WordPress News

WordPress 5.7.2 is available. It’s a…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

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. 🔒

Liquid Web’s Latest Acquisition: GiveWP

David Bisset

May 14, 2021

WordPress News

Liquid Web's acquisition of GiveWP came as a surprise to many people in the WordPress community. WP Business Reviews is part of the deal too.

Missing the Bus: When the “Bus Factor” Threatens Open Source Projects

David Bisset

May 14, 2021

WordPress News

Accidents and unforseen setbacks happen — to open source projects and their maintainers. The "Bus Factor" has been felt a lot lately.

The Age of Widgets

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

WordPress News

Widgets became a part of the WordPress lexicon when they entered core in 2005. Full Site Editing will eventually replace them with blocks.

WP-CLI 2.5 Release Pending

David Bisset

May 14, 2021

WordPress News

The long-awaited 2.5.0 release of WP-CLI is happening Wednesday, May 19th, 2021. Several obstacles converged to slow its progress in 2020.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 10) — GiveWP + LiquidWeb, Acquisitions Good For WordPress?

David Bisset

May 13, 2021

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the news aboutLiquidWeb acquiring GiveWP.

The Kolbe Index A and How It Can Help Your Team Thrive — with Kathy Kolbe

Karen Johnson

May 7, 2021

BusinessDesign

Kathy Kolbe has been called Abraham Maslow's successor because of her work on the mind and creative problem solving. Learn the science of team synergy in this important Post Status conversation.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 9) — Recommended Reading for WordPress Professionals and How We Update

David Bisset

May 6, 2021

BusinessHosting

Cory and David discuss three books WordPress professionals should read as well as the way they make updates to WordPress.

Heather J. Brunner, CEO of WPEngine,…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Hosting

Heather J. Brunner, CEO of WPEngine, announced on Twitter that "virtual will be the default day-to-day experience across the company." Physical spaces will be upgraded "to accommodate social distancing and to make them WOW spaces that encourage collaboration, innovation, and…

James Koster notes the existence of…

Dan Knauss

May 5, 2021

Design

James Koster notes the existence of the WordPress Design Library (an archive of WordPress design assets) and talks specifically about some key features and fundamentals of the Figma tool.🎨 This is useful if you want to prototype or design elements…

CC0 Public Domain Image Search Coming to WordPress

David Bisset

April 30, 2021

PlanetWordPress News

Matt Mullenweg announced this week that CC Search, a CC0 (Creative Commons Zero) image search engine, is joining the WordPress project.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 8) — Gravity Forms 2.5, CC Coming to WP

David Bisset

April 29, 2021

BusinessPlanet

One of the oldest commercial WordPress Plugins gets a facelift. In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about the recent 2.5 update to Gravity Forms. Cory reflects on the early days of the WordPress…

Technical debt is something every developer…

Dan Knauss

April 28, 2021

Business

Technical debt is something every developer comes to experience in some form. Luca Rossi has a thoughtful piece on defining technical debt and agrees with its definition as "a disagreement between business needs and how the software has been written."…

Danielle Joseph on Client Relations

Dan Knauss

April 25, 2021

BusinessDesign

In this episode of Post Status Draft, Danielle Joseph talks about her work with clients as a designer and how that has shaped her agency and Willowspace.