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WordPress News with Beka Rice

ByBrian Krogsgard

Beka Rice and I cover the week in WordPress news with a short format (~15 minute) podcast. This week we talk about Mesh (an upcoming app by Automattic), 4.3 and 4.4 release leads, April Fools’, and Array’s year in review.

Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner
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Week in review: Themeforest changes, Jetpack 3.1, Polar Polls, Yoast and Sucuri partner

ByBrian Krogsgard

Welcome to the sixth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. Unfortunately, I haven’t posted since the last week in review. Trust me, that’ll change this week. There are already a lot of posts lined up for…

Alex Denning writes about Jetpack modules…

ByDan Knauss

Alex Denning writes about Jetpack modules that you might have missed. As Alex points out in the post and in this comment on Twitter that the “role Jetpack plays in reducing abandonment rates from new installs” is notable.

A self hosted alternative to Jetpack’s Photon service

ByBrian Krogsgard

While Jetpack and its Photon service are useful, it is not a solution fit for everyone, and may users and developers have reservations about integrating with the WordPress.com infrastructure. Will Norris takes the open source approach and has rolled his own self-hosted version of Photon, available on GitHub.

Google’s AMP launches, Automattic plugin integration ready

ByBrian Krogsgard

Google launched AMP in a pretty big way. The video steals a line from Donald Trump by saying, “We want to make the web great again. It’s really as simple as that.” It’s actually a nice video despite that line, and Automattic’s Paul Maiorana plays a starring role: https://youtu.be/WrpkFROqR0Q Much has been shared about what…