WordPress News Roundup (October 2022)

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:
-WordPress 6.1 Comes With “Massive Improvement to Database Performance”
-WebP by Default Pulled from WordPress 6.1
-WordPress 6.1 Roadmap
-WordPress Punts Locally Hosted Fonts for Legacy Default Themes to 6.2 Release
-Core Editor Improvements are Coming
-Gutenberg 14.2 & 14.3
-Passkeys and Biometric Logins for WordPress are Here in iThemes Security!
-WordPress Vulnerability Report
-Shortcodes Ultimate Plugin Patches CSRF Vulnerability in Version 5.12.1
-Cloudflare Opens Beta for Free CAPTCHA Replacement: Turnstile
-Innovation & Focus: The Future of iThemes
-Customer Spotlights
-October Premium Event
-More Premium Events for Fall 2022
-Coming Up On iThemes Training…