ByDan Knauss
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If you’ve done any testing or optimization with your site with Google in mind you’ve likely heard of Lighthouse — a popular open-source tool for auditing performance.
Karolina Szczur describes what has changed between Lighthouse 7 and 8 — and what you might notice in your site speed tracking that’s new. 💨
Derek Herman, a longtime Envato employee and WordPress specialist, tells his tale of learning how to contribute to WordPress core. I like Derek’s post because it’s personal, and not just technical; and he gives advice for how and where to start, not to mention things he learned along the way. There’s certainly been bumps along…
Yoast SEO 3.0 is in the release candidate stage, and there are quite a few new features. It’s worth testing if you run a complicated install or are just curious what’s going on. Here’s a link to the changelog, but among the changes are real-time content analysis, and a whole new UX to the SEO…
Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org • Are Active Install Counts Relevant to Your Business’s Success? (Even if they are accurate? And they haven’t been.) • Let’s Fix What’s Broken (The Plugin Repo) Not What Isn’t (The Freemium Model) • Follow Leaders, Adopt Standards • Tools and expertise from rtCamp • Some great and “doable” ideas for the future of plugin business metrics on the .org repo. Could some of them help put an end to intrusive and manipulative dark patterns in the WordPress Admin dashboard and notifications?
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.
The sixth call for testing has been issued as part of the Full Site Editing Outreach Program. This time there’s a focus on landing pages. If you haven’t been able to participate yet, now is a great time to do so. Time is of the essence as we get close to a 5.8 release. ⏳
Hendrik Luehrsen shares stats and notes about 100 FSE themes in the WordPress repo by 53 different contributors. He notes that, excluding the Twenty Twenty-Two theme, “all remaining 99 FSE themes combined have about 30,000 active installs, rising fast!” Hendrik encourages others to: “Build stuff with the FSE themes! Break stuff. Explore limits. Break those!…
