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News and insights about WordPress and its ecosystem by Post Status staff and contributors for our members and the WordPress community.

Kevin Ohashi shared the results of…

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Dan Knauss
Kevin Ohashi shared the results of his latest (2021) WordPress Hosting Benchmarks — and he has hauch a new website dedicated to his annual reports. WooCommerce hosts get their own section and separate benchmarks. Plans from different hosting companies are…

Newly released Gutenberg 10.7 includes the…

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Dan Knauss
Newly released Gutenberg 10.7 includes the first iteration of responsive menus in the navigation block and new design tools to support the existing ones in blocks. Now you can insert block patterns from the WordPress.org Pattern Directory too. ✨

The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at…

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Dan Knauss
The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at Automattic is focused on hiring designers, onboarding new designers, and fostering the growth and development of the design team. Monika Burman wrote a great piece about their culture and community-building programs, which aren't often…

A New Era for Post Status

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Brian Krogsgard
I have sold my share of Post Status to Cory Miller as I step aside to explore new opportunities running a product business outside of the WordPress space.

Javier Casares makes the case for…

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Dan Knauss
Javier Casares makes the case for why hosting companies should install the PHP-intl extension. Instead of hacks, "we gain the possibility to use a lot of functions that can make our life easier" and "improve the way we develop to…

Very happy to see the release…

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Dan Knauss
Very happy to see the release WP-CLI v2.5.0 knowing it was quite the effort. Kudos to the team. This version includes security patches, PHP 8 support, improved MySQL/MariaDB support, new commands for managing automatic updates and creating MO files, and…

Robert Jacobi has joined Cloudways as…

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Dan Knauss
Robert Jacobi has joined Cloudways as Director of WordPress. We've included a lot of his insights from his blog and Post Status Slack over the past few months. Robert will be leading the WordPress business unit with "strategic partnerships, building…

WordPress 5.7.2 is available. It’s a…

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Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.7.2 is available. It's a security release (Ram Gall talks about specifics on the WordFence blog), so make sure to update if you don't have automatic updates active on your sites. 🔒

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