WordPress News

It appears that the UK Treasury…

Dan Knauss

February 12, 2021

It appears that the UK Treasury is exploring an online sales tax. In 2020, 46% more money was spent online in the United Kingdom than in 2019, and "Ecommerce now accounts for about 30% of overall retail sales in the…

Amber Wilson wants us to help…

Dan Knauss

February 12, 2021

Amber Wilson wants us to help grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions: "With webmentions, each person owns their own data and each person can communicate with others. Webmentions are basically a way to display on your personal site ways that others…

🎵 I asked the Post Status…

Dan Knauss

February 12, 2021

🎵 I asked the Post Status community this week what "pleasant and calming" music they enjoy having on in the background when they code or want to be productive and stay focused: Cory Miller: "I have been listening to bilateral…

Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp India 2021…

Dan Knauss

February 12, 2021

Hosting

Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp India 2021 is still taking place — this is the final weekend, February 13-14. There is a WordPress "Mega Meetup" coming up on February 18th at 6:30 pm (ET). It will be focused on static sites,…

🧪 WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 is…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

🧪 WordPress 5.7 Beta 1 is now available for testing. It includes several enhancements such as lazy-load iframes, ongoing cleanup after the update to jQuery 3.5.1, and a new Robots API. Improvements to the block editor are in there too,…

WordPress 5.6.1 is also available now.…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

WordPress 5.6.1 is also available now. It features 20 core bug fixes, plus seven more in the block editor. 📦

What if WordPress core committers who…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

What if WordPress core committers who no longer actively participate in core development received an emeritus status?🤔 Josepha Haden Chomphosy has proposed how this might benefit WordPress in several ways.

🤝 Joining some recent #club conversations…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

Business

🤝 Joining some recent #club conversations in Post Status' Slack, Matt Mullenweg responded to a question involving acquisitions: "Automattic is also an active buyer and investor — happy to bring the entire team on if the best path is acquisition,…

A new version of WooCommerce Blocks…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

A new version of WooCommerce Blocks is out, and as noted in these release notes, this release includes small tweaks and bug fixes worthy of an update. ✨

There’s been a lot of discussion…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

There's been a lot of discussion around Josepha Haden's post about the "Big Picture Goals" for 2021. Check up on the discussion there in the comments if you haven't seen it yet. To recap the intentionally broad and incomplete focal…

🇳🇬 Bob Dunn has a great…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

🇳🇬 Bob Dunn has a great post based on a recent doo_theWoo podcast episode with Mary Job. mary explains how the 2020 pandemic has affected Nigeria from the standpoint of a WooCommerce site builder: "So definitely a lot of people…

🔙 Andy Fragen announced in Post…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

🔙 Andy Fragen announced in Post Status Slack that he has begun work on a feature plugin for testing automatic rollback of a plugin or theme update failure: "Activating the plugin will result in the creation of a zip file…

David Mainayar aims to get PeachPay…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

David Mainayar aims to get PeachPay to be a competing "one-click checkout" solution for WooCommerce. 🍑

Genesis Shapers team member and developer…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

Genesis Shapers team member and developer Nahuai Badiola has announced the launch of OsomPress, a new theme shop for Genesis child themes. OsomPress's flagship theme product is the Uprising Theme. Uprising allows you to add attractive built-in block patterns and…

Brent Roose has a preview of…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

Brent Roose has a preview of what to expect in the upcoming release of PHP 8.1: Array unpacking with string keys A new array_is_list function Enums (Enumeration types) The RFC is still under discussion on enums, but the proposal to…

Brad Williams and Lisa Sabin-Wilson from…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

Brad Williams and Lisa Sabin-Wilson from WebDevStudios shared their 2020 year in review, and it's notable how much they have given back to the community. The company contributed more than 1400 hours for Five for the Future, took on nine…