ByJaph Thomson
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Have a read of Jon Chan from StackExchange talking through the migration of their blog from WordPress to Jekyll. There’s a lot that we, as a WordPress community, can learn from other open source projects and the reasons people decide to use them.
With our partners, we’re bringing you new events and special programming like WP Career Summit. Some of the speakers who will be joining us at the Summit have been talking with David Bisset on The Excerpt — like Lance Robbins this week.
Joe Watkins cuts right to the point about the importance of funding open source projects your company relies on: Making monetary contributions or approaching your employer with a request to make monetary contributions to projects that your income or business relies upon is the right thing to do, and in some cases necessary for the…
The lead stories this week include GiveWP‘s acquisition by Liquid Web and increasing concerns over the “bus factor” in open source projects. Thankfully WP-CLI has a major release coming up this next week, but the sustainability of this vital project was jeopardized in 2020. Finally, the future of WordPress themes with Full Site Editing made…
In this episode, Brian Gardner, Principal Developer Advocate at WPEngine, joins Cory Miller to discuss the solid foundation WordPress established and how it might continue to expand into the future.
Cory and David discuss Andrea Middleton’s departure, the Classic Editor’s persistence, Frontity’s acquisition, and Jonathan Wold joining Post Status.
Dries Buytaert has been talking about the power of Open Source in the fight against COVID-19: “In every crisis, Open Source has empowered organizations to do more with less. It’s great to see this play out again. Open Source teams have rallied to help and come up with some pretty incredible solutions when times are…
