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📅 Conference and Event Updates Join…

Dan Knauss

October 9, 2020

📅 Conference and Event Updates Join Virtual CFO Jeff Meziere and his partner, Cory Miller, on October 13th as they talk about a framework to better forecast your business cashflow. This webinar is especially timely and relevant for agencies looking…

Joost de Valk on WordPress marketshare

Brian Krogsgard

October 6, 2020

DraftPlanet

In this episode of Post Status Draft, David Bisset interviews Joost de Valk about WordPress marketshare and CMS trends.

Decisions have consequences

David Bisset

October 2, 2020

Design

Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudos…

Congrats to Francesca Marano who is…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Congrats to Francesca Marano who is now the WordPress core team lead at Yoast! In her new role, Francesca expects to "...contribute all my time to WordPress, a platform that gave me a lot, personally and professionally, and do it…

Joost de Valk has proposed a…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Joost de Valk has proposed a font enqueue API for WordPress core. 🔡 Explaining why we should implement .wp_enqueue_font, Joost writes: "Building this so that fonts are always loaded the same way allows us to continuously improve the way we…

Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Leonardo Losoviz explains how you can show documentation to the user directly in the WordPress editor using Markdown. He claims that using Markdown instead of HTML is easier, and there are other benefits. Stressing that "localization for documentation is mandatory,"…

If you live in the EU,…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

If you live in the EU, you might know about Google’s current search preference menu auction. It appears to have been dropped recently from DuckDuckGo. 🦆 DuckDuckGo has explained why this move — and the whole idea of the search…

Cory Miller shares his sympathy for…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Business

Cory Miller shares his sympathy for people "starting new projects or businesses," which he compares to "rolling a snowball uphill." It's hard work to maintain patience and focus in a "grind" or struggle state without seeing big results. ❄️ "We…

There’s a new version of the…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

There’s a new version of the WooCommerce Blocks plugin available now. Version 3.5.0 is mostly a bug fix release with some enhancements for payment methods. 🛒

I sometimes find general tech sector…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

I sometimes find general tech sector articles worthwhile reading, but this one raised my eyebrows.🤨 While I always take survey data with a grain of salt, I don't think it's unreasonable to predict the majority of businesses expect IT budgets…

Joe Casabona has a new book…

Dan Knauss

October 1, 2020

Joe Casabona has a new book out for those just starting on the path to learning HTML and CSS. He talks about what it was like "re-learning" them: "There are a lot of colloquialisms in web development. I didn’t realize…

🛒 Commerce Journey Black Friday is…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

🛒 Commerce Journey Black Friday is just 65 days away. Cyber Monday is 68 days away. It's a great time to start your journey in online sales. Take our Sell One Thing Challenge 📦 Watch our new webinar: Getting Your Podcast Started with…

Mel Choyce-Dwan has given us a…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Design

Mel Choyce-Dwan has given us a preview of the Twenty Twenty One theme, which will appear in the upcoming WordPress 5.6 release. Twenty Twenty One is "designed to be a blank canvas for the block editor" and uses a modified…

Jeremy Felt shared his checklist for…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

Jeremy Felt shared his checklist for how he would like comments to work in WordPress. Jeremy mentions webmention support, and I agree it is way overdue. I like the ideas of commenters being able to be notified of comment interactions,…

😫 Developers can easily experience overload,…

Dan Knauss

September 25, 2020

😫 Developers can easily experience overload, so I enjoyed this post from Tom McFarlin about what's critical to our skillsets as WordPress developers: "If you’re worried that it’s too hard to keep up with the various parts of WordPress, don’t.…