WordPress News

Barn2 Releases WooCommerce Product Filters

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

Although there have been some recent enhancements in WooCommerce in this area, product filters have not been a strong feature. If you've struggled with that missing feature, you'll be glad to know Barn2 Plugins has rolled out WooCommerce Product Filters.…

SVG and WebP…finally

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

HostingNotes

I'm looking forward to lots of good things coming in the future on the new WordPress core Performance Team blog, and I'm glad SVG and WebP are finally going to be usable in WordPress by default. (This is already the…

How Green is WebP, really?

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

Notes

WebP is pretty green! In most cases, it will really save on bandwidth, but when it's using lossless compression, it's often not the most efficient in terms of power consumption. Here are some interesting tests Olivier Philippot of Greenspector ran…

Barriers to Contributing

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

FeaturesMake WordPress

Small teams face frustrating barriers trying to make their contributions count TL;DR: Small teams have common barriers to contributing to Five for the Future. Making efficient use of their time and team members is hard when tooling and communication can…

If you step out, keep the door cracked

Cory Miller

August 2, 2022

BusinessPost Status Team Blog

WordPress is an amazing community, but if you’ve been in it for long, it can be a bit rough too. We are one big messy family. For the overwhelming majority of my time in it, I’ve found the most incredible…

Mentorship as Contribution: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 2)

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

NotesWordPress News

Have you been thinking about that question? I hope so. Everyone should, as long as we have a 5ftF program. Some low-hanging fruit — recognition of non-code contributors — has already been picked, according to Angela Jin's latest update. I…

Laura Nelson on WordPress and Email Marketing — Post Status Draft 122

Cory Miller

August 2, 2022

DraftPlanet

Laura Nelson and Cory Miller talk about creating content for email marketing.

Shiny New Thing: OrganizeWP

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

NotesWordPress News

Check out Jon Christopher's OrganizeWP which is still in Beta but won't be for long. Clean out your Admin interface and make it work for you! The Admin Menu has become a battleground for attention, especially with content types. OrganizeWP…

Legal Stuff: What All Online Course Creators Need to Know

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

Notes

I haven't seen anything from Richard Best in a while, but he recently shared "17 practical legal steps to help you create great course content, protect yourself, and keep your money." One of the 17 is "Know how to find…

Omnichannel or Multichannel?

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

NotesWooCommerce

Here's a detailed post from Bradley Taylor for GoDaddy's WooCommerce Wednesdays — all about multichannel selling. I was curious to see why that's being billed as the future of e-commerce. I've read more about "omnichannel" as the buzzword of the…

Partnerships in WordPress and WooCommerce

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

BusinessNotes

Bob Dunn breaks down the main types of partnerships he sees working (in different contexts) in the Woo/WP space: Affiliates and income-generating partnershipsThe Real Business PartnershipThe Sponsorship PartnershipThe Soft Partnership Read/listen to the whole thing for good insights and advice…

Roll Your Own Fonts

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

I'm not sorry to see Google Fonts and other sources of fine typography being dropped as remote sources for WordPress themes. Given the relative ease of modifying existing open source typefaces and creating new ones, I wonder why we don't…

New Home and Download Pages for WP.org

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

WordPress.org is getting new Home and Download pages. The current mockups look very nice! Leave your feedback in the comments.

How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

Notes

Here's a nice tutorial at learn.wordpress.org for learning how to get started with child block theme development and a good model for tutorials you can contribute! If you have any questions about being a tutorial presenter please join the #training…

Does “Full-Site Editing” Need a New, “User-Friendly” Name?

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

NotesPlanet

I've been thinking about this question and the others related to it that Josepha Haden Chomphosy posted last week. There's been a strong comment discussion so far, and I discovered what my view on it is now by noticing what…

Nulled Themes and Plugins

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

NotesSecurity

My first experiences with "nulled" (or back in the day "cracked") software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot…