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A microblog of curated WordPress news and commentary.

Founders on What They’d Do Over Differently

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Dan Knauss
Eric Karkovack got some nice brief reflections from WordPress product founders/owners Kathy Darling, Cameron Jones, Derek Ashauer, Jack Arturo, Gareth Harris, and Mark Westguard. You may be surprised at what they'd do differently if they were starting out now, knowing…

Winning the War on WordPress Notification Spam

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Dan Knauss
Nice to see Brian Coords getting involved with the WP Notifications feature plugin project — otherwise known as WP-Notify (Github). He's calling for testing and feedback on the proof-of-concept at this point. You can click this link and immediately spin…

Faster and Faster

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Dan Knauss
Kevin Ohashi has released another annual report for WordPress (and WooCommerce) Hosting Benchmarks. My takeaways: https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551672904852484096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1551672904852484096%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fpost_status2Fstatus2F1551672904852484096widget%3DTweet https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551674571366940672 https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551676428202102785

Joost’s 7th WordPress Market Share Report

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Cory Miller
Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, posted his 7th CMS Market Share Analysis, based on data from W3Techs and BuiltWith. Here are some key points from Joost’s post: WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 43% market share, roughly…

FSE Themes on the Rise

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Dan Knauss
Hendrik Luehrsen shares stats and notes about 100 FSE themes in the WordPress repo by 53 different contributors. He notes that, excluding the Twenty Twenty-Two theme, “all remaining 99 FSE themes combined have about 30,000 active installs, rising fast!” Hendrik…

WordPress VIP + SalesForce Marketing Cloud

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Cory Miller
According to Elisa Brown at WordPress VIP, they’ve just announced a partnership and integration with SalesForce Marketing Cloud. It’s the only one of its kind and makes activating your content in WordPress to build email campaigns easier. Yes!

Core Contributions by the Numbers

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Dan Knauss
I didn't have a chance to dig into Daniele Scasciafratte's report and analysis regarding WordPress core contributions when he shared it in April. It's a simple assessment that gives you a good, albeit frustrating, picture of how difficult it is…

The scariest thing I’ve seen in a long time

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Dan Knauss
Thomas Nachbar of the University of Virginia School of Law writes in "Why We Can’t Disconnect Russia From the Internet" how he would really like to do so — and more: In the heady early days of the internet, the…

WP Engine, which took ownership of Local…

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Dan Knauss
WP Engine, which took ownership of Local upon the acquisition of Flywheel in June 2019, has discontinued its own local development tool, DevKit, and incorporated its features into Local. Additionally, all of Local’s tools and features are free now —…

I’m always amazed what can be…

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Dan Knauss
I'm always amazed what can be done with CSS and when I think i've seen everything, I see something that I think is cool. This time it's this one that shows filtering content using only CSS. There are drawbacks, but…

Matt Cromwell shows us how to…

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Dan Knauss
Matt Cromwell shows us how to enqueue scripts only when a widget or shortcode is present. Useful if you don't want something like a stylesheet to be enqueued EVERYWHERE regardless of whether it's being used on the page or not.

“Don’t Use Carousels” is a mantra…

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Dan Knauss
"Don't Use Carousels" is a mantra that's been going around the design community for years, but i found Chris Coyier's article at MediaTemple's blog to take a sensible approach in explaining why that absolute is a bit overboard. If you…

Denis Sinegubko from Sucuri demonstrates what…

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Dan Knauss
Denis Sinegubko from Sucuri demonstrates what lessons we can learn from WordPress WP-Login malware in a recent post. If your site is ever hacked, always remember that hackers can take over existing legit admin accounts - so Denis recommends not…

A small team from Mozilla has…

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Dan Knauss
A small team from Mozilla has created FlyWheel which - as this post explains - is "an API for web pages to host local web servers for exposing content and services to nearby browsers". This is interesting because these browser…
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