WordPress News

Trouble at Longreads

Brian Krogsgard

July 19, 2020

We don't often talk about employment issues at Post Status. Good and bad stories about WordPress workplaces abound. Why single out this one? It is a very public issue, and it has to do with one of the largest employers in our space — one often cited as a great place to work: Automattic. That's why I believe it merits deeper consideration.

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out.…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out. The final release is expected to drop on August 11th, 2020 as planned. 📅 👉 Several tooling additions and improvements have gone into the WordPress 5.5 cycle. Developers should take note of the build…

The WordPress 5.5 Beta release that’s…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

The WordPress 5.5 Beta release that’s now in testing includes Block Directory support enabled by default, and you can add your own plugins to it. Alex Shiels shows how to get your block plugin added to the directory along with…

Riad Benguella explains how to register…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Riad Benguella explains how to register a custom block pattern. Block Patterns are a new concept that will be introduced in WordPress 5.5, which will come with a number of built-in block patterns. It’s also possible for third-party plugins and…

Sarah Rosso shared ten leadership lessons…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Sarah Rosso shared ten leadership lessons from ten years of work in a fully distributed and remote company — Automattic. 👩‍💻

Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by The…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by The New York Times on the subject of remote work and the story of how Automattic started down that path. There's nothing very new in this interview if you've heard Matt speak on this subject…

Matt Lacey does an excellent job…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Matt Lacey does an excellent job of articulating why it may take a developer quite a bit of time "to only add two lines of code." Developers should read this post and share it — perhaps not to clients directly,…

Eric Karkovack breaks down the pros,…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Eric Karkovack breaks down the pros, the cons, and the use cases for going with a pre-built WordPress theme or going down the custom-built path. 👨‍🎨

🗑️ A List Apart shared Chapter…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

🗑️ A List Apart shared Chapter 9 of Gerry McGovern's book, World Wide Waste, and his take on "useless images" — "The Web is smothering us in useless images that create lots of pollution... There are indeed many situations where…

Jill Binder shares some tips on…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Jill Binder shares some tips on how to support Black voices in WordPress. All excellent suggestions. The two that stuck out with me are: 4. Start including Black people in your leadership, particularly in your speaker selection committee. This increases…

Admin 2020 is a new “clean…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Admin 2020 is a new "clean and modern WordPress admin theme" developed and sold by Mark Ashton. 🧼 It brings a fresh UIkit makeover (and a dark mode) to the WP back end, including the media library, dashboard, and search.…

Pragmatic, a UK-based enterprise WordPress agency,…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Pragmatic, a UK-based enterprise WordPress agency, has merged with Swedish company Angry Creative. Over the next few months, Pragmatic will become Angry Creative UK. 🙌

I would encourage you to read…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

I would encourage you to read Joe Simpson Jr. over at HeroPress — it's a great and personal post explaining how the WordPress community helped heal him emotionally. This is turn allowed him to help others. 🤗

If you’re a user of All…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

If you're a user of All In One SEO pack, there is a reported vulnerability (via WordFence) that “allows authenticated users with contributor level access or above ... to inject malicious scripts that would be executed if a victim accessed…

Conference and Event Updates 💼 Big…

Dan Knauss

July 17, 2020

Business

Conference and Event Updates 💼 Big conference news for anyone looking for a WordPress business conference: WPMRR Virtual Summit is happening September 23rd and 24th. It will be a free online event focused on helping "make monthly recurring revenue work…

Here is an update on the…

Dan Knauss

July 10, 2020

Here is an update on the editing features that will (and will not) be included in the WordPress 5.5 release. So far, the included features make an impressive list: a new block editor design, block patterns, and the block patterns…