WordPress News

Sustainability Team • Supporting Organizations • Commercial & Community Themes & Plugins • Pattern Curation

Courtney Robertson

June 15, 2023

The WordPress Sustainability Team has launched. What's that?
The main objective of the team is to embed sustainable practices into the WordPress community and its processes. We focus on ensuring longevity; socially, economically, and environmentally.

Several organizations exist to support the work of WordPress, such as The WP Community Collective and HeroPress. Matt is proposing a way of displaying such supporting organizations.

Filters arrive for Themes and Plugins around what are Commercial efforts and what are Community efforts, while the Patterns Directory ponders using filters for displaying all patterns associated with a theme.

Launching a WordPress Product in Public: Session 17

Cory Miller

June 14, 2023

BusinessDraft

Transcript ↓ Corey Maass and Cory Miller continue the development of their new WordPress plugin, Crop.Express. In this episode, they discuss designing pricing plans and creating a compelling website homepage for their new product. They delve into the intricacies of…

Emilia Capital Gets Creative with WCEU Sponsorship

Michelle Frechette

June 12, 2023

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Marieke van de Rakt and Joost de Valk from Emilia Capital discuss their investment process with Michelle Frechette. They talk about evaluating potential investments, providing feedback, and the importance of finding a good fit. Their investments in…

Launching a WordPress Product in Public: Session 16

Cory Miller

June 8, 2023

BusinessDraft

Transcript ↓ In this episode, Cory Miller and Corey Maass explore the delicate balance between professionalism and creativity in branding and marketing. They also discuss the importance of incorporating feedback into the product development process, utilizing user testing and testimonials…

Improving Visa Support • Event Tooling • WP-CLI Updates • Block Inspector Sub-groups

Courtney Robertson

June 7, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

Community team is considering tooling around the building and using the WordCamp websites, in addition to the naming of events. To help speakers attend WordCamps, additional lead time for visas is requested as well. Share your thoughts now.

WP-CLI has released 2 updates. Get a look at what new features are available.

See the dev blog for more ways to use the block inspector.

Community Roundup Week Ending June 2

Michelle Frechette

June 2, 2023

The Week in ReviewWordPress Community

Community Roundup Week Ending June 2: WordCamp Europe, The WP World, Post Status Meetups, quick links and more!

Jobs & Career Roundup Week Ending June 2

Michelle Frechette

June 2, 2023

CareersThe Week in Review

Jobs & Career Roundup Week Ending June 2. It continues to be a tough job market in tech, but companies ARE hiring.

Tech Roundup Week Ending June 2

Mike Demopoulos

June 2, 2023

TechThe Week in Review

Tech Roundup Week Ending June 2: Check out what happened in WordPress (and other) tech this week.

Business Roundup Week Ending June 2

Mike Demopoulos

June 2, 2023

BusinessThe Week in Review

Business Roundup Week Ending June 2. Check out what happened in WordPress business this week!

Member Spotlight: Justin Sainton

Michelle Frechette

June 2, 2023

BlogsMember Spotlights

Our spotlight, Justin Sainton says There's nowhere else on the planet that provides as much value to developers, like Post Status.

Launching a WordPress Product in Public: Session 15

Cory Miller

June 1, 2023

BusinessDraft

Transcript ↓ In this episode, Cory Miller and Corey Maass discuss their progress on a project related to image generation and sharing. They explore the use of Open Graph (OG) images, social media platforms, and the importance of consistent branding.…

WP Products for the Enterprise with Anil Gupta of Multidots

Cory Miller

June 1, 2023

BusinessDraft

Transcript ↓ In this episode, Cory Miller interviews Anil Gupta, CEO of Multidots, about WordPress in the enterprise space. They discuss the importance of collaboration in WordPress, particularly for enterprises, and how tools like Multi Collab can address content creation…

WP 6.3 Planning • WP20 • AI Forum Replies • LearnWP Survey Results

Courtney Robertson

May 31, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

How did you celebrate WordPress's 20th birthday? Read Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress, now available on GitHub and e-reader formats.

WordPress 6.3 is underway. Core has shared the planning roundup, and the Design team is starting to prepare now.

Support forums recently discussed considerations on using AI to respond to forum issues. Human intervention is still necessary for the foreseeable future.

Training team surveyed attendees at the last 3 flagship WordCamps and any additional respondents. The data is in with feedback on the content and site functionality of Learn.WordPress.org.

Drama, Accountability, and a Way Forward

Michelle Frechette

May 27, 2023

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WordPress is now 20. We need to value inclusion if we are to remain relevant to the next generations. We need to be an open source community.

Member Spotlight: Chris Reynolds

Michelle Frechette

May 27, 2023

BlogsMember Spotlights

Our spotlight member, Chris, is a Senior Software Engineer and technical lead of the CMS Platform team at Pantheon.

WP 6.2.2 • WP Playground • Client-side Filtering • Future WordCamp Brainstorms • Plugin Review Update

Courtney Robertson

May 24, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 6.2.2 is available now for update. This reintroduces shortcodes in Block Theme Templates in a more secure way.

Rich Tabor and WordPress Playground innovator Adam Zielinski discuss the capabilities and promise of WP Playground.

What do you want to see for future WordCamps? Share your ideas on the post.

Do you want to disable border settings for everyone but Administrators, and only for posts? See the Dev Blog.

What's the fate of the plugin review team with the primary maintainer soon to retire? It appears to have a bright future with additional contributors and tooling.