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Trust Issues

Dan Knauss

October 7, 2022

Cory Miller asks, "What can we do to better support our plugin developers and product owners?" Katie Keith offers some clues with the story of her WordPress/WooCommerce agency and product shop, Barn2 Plugins. Dan Knauss and Nyasha Green talk about microaggressions, the Active Install Growth Data story, and US federal legislation aimed at Open Source Security. In an increasingly "demon-haunted world," how can we know who is doing what with the hardware and software tools we use? Ben Gabler, CEO and Founder of Rocket.net, is in our Member Spotlight.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

Dan Knauss

October 7, 2022

BusinessDesign

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust and healthy communication are: 1) racism and microaggressions, 2) the sudden removal and uncertain fate of the active install growth chart in the WordPress.org plugin repository, and 3) open source and security. Briefly discussed: emerging US federal policy that aims to secure open-source software. Zero-trust architecture might work well for networked machines, but human relationships and communities need trust.

Diversifying Revenue, the 50% Coding / 50% Marketing Lifecycle, Active Install Clawback, and Turbo Admin

Daniel Schutzsmith

October 7, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week. As I look around the Post Status Slack and the chatter on Twitter, this week has been filled with conversations emphasizing the struggle of running a business as a solo devpreneur.

WordPress 6.1 Beta 3 • Active Install Growth Chart

Courtney Robertson

October 6, 2022

DesignHosting

Help test WordPess 6.1 Beta 3! 🧪 Check out the latest features that are coming in the 6.1 release. 📦 Follow updates about bringing back the Active Install Growth chart. 📈

Open Source Communities: You May Not Be Interested in CISA, But CISA is Very Interested in You

Dan Knauss

October 3, 2022

FeaturesPlanet

United States national security interests are poised to become more invested in and engaged with open source projects classified as public infrastructure. From Log4j to the Securing Open Source Software Act, how did it all come together in 2022, and what may lie ahead?

Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo

Dan Knauss

October 3, 2022

BusinessFeatures

In reaction to as-yet-unpublicized details about the abuse of active install data in the WordPress.org plugin repository, the charts displaying that data have been removed from plugin pages in a move expected to be temporary. Important (and some familiar) questions are emerging as this story unfolds: how to balance the values of openness, security, and privacy as well as cooperation and competition at WordPress.org — still the central hub for WordPress plugin businesses.

Shiny New Things!

Dan Knauss

September 29, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

From Abstract: WP Tests for Faster WordPress Projects.Independent Analytics – A Reliable Google Analytics Alternative for Your Website.Delicious Brains: WP Migrate 2.4 Released: Faster Migrations, Must-Use Plugins, WP Engine Compatibility, and More and The Developer's Guide to WP-CONFIG.PHP.WordPress 6.1: Global Styles…

What is WP Cloud?

Dan Knauss

September 29, 2022

BusinessFeatures

WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.

Radiopaper

Dan Knauss

September 29, 2022

NotesTech

Radiopaper is like a ring of threaded and publicly aggregated full-text Webmentions created via email — you email people you want to have a semi/private conversation with, and the conversation is published publicly. It's like if IndieWeb News let you…

2022 Web Almanac CMS Report

Dan Knauss

September 28, 2022

NotesPlanet

According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP Archive, sites using a CMS — and WordPress — are still steadily increasing globally, and 34% of all the sites with an identifiable CMS were using…

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

Dan Knauss

September 28, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.

WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 • Serverless WordPress • Annual Meetup Survey • Catalyst for Creativity

Courtney Robertson

September 28, 2022

DesignHosting

Help test WordPess 6.1 Beta 2! Check out the latest features that are coming in the 6.1 release. Learn how to run WordPress using WebAssembly, and take the Annual Meetup Survey to give feedback on events.

When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress

Dan Knauss

September 27, 2022

DevelopmentHosting

Keanan Koppenhaver explains over at WP Mayor: When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress: If you have a strong frontend team that’s comfortable interfacing with APIs and is used to communicating changes and working with more distributed systems, then…

Patchstack Partners with Hostinger

Dan Knauss

September 27, 2022

BusinessNotes

Patchstack brings fast virtual patches and safe updates to any plugin or theme vulnerabilities potentially affecting Hostinger's customers.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 69) — WCUS Afterthoughts, Accessibility, and Pay Transparency

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

BusinessDesign

WordCamp US, accessibility, disability, Ny's "blood feud" with Uber, and salary transparency are the topics Dan Knauss and Nyasha Green take on this week for The Excerpt.

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022

Daniel Schutzsmith

September 22, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: WP Tests from the Abstract Agency, ACF 6.0, and Simple Social Images. Cool Tool of the week Warp goes into plaid.

Trust Issues

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

Diversifying Revenue, the 50% Coding / 50% Marketing Lifecycle, Active Install Clawback, and Turbo Admin

WordPress 6.1 Beta 3 • Active Install Growth Chart

Open Source Communities: You May Not Be Interested in CISA, But CISA is Very Interested in You

Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo

Shiny New Things!

What is WP Cloud?

Radiopaper

2022 Web Almanac CMS Report

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022

WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 • Serverless WordPress • Annual Meetup Survey • Catalyst for Creativity

When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress

Patchstack Partners with Hostinger

Post Status Excerpt (No. 69) — WCUS Afterthoughts, Accessibility, and Pay Transparency

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