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Steve Burge and his team have…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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”…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

The Gutenberg 10.1 release is out…

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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…

It may be on its way…

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It may be on its way out of WordPress, but the jQuery 3.6.0 release is out with some good bug fixes and improvements. 🐛

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