gutenberg - Update or wait and see?
With the major update to WordPress 5.0, which is scheduled for mid-November, the new WordPress editor a.k.a. "Gutenberg" will be integrated into the WordPress core. Gutenberg will replace the TinyMCE editor, which has been the standard in WordPress for over ten years. To help you decide when it really makes sense to update your site(s) to WordPress 5.0, we have a Gutenberg e-book special with the most important facts about the update. In a total of six chapters, we show you how the WordPress ecosystem is preparing for WordPress 5.0 and what Gutenberg means for your business.
WordCamp Cologne - Why spontaneous planning also has advantages
Last weekend, four of us attended WordCamp Cologne, which was organized in a record time of just under two months. We really enjoyed seeing so many familiar faces and making new contacts at the same time. The location was great again and the atmosphere was the usual exuberant. We particularly enjoyed the BarCamp format again, where every participant gets the chance to give a presentation on site. In his recap, Johannes reveals why the last-minute organization ultimately had some advantages.
WordPress
The first WordPress 5.0 beta is here
The first WordPress 5.0 beta version was released on Wednesday. The 5.0 core team is happy about every tester so that the planned release date of November 19 can be realized. In addition to the merge of the Gutenberg editor, WordPress 5.0 also brings the new theme 'Twenty Nineteen', which is of course fully compatible with Gutenberg.
ACF Blocks for Gutenberg
The popular plugin 'Advanced Custom Fields' has introduced a new Gutenberg feature. With ACF Blocks you can create a custom block in minutes: "Manually creating custom blocks means digging through endless mounds of JavaScript. ACF Blocks, on the other hand, does all the hard work for you so you can sit back, relax and continue writing simple PHP and HTML."
The new 'Twenty Nineteen' theme
With WordPress 5.0 comes not only the Gutenberg editor, but also the new default theme 'Twenty Nineteen', which is of course fully Gutenberg-compatible. The first glimpses already look very promising! We are also working on the Gutenberg compatibility of the previous default themes for WordPress 5.0.
Performance
Customer reporting with Google Data Studio
The marketing agency 'Kick Point' explains in Moz Whiteboard Friday how you can build an easy-to-understand reporting dashboard for your customers with Google Data Studio: "What we've tried to do in this dashboard is really boil it down to the absolute basics, one thing you can look at, see a couple of data points, know whether things are good or things are bad."
We are in second place!
For the fourth year in a row, we have come second in the HOSTtest vote for "CMS hoster of the year". Thank you for voting for us so diligently! Let's see if we can make it to first place together next year! ?
Data protection
GDPR-compliant alternative to Gravatar
With the WordPress plugin WP First Letter Avatar, the first letter of the name entered is displayed in comments instead of the Gravatar photo. To use the plugin in compliance with data protection regulations, make sure that the 'Use Gravatar' option is not selected in the settings. Thanks to Theme Coder for the tip!
