This week I’ve been listening to Robbie Adair and Courtney Robertson on Do the Woo, Joe Casabona’s take on Patchstack’s WordPress security report, and Mayank Gupta’s guidelines for growth. And Scott Moore has a great video on the new Performance feature plugin.
What if open source values and ways of thinking point to solutions WordPress businesses can uniquely embrace?
An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.
Matt shares brief thoughts on Ukraine. Learn how to understand your customers through their problems. How to build trust quickly. And more!
Core releases. Static robots.txt for faster load time. Self-care. Health check. Which metric is lying to you? Dev notes and bottom lines.
Felix Arntz and Thierry Muller from the newly formed WordPress Performance Team talk with David about the team’s progress so far.
It’s David’s picks of the week from the wide world of WordPress and webtech podcasts — and videos.
How do you feel about ads in the WordPress admin interface? Why are notifications being abused, and what can we do about it?
When — and what — should you outsource to SaaS and open source? Learn this an more from Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture.io.
WordPress 5.9.1 released. REST or AJAX? Plugin dependency feature plugin. Testing, security, new themes and CSS standards. PHP benchmarks and more.
What even is JavaScript? What’s it like to go through an acquisition as an employee and then get into M&A on the other side of the table?
What’s the best intervention for the admin notification nightmare? Is there a win for both end-users and WordPress businesses?
Should WordPress adopt the Block Protocol? What would this mean? Leonardo Losoviz explains why the Block Protocol and why it might benefit WordPress to adopt it and allow more of the web to share and reuse blocks. Matt Mullenweg has expressed interest in taking this path.
Lesley Sim thinks special badges on WordPress.org could incentivize core contribution if they earned developers a boost in plugin rankings.
What is the Block Protocol and why does it matter? What’s the significance of Matt taking over at Tumblr? And is WordPress way too complicated?
Collins Agbonghama is the Founder of ProfilePress. He spoke with David about his recent success acquiring a plugin and breaking even in just four months.
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