This sounds great. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but I’d love to hear from you if you have. This tool basically saves your current settings and layouts to wrap them up as a theme or child theme package.
Every now and then there are discussions and debates that arise to the forefront of the WordPress community. One of these discussions caught our attention: paid products based in WordPress and how they are (or are not) promoted within the WordPress.org ecosystem.
This week’s WordPress business highlights for Post Status: Lesley Sim is pivoting Newsletter Glue to an upmarket clientele. A discussion starter about WordPress UX. Do we need a curated plugin ecosystem, more open standards, and easy access to current expert consensus points in key knowledge areas? Time to bail out of Twitter? PayPal? Katie Keith tells her HeroPress story.
I ran across this one thanks to Pippin Williamson mentioning it. WP Push is a highly focused extension market that creates push notification functionality for WordPress plugins and apps. They’ve got them for Jetpack, the bb’s, various eCommerce software, and more. This seems like a great niche focus for a commercial product.
WordPress 5.4.1 dropped this week. It’s a short-cycle security and maintenance release focused on seven security issues that affected WordPress 5.4 and earlier versions. If you haven’t yet updated to 5.4, all WordPress versions since 3.7 have also been updated. 🔒
While the post is in jest, the points highlight what we often see when people submit tickets for paid plugins. That said, these five steps will ensure you get your money back.
Suzanne Scacca shares some thoughts on how to design a simple UI when you have a complex solution: if the backend is very complex, it may “infect” the frontend. If it’s “too complicated to navigate or too convoluted to understand, users will revolt and flee en masse.” 🏃 Some other key tips: Figure out your…
