Going from Agency to Products: The Story of Barn2 — Post Status Draft 125
From client services and agency work to a successful product business — Katie Keith tells Cory the Barn2 Plugins story in this episode of Post Status Draft.
Member Spotlight: Ben Gabler
Meet Ben Gabler, the CEO/Founder at Rocket.net, where they’re on a mission to Accelerate & Protect WordPress at the edge of the cloud.
Open Source Communities: You May Not Be Interested in CISA, But CISA is Very Interested in You
United States national security interests are poised to become more invested in and engaged with open source projects classified as public infrastructure. From Log4j to the Securing Open Source Software Act, how did it all come together in 2022, and what may lie ahead?
Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo
In reaction to as-yet-unpublicized details about the abuse of active install data in the WordPress.org plugin repository, the charts displaying that data have been removed from plugin pages in a move expected to be temporary. Important (and some familiar) questions are emerging as this story unfolds: how to balance the values of openness, security, and privacy as well as cooperation and competition at WordPress.org — still the central hub for WordPress plugin businesses.
Drinking from the Firehose
You can read all of this week’s newsletter . And if you want everything without the cuts, head over to poststatus.com/the-week
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.
