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How Green is WebP, really?

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

WebP is pretty green! In most cases, it will really save on bandwidth, but when it's using lossless compression, it's often not the most efficient in terms of power consumption. Here are some interesting tests Olivier Philippot of Greenspector ran…

Mentorship as Contribution: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 2)

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

NotesWordPress News

Have you been thinking about that question? I hope so. Everyone should, as long as we have a 5ftF program. Some low-hanging fruit — recognition of non-code contributors — has already been picked, according to Angela Jin's latest update. I…

Shiny New Thing: OrganizeWP

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

NotesWordPress News

Check out Jon Christopher's OrganizeWP which is still in Beta but won't be for long. Clean out your Admin interface and make it work for you! The Admin Menu has become a battleground for attention, especially with content types. OrganizeWP…

Legal Stuff: What All Online Course Creators Need to Know

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

Notes

I haven't seen anything from Richard Best in a while, but he recently shared "17 practical legal steps to help you create great course content, protect yourself, and keep your money." One of the 17 is "Know how to find…

Omnichannel or Multichannel?

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

NotesWooCommerce

Here's a detailed post from Bradley Taylor for GoDaddy's WooCommerce Wednesdays — all about multichannel selling. I was curious to see why that's being billed as the future of e-commerce. I've read more about "omnichannel" as the buzzword of the…

Partnerships in WordPress and WooCommerce

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

BusinessNotes

Bob Dunn breaks down the main types of partnerships he sees working (in different contexts) in the Woo/WP space: Affiliates and income-generating partnershipsThe Real Business PartnershipThe Sponsorship PartnershipThe Soft Partnership Read/listen to the whole thing for good insights and advice…

Roll Your Own Fonts

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

I'm not sorry to see Google Fonts and other sources of fine typography being dropped as remote sources for WordPress themes. Given the relative ease of modifying existing open source typefaces and creating new ones, I wonder why we don't…

New Home and Download Pages for WP.org

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

WordPress.org is getting new Home and Download pages. The current mockups look very nice! Leave your feedback in the comments.

How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

Here's a nice tutorial at learn.wordpress.org for learning how to get started with child block theme development and a good model for tutorials you can contribute! If you have any questions about being a tutorial presenter please join the #training…

Does “Full-Site Editing” Need a New, “User-Friendly” Name?

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

NotesPlanet

I've been thinking about this question and the others related to it that Josepha Haden Chomphosy posted last week. There's been a strong comment discussion so far, and I discovered what my view on it is now by noticing what…

Nulled Themes and Plugins

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

NotesSecurity

My first experiences with "nulled" (or back in the day "cracked") software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot…

Woo Weekly #400: State of WooCommerce 2022

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

NotesWooCommerce

Congrats to Rodolfo Melogli of Business Bloomer and David Mainayar at PeachPay for reaching issue #400 of WooWeekly back in July. To celebrate this milestone, Rodolfo asked a lot of people (including me) to explain what one thing they'd change…

Transitioning an Agency to Gutenberg

Dan Knauss

July 29, 2022

BusinessDesign

Up this week on WP Tavern's Jukebox with Nathan Wrigley, it's Sean Blakely with the story of the transition to Gutenberg in a large agency, American Eagle. I've expected to see stories like this — for years. It seems they're…

Plugin Checker

Dan Knauss

July 29, 2022

Make WordPressNotes

On July 5, Felix Arntz proposed creating and adopting a plugin checking tool for the Plugin Review Team similar to the theme checker. The Performance Team would take the lead, but contributors from other teams would be needed as well.…

A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future

Dan Knauss

July 28, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

Here's an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic's mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack:…

WP Campus 2023

Dan Knauss

July 27, 2022

Notes

The WPCampus conference won't happen in 2022. The post-COVID reboot has been delayed until July 12-14, 2023, so save those dates. Until then, keep up with the leadership transition and consider pitching in. WPCampus is a community network and conference…

How Green is WebP, really?

Mentorship as Contribution: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 2)

Shiny New Thing: OrganizeWP

Legal Stuff: What All Online Course Creators Need to Know

Omnichannel or Multichannel?

Partnerships in WordPress and WooCommerce

Roll Your Own Fonts

New Home and Download Pages for WP.org

How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes

Does “Full-Site Editing” Need a New, “User-Friendly” Name?

Nulled Themes and Plugins

Woo Weekly #400: State of WooCommerce 2022

Transitioning an Agency to Gutenberg

Plugin Checker

A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future

WP Campus 2023

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