Em Lazer-Walker has an interesting post…
Dan Knauss
Em Lazer-Walker has an interesting post suggesting how game design could be used to make virtual events more social. 🎮
Joe Casabona on creating quality content and courses
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode, David Bisset talks to Joe Casabona about creating content through both his podcast and courses, plus some of the recent news in the WordPress landscape.
Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but…
Dan Knauss
Salvatore Sanfilippo has a brief but insightful take on "the open source paradox," which is "the proportionality between the money people give you for coding something, and the level of demand for the quality they can claim to have about…
Sucuri has found some malware that…
Dan Knauss
Sucuri has found some malware that can disable security plugins to avoid detection. 😨 This is really devious! Luke Leal explains: "If a user tries to reactivate one of the disabled security plugins, [the Malware] will momentarily appear to activate…
Might as well go for the gusto?
Brian Krogsgard
WordPress Executive Director Josepha Haden Chomphosy has submitted a ticket to make a change on the WordPress hosting page: I would like to update the final sentence in the second paragraph. If you don’t need the flexibility of a full web…
Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform…
Dan Knauss
Cloudflare has implemented an Automatic Platform Optimization for WordPress. It includes improvements in speed for sites that might be slowed down a bit by plugins or hosting limitations effectively creating a "zero-config edge HTML caching solution." Garrett Galow explains: "Our…
📅 Conference and Event Updates Join…
Dan Knauss
📅 Conference and Event Updates Join Virtual CFO Jeff Meziere and his partner, Cory Miller, on October 13th as they talk about a framework to better forecast your business cashflow. This webinar is especially timely and relevant for agencies looking…
Call a Vulnerability a Vulnerability Roger…
Dan Knauss
Call a Vulnerability a Vulnerability Roger Montii reporting for SEJ looks at an Authenticated Stored XSS vulnerability in the WPBakery Page Builder plugin. The vulnerability was discovered by Wordfence and fixed through their collaboration with WPBakery in a recent update.…
Joost de Valk on WordPress marketshare
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode of Post Status Draft, David Bisset interviews Joost de Valk about WordPress marketshare and CMS trends.
Decisions have consequences
David Bisset
Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudos…
Cory Miller shares his sympathy for…
Dan Knauss
Cory Miller shares his sympathy for people "starting new projects or businesses," which he compares to "rolling a snowball uphill." It's hard work to maintain patience and focus in a "grind" or struggle state without seeing big results. ❄️ "We…
📅 Conference and Event Updates If…
Dan Knauss
📅 Conference and Event Updates If you are looking for a WordCamp this weekend, check out WordCamp Philadelphia which will be hosting speakers such as Joost de Valk, Marieke van de Rakt, Topher DeRosia, William Jackson, Bianca Ross, and Jackson…
Mel Choyce-Dwan has given us a…
Dan Knauss
Mel Choyce-Dwan has given us a preview of the Twenty Twenty One theme, which will appear in the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release. Twenty Twenty One is "designed to be a blank canvas for the block editor" and uses a modified…
SkyVerge & GoDaddy
Brian Krogsgard
The team at SkyVerge is joining GoDaddy in a full company acquisition. All SkyVerge extensions and Jilt will go under the GoDaddy umbrella. In the announcement from SkyVerge, they gave a hint as to what is next: "While we’ll be…
Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful…
Dan Knauss
Lisa Charlotte Rost offers some helpful tips on how to pick more beautiful colors for your data visualizations. 🎨 The depth of this post makes it worth a bookmark even if you aren't building a visualization. I found it helpful…
📅 Conference and Event Updates Google…
Dan Knauss
📅 Conference and Event Updates Google Open Source Live is a new monthly recurring event “focused on different open source technologies." The kickoff event theme is "The new open source: Leadership, contributions and sustainability." WordSesh is happening on September 2nd.…
