WordPress News

Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks

Courtney Robertson

August 10, 2022

DesignMake WordPress

Is it safe to insert an SVG via URL? How healthy is your database? Performance Team Rep Nominations.

Local Development Tools and the Open Web

Dan Knauss

August 9, 2022

BusinessDesign

Who is not using Local? Is it an Open Web tool? Let's review some "Local history" and consider where WP Engine's popular developer tools could be headed.

Gutenberg 13.8 Drops / What’s Ahead in WordPress 6.1

Dan Knauss

August 8, 2022

Notes

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

Dan Knauss

August 8, 2022

NotesPlanet

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

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

Notes

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

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

BusinessNotes

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

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

BusinessNotes

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

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

BusinessHosting

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

Cory Miller

August 5, 2022

BusinessDesign

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!)

The Importance of Space

Michelle Frechette

August 5, 2022

Post Status Team BlogWordPress News

In order to be productive, happy, and healthy, we often define our lives in terms of space: physical space, emotional space, and time.

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 1

Dan Knauss

August 5, 2022

BusinessPlanet

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.

WP.events — Find out what’s happening next

Dan Knauss

August 4, 2022

NotesPlanet

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…

If you want speed, upgrade PHP

Dan Knauss

August 4, 2022

Notes

Brent on PHP explains — His video on how much PHP has changed from 5.6 to 8.2 is good too —

Business Case for Performance

Dan Knauss

August 4, 2022

BusinessWordPress News

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…

TEST – block theme builder plugin

Dan Knauss

August 3, 2022

WordPress News

This sounds great. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'd love to hear from you if you have. This tool basically saves your current settings and layouts to wrap them up as a theme or child…