Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?
David Bisset
Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in active install growth this year.
How to Read Like a Vampire and Improve Your Skills as a WordPress Professional
Cory Miller
How to read a lot without giving up your personal time — and three books worth reading on business and life.
Yash Rana lays a finger on…
Dan Knauss
Yash Rana lays a finger on common mistakes and mixed messages that many product makers are unknowingly making on their pricing pages. The list includes: not creating urgency (or overdoing it), not reducing exit points, keeping design and copy simple,…
Wordfence has a created a whitepaper…
Dan Knauss
Wordfence has a created a whitepaper aimed at developers and security researchers to share how coding flaws can introduce some of the most common and significant WordPress vulnerabilities — and how to prevent them. 🔒
Can small, independent WordPress makers still make it?
David Bisset
Is it still possible to make a living as a small WordPress company, freelancer, or solopreneur? The community says yes!
Post Status Excerpt (No. 16) — Syed Balkhi on Acquiring SearchWP
David Bisset
Syed Balkhi talks with David about his acquisition of SearchWP, his vision for the plugin, and he calls for developers to stay mission-focused.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 15) — Jon Christopher on Finding A New Home For SearchWP
David Bisset
Jon Christopher recently sold SearchWP to Awesome Motive. Learn what motivated Jon to make the sale, and get his view of search in WordPress core.
Post Status Draft (No. 115) — Craig Hewitt on Castos’ Latest Funding and Expansion of Private Podcasting
David Bisset
Post Status publisher Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about their pre-seed funding and expansion into the private podcasting market.
🌟 Featured Partner: Gravity Forms Gravity…
Dan Knauss
🌟 Featured Partner: Gravity Forms Gravity Forms is the easiest and most trusted advanced forms solution for your WordPress website. Packed with time-saving tools and features, Gravity Forms is the only WordPress form management plugin you will ever need. Stop…
Tony Perez’s approach to WordPress security…
Dan Knauss
Tony Perez's approach to WordPress security is not about complex configurations but three key tenets. These include 1) limiting access to the server stack to known and trusted sources, 2) limiting file access and knowing what is modified and introduced,…
The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also…
Dan Knauss
The WPScan team interviews Vlad (also known as m0ze) who is a long-time contributor to the WPScan vulnerability database. Vlad shares thoughts on the state of WordPress security today: “By itself, the WordPress engine is quite safe… but WordPress CMS…
Jill Bender has announced that the…
Dan Knauss
Jill Bender has announced that the Diverse Speaker Training group in the WordPress Community team is expanding to three programs for the next 12 months. Now there will be continuing Diverse Speakers Workshops, a new Speaker Placement program, and a…
WP Engine, which took ownership of Local…
Dan Knauss
WP Engine, which took ownership of Local upon the acquisition of Flywheel in June 2019, has discontinued its own local development tool, DevKit, and incorporated its features into Local. Additionally, all of Local’s tools and features are free now —…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 14) — Starting Your “Next Chapter” Project
David Bisset
Cory and David talk about building a "career raft" or "next chapter" project and congratulate Ninja Forms on their 10-year anniversary.
Lauren Sternecky explains in some detail…
Dan Knauss
Lauren Sternecky explains in some detail how The Events Calendar team tackled recurring events and why they needed to overhaul their system. She shares this because many companies often find themselves in a similar scenario — trying to fix “a…
Will Morris discusses HTTP headers —…
Dan Knauss
Will Morris discusses HTTP headers — what they are and how to add five security headers to a site.
