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Automattic announced they would be adopting Alex Mills‘ plugins, including Regenerate Thumbnails. As many of you know, Alex (AKA Viper007Bond), passed away on February 27, 2019, after a two and a half year battle with leukemia. I think this will be a good home for Alex’s plugins.
A short paragraph about Alex will be added to their readme.txt files.
In this episode, Cory Miller and Corey Maass discuss their experiences and insights on launching Crop.Express. They share valuable advice on building a brand, developing a minimum viable product (MVP), getting feedback from the community, and handling challenges along the way.
WordPress.com has released what appears to be their first ever video ad, and it’s quite mobile centric. The ad portrays a number of users using the WordPress mobile app to snap and blog pictures. It’s only 16 seconds, and is (unsurprisingly) to the tune of a Childish Gambino song, the artist whose Deep Web tour…
Of course we all expected a new default theme soon enough, as the naming scheme demands; I had my money that it would be part of 4.5 early next year. It was announced yesterday with a design proposal complete, and will likely go into WordPress 4.4. The surprise announcement isn’t much of a surprise for the default themes, which have…
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.
WooCommerce has officially switched over to require WordPress.com account credentials. The announcement was made by Todd Wilkens, the new lead of WooCommerce within Automattic. Todd was formerly the head of mobile and chat products at Atlassian (HipChat, etc). This change is “just” for a login, but considering WooCommerce probably has a couple hundred thousand users,…
Haha. I can’t even type that title seriously. Matt Mullenweg got a pretty hilarious email telling him perhaps he should consider switching Automattic properties to Drupal. Better get ready.
