WordPress AI Assistant and More

Because the first WordPress 6.3 beta arrived in June, July was all about fixing bugs, delivering developer notes, and finalizing release candidates. Plus, there have been updates concerning the upcoming two flagship WordCamps.

But there’s more to it. We’ve got exciting news about our in-house WordPress products. 

Hostinger Updates: AI Assistant and Latest Blog Theme Layouts

Let’s begin with updates from Hostinger – now we have introduced a brand new WordPress AI Assistant plugin. It is accessible for our Business hosting and Cloud hosting clients. 

Once every little thing is ready up, you should use the AI tool to generate blog posts out of your WordPress dashboard. 

Then, export the generated copy to the post editor with a single click and make the ultimate edits before publishing the content.

The following update we brought this month is the brand new layouts for Hostinger Blog Theme. Now, you may pick from three layouts through the onboarding process, giving more flexibility.

Let’s take a more in-depth have a look at the three layouts we provide:

• Hero image with overlay text

• Symmetrical design, with text on the left and a picture on the proper

• Header text follower by the hero image

WordPress Updates

The core contributors have continued working on WordPress 6.3 after the beta release in June. As such, now we have more updates regarding the core development.

WordPress 6.3 RC and Live Product Demo

The WordPress 6.3 development entered the Release Candidate phase in mid-July, which implies the event version is more stable for testing.

This can be a perfect opportunity so that you can test your projects with the new edition or sharpen your web development skills. In case you find any bugs, make sure to inform the core contributors via the Core Trac ticket.

For developers, head to the WordPress Core blog to ascertain out dev notes in additional detail. This may provide help to know what latest features and APIs you may profit from the new edition.

Moreover, try the Live Product Demo from WordPress 6.3 Release Squad. Here’s a fast glimpse:

• Synced patterns – this latest variety of pattern replaces the reusable blocks, enabling you to create patterns within the block editor.
• Command palette feature – helps you quickly search and navigate through the WordPress dashboard, whether to begin a brand new post or customize your categories.
• Latest blocks – WordPress 6.3 brings latest blocks developed in various Gutenberg releases, including footnote and details ones.
• Dropped PHP 5 support – the new edition would require PHP 7 as its minimum requirement.

Gutenberg Phase 3 Road Map

After refining the block editor within the upcoming release, WordPress and Gutenberg projects are expected to maneuver forward to phase 3 – collaboration.

Throughout July, Matias Ventura, the Lead Architect of Gutenberg, has posted an in depth roadmap for the collaboration phase. To save lots of you time, now we have summarized the phase 3 projects from the WordPress Core blog:

• Real-time collaboration – enabling multiple users to work on the block editor concurrently. This implies no more locked posts when one user is editing them.
• Workflows – streamlining the editorial process when multiple users collaborate on content, from draft to publishing. For instance, users will have the ability to put in writing comments or add suggestions for the content.
• Revisions – collaborating for a project requires transparency and the aptitude to trace back the changes. Revisions in phase 3 should transcend saving the textual edit history and supply a greater visual appearance, especially within the block environment.
• Media library – updating its interface, management, and workflow.
• Block library – improving the block organization management, equivalent to allowing users to enable or disable any block globally.
• Admin design – renewing the wp-admin design to enhance accessibility, user workflow, and interface personalization. 

WordPress Security News

Although July was a comparatively quiet month when it comes to critical vulnerabilities for major plugins, there was a big security issue.

Back in mid-June, the Patchstack team discovered a site-wide reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Freemius WordPress SDK. In case you’re unfamiliar, Freemius is a platform for selling digital products, and its WordPress SDK is widely used to sell freemium WordPress plugins and themes.

The XSS vulnerability scored 7.1 within the CVSS rating, meaning it’s a high-severity issue. As Freemius is utilized by over a thousand plugins and greater than 50 themes, it could have affected hundreds of thousands of internet sites. Luckily, Freemius and just about all affected plugins and themes have fixed the problems, and updates can be found.

You’ll be able to check whether it affected any of your plugins by looking for them within the Patchstack database. Nevertheless, we recommend simply updating all of the plugins you employ to forestall some other vulnerabilities.

For Hostinger users, use our WordPress security feature out of your Members Area, which is able to show you the safety status of plugins and themes in your site. Remember to check them out and perform crucial updates in case any vulnerabilities are discovered.

WordCamp News

We’ve got some exciting news for the upcoming WordCamps.

WordCamp US

WordCamp US 2023 is just across the corner – it can happen on August 24-26 in National Harbor, Maryland. In case you still haven’t got your ticket for the ultimate flagship WordCamp of the 12 months, hurry up and buy it now.

We may also be there as a brilliant admin sponsor. In case you’re going to the event, make sure to drop by our booth. We’d like to have a chat with you about WordPress and hosting.

WordCamp Asia

WordCamp Asia 2024 can be the subsequent flagship WordCamp event. Planned for March 7-9, the event will happen in Taipei, Taiwan.

While the tickets aren’t available for purchase yet, sensible minds like you may get the prospect to share your insights within the event because the organizers are opening the call for speakers. 

This is a superb opportunity to present your unique thoughts and insights, in addition to introduce yourself to lots of or 1000’s of WordPressers from around the globe.

What’s Coming in August

WordPress 6.3 can be released on August 8, 2023, so mark your calendars for the most important update. Use a staging environment to securely update your website and minimize downtime.

With the WordCamp US coming up, we could have exciting WordPress content within the pipeline – stay tuned.