WordPress News Roundup (January 2023)

Each month, Nathan Ingram discusses the latest developments in the WordPress ecosystem. We talk through this month’s WordPress news, including news from core, Gutenberg, plugins, themes, and more.

This month’s WordPress news includes:
-WordPress 6.1.1 “Vulnerability” Update
-WordPress 6.2 Roadmap
-Commercial and Community Categorization Is Live on Theme and Plugin Directories
-Gutenberg 14.8 – Released December 21
-Gutenberg 14.9 – Released January 4
-WordPress Vulnerability Report: https://ithemes.com/wordpress-vulnerability-report/
-Linux Backdoor Malware Targets WordPress Sites
-LastPass Hack Gets Worse
–https://blog.lastpass.com/2022/12/notice-of-recent-security-incident/
–https://ithemes.com/blog/the-lastpass-security-breach-how-to-protect-yourself/
–https://training.ithemes.com/webinar/the-state-of-password-managers-in-2023/
-FLY 2023: https://training.ithemes.com/event/fly-the-business-transformation-project-2023/
-Kadence Blocks 3.0 Beta Released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5MctJTjDaQ
–https://www.kadencewp.com/wordpress-solutions/kadence-blocks-3-0-beta/
-Block Protocol Announces New Plugin
-Most Popular Plugins Released in 2022: https://www.ilovewp.com/wordpress-plugins-released-in-2022-on-wordpress-org/
-Gravity Forms 2.7 Coming Soon
-WooCommerce 7.3 Released
-Google Reiterates Guidelines on AI Written Content
-90% of Online Content Could Be ‘Generated by AI by 2025’
-Microsoft’s New AI Can Simulate Anyone’s Voice with 3s of Audio
-ClassicPress at a Crossroads, Directors Consider Re-Forking WordPress
-Fast Growing Companies are Choosing WordPress
-MainWP’s Web Care Survey 2022
-The State of The Word