Drinking from the Firehose
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WordPress Careers Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Craft your origin story • Pointed questions for devs to ask prospective employers • Strategies against Ageism • IBM’s a**hole test • Take a pass on a “fast-paced environment.” • WordPress Translation Day • Writing Tips for Engineers • Preventing burnout as a manager
Shiny New Things!
From Abstract: WP Tests for Faster WordPress Projects. Independent Analytics – A Reliable Google … Read more
WordPress Biz Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
2022 Web Almanac CMS findings • WP Cloud • Sponsored core contributor and sponsor data • WP Biz Dev • Female-Owned and Led WP Businesses • and more →
What is WP Cloud?
WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.
WordPress Core Contributor Stats: 19.9% Sponsored for 6.0 Release
The percentage of sponsored contributors has steadily increased to almost 20% now.
Radiopaper
Radiopaper is like a ring of threaded and publicly aggregated full-text Webmentions created via … Read more
2022 Web Almanac CMS Report
According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP … Read more
Management Code: Management Skills for Female Creative Agency Owners
Natasha Golinsky has launched a Facebook group for women who own creative agencies: Management … Read more
The Unofficial Directory of WordPress WBEs
Last week, Steve Burge asked on Twitter, “how many female-run WordPress companies are there?” … Read more
WP Biz Dev Job Board
Lawrence Ladomery has launched WP Biz Dev, “the first job board dedicated exclusively to … Read more
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.
WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 • Serverless WordPress • Annual Meetup Survey • Catalyst for Creativity
Help test WordPess 6.1 Beta 2! Check out the latest features that are coming in the 6.1 release. Learn how to run WordPress using WebAssembly, and take the Annual Meetup Survey to give feedback on events.
What happens 3 minutes after you fail?
For 90% of what we deal with on a regular basis, though, by the … Read more
When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress
Keanan Koppenhaver explains over at WP Mayor: When and When Not to Use Headless … Read more
Patchstack Partners with Hostinger
Patchstack brings fast virtual patches and safe updates to any plugin or theme vulnerabilities potentially affecting Hostinger’s customers.
