ByDan Knauss
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Carl Alexander is building a serverless DevOps platform for WordPress, which he is calling Ymir — you can watch a video explaining it further.
Carl compares his project to Laravel Vapor because “Ymir isn’t a WordPress host. You will have full access and control over everything. You’ll also be responsible for your AWS bill.”
There’s no release timeline yet, but this does sound promising. 👍
Catch up on the gold at WordSesh! Mark Ashton on the success of UiPress. Hanna Smith on web sustainability. Michelle and Allie on sponsored events. Mark Root-Wiley on CSS Standards for WordPress. Takis and Taeke on organizing WCEU.
In this episode, Cory Miller talks with Karim Marucchi, Pat Ramsey, and Alex Nitu of Crowd Favorite. They share their insights on scaling WordPress for the enterprise. Their discussion includes the challenges of managing large WordPress sites, tips for optimizing site performance and security, and advice for hiring and managing a WordPress development team.
Where is WordPress going in 2023? Read Josepha’s Big Picture Goals for the year. WordPress certifications are in the planning phases, and the foundation will include LearnWP. The Training Team is conducting a Needs Analysis. Help gather the community’s input. Plugins Team is seeking intentionally wrong plugins, and Core has the 6.2 Planning Roundup.
Carl Alexander tells the story of how he and Adam Wathan wrote a book in markdown. Carl built a markdown-to-PDF app for this project. 📗
Ashley Rich over at Delicious Brains relates some lessons learned from building WP Scanner, a WordPress-centric web app. The app was built on Laravel with Spark, and there’s a WordPress plugin that is installed that communicates with WP Scanner’s servers. Ashley mentions some of the third-party services he used. His advice about optimizing too early is…
I talked to Justin Samuel, the CEO of Server Pilot, on the phone today, to do a bit of follow-up after my last post. I’m still intrigued by Server Pilot, which I see as unique in our space right now, and I had some additional questions. Justin Founded Server Pilot after getting out of school,…
