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Revisiting the Notifications Problem

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

Brian Coords has been working on WP-Notify which is described on its GitHub repo as: A feature plugin for WordPress, which aims to create a new (better) way to manage and deliver notifications to the relevant audience. https://wpbuilds.com/2022/09/01/294-how-might-we-fix-the-wordpress-notifications-problem/

Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

BusinessCareers

Drawing on a gender gap at WCUS noticed by Women in WP, Rob Howard thinks there might be a "self-employment penalty" on conference attendance that disproportionately affects women. There's a lot of speculation in this article, but it's a subject…

Fake Discount Pricing

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

BusinessNotes

Rob Howard took a look at the prevalence of fictitious "discount" pricing on WordPress plugins in light of US federal and some state laws that may regard this as a deceptive trade practice. Rob will have more to say about…

WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 • Help Test • #WPTranslationDay • Video Courses #LearnWP

Courtney Robertson

September 21, 2022

DesignHosting

The 6.1 Beta 1 release was briefly delayed a day but is now available. You can get familiar with what's coming in 6.1 with the release by helping test the new features. Please give some consideration to Hugh Lashbrooke's proposal for faster course development on the Training Team with video-based courses.

Member Spotlight: Tom Greenwood

Michelle Frechette

September 21, 2022

Member SpotlightsWordPress News

Tom Greenwood is the co-founder and Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, a sustainability-focused WordPress agency.

New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2022

DesignDevelopment

A reminder from Anne McCarthy about the importance of your help testing Gutenberg 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release: If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that…

Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

Delicious Brains has a new tutorial about Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo that's worth a look. Robo is an open-source task runner like Gulp and Grunt using PHP instead of JavaScript. It's used by Drupal's Drush, that project's…

Making Events Accessible and Websites Under 1kB

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2022

DesignNotes

From the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Here's a checklist "for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid." And here's a website with pages under 1kB from Brad Taunt who is maintaining a list of sites…

1,122% 3-Year Growth

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

Multidots was ranked #560 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List this year. Noted at the end of the listing is a massive figure — they posted 1,122% growth over three years as a WordPress VIP Gold partner. They've also…

What’s in a Name? HPOS for WooCommerce

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

Custom Order Tables in WooCommerce are now High Performance Order Storage (HPOS). It's a technical kind of rebranding that's a really good idea to express not only what custom database tables for orders are but what they do. According to…

Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

BusinessDesign

Vito Peleg, Atarim's cofounder and CEO, explains how he "cracked" the partnership problem to find alignment with other companies that can help them all accelerate their growth. Vito explains what Atarim's latest partnership with Rocket.net brings to both companies and their customers — and he anticipates more deals like this in the year ahead.

Want WebP by Default Now? Get the Performance Lab Plugin

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

NotesPlanet

If your host doesn't already support WebP by default, you can get it with the Performance Lab plugin, thanks to the WordPress Performance Team.

A Beautiful Life is All About Maintenance

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

RescueTime, which I've used since they started up, often has pretty good articles on time management and such. This is one. Most good habits are about maintenance. https://blog.rescuetime.com/a-beautiful-life-is-all-about-maintenance/

WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

How to make a user experience that doesn't suck has always remained a kind of trade secret among those who make it their trade. That's understandable, but it's Drupal behavior in a WordPress world.

The Cure for Burnout Is Not Self-Care

Dan Knauss

September 20, 2022

BusinessCareers

This is a good interview with burnout expert and author Amelia Nagoski on "quiet quitting." She concludes: Quiet quitting is a step toward rational and fair labor practices, but not everyone will have that choice. This is why we say…

Revisiting the Notifications Problem

Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?

Fake Discount Pricing

WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 • Help Test • #WPTranslationDay • Video Courses #LearnWP

Member Spotlight: Tom Greenwood

New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1

Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo

Making Events Accessible and Websites Under 1kB

1,122% 3-Year Growth

What’s in a Name? HPOS for WooCommerce

Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership

Want WebP by Default Now? Get the Performance Lab Plugin

A Beautiful Life is All About Maintenance

WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?

The Cure for Burnout Is Not Self-Care

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