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What’s in a Name? HPOS for WooCommerce

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

Custom Order Tables in WooCommerce are now High Performance Order Storage (HPOS). It's a technical kind of rebranding that's a really good idea to express not only what custom database tables for orders are but what they do. According to…

Want WebP by Default Now? Get the Performance Lab Plugin

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

NotesPlanet

If your host doesn't already support WebP by default, you can get it with the Performance Lab plugin, thanks to the WordPress Performance Team.

A Beautiful Life is All About Maintenance

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

RescueTime, which I've used since they started up, often has pretty good articles on time management and such. This is one. Most good habits are about maintenance. https://blog.rescuetime.com/a-beautiful-life-is-all-about-maintenance/

DEI = Salary Transparency

Dan Knauss

September 16, 2022

BusinessCareers

https://twitter.com/dimensionmedia/status/1568670894939344897 @Stratacomm again: Biggest applause line of @camikaos DEIB talk: “In order to have equity, we have to have salary transparency.” #WCUS @Piccia digs deep into that very subject this week at Post Status.

Creativity and Chronic Pain

Dan Knauss

September 15, 2022

NotesUnderrepresentation in Technology

Here's "a frank conversation about illness and pain" from AIGA Eye on Design by Madeleine Morley. Madeleine talks with SICK magazine editor Olivia Spring about SICK's rejection of productivity as a virtue. Pause and rest when you need to —…

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at WordCamps

Dan Knauss

September 15, 2022

NotesPlanet

Will DEI become a formal role for WordCamp organizers? We can do it!

Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?

Dan Knauss

September 9, 2022

BusinessCareers

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…

Does WordPress Need a Product Manager?

Dan Knauss

September 5, 2022

Notes

Lesley Sim thinks so, and she outlines what this could mean — plus a lot of other good ideas for keeping WordPress on top and moving forward. There's a lot in this interview with Lesley and Brian Coords over at…

127 Full Site Editing Block Themes

Dan Knauss

September 5, 2022

DesignNotes

It's not meteoric growth by any means, but it's good to see over 127 block themes listed in the WordPress.org theme directory. Highlighting block themes in the navigation was a good idea and an odd one to oppose, but I…

What is a WordPress developer?

Dan Knauss

September 5, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

That was the question on an episode of Woo DevChat with Ebonie Butler, Lisa Canini, Robbie Adair, and Kathy Zant. It's an interesting to compare their views and experiences with the ones shared by Zach Stepek, Till Krüss, and Carl…

WOOF for WooCommerce

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

NotesPlanet

WOOF is a new directory for WooCommerce extensions and WordPress plugins with a Woo tie-in.

WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release: WordPress.org’s Bug Bounty Program at Work

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

NotesPlanet

Ram Dall over at Wordfence has a good breakdown of three vulnerabilities patched in the WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release.

Core Web Vitals in The Real World and The WordPress Ecosystem

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

HostingNotes

NitroPack is hosting a free webinar on Wednesday, September 14th at 5pm EET / 11:00am ET, NitroPack’s team jointly with Salvatore Denaro, Technical Consultant at Google, will discuss all things Core Web Vitals, web performance, and WordPress. Register today!

New pricing model at Business Bloomer aims at Purchasing Power Parity

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

BusinessNotes

Rodolfo Melogli has changed the pricing structure at bto be more affordable to people around the globe. He's done this by calculating "Purchasing Power Parity." Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is a metric that can be used to determine the actual…

Why I (still) love…

Dan Knauss

August 31, 2022

DesignDevelopment

What do you (still) love in tech that's old? (Tell us in the comments.)

Naming is Hard: Content Types on Learn WordPress

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

Make WordPressNotes

Based on a public discussion led by Hugh Lashbrooke, Workshops (5-15 minute instructional videos) are going to be called Tutorials, moving forward while Social Learning Spaces (live and collaborative learning sessions) have become Online Workshops. No change to Courses (long-form…

What’s in a Name? HPOS for WooCommerce

Want WebP by Default Now? Get the Performance Lab Plugin

A Beautiful Life is All About Maintenance

DEI = Salary Transparency

Creativity and Chronic Pain

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at WordCamps

Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?

Does WordPress Need a Product Manager?

127 Full Site Editing Block Themes

What is a WordPress developer?

WOOF for WooCommerce

WordPress 6.0.2 Security and Maintenance Release: WordPress.org’s Bug Bounty Program at Work

Core Web Vitals in The Real World and The WordPress Ecosystem

New pricing model at Business Bloomer aims at Purchasing Power Parity

Why I (still) love…

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