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Freelancers: What are your rates?

Dan Knauss

August 21, 2022

Mailchimp & Co's 2021 Benchmark Report on freelancers using Mailchimp said "the top 10% charge $197 per hour." The 2022 Report did not post data about rates but indicated they had generally gone up. The same was true in the…

Languages of Contribution and Creation

Dan Knauss

August 19, 2022

BusinessFeatures

The Creator Economy owes a lot to WordPress, but that doesn't mean WordPress is valued or even understood by Creators as an open source project and community. Are the stories we tell and the words we use compelling to newcomers and the younger generations we need to succeed us? Is the story and language that got WordPress where it is adequate to take it where it wants to go?

Breaking into WordPress and Post Status Book Nook Picks

Cory Miller

August 19, 2022

CareersNotes

The Best Place to Break into WordPress Talisha Lewallen from WP Connects asks, “What is the best way to start and stay involved in the WordPress community?” WordCamps and Meetups were mentioned a lot. But my favorite came from Ben…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 65) — How We Talk When We Talk About WordPress

Dan Knauss

August 19, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

What's it like to enter the WordPress community media space, especially as the editor of a publication with many voices, personalities, and perspectives?

The true intention and spirit of 5ftF

Dan Knauss

August 19, 2022

Notes

When someone says here's what I really mean, what I'm aiming at — it must be difficult to see only reactions that pick up on some detail and blow it up into a contradiction of what you've said was the…

Overcoming Barriers to Contributing

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

BusinessNotes

As a followup to my earlier post on common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future — especially for small teams — I was looking through the WordCamp US schedule and noticed Chris Lubkert's session: How Your Small Business…

The case against static site generators

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

Notes

This is old but thorough — Florens Verschedle's case against Static Site Generators like Jekyll and Hugo and in favor of CMSes because the latter actually manage content. Hat tip: Kev Quirk.

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 15

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Shop Talk Show: Andrew Walpole and Alex Riviere from Traina talk about their WordPress experience but also how they want to go further with more tools.Matt Report: A nice chat with Yaw Owusu-Ansah with a…

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 15, 2022

Daniel Schutzsmith

August 18, 2022

DesignDevelopment

This week Daniel shares some resources for creating React Apps using Gutenberg Data, static WordPress sites with Eleventy, and a Figma to FSE workflow. Also a reminder to test and give feedback on fluid typography — and one cool tool: Programming Fonts.

SaaS, Plugin, or Both?

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

BusinessNotes

The perennial question — to SaaS or not to SaaS? Both? WordPress-centric product and marketing, or not so much? Danielle Di-Tommaso and Josh Barling from Acsell join Vito Peleg from Atarim to talk about their experiences in these scenarios with…

Who is Winning in the Woo Marketplace?

Dan Knauss

August 18, 2022

BusinessNotes

Ellipsis has published some new data and analysis that addresses the question, "Who is winning in the WooCommerce marketplace?" Their conclusions: In comparison to WordPress, WooCommerce has been a lot stronger this year.70% commission on sales makes the WooCommerce Marketplace…

Winning Together in a Decentralizing Plugin Ecosystem

Dan Knauss

August 17, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Are OrganizeWP (and Newsletter Glue) leading indicators for trends and opportunities in the plugin space?

Feedback and Testing: Fluid Typography, Pre-Publish Sidebar, Editor Configuration, Expired Session Autosave, and Contribute Style Variations to Twenty Twenty Three

Courtney Robertson

August 17, 2022

DesignHosting

Get your feedback in now about features coming in WordPress 6.1. Feature freeze is September 20.

Make It Go Viral

Michelle Frechette

August 16, 2022

BusinessPost Status Team Blog

It's the ultimate marketing goal: something you create "goes viral." As marketers, we watch things gain popularity quickly- seemingly overnight - and dream of anything we do having that same level of success.

WordPress at a Massive Scale

Olivia Bisset

August 16, 2022

BusinessDesign

Cory Miller talks with Lead Solutions Engineer at WordPress VIP, Sean O'Shaughnessy. Learn about WordPress hosting at a massive scale with some blind case study examples.