WordPress Community 4.0
Dan Knauss
What features do you want to include or drop from WordPress Community 4.0?
Post Status Excerpt (No. 41) — WordPress Community Versions: Past, Present, Future
David Bisset
How has the WordPress community changed since its early days? How does money and market share change it? What lies ahead?
Post Status Excerpt (No. 37) — WordPress Community In Africa
David Bisset
Mary Job talks with David about her history with WordPress, the African WordPress community, and the challenges they face.
Post Status Comments (No. 4) — State of the Word 2021 Analysis
David Bisset
Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.
Pippin Williamson on the Sandhills Acquisition, Emerging Threats and Opportunities in WordPress — Post Status Draft 117
Dan Knauss
In the latest WordPress acquisition, Sandhills is joining Awesome Motive. Pippin Williamson talks with Cory about WordPress: past and future.
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…
🤝 WordPress Jobs: The Post Status…
Dan Knauss
🤝 WordPress Jobs: The Post Status Job Board 💼 There are currently 22 Active Job Listings on the Board. We don't have space for them all here, so be sure to check online too. ☀️ Employers: Get your job opening…
LionSher Technologies has announced the acquisition…
Dan Knauss
LionSher Technologies has announced the acquisition of the following plugins from Lever Technology: PDF Embedder, Google Apps Login, Google Drive Embedder, Google Apps Directory, Google Profile Avatars, and All-In-One Intranet. 🔌 LionSher has flown under the radar for a while…
Timi Wahalahti believes that the WordPress…
Dan Knauss
Timi Wahalahti believes that the WordPress community does not talk about the climate emergency enough, which we completely agree with. Timi lists some suggestions “to start the conversation.” 🚨 Even if you don’t completely agree with these ideas, it’s worth…
Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my…
Dan Knauss
Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are my podcast picks: Open Sourcery: Jonathan Bossenger had a discussion with Mika Epstein about the horrific experience she had when a member of the open-source community harassed her. This leads to a good talk about…
Jill Bender has announced that the…
Dan Knauss
Jill Bender has announced that the Diverse Speaker Training group in the WordPress Community team is expanding to three programs for the next 12 months. Now there will be continuing Diverse Speakers Workshops, a new Speaker Placement program, and a…
Cami Kaos covers some common questions…
Dan Knauss
Cami Kaos covers some common questions involving the Code of Conduct that is associated with the WordPress Community Team — in particular, what happens if someone "does something wrong" — and if the problem is not resolved? 🤔 Cami says…
DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here…
Dan Knauss
DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Videos 📺 Here are my video picks for the week: WordCamp Europe 2021: The video feeds from all three days of WCEUE are available on YouTube, with individual videos to be published in the coming weeks on…
Post Status Draft (No. 114) — Brad Touesnard on the Acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields
Cory Miller
Cory Miller talks with Brad Touesnard of Delicious Brains about the company acquiring the Advanced Custom Fields plugin from Elliot Condon.
Harmony Romo shares a general overview…
Dan Knauss
Harmony Romo shares a general overview of the financial health of the WordPress Foundation and its subsidiary, WordPress Community Support (WPCS), as of the beginning of 2021: "Due to the many cancellations in 2020, the program did lose money. However,…
The WordPress Community Team has new…
Dan Knauss
The WordPress Community Team has new handbook pages that give guidance to meetup organizers who want to host in-person meetups in 2021. In the announcement about this update, Angela Jin writes: "As more people get vaccinated and regions are able…
