WordPress Core Contributor Stats: 19.9% Sponsored for 6.0 Release
Dan Knauss
The percentage of sponsored contributors has steadily increased to almost 20% now.
Radiopaper
Dan Knauss
Radiopaper is like a ring of threaded and publicly aggregated full-text Webmentions created via email — you email people you want to have a semi/private conversation with, and the conversation is published publicly. It's like if IndieWeb News let you…
2022 Web Almanac CMS Report
Dan Knauss
According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP Archive, sites using a CMS — and WordPress — are still steadily increasing globally, and 34% of all the sites with an identifiable CMS were using…
What happens 3 minutes after you fail?
Dan Knauss
For 90% of what we deal with on a regular basis, though, by the time the weekend comes around, nobody is going to care that you made a mistake.The Misanthropic Developer
When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress
Dan Knauss
Keanan Koppenhaver explains over at WP Mayor: When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress: If you have a strong frontend team that’s comfortable interfacing with APIs and is used to communicating changes and working with more distributed systems, then…
Patchstack Partners with Hostinger
Dan Knauss
Patchstack brings fast virtual patches and safe updates to any plugin or theme vulnerabilities potentially affecting Hostinger's customers.
Copyright, Selfie Monkeys, and the Hand of God
Dan Knauss
The Open Source Initiative has produced a podcast series on AI and its implications for open source out of the concern that "the traditional view of open source code implementing AI algorithms may not be sufficient to guarantee inspectability and…
Why do designers quit their jobs?
Dan Knauss
Matej Latin did a survey of designers who quit their jobs and discovered: No career progression opportunities and unhappiness with the work they do were about equal, at about 20% each.Problems with company culture came next.A lack of UX maturity…
Hauwa Abashiya Talks About Training
Dan Knauss
Josepha Haden Chomphosy talks with Hauwa Abashiya about the WordPress Training team and LearnWP on the latest WordPress Briefing. If you're interested in joining the training team, it's OK if you're not a trainer. You can help take notes, edit,…
Revisiting the Notifications Problem
Dan Knauss
Brian Coords has been working on WP-Notify which is described on its GitHub repo as: A feature plugin for WordPress, which aims to create a new (better) way to manage and deliver notifications to the relevant audience. https://wpbuilds.com/2022/09/01/294-how-might-we-fix-the-wordpress-notifications-problem/
Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?
Dan Knauss
Drawing on a gender gap at WCUS noticed by Women in WP, Rob Howard thinks there might be a "self-employment penalty" on conference attendance that disproportionately affects women. There's a lot of speculation in this article, but it's a subject…
Fake Discount Pricing
Dan Knauss
Rob Howard took a look at the prevalence of fictitious "discount" pricing on WordPress plugins in light of US federal and some state laws that may regard this as a deceptive trade practice. Rob will have more to say about…
New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1
Dan Knauss
A reminder from Anne McCarthy about the importance of your help testing Gutenberg 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release: If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that…
Automated Newsletters with Newsletter Glue
Dan Knauss
Coming soon to Newsletter Glue: Automated newsletters you can set up, test, and schedule in WordPress as well as Global Styles and Template Styles for multiple individual newsletters. Custom CSS will be available with both global and template styles.
Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo
Dan Knauss
Delicious Brains has a new tutorial about Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo that's worth a look. Robo is an open-source task runner like Gulp and Grunt using PHP instead of JavaScript. It's used by Drupal's Drush, that project's…
Making Events Accessible and Websites Under 1kB
Dan Knauss
From the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Here's a checklist "for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid." And here's a website with pages under 1kB from Brad Taunt who is maintaining a list of sites…
