WordPress News

Steve Burge and his team have…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

Steve Burge and his team have taken ownership of the Simple Tags plugin. It has been renamed to TaxoPress and has a new website. The plugin has been in existence for over a decade and has over 80,000 users. 🔌

Ashley Rich over at SpinupWP breaks…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

Ashley Rich over at SpinupWP breaks down all you need to know about caching and WordPress including the different caching layers and common pitfalls. 🕳️

Developer Olga Gleckler was recently featured…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

Developer Olga Gleckler was recently featured in the People of WordPress segment on WordPress.org. It's a good piece of writing and worth a read: “I traveled through a very uneven path, with a lot of obstacles and noise, but for…

Alex Denning took a deep dive…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

Business

Alex Denning took a deep dive into the advertising campaigns of some WordPress businesses, inspired in part by recent events involving Elementor and Bluehost. Alex looks at the different ads WordPress businesses are running and considers why they might be…

It’s up for debate right now…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

It's up for debate right now how much demand there will be for headless WordPress. Jason Bahl identifies a key barrier: While much of WordPress was built with decoupling in mind, the WP REST API and Gutenberg were not. As…

WPCampus is asking for feedback to…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

WPCampus is asking for feedback to make decisions about future events. They're aiming to hold their annual conference a month or two later in the year than they usually have, in August or September. 👩‍🎓

Scott Bolinger explains how he made…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

Scott Bolinger explains how he made a plugin (available to the public) that saves checkout form values in WooCommerce. 🛒

Brian Henry announced in Post Status…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

Brian Henry announced in Post Status Slack this week that he wrote a plugin to add a "view diff" link to review plugins before installing updates: "It uses git diff via proc_open which might not be available everywhere. (Dependencies can…

Kealan Parr relates what “every developer”…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

Kealan Parr relates what "every developer" must know about encoding and Unicode. This is a good overview of why we need encoding, what problems it solves, and what happens when it goes wrong. 🤯

I enjoyed reading these tips from…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

I enjoyed reading these tips from The Leaf Node on how to craft effective landing pages along with some common mistakes to avoid. 🍂

Some high-profile acquisitions to happen recently,…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

HostingSecurity

Some high-profile acquisitions to happen recently, first in the hosting space: InMotion Hosting announced its acquisition of RamNode.com, a provider of "affordable and high-performance" unmanaged VPS Hosting." Mike Demo comments on the deal: "InMotion now has an EU data center…

Here’s our wacky story of the…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

Here's our wacky story of the week: Ben Stokes bought 300 emoji domain names from Kazakhstan and built an emoji email address service which has made him $1000 in a week. Come to learn about the weird world of emoji…

I ran across squoosh.app this week,…

Dan Knauss

March 11, 2021

I ran across squoosh.app this week, a tool that compresses and compares images with different codecs in your browser.

Angela Jin on WordCamp US 2020 Cancellation and the Future of WordPress Education

David Bisset

March 5, 2021

DraftPlanet

Angela Jin is our guest on the latest episode of Post Status Draft. Join us as we ask what the future holds for the conferences, meetups, and other social gatherings we've enjoyed in the past.

The Gutenberg 10.1 release is out…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

The Gutenberg 10.1 release is out with visual enhancements for reusable blocks, improvements to Full Site Editing, widget and navigation screens, and global styles. ✨ Anne McCarthy has an overview of the current core editor improvements that impact front-end performance…