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Iain Poulson has authored a guide…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Iain Poulson has authored a guide to outsourcing support for your WordPress plugin. Iain lists the best options out there, their pros, cons, and pricing while including his own thoughts on each approach. 🔌

👉 free-for.dev is a list of…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

👉 free-for.dev is a list of software (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, etc.) and other tools that have free tiers for developers. 🆓

SVGCrop can save you a bunch…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

SVGCrop can save you a bunch of time if all you need to do is to trim or crop SVG files. 🌽

Coral Ouellette has updated a page…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Coral Ouellette has updated a page full of blogging statistics and facts. It's well worth a skim for some of the unusual data. I did not know "The average blog post takes 3.5 hours to write." I thought it was…

Mozilla is introducing “Total Cookie Protection”…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Mozilla is introducing "Total Cookie Protection" in a "strict privacy mode" in Firefox. It prevents tracking companies from using cookies and confines cookies to the sites where they were created. 🍪 Johann Hofmann and Tim Huang explain in more depth…

Here’s a good reminder of how…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Here's a good reminder of how Google defines "performance" when it comes to websites, and what terms like "Largest Contentful Paint," "First Input Delay," and "Cumulative Layout Shift" mean when you are measuring your Core Web Vitals with Google PageSpeed…

Michelle Frechette is holding a fundraiser…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Michelle Frechette is holding a fundraiser for Big Orange Heart: "Once we get to $1000 in donations raised, I will get the Big Orange Heart logo tattooed on my wrist." 🧡 Big Orange Heart (formerly WP&UP) supports and promotes positive…

Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Prague takes…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Prague takes place online this weekend on February 27 – the biggest WordPress conference in the Czech Republic. 🇨🇿 WP Engine DE(CODE) 2021 is happening on March 4 with Jason Cohen, Mike Little, Marieke van de…

DAVID’S PICKS 📬a Video Picks 📹…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Hosting

DAVID'S PICKS 📬a Video Picks 📹 Here is my video pick of the week: Zee Hazan starts

POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ How…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Hosting

POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ How Am I Bluehost to Live Without You? Morten Rand-Hendriksen noticed Bluehost appeared to be violating the WordPress Foundation's Trademark Policy by using the WordPress logo in an ad. A day later, Josepha Haden acknowledged…

The first WordPress 5.6.2 Release Candidate…

Dan Knauss

February 17, 2021

The first WordPress 5.6.2 Release Candidate is now available for testing. We're still on target for a final release on March 9, 2021. 📅 Five bugs have been resolved since the last beta, including some issues with the Twenty Twenty…

Elementor announced earlier this month that…

Dan Knauss

February 17, 2021

Elementor announced earlier this month that they are increasing the price for their upper-tier subscriptions. The 1,000 site plan will go up from $199/year to $999/year on March 9th, 2021. These changes are only for new customers; existing subscribers to…

I like how Brad Frost defines…

Dan Knauss

February 17, 2021

I like how Brad Frost defines the two types of front-end developers: Front-of-the-front-end developer: a web developer who specializes in writing HTML, CSS, and presentational JavaScript code. Back-of-the-front-end developer: a web developer who specializes in writing JavaScript code necessary to…

🔌 A new plugin from Andy Fragen…

Dan Knauss

February 17, 2021

🔌 A new plugin from Andy Fragen adds "Skip Updates" to the WordPress Settings menu. With it, you can select plugins and themes to omit from taking updates if their source code is hosted at wp.org. Why you might want to…

BuddyPress 7.2.0 is now out. This…

Dan Knauss

February 17, 2021

BuddyPress 7.2.0 is now out. This maintenance release mainly fixes bugs that surface when the BP Nouveau Template Pack is used with the Twenty Twenty-One core theme.

Chris Lema talks about the sunk…

Dan Knauss

February 17, 2021

Chris Lema talks about the sunk cost fallacy and the power of freebies. Trial periods, testimonials, coupons, and onboarding for your products all work because "We're wired to want to finish what we start. And it's something you can leverage…