WP Mayor has gotten a new…
Dan Knauss
WP Mayor has gotten a new look with a new logo! 🧐🎩 Gabriella Galea goes into the thought process behind some of the design decisions and takes a look at the main plugins used on the new site.
Upcoming Events There is a call…
Dan Knauss
Upcoming Events There is a call for speakers for WordFest Live 2021 which happens online on January 22, 2021. The deadline for speaker submissions is November 18 at midnight UTC. Selected speakers will be notified by December 2. 📅 On…
Gatsby recently chose headless WordPress for…
Dan Knauss
Gatsby recently chose headless WordPress for its blog. Senior Product Marketing Manager Hashim Warren explains why: "WordPress enables us to have unlimited users (without paying a subscription per seat). WordPress also comes with powerful role-based permissions and has free plugins…
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The 2020 Web Almanac’s Markup chapter…
Dan Knauss
The 2020 Web Almanac’s Markup chapter is available now with some interesting statistics based on the analysis of over 7 million web pages. Find out what HTML elements and markup are being used the most, and which aren't. 📊 You…
WordPress 5.6 Beta 2 is available…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.6 Beta 2 is available for testing. WordPress 5.6 is still slated for release on December 8. 📅 In the meantime, you will want to upgrade to WordPress 5.5.2, which was released on Thursday. It features 14 bug fixes…
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…
