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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.

Ryan Sullivan, who recently sold his…

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Brian Krogsgard
Ryan Sullivan, who recently sold his company WP Site Care, shares his feelings about the way a growing business can potentially interfere with your passion and get you sidetracked from the things that made you start a business in the…

Speaking of the BBC News, Chris Ashton,…

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Brian Krogsgard
Speaking of the BBC News, Chris Ashton, a senior developer, documents his experience of using the internet with nothing but a keyboard. Many designers and developers are taught to make sure their work is accessible through the keyboard and nothing else, so…

The BBC News has transitioned to HTTPS,…

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Brian Krogsgard
The BBC News has transitioned to HTTPS, as everyone should. James Donohue, a software engineer working with a team on the transition, briefly explains the problems that needed to be addressed and why security is so important to journalism: "In a…

4.9.7 Security Release

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Brian Krogsgard
WordPress 4.9.7 is a security release that fixes 17 bugs in WordPress, as announced by Aaron Campbell. The release caused some confusion from a naming perspective, as blog posts had been written scheduling 4.9.7, which are now bumped to 4.9.8…

Pagely has introduced PressThumb, a solution…

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Brian Krogsgard
Pagely has introduced PressThumb, a solution for image optimization and on-the-fly thumbnail generation. It is powered by Thumbor and integrated with Pagely’s hosting stack using a combination of custom NGINX rules and an MU plugin.

Over at the Easy Digital Downloads…

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Brian Krogsgard
Over at the Easy Digital Downloads blog, Mandy Jones explains how to create customer confidence for digital products in an era of hackers, fraud, and online theft. Mandy stresses how transparency means honesty and stressing how your customers' information is readily…

On June 21st the US Supreme…

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Brian Krogsgard
On June 21st the US Supreme Court has ruled that online sellers must collect state sales taxes on consumer purchases, which will effect every business that sells on the web in the United States. This will likely impact small businesses…

Notes from WordCamp Europe, 2018

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David Bisset
Another successful WordCamp Europe 2018 just wrapped up a few days ago. The event had 54 organizers, 170 volunteers, 65 speakers (from 17 countries), and 37 sponsors (with 44 micro-sponsors). Out of 2,368 tickets sold, 2,085 attendees (from 76 countries)…

Matt on Gutenberg at WordCamp Europe

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David Bisset
The sixth WordCamp Europe is happening now on June 15-16 (it was preceded by Contributor Day on the 14th) in Belgrade, Serbia. As you would expect from a large WordCamp, the lineup is full of great talks given by a diverse group of…

Fred Meyer writes that although WordPress…

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Brian Krogsgard
Fred Meyer writes that although WordPress is a great tool "most small business website owners are not having wonderful experiences with it." This is due to a wide range of problems, like a lack of developer ethics, unclear communication, slow…

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