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Joe Casabona‘s WPYearInReview project has met its crowdfunding goal. 🥳 This content project will feature a video tutorial series, an interview series with WordCamp speakers, and an eBook that goes over how WordPress and its ecosystem has changed in the last year.
Congrats to Joe for coming up with this idea and executing on it, as well as everyone in the community who backed it. Looking forward to seeing the results! 🙌
Allie Nimmons of WP Buffs and Michelle Ames from GiveWP have built Underrepresented in Tech, a tool intended to highlight underrepresented people‘s skills and specialties first and foremost as a hiring or recruiting factor. Explaining how this project got started, Allie said: Michelle and I have both been outspoken advocates for diversity. I am a…
Applications to host have now closed. Hopefully this means the announcement for dates isn’t far away either, and we’ll see if there’ll be a WordCamp US in 2015 still.
In Dave Donaldson‘s WordCamp Atlanta presentation, he mentioned how much he likes the Blackbox Debug Bar plugin. I’d never seen it before, but it looks quite nice for showing debut information in an easy to consume way. It’s a nice looking compliment to the Debug Bar plugin.
Corey Maass and Cory Miller go live to discuss the creation and launch of a WordPress product they have partnered to build. Crop.Express originated as a solution to a common problem Maass experienced. Miller loved the idea and wondered how to build this into a plugin to solve problems within the WordPress workflow. This is a candid conversation about the evolution of partnering to develop a WordPress product.
WPRig will be covered in greater depth on Post Status later, but for now, readers should be aware that this groundbreaking project has very recently begun a 2.0 version (“alpha”) and is looking for people to help test it and provide feedback. WPRig aims to be the next modern WordPress starter theme. I sat in…
Corey Maass and Cory Miller look to the future of WordPress as they continue the development of their new WordPress plugin, Crop.Express. From sharing tips on how to keep your WordPress website safe from hacks and vulnerabilities to insights on how to optimize website performance, improve user experience, and enhance website accessibility, this episode is packed with valuable takeaways.
