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DEV: Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice

Welcome to DEV, your fortnightly dose of WordPress news. 

Here’s your round-up of new tools and treats, smart dev tricks, bug battles, fresh features and community creations. Brought to you by WPMU DEV.

Stick around to the end to see a weatherman’s Halloween costume that had his co-anchor in a fit of giggles.

In today’s edition:

• Defender Pro’s ability to ward off malicious bots has been supercharged with a very powerful new weapon.
• A handful of dev-candy in the form of useful tools and cool projects from the community.
• The magic of Blueprints comes to WordPress Studio 1.6.0.

Hot Off The Presses: What’s New?

Forget Freddy Krueger. The real nightmare is trying to log into anything on a new device.

“Use a different password for everything! It’s safer!” they say. Sure, but now I’m haunted by 47 variations of the same password and zero memory of which one works, while my mind is possessed with nothing but random trivia and K-Pop Demon Hunters song lyrics.

Honestly? I’ll take the “or else.”

Fortunately, no password is needed to get updated on what’s new in WordPress. Just keep scrolling.

Spooky Season Side Projects from Scary-Smart Folks

There’s so many brilliant humans in the WordPress world out there brewing tools that are terrifyingly GOOD, and will make your dev lives a little easier. 

Here’s a round-up of the WordPress wizardry that caught our eye recently:

• Per Sønderland created WordPress Readme, a VS Code Extension that delivers live previews of readme.txt right inside your editor. No more formatting gremlins sneaking through unnoticed.