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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.

Cory Miller shares his sympathy for…

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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…

đź“… Conference and Event Updates If…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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…

đź“… Conference and Event Updates Google…

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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.…

If you’re using the popular File…

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Dan Knauss
If you're using the popular File Manager plugin (700k+ installations), be sure it's upgraded to the latest version. A recently discovered vulnerability allows "unauthenticated users to execute commands and upload malicious files on a target site." 🎯 A patch was…

If you are a designer, front-end…

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Dan Knauss
If you are a designer, front-end developer, or just someone looking for some design ideas, ColorDoo is a tool site that shows “trending” color collections and gradients. 🎨

đź“… Conference and Event Updates WordSesh…

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Dan Knauss
📅 Conference and Event Updates WordSesh is back and happening on September 2nd. Registration is free! Take a close look at the schedule — it might start very early if you live in North America. This time around there will…

Joe Howard explains at Torque how…

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Dan Knauss
Joe Howard explains at Torque how to begin developing headless WordPress sites. The main advantages are flexibility and control, easier multi-channel content publishing, and better security and speed. 👤🪓 Joe names three tools to help you get started: GraphQL API,…

Jonathan Bossenger posted a recent update…

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Dan Knauss
Jonathan Bossenger posted a recent update about the WP Notify project. It looks like things are off to a good start: the GitHub repository has been created. Code and design decisions are being made. đź‘Ť

In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks,…

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In a recent interview, Ben Gillbanks, a long-time WordPress developer, shares his thoughts on how to stay relevant in a "quickly shifting WordPress landscape." Ben says (1) avoid selling themes because it's a "really hard business to get into, and…

PHP 8 is in feature freeze,…

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Dan Knauss
PHP 8 is in feature freeze, and Beta 1 has been released. There are also new security releases for stable PHP versions 7.2.33, 7.3.21 and 7.4.9. đź”’

Creating healthy virtual work environments

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Brian Krogsgard
In this episode of the Draft podcast, Cory and Brian discuss creating and operating in healthy virtual environments: For work, conference, and personal use -- all in a world that prevents the familiar physical experiences.
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