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News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

Gutenberg 13.8 Drops / What’s Ahead in WordPress 6.1

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Dan Knauss
George Mamadashvili has a nice update and overview of the latest Gutenberg release: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/04/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-8-3-august/ The new monthly summaries for WordPress.org news are really nice — here's July from Reyes Martinez: https://wordpress.org/news/2022/08/the-month-in-wordpress-july-2022/

Pentesting as Contributing

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Dan Knauss
Robert Rowley at Patchstack explains what I believe is the first-ever reported vulnerability in Gutenberg (the plugin, not in WordPress core) to make the National Vulnerability Database. Robert has opened an issue for discussion in the Gutenberg GitHub repo that…

Networking Done Right

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Cory Miller
Extendify’s Chris Lubkert and Artur Grabowski unpack how WordPress founders can build a network of potential buyers early on to enhance the sellability of their product for a future exit. I’ve had many conversations with Chris and Artur over the…

Digital Marketing as the “Edge” in Recession

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Cory Miller
I asked How Is “Recession” Talk Affecting Your Clients? in our Agency Owners channel because I was curious what those on the frontlines working with clients are hearing and seeing. Hendrik Luehrsen said “clients are actively pushing the envelope to…

CSS Tricks Sale Price: $4M

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Cory Miller
Acquired in January, CSS-Tricks founder Chris Coyier, who was also a member here, ran that publication for 15 years before capitalizing on search traffic to sell to Digital Ocean — for $4 million (USD). They Got Acquired got that number…

DesktopServer Shutting Down After 12 Years

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Cory Miller
It's sad to hear that ServerPress is closing its doors and DesktopServer has reached its end. Marc Benzakein and Gregg Franklin were active WordPress community members for years and I appreciated their work. Shared in an email to their customers:…

Gluing Things Together

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Cory Miller
This week Dan and I talked with Post Status member Lesley Sim of Newsletter Glue about refining our tedious and time-consuming newsletter workflow here. (I’ve been doing it for the last couple of weeks and it’s a bear!)

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 1

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Dan Knauss
Adam Silverstein on Performance in large plugins, GDPR and accessibility, World Wide Web Day in the global WordPress community, Jonathan Wold on partnerships, women in software, and Michelle Frechette on building communities.

Gmail Clipping…Cured

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Dan Knauss
This is great — an email size checker that counts up how many Kb your outgoing email will be — for Newsletter Glue. Lesley Sim showed it to me a while ago. In the past I used to do this…

WP.events — Find out what’s happening next

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Dan Knauss
Have you recently thought it would be nice to have one comprehensive source for all WordPress community events? Thanks to The Events Calendar and some nice people at StellarWP — Hazel Quimpo, Zach Tirrell, and Michelle Frechette — there's a…

Business Case for Performance

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Dan Knauss
Here's an idea for a handy performance business case calculator. The eCommerce fashion Farfetch correlated Core Web Vitals and their own performance metrics with their business metrics, which let them identify an increase in KPIs. They built a "Performance Business…
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