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• Gutenberg 5.0 Adds New RSS Block, Amazon Kindle Embed Block, and FocalPointPicker Component February 7, 2019
  Version 5.0 of the Gutenberg plugin was released yesterday with a new RSS block. Riad Benguella, the project’s technical lead for phase 2, published a demo of the block and its settings. Users can set the number of items displayed and also toggle on/off the author, date, and excerpt. RSS (more...)
  Sarah Gooding
• Transcript of WordPress Weekly Episode 344 February 6, 2019
  Based on requests from listeners, I purchased a transcription of episode 344 of WordPress Weekly where we discussed the WordPress Governance Project. I purchased the transcription from Rev, a well-known service devoted to captions, subtitles, and audio transcriptions. For an 87 minute podcast, the turn-around time was 25 hours and (more...)
  Jeff Chandler
• Sending Positive Vibes to Alex Viper007Bond Mills February 4, 2019
  Alex Mills, the author of several plugins, including the popular Regenerate Thumbnails plugin, published an update on his fight with cancer and it’s not looking too good. The blood test had been showing a fraction of a percent and then later 3%. That was obviously trending in the wrong direction (more...)
  Jeff Chandler