All the Things This Week
Michelle Frechette
All the things from the WordPress community for the week ending December 3, 2022.
Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Meetup Accessibility Overlays • Multi-line Code Comments • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases
Courtney Robertson
Should code comments switch to
// ? Meetup.com stops using an accessibility overlay. Final releases for WordPress 3.7 - 4.0 are now available. Tune in soon for State of the Word 2023, happening December 15 via livestream from New York City.
Member Spotlight: Nathan Ingram
Michelle Frechette
Meet Nathan Ingram: the creator of MonsterContracts, battle-tested contracts for WordPress client work.
WordPress is People (Weekly Community Update)
Michelle Frechette
WordPress is people. It’s created by people. It’s used by people. It relies on people to move it forward, to modify it, to moderate it, and to build community around it.
State of the Word 2022 • Dev Blog Beta • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases
Courtney Robertson
As 2022 comes to an end, State of the Word will happen in NYC again. Apply to attend or tune in to the livestream. Check out the beta version of the WordPress Developer Blog. Still have sites on WordPress 3.7 - 4.0? It's really time to upgrade as this will receive no further updates after December 1. It's team rep nomination time too.
WordPress Community Roundup
Dan Knauss
A New Home for the WordPress Community? RSS Friends • WP community stories of the pandemic • The History of Screen Readers • Dumb questions about disability • "Crip Time"
WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of November 14
Dan Knauss
Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress • Tom Lach on the costs of rapid growth — It's not for everyone • The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor • Evolving Edupack — and Sunsetting It • and more...
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of November 14
Jonathan Bossenger
Learn Accessibility • The Return of SmashingConf • PHP 8.2 Release Delayed • Deno for Decoupled Front-End Development • LogoIpsum, Post to Telegram, and WP .gitgnore • Substack, the WordPress Plugin • Cool Tool: Restrict With Stripe
The Enterprise
Dan Knauss
Tech jargon and analysts with acronyms. Buzzwords and ranking voodoo. Where does WordPress fit in the enterprise tech industry? A guide for the genuinely curious or perplexed.
Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress — Post Status Draft 130
Dan Knauss
Sparked by Magne Ilsaas's ideas in The WordPress Enterprise Paradox, Tom started a Twitter thread and hosted a live discussion with Magne and others at enterprise WordPress agencies this week. Their main concern is the challenges that arise from not having a well-defined brand and market that allows "WordPress for the Enterprise" to stand out — without being ties to a particular WordPress company or host. After getting an outline of the problem as it stands today, I asked Tom what might help differentiate "Enterprise WordPress" as a collective or entire ecosystem of agencies operating within it. Can open-source values of sharing and cooperation shape a unique global identity for enterprise WordPress agencies? Is it time for an inter-agency association or "guild" to take on these challenges?
Two Tools
Dan Knauss
Jetpack and WordPress.com can publish to Telegram. The ultimate gitignore for WordPress projects.
Are WebP and SVG Pixels Greener?
Dan Knauss
As a followup to my note in August on this topic, here's what Tom Greenwood had to say about WebP's value to sustainability in WordPress: I think as most browsers support WebP now, there is a real benefit to serving…
Pandemic experiences, “Are you disabled?” and the history of screen readers
Dan Knauss
Back in July, Sabina Ionescu published a lot of different responses from people in the WordPress community to questions about the impact of the pandemic on them. I missed it then, but it's still relevant and worth reading. Some other…
Patchstack enriches open vulnerability data with signals showing attack volume, method, and source
Dan Knauss
Back in August, Oliver Sild announced in Post Status Slack that Patchstack was opening up "additional data" to "enrich the vulnerability data" their service discloses, now "with [a] real-time IP feed of attackers who hit [Patchstack's] virtual patches." Virtual patches…
Catching up with Do the Woo
Dan Knauss
Bob puts out so much writing and audio at Do the Woo and has so many different people featured, it's hard to keep up! These are some recent ones I've taken note of but didn't get into a post or…
Big Growth Isn’t for Everyone
Tom Lach
Back in 2019, my agency was a team of 10 people, and we were entering a space where we could easily start working with big enterprises. Our idea of the future was to scale up and grow. Of course it was.
