Member Spotlight: Ben Gabler
Michelle Frechette
Meet Ben Gabler, the CEO/Founder at Rocket.net, where they're on a mission to Accelerate & Protect WordPress at the edge of the cloud.
Open Source Communities: You May Not Be Interested in CISA, But CISA is Very Interested in You
Dan Knauss
United States national security interests are poised to become more invested in and engaged with open source projects classified as public infrastructure. From Log4j to the Securing Open Source Software Act, how did it all come together in 2022, and what may lie ahead?
Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo
Dan Knauss
In reaction to as-yet-unpublicized details about the abuse of active install data in the WordPress.org plugin repository, the charts displaying that data have been removed from plugin pages in a move expected to be temporary. Important (and some familiar) questions are emerging as this story unfolds: how to balance the values of openness, security, and privacy as well as cooperation and competition at WordPress.org — still the central hub for WordPress plugin businesses.
Drinking from the Firehose
Cory Miller
You can read all of this week's newsletter . And if you want everything without the cuts, head over to poststatus.com/the-week
WordPress Careers Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
Craft your origin story • Pointed questions for devs to ask prospective employers • Strategies against Ageism • IBM's a**hole test • Take a pass on a "fast-paced environment." • WordPress Translation Day • Writing Tips for Engineers • Preventing burnout as a manager
Shiny New Things!
Dan Knauss
From Abstract: WP Tests for Faster WordPress Projects.Independent Analytics – A Reliable Google Analytics Alternative for Your Website.Delicious Brains: WP Migrate 2.4 Released: Faster Migrations, Must-Use Plugins, WP Engine Compatibility, and More and The Developer's Guide to WP-CONFIG.PHP.WordPress 6.1: Global Styles…
WordPress Biz Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
2022 Web Almanac CMS findings • WP Cloud • Sponsored core contributor and sponsor data • WP Biz Dev • Female-Owned and Led WP Businesses • and more →
What is WP Cloud?
Dan Knauss
WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.
WordPress Core Contributor Stats: 19.9% Sponsored for 6.0 Release
Dan Knauss
The percentage of sponsored contributors has steadily increased to almost 20% now.
Radiopaper
Dan Knauss
Radiopaper is like a ring of threaded and publicly aggregated full-text Webmentions created via email — you email people you want to have a semi/private conversation with, and the conversation is published publicly. It's like if IndieWeb News let you…
2022 Web Almanac CMS Report
Dan Knauss
According to the CMS chapter of the just-released 2022 Web Almanac from the HTTP Archive, sites using a CMS — and WordPress — are still steadily increasing globally, and 34% of all the sites with an identifiable CMS were using…
Management Code: Management Skills for Female Creative Agency Owners
Dan Knauss
Natasha Golinsky has launched a Facebook group for women who own creative agencies: Management Code: Management Skills for Female Creative Agency Owners. https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1574916297179144192
The Unofficial Directory of WordPress WBEs
Dan Knauss
Last week, Steve Burge asked on Twitter, "how many female-run WordPress companies are there?" A big list emerged in the replies: https://twitter.com/SteveJBurge/status/1569754167241228288?s=20&t=l-zqN1WSUMzOeZ_H-NYNYg
WP Biz Dev Job Board
Dan Knauss
Lawrence Ladomery has launched WP Biz Dev, "the first job board dedicated exclusively to Marketing and Sales roles for WordPress businesses." MORE →
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.
WordPress 6.1 Beta 2 • Serverless WordPress • Annual Meetup Survey • Catalyst for Creativity
Courtney Robertson
Help test WordPess 6.1 Beta 2! Check out the latest features that are coming in the 6.1 release. Learn how to run WordPress using WebAssembly, and take the Annual Meetup Survey to give feedback on events.
