WordPress News

Dumitru Brinzan examines the package size…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Dumitru Brinzan examines the package size of major WordPress versions over the past decade and how they've grown over 600%. We've gone from 5.38 MB and 603 files to 38.0 MB and 1,713 files. Dumitru also looks at the sizes…

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Business

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts I've enjoyed recently: Matt Medeiros interviewed Craig Hewitt and Dave Rodenbaugh of RogueStartups. They discussed how business owners operating within the WordPress ecosystem and the SaaS world view "the economy of plugins" as opposed…

WordPress developers’ biggest (or most common) coding mistakes

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

WordPress News

What are the biggest and/or most common PHP coder mistakes?

It looks like WordPress 5.2 RC1…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

It looks like WordPress 5.2 RC1 might be pushed ahead a bit. If that happens, we'll be looking at a general release of 5.2 around May 7th. The decision is still up for discussion. Meanwhile, Gutenberg 5.5 is out. Riad…

Yoast has announced an improved “Schema.org…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Yoast has announced an improved "Schema.org implementation" as a key feature of their upcoming 11.0 version. Edwin Toonen writes, "Yoast SEO will now output a lot more structured data about your website and how its pages fit together." After this…

Felix Arntz digs into the “fatal…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Felix Arntz digs into the "fatal error recovery mode" coming in WordPress 5.2. There are several ways developers can make their plugins respond to recovery mode, which provides an opportunity "to inform administrators about fatal errors on their site and…

The results from the 2018 Annual…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

The results from the 2018 Annual Meetup Survey are available! 📊 Some highlights, as of December 2018: All WordPress chapter meetup groups: 691 All countries with chapter meetups: 99 New meetup groups joined the chapter: 166 New members joined: 106,409…

Over the past month, Envato has…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Over the past month, Envato has been running a series of tests for the default sort order across Envato Market. Results ranged from a 5% average increase on conversion to over 50% (on ThemeForest) for the best selling sort filter.…

Dumitru Brinzan wrote a PHP script…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Dumitru Brinzan wrote a PHP script that gathered and parsed public data in the WordPress plugin repo to take a closer look at trends in the 18,087 plugins added to the directory over the past three years. 🔌 If you…

Here’s a lengthy but interesting article…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Here's a lengthy but interesting article from Farnam Street about the "half-life of knowledge." What do we do when we know the things we learn decay in their accuracy, relevance, and comprehensiveness? "[W]e rarely consider the half-life of information. Many…

Matt Shaw takes a close look…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Matt Shaw takes a close look at Amazon SES and its two competitors, Mailgun and SendGrid, to see how they stack up as WordPress Transactional Email solutions. 📧

I’ve been following the Women in…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

I've been following the Women in WP podcast and have enjoyed the first episodes. The latest episode contains an interview with Bethany Siegler of Unique Think. Bethany talks about her journey to WordPress and how she became a WordPress educator.…

If you’re looking for new WordPress…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

If you're looking for new WordPress podcasts, check out the #PressForward Podcast. Supported by WP&UP and hosted by Nathan Wrigley, #PressForward's weekly episodes focus on helping us maintain healthy minds, bodies, businesses, and skills in the WordPress community. 🎙️ I…

Speaking of the NHS, here’s a…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Speaking of the NHS, here's a great article by Ben Cullimore about using icons well on the new NHS site by putting the user's needs first. Ben is an interaction designer on the team that executed this project. ⚕️

Marco Almeida writes about his experience…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Marco Almeida writes about his experience with one WordPress plugin reviewer and the rejection of one of his plugins. 🤼 He followed up on that post a short time ago: I had a very civil and friendly chat with Mika…