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State of the Word 2022 • Dev Blog Beta • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

Courtney Robertson

November 23, 2022

As 2022 comes to an end, State of the Word will happen in NYC again. Apply to attend or tune in to the livestream. Check out the beta version of the WordPress Developer Blog. Still have sites on WordPress 3.7 - 4.0? It's really time to upgrade as this will receive no further updates after December 1. It's team rep nomination time too.

WordPress Community Roundup

Dan Knauss

November 18, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

A New Home for the WordPress Community? RSS Friends • WP community stories of the pandemic • The History of Screen Readers • Dumb questions about disability • "Crip Time"

WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of November 14

Dan Knauss

November 18, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress • Tom Lach on the costs of rapid growth — It's not for everyone • The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor • Evolving Edupack — and Sunsetting It • and more...

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of November 14

Jonathan Bossenger

November 18, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Learn Accessibility • The Return of SmashingConf • PHP 8.2 Release Delayed • Deno for Decoupled Front-End Development • LogoIpsum, Post to Telegram, and WP .gitgnore • Substack, the WordPress Plugin • Cool Tool: Restrict With Stripe

Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress — Post Status Draft 130

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

DraftPlanet

Sparked by Magne Ilsaas's ideas in The WordPress Enterprise Paradox, Tom started a Twitter thread and hosted a live discussion with Magne and others at enterprise WordPress agencies this week. Their main concern is the challenges that arise from not having a well-defined brand and market that allows "WordPress for the Enterprise" to stand out — without being ties to a particular WordPress company or host. After getting an outline of the problem as it stands today, I asked Tom what might help differentiate "Enterprise WordPress" as a collective or entire ecosystem of agencies operating within it. Can open-source values of sharing and cooperation shape a unique global identity for enterprise WordPress agencies? Is it time for an inter-agency association or "guild" to take on these challenges?

Two Tools

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

Jetpack and WordPress.com can publish to Telegram. The ultimate gitignore for WordPress projects.

Are WebP and SVG Pixels Greener?

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

PlanetTech

As a followup to my note in August on this topic, here's what Tom Greenwood had to say about WebP's value to sustainability in WordPress: I think as most browsers support WebP now, there is a real benefit to serving…

Pandemic experiences, “Are you disabled?” and the history of screen readers

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

CareersNotes

Back in July, Sabina Ionescu published a lot of different responses from people in the WordPress community to questions about the impact of the pandemic on them. I missed it then, but it's still relevant and worth reading. Some other…

Patchstack enriches open vulnerability data with signals showing attack volume, method, and source

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2022

NotesPlanet

Back in August, Oliver Sild announced in Post Status Slack that Patchstack was opening up "additional data" to "enrich the vulnerability data" their service discloses, now "with [a] real-time IP feed of attackers who hit [Patchstack's] virtual patches." Virtual patches…

Catching up with Do the Woo

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2022

NotesPlanet

Bob puts out so much writing and audio at Do the Woo and has so many different people featured, it's hard to keep up! These are some recent ones I've taken note of but didn't get into a post or…

Naming is hard—but important

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2022

NotesPlanet

This is an important topic that came out of a Post Status Slack #security discussion involving Robert Rowley and John James Jacoby: WordPress Terminology Meta. It continued over at the WPwatercooler.

WordPress 6.1.1 • Team Rep Nominations • Codespaces for Contributions

Courtney Robertson

November 16, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Time to update, WordPress 6.1.1 is out! GitHub has made Codespaces available for 60 hours/month, and WordPress is exploring Core contribution integrations with wordpress/wordpress-develop. It's team rep nomination time too.

The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor

Dan Knauss

November 15, 2022

DevelopmentFeatures

The journey to GiveWP 3.0 is well underway — an open, iterative development process that fully embraces WordPress's Gutenberg block editor. Give cofounder Matt Cromwell and development director Jason Adams share what they've learned so far.

Keeping Higher Education Website Managers’ Dream Alive While Sunsetting Edupack

Blake Bertuccelli

November 15, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Every University IT department dreams of a self-service system in which they do not have to deal with outside vendors.

Evolving Edupack: A One-Size Fits All Plugin Leads to an Accessibility Platform and Enhanced Agency Services

Blake Bertuccelli

November 14, 2022

BusinessFeatures

I now believe that a one size fits all website publishing product is not possible. Each university has its own set of requirements. The requirements vary from the placement of buttons to the type of accessibility a university mandates. In the end, universities shouldn’t sacrifice individual requirements for ease of use.