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Everyone’s Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Everyone's Going Local 🏠 Josh Koenig announced the first release of Pantheon Localdev, a local dev app for the Mac (Windows and Linux "coming soon") that is built on top of Docker and Lando with a GUI for working on sites…

Kudos 👏 Peter Suhm was selected…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Kudos 👏 Peter Suhm was selected to join the 2019 TinySeed accelerator. Peter wrote on his blog he will now be able to work full time on Branch. 🌱 Scott Bolinger reminds us Why We Build Products. One reason: "making…

WordPressed for the First Time 🎸…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

WordPressed for the First Time 🎸 Rolling Stone just launched daily updated music charts that are powered by WordPress. Aaron Jorbin reached out to me to confirm that the internal team at PMC did this project along with the team…

Losing Your Head 🗣️ Dan Fries…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Losing Your Head 🗣️ Dan Fries thinks the future of websites is "headless CMS." He explains what counts as headless and the pros and cons of different headless solutions. Dan notes WordPress and other platforms "account for more than 60%…

New Tools 🛠️ WPOnion is a…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

New Tools 🛠️ WPOnion is a framework that "helps developers build custom meta boxes and custom fields in WordPress." The documentation goes into further detail, stating its support for not only post_meta but also term_meta, user_meta, comment_meta, settings pages and…

That’s the Ticket 🎫 Jonathan Desrosiers…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

That's the Ticket 🎫 Jonathan Desrosiers posted a reflection on the WordPress triage team three months into its existence. There's a lot to take in here, but here's one KPI: they closed more than half of the Trac tickets opened…

Summer School 🏫 Jen McFarland and Brian DeConinck…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Summer School 🏫 Jen McFarland and Brian DeConinck put together a

Giving Back 💝 HeroPress is keeping…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Giving Back 💝 HeroPress is keeping a list of scholarships that are available to the WordPress community. It's great to see a company like Sentry start a program like Sentry for Good. The goal is to amplify "the voices of…

Podcast Roundup 🎙️ WP&UP has Cory…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Podcast Roundup 🎙️ WP&UP has Cory Miller as a trustee now. Cory has been sharing his mental health story for many years now at conferences, and he noted it is part of his "life mission" to "obliterat[e] the stigma of…

Long Time Running 🏃 Enjoy reading…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Long Time Running 🏃 Enjoy reading "HTML is the web" from Pete Lambert which has a quality developer rant in it. Even if you code in React, "if you’re making websites, then the most important thing you’re making is HTML. HTML…

Inquiring Minds 👀 A recent Twitter…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Inquiring Minds 👀 A recent Twitter thread and blog post from Remy Sharp takes on Disqus as a Trojan horse for Facebook and all sorts of tracking scripts after he took a look at his blog's source code: 🐴 It…

Don’t Need Another Hero ⚡ This…

Dan Knauss

July 5, 2019

Don't Need Another Hero ⚡ This article in Scientific American by Zeynep Tufekci brilliantly uses Game of Thrones' difficult translation to television to explain how its author, George R. R. Martin, understands "sociological storytelling" as very few screenwriters do. Martin…

Quick podcast: Matt Mullenweg on eCommerce, and changes for Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

July 1, 2019

You can listen to the Post Status Draft podcast on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, and via RSS for your favorite podcatcher. Post Status Draft is hosted by Brian Krogsgard. I talked to Matt Mullenweg for over an hour recently for his Publish Online session,…

WCEU 2019 in Review

David Bisset

June 28, 2019

PlanetWordPress News

WordCamp Europe 2019 hosted a record 3,200+ people, according to ticket sales. WCEU started with a contributor day on Thursday, June 20, followed by the two main conference days on Friday and Saturday.

WP Engine acquires Flywheel

Brian Krogsgard

June 26, 2019

BusinessHosting

WP Engine has acquired Flywheel -- which boasts more than 200 employees and $18 million in revenue. WP Engine is setting the stage for an IPO in the next couple years.