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Pantheon announced it has acquired Staging Pilot. 👩‍✈️…

Dan Knauss

May 31, 2019

Pantheon announced it has acquired Staging Pilot. 👩‍✈️ Staging Pilot is a service that helps you set up a server (while installing WordPress if you wish) by installing all the required software automatically, including PHP, database services and the web server itself.…

Here’s a WordPress plugin that “encourages…

Dan Knauss

May 31, 2019

Here's a WordPress plugin that "encourages commenters to re-phrase toxic comments to be kind instead" using Google's Perspective API.

📺 Two recent videos worth watching/listening…

Dan Knauss

May 31, 2019

📺 Two recent videos worth watching/listening to: Ella van Durpe (JavaScript Engineer at Automattic) talked about

🎙️ I had a decent amount…

Dan Knauss

May 31, 2019

Design

🎙️ I had a decent amount of time to listen to podcasts this week, including a few that are new to my rotation. Here are the best "new to me" podcasts I've found: WPandUP's #PressForward podcast had an episode with…

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions

Brian Krogsgard

May 23, 2019

BusinessPlanet

Automattic has acquired Prospress, the makers of WooCommerce Subscriptions -- WooCommerce's highest revenue-generating extension -- for an undisclosed sum.

Mika Epstein has published a proposal…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Mika Epstein has published a proposal to modify the WordPress plugin guidelines. 🔌 Mika's plan covers several areas but focuses on advertising and the clutter of the WordPress dashboard: Our understanding is that a cluttered and unmanageable Dashboard upsets users,…

The WordPress theme review team is…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

The WordPress theme review team is adopting a new policy: Trusted Authors "will need to review [one] ticket a month to be able to have their themes set live." 🎫 Some folks have chimed in on this policy, including Justin…

Danny Cooper talks about some common…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Danny Cooper talks about some common mistakes in submissions to the WordPress.org theme directory. Danny, who has reviewed over 100 themes, discusses naming issues, unescaped output, untranslatable text, prefixing, licensing, and other potential pitfalls.

WordPress.com is preparing a feature for…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

WordPress.com is preparing a feature for subscriptions (donations and recurring payments) on WP.com sites. 💳 Automattic Happiness Engineer Maria Górska posted a link on Twitter for the beta program sign up form and is looking for feedback, especially from "independent…

Mark Jaquith has updated his Page…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Mark Jaquith has updated his Page Links To plugin. Now at version 3.1.0, it fully supports the block editor as well as the classic editor. 🔗

Do you think procrastination is about…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Do you think procrastination is about laziness and lack of self-control? Charlotte Lieberman explains in The New York Times why that's not true. This article also has some excellent tips for finding healthier ways to manage the feelings that typically trigger procrastination. 😴

If you follow AMP-related news, then…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

If you follow AMP-related news, then you might have heard that Google is creating "dedicated placement" in search results for AMP Stories. AMP Story creators will soon be able to embed new types of content — specifically Twitter posts, Google…

Google is launching Portals — a navigation…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Google is launching Portals — a navigation system for Chrome that seeks to replace iframes. Portals may not gain traction, but it does seem like an improvement on iframes, which everyone seems to hate. 😠

Alicja Snarska tells the story of…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Alicja Snarska tells the story of how her dream job at Microsoft turned into a nightmare. I came away from this article appreciating the value of life/work balance more and a workplace where you are respected, even if it's on…

Pavel Ciorici explains why WPZoom was…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Pavel Ciorici explains why WPZoom was delisted from Google search results and what it took to get relisted. 😖 The problem was a backlink in the footer of WPZoom themes. Some advice from Pavel: Only use the footer backlinks with…

Many US government sites use Drupal,…

Dan Knauss

May 17, 2019

Many US government sites use Drupal, but the State Department appears to have switched to WordPress. It uses the Underscores theme, along with the Yoast and Gravity Forms plugins.