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.
First of the Independents
Dan Knauss
Consolidation through mergers and acquisitions isn't the only big business story in WordPress. Partnerships are increasing too. Founders investing in founders. Product companies and agencies expanding their own ecosystems. Informal partnerships to protect common interests. There are a lot of ways to grow on your own terms in WordPress.
Business Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Dan Knauss
Vito Peleg, Atarim‘s cofounder and CEO, explains how he “cracked” the partnership problem to find alignment with other companies that can help them all accelerate their growth. Alex Denning on the launch of Ellipsis' Weather Report: “We’ve never had this insight before, and it is exciting and terrifying to bring this kind of ‘live' view of the industry, to the industry.” The acquisition trend is still up, on average. Meet Post Status business member Penske Media Corporation — PMC.
The Ellipsis Weather Report is Live
Dan Knauss
Every week, Ellipsis' Weather Report will show how much WordPress and WooCommerce search and advertiser activity has increased or dropped relative to the previous week. By watching these two trendlines, you can gauge whether your own search and sales trends are performing in line with the industry at large.
WordPress Community News Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Michelle Frechette
The Post Status Member Spotlight turns onto Tom Greenwood this week. The WordPress community conversation about accessibility at WordCamps continues on Twitter, WP Builds, Post Status Draft, and Post Status Excerpt. Let's have WordPress Accessibility for All!
Post Status Excerpt (No. 69) — WCUS Afterthoughts, Accessibility, and Pay Transparency
Dan Knauss
WordCamp US, accessibility, disability, Ny's "blood feud" with Uber, and salary transparency are the topics Dan Knauss and Nyasha Green take on this week for The Excerpt.
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Daniel Schutzsmith
Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: WP Tests from the Abstract Agency, ACF 6.0, and Simple Social Images. Cool Tool of the week Warp goes into plaid.
WordPress Careers Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Dan Knauss
Why do designers quit? Matej Latin breaks down the results of his survey. Amelia Nagoski says self-care is not enough to prevent burnout — we have to care for each other. Alyssa Place explains how managers can do that. Maintenance failures can be lethal, but Stewart Brand finds the winning maintenance style in sailing history.
Is there a maximum length to WordPress user passwords?
Dan Knauss
Otto chimed in to answer this interesting question at Stack Exchange. Apparently WordPress will accept passwords up to 4096 bytes. Of course, there's more to it than that...
Kevin Ohashi: Deep History, Integrity, and Hosting Benchmarks
Dan Knauss
This is a great interview with Ryan MacDonald of Liquid Web and Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal if you value depth and breadth of experience and vision in experts. The history of the hosting industry is interesting on its own…
Business Spotlight: PMC
Michelle Frechette
PMC is an agency with some BIG name clients, but for this agency, their team is just as important (if not more so) than those juicy clients.
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…
