Winning Together in a Decentralizing Plugin Ecosystem
Dan Knauss
Are OrganizeWP (and Newsletter Glue) leading indicators for trends and opportunities in the plugin space?
Feedback and Testing: Fluid Typography, Pre-Publish Sidebar, Editor Configuration, Expired Session Autosave, and Contribute Style Variations to Twenty Twenty Three
Courtney Robertson
Get your feedback in now about features coming in WordPress 6.1. Feature freeze is September 20.
WordPress at a Massive Scale
Olivia Bisset
Cory Miller talks with Lead Solutions Engineer at WordPress VIP, Sean O'Shaughnessy. Learn about WordPress hosting at a massive scale with some blind case study examples.
On the Web Publishing Tool Race
Cory Miller
What if it's not between open and closed but centralized and decentralized?
Design, Development, and One Cool Tool
Daniel Schutzsmith
Daniel Schutzsmith shares the latest WordPress design and development news, tools, and techniques along with one special pick — this week's shiny, new, and coolest tool.
Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks
Courtney Robertson
Is it safe to insert an SVG via URL? How healthy is your database? Performance Team Rep Nominations.
Local Development Tools and the Open Web
Dan Knauss
Who is not using Local? Is it an Open Web tool? Let's review some "Local history" and consider where WP Engine's popular developer tools could be headed.
Pentesting as Contributing
Dan Knauss
Robert Rowley at Patchstack explains what I believe is the first-ever reported vulnerability in Gutenberg (the plugin, not in WordPress core) to make the National Vulnerability Database. Robert has opened an issue for discussion in the Gutenberg GitHub repo that…
DesktopServer Shutting Down After 12 Years
Cory Miller
It's sad to hear that ServerPress is closing its doors and DesktopServer has reached its end. Marc Benzakein and Gregg Franklin were active WordPress community members for years and I appreciated their work. Shared in an email to their customers:…
Gluing Things Together
Cory Miller
This week Dan and I talked with Post Status member Lesley Sim of Newsletter Glue about refining our tedious and time-consuming newsletter workflow here. (I’ve been doing it for the last couple of weeks and it’s a bear!)
Nice weather they’re having
Dan Knauss
Apparently unaffected by downward trends elsewhere, GoDaddy Inc. (NYSE: GDDY) posted some bullish numbers for their second quarter with revenue up 9% year-over-year, and net Income up 93% year-over-year. See the presentation slides and other prepared remarks from CEO Aman…
SVG and WebP…finally
Dan Knauss
I'm looking forward to lots of good things coming in the future on the new WordPress core Performance Team blog, and I'm glad SVG and WebP are finally going to be usable in WordPress by default. (This is already the…
Nulled Themes and Plugins
Dan Knauss
My first experiences with "nulled" (or back in the day "cracked") software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot…
Transitioning an Agency to Gutenberg
Dan Knauss
Up this week on WP Tavern's Jukebox with Nathan Wrigley, it's Sean Blakely with the story of the transition to Gutenberg in a large agency, American Eagle. I've expected to see stories like this — for years. It seems they're…
A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future
Dan Knauss
Here's an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic's mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack:…
EMEA and AMER Member Huddles
Dan Knauss
We are hosting Two Weekly Post Status Member Huddles now. Huddles open time and space for our community of peers designed for camaraderie and connection for all WordPress Professionals, even if you're not a member yet.
