Ben Sibley shares his top picks…
Dan Knauss
Ben Sibley shares his top picks for the best bbPress-supporting forum themes for WordPress in 2021. đź‘‘
A member of the WordPress community,…
Dan Knauss
A member of the WordPress community, Dan Beil, passed away recently. Michelle Schulp has a touching post about Dan, and she invites you to share your memories of him. 🧡
Hitting 6 Figures in eCommerce Sales…
Dan Knauss
Hitting 6 Figures in eCommerce Sales in 9 Months In a Pandemic It can be done — it has been done — by Ana Nunez, founder of TheVidaBars.com. Come listen in as Cory talks to his business partner Ana about…
A good, free theme is hard…
Dan Knauss
A good, free theme is hard to find Post Status' Slack space sprouted some conversations this past week worth noting in our #club channel. One, in particular, started about the WordPress.org recommended hosting page and led into this observation about…
Infosec of State Among the alarming…
Dan Knauss
Infosec of State Among the alarming events still unfolding in the United States, there have been two political and security-related stories touching WordPress. First, there was the notice Monday afternoon of President Donald Trump’s biography on the State Department website…
Eric Karkovack explains an ethical dilemma…
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Eric Karkovack explains an ethical dilemma he sees for WordPress plugin developers: should plugin users be notified if automatic plugin updates are turned on? Eric says yes they should: "I’d still argue that the ethical thing to do is to…
Francesca Marano has a recap of…
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Francesca Marano has a recap of the conversation about the proposal to align the WordPress release cycle with the industry standard. Adding a "Feature Freeze" period was the most popular suggested solution, allowing contributors to focus on features first and…
SearchWP 4.1 is out. The biggest…
Dan Knauss
SearchWP 4.1 is out. The biggest changes involve how comments are handled, a refactored Indexer, some search algorithm improvements, and bug fixes. 🔍
Alex Denning has a prediction I…
Dan Knauss
Alex Denning has a prediction I feel is insightful: "competition for WordPress products is going to get significantly more intense, and we need to start looking at product categories with much more sophistication." I tend to agree with his assessment…
Kyle Van Deusen measures how much…
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Kyle Van Deusen measures how much faster Gutenberg and the WordPress editor (and also Oxygen) are than the Elementor page builder. However, performance might not matter as much as you might expect: "While I do have the ability to preview…
Wordfence has disclosed two vulnerabilities in…
Dan Knauss
Wordfence has disclosed two vulnerabilities in Orbit Fox by ThemeIsle, a WordPress plugin used by over 400,000 sites. 🦊 Also, if you are using the e-signature plugin, apparently used by some customers on Pagely, you may want to upgrade as…
The State of JavaScript 2020 has…
Dan Knauss
The State of JavaScript 2020 has been published with a wide variety of survey results from nearly 20,000 participants. Results inside salary, work experience, familiarity with JavaScript features, frameworks, tools used, resources, and opinions. Front-end developers will likely want to…
PublishPress published a 2020 year in…
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PublishPress published a 2020 year in review. While some ventures didn't reproduce that many results, overall the key metrics grew by 100% this year: "COVID-19 definitely had an impact – we saw a big slowdown in growth during March and…
December 31 was the day Flash…
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December 31 was the day Flash officially "died." đź’€ Out of all the posts I've read about Flash, this eulogy post from Mike Davidson is the most relatable for me. He takes you back to the early days with a
Button Buddy is a tool Stephanie…
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Button Buddy is a tool Stephanie Eckles created that lets you learn what it takes to ensure your buttons or button-style links have accessible contrast. 🔲
TabFS is a browser extension that…
Dan Knauss
TabFS is a browser extension that mounts your browser tabs as a filesystem on your computer. (It supports Chrome and Firefox.) If you are a little creative and a browser power user, there is some power and potential here. đź’Ş
