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As soon as I heard about…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
As soon as I heard about WP FeedBack, I was wondering which hosting company would take advantage of it first. The answer came quickly as GoDaddy Pro announced a partnership with them this week. Their members can get WP Feedback…

WordCamp US will have a WordPress-themed…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
WordCamp US will have a WordPress-themed game show Saturday morning (November 2nd). If you are attending WordCamp US, join the fun and help support the young people who are hosting it. It will be fun! 🎉

Dave Whitley outlines a proposal to…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Dave Whitley outlines a proposal to standardize a type scale for WordPress: "By including other attributes like font weight and line height, we can create a reusable set of predefined styles for design and development."

According to a recent post on…

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Dan Knauss
Security
According to a recent post on Google's official security blog, Chrome is being prepared to start blocking all mixed content. As of Chrome 79, the browser "will gradually move to block all mixed content by default." It will auto-upgrade mixed…

Ashley Rich compares Digital Ocean, Google…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
Ashley Rich compares Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, and AWS for hosting WordPress sites way you might with SpinupWP or ServerPilot and their forthcoming HostLaunch platform. Digital Ocean won the matchup, but all three platforms were are pretty close, and the…

If you have heard the term…

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Dan Knauss
BusinessHosting
If you have heard the term "serverless," but not much else, then John Demian's brief guide will help you get up to speed. John describes serverless hosting as "an event-based system for running code." In other words, services "create business…

Rachel Andrew at Smashing Magazine explores…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Rachel Andrew at Smashing Magazine explores the use cases where you might encounter overflow in your web designs. Rachel explains how CSS has evolved to create better ways to manage and design around unknown amounts of content.

There is a discussion unfolding at…

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Dan Knauss
Design
There is a discussion unfolding at Make WordPress about the future design of the WordPress "About" page. Initial discussion points posted by Tammie Lister ask some good focusing, "what if" questions: What if the CSS system was rebuilt from the…

WordPress 5.2.3 is out. It’s a…

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Dan Knauss
Security
WordPress 5.2.3 is out. It's a security and maintenance release that includes 29 fixes and enhancements, including an update of jQuery for older versions of WordPress. ✨

Gary Pendergast announced a “baby step”…

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Brian Krogsgard
Hosting
Gary Pendergast announced a "baby step" toward a better contributor experience in WordPress Core. Custom Docker images are now available for running WordPress on PHP versions 5.2 to 7.3. These images aren’t intended for hosting Docker-based WordPress sites but instead…

ServerPilot announced in June that they…

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Dan Knauss
Hosting
ServerPilot announced in June that they are launching a new hosting automation service called HostLaunch. It's meant to be a "platform for operating a modern web hosting company." It's a "customer-facing portal for your users to create their own accounts,…

Joshua Wold explains from a design…

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Dan Knauss
Design
Joshua Wold explains from a design perspective how WooCommerce widgets are being converted into Gutenberg blocks. A lot more work goes into this than you might think!

Mary Ann Azevedo from Crunchbase makes…

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Dan Knauss
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Mary Ann Azevedo from Crunchbase makes the case that the WordPress hosting space may simultaneously be one of the most lucrative — yet underfunded — industries. 💸
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