Is there a maximum length to WordPress user passwords?
Dan Knauss
Otto chimed in to answer this interesting question at Stack Exchange. Apparently WordPress will accept passwords up to 4096 bytes. Of course, there's more to it than that...
Kevin Ohashi: Deep History, Integrity, and Hosting Benchmarks
Dan Knauss
This is a great interview with Ryan MacDonald of Liquid Web and Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal if you value depth and breadth of experience and vision in experts. The history of the hosting industry is interesting on its own…
Copyright, Selfie Monkeys, and the Hand of God
Dan Knauss
The Open Source Initiative has produced a podcast series on AI and its implications for open source out of the concern that "the traditional view of open source code implementing AI algorithms may not be sufficient to guarantee inspectability and…
Why do designers quit their jobs?
Dan Knauss
Matej Latin did a survey of designers who quit their jobs and discovered: No career progression opportunities and unhappiness with the work they do were about equal, at about 20% each.Problems with company culture came next.A lack of UX maturity…
Revisiting the Notifications Problem
Dan Knauss
Brian Coords has been working on WP-Notify which is described on its GitHub repo as: A feature plugin for WordPress, which aims to create a new (better) way to manage and deliver notifications to the relevant audience. https://wpbuilds.com/2022/09/01/294-how-might-we-fix-the-wordpress-notifications-problem/
WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 • Help Test • #WPTranslationDay • Video Courses #LearnWP
Courtney Robertson
The 6.1 Beta 1 release was briefly delayed a day but is now available. You can get familiar with what's coming in 6.1 with the release by helping test the new features. Please give some consideration to Hugh Lashbrooke's proposal for faster course development on the Training Team with video-based courses.
New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1
Dan Knauss
A reminder from Anne McCarthy about the importance of your help testing Gutenberg 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release: If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that…
Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo
Dan Knauss
Delicious Brains has a new tutorial about Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo that's worth a look. Robo is an open-source task runner like Gulp and Grunt using PHP instead of JavaScript. It's used by Drupal's Drush, that project's…
Making Events Accessible and Websites Under 1kB
Dan Knauss
From the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Here's a checklist "for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid." And here's a website with pages under 1kB from Brad Taunt who is maintaining a list of sites…
1,122% 3-Year Growth
Dan Knauss
Multidots was ranked #560 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List this year. Noted at the end of the listing is a massive figure — they posted 1,122% growth over three years as a WordPress VIP Gold partner. They've also…
What’s in a Name? HPOS for WooCommerce
Dan Knauss
Custom Order Tables in WooCommerce are now High Performance Order Storage (HPOS). It's a technical kind of rebranding that's a really good idea to express not only what custom database tables for orders are but what they do. According to…
Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership
Dan Knauss
Vito Peleg, Atarim's cofounder and CEO, explains how he "cracked" the partnership problem to find alignment with other companies that can help them all accelerate their growth. Vito explains what Atarim's latest partnership with Rocket.net brings to both companies and their customers — and he anticipates more deals like this in the year ahead.
Want WebP by Default Now? Get the Performance Lab Plugin
Dan Knauss
If your host doesn't already support WebP by default, you can get it with the Performance Lab plugin, thanks to the WordPress Performance Team.
A Beautiful Life is All About Maintenance
Dan Knauss
RescueTime, which I've used since they started up, often has pretty good articles on time management and such. This is one. Most good habits are about maintenance. https://blog.rescuetime.com/a-beautiful-life-is-all-about-maintenance/
WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?
Dan Knauss
How to make a user experience that doesn't suck has always remained a kind of trade secret among those who make it their trade. That's understandable, but it's Drupal behavior in a WordPress world.
Lessons in Maintenance
Dan Knauss
What's the best approach to maintenance — in software, sailing, or anything else? Hope for the best? Stewart Brand takes a famous solo, non-stop, round-the-world sailing race as a parable about maintenance styles that will win, go beyond winning, or drive you mad.
