WordPress News

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Meetup Accessibility Overlays • Multi-line Code Comments • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

Courtney Robertson

November 30, 2022

Should code comments switch to // ? Meetup.com stops using an accessibility overlay. Final releases for WordPress 3.7 - 4.0 are now available. Tune in soon for State of the Word 2023, happening December 15 via livestream from New York City.

Member Spotlight: Nathan Ingram

Michelle Frechette

November 28, 2022

BlogsMember Spotlights

Meet Nathan Ingram: the creator of MonsterContracts, battle-tested contracts for WordPress client work.

WordPress is People (Weekly Community Update)

Michelle Frechette

November 25, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

WordPress is people. It’s created by people. It’s used by people. It relies on people to move it forward, to modify it, to moderate it, and to build community around it.

State of the Word 2022 • Dev Blog Beta • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

Courtney Robertson

November 23, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

As 2022 comes to an end, State of the Word will happen in NYC again. Apply to attend or tune in to the livestream. Check out the beta version of the WordPress Developer Blog. Still have sites on WordPress 3.7 - 4.0? It's really time to upgrade as this will receive no further updates after December 1. It's team rep nomination time too.

WordPress Community Roundup

Dan Knauss

November 18, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

A New Home for the WordPress Community? RSS Friends • WP community stories of the pandemic • The History of Screen Readers • Dumb questions about disability • "Crip Time"

WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of November 14

Dan Knauss

November 18, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress • Tom Lach on the costs of rapid growth — It's not for everyone • The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor • Evolving Edupack — and Sunsetting It • and more...

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of November 14

Jonathan Bossenger

November 18, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Learn Accessibility • The Return of SmashingConf • PHP 8.2 Release Delayed • Deno for Decoupled Front-End Development • LogoIpsum, Post to Telegram, and WP .gitgnore • Substack, the WordPress Plugin • Cool Tool: Restrict With Stripe

The Enterprise

Dan Knauss

November 18, 2022

WordPress News

Tech jargon and analysts with acronyms. Buzzwords and ranking voodoo. Where does WordPress fit in the enterprise tech industry? A guide for the genuinely curious or perplexed.

Jobs Change, Membership Doesn’t

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

Post Status Team Blog

Post Status has been a haven for kindness and generosity, but it's thanks to our members, readers, listeners, colleagues, and friends that the work we do together and the fun we have is good, meaningful, and regenerative for our community. On that note, this is my last post in my role as editor at Post Status...

Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress — Post Status Draft 130

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

DraftPlanet

Sparked by Magne Ilsaas's ideas in The WordPress Enterprise Paradox, Tom started a Twitter thread and hosted a live discussion with Magne and others at enterprise WordPress agencies this week. Their main concern is the challenges that arise from not having a well-defined brand and market that allows "WordPress for the Enterprise" to stand out — without being ties to a particular WordPress company or host. After getting an outline of the problem as it stands today, I asked Tom what might help differentiate "Enterprise WordPress" as a collective or entire ecosystem of agencies operating within it. Can open-source values of sharing and cooperation shape a unique global identity for enterprise WordPress agencies? Is it time for an inter-agency association or "guild" to take on these challenges?

Two Tools

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

Jetpack and WordPress.com can publish to Telegram. The ultimate gitignore for WordPress projects.

Are WebP and SVG Pixels Greener?

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

PlanetTech

As a followup to my note in August on this topic, here's what Tom Greenwood had to say about WebP's value to sustainability in WordPress: I think as most browsers support WebP now, there is a real benefit to serving…

Pandemic experiences, “Are you disabled?” and the history of screen readers

Dan Knauss

November 17, 2022

CareersNotes

Back in July, Sabina Ionescu published a lot of different responses from people in the WordPress community to questions about the impact of the pandemic on them. I missed it then, but it's still relevant and worth reading. Some other…

Patchstack enriches open vulnerability data with signals showing attack volume, method, and source

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2022

NotesPlanet

Back in August, Oliver Sild announced in Post Status Slack that Patchstack was opening up "additional data" to "enrich the vulnerability data" their service discloses, now "with [a] real-time IP feed of attackers who hit [Patchstack's] virtual patches." Virtual patches…

Catching up with Do the Woo

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2022

NotesPlanet

Bob puts out so much writing and audio at Do the Woo and has so many different people featured, it's hard to keep up! These are some recent ones I've taken note of but didn't get into a post or…

Big Growth Isn’t for Everyone

Tom Lach

November 16, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Back in 2019, my agency was a team of 10 people, and we were entering a space where we could easily start working with big enterprises. Our idea of the future was to scale up and grow. Of course it was.