WordPress News

WPCampus Online 2019 has come and…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

WPCampus Online 2019 has come and gone, but you can view presenters' slides, and video will be available soon. There was quite a lot of material related to Gutenberg, dubbed "Gute" or "Gutes" in WPCampus chats. The Gutenberg Accessibility Audit presentation…

A recent episode of The Rework…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

A recent episode of The Rework Podcast digs into the story behind Basecamp's well-established blog (Signal vs. Noise) moving from Medium to WordPress. Speaking of Medium, some folks are reporting the company appears to be cutting off its APIs. 🔪

Here’s something handy: a complete list of…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

Here's something handy: a complete list of all Google search operators and their functionality from Joshua Hardwick. Included are some tips to help you do useful things like determining how often your competitors are publishing new content and finding sites linking…

The axiom that advises us to…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

The axiom that advises us to "move fast and break things" might be coming to the end of its useful life, according to Hemant Taneja. To better assess the social impact of startups’ technology, Hemant proposes eight questions "every company must…

Andy Adams has launched an ebook that…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

Andy Adams has launched an ebook that might be perfect for someone you know who is just getting started in freelancing, especially in the WordPress space. Sage advice: "Successful freelancers are particular about the projects they take – or more importantly…

I stumbled upon an interesting Gravity…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

I stumbled upon an interesting Gravity Forms plugin called Fillable PDFs. The recent 2.0 release gives you the ability to map Gravity Forms fields to PDF templates. 🤩

Human Made has released a video entitled “WordPress…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

Human Made has

WordPress designers and developers can learn…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

WordPress designers and developers can learn a lot from Annika Oeser's insights about the new Drupal admin UI.

Ben Sibley at Complete Themes noticed that…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

Ben Sibley at Complete Themes noticed that WordPress (sporting the 2016 default theme) appeared on HBO's True Detective Season 3.

Google has launched an “all-in-one site…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

Google has launched an "all-in-one site kit" plugin for WordPress. One may wonder if this will have any impact on third-party plugins that offer similar functionality. 😕

We want your feedback! Let us…

Dan Knauss

February 2, 2019

We want your feedback! Let us know what you like about Post Status, from this newsletter to our podcasts, among other things. Please take a few minutes of your time to share your thoughts with us through a brief survey. Help…

Just another migration story

Brian Krogsgard

February 1, 2019

BusinessDesign

This past week it was necessary for me to spend time migrating a website and helping deploy a new design for it. It was a frustrating and humbling experience that also reminded me just how much of a challenge these…

Over the last weekend, as some…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

Over the last weekend, as some of our members in the Post Status #club channel were noticing in real-time, WPML's website appeared to be hacked, and some of their customers were receiving disturbing emails. Someone claiming responsibility for the attack alleged…

A variety of changes and additions…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

A variety of changes and additions are coming to WordPress 5.1 — developers take note: New "short circuit filters" for WP_User_Query and count_users(). There's also LIKE support for meta keys. Some developer-focused changes to the Cron API, including new functions and filters that…

The official Github blog has switched from…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

The official Github blog has switched from Jekyll to WordPress, sporting a new .blog domain. While you're checking it out, their annual transparency report for 2018 is worth reading.

CurateWP is a new commercial plugin…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

CurateWP is a new commercial plugin from JR Tashjian that offers automatic and manual curation to "gather your greatest content and help your readers discover it." It's a pretty slick looking tool, and I'm looking forward to trying it out.