WordPress Community Roundup
Dan Knauss
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
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
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
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
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
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
Jetpack and WordPress.com can publish to Telegram. The ultimate gitignore for WordPress projects.
Are WebP and SVG Pixels Greener?
Dan Knauss
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
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
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
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
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.
Naming is hard—but important
Dan Knauss
This is an important topic that came out of a Post Status Slack #security discussion involving Robert Rowley and John James Jacoby: WordPress Terminology Meta. It continued over at the WPwatercooler.
WordPress 6.1.1 • Team Rep Nominations • Codespaces for Contributions
Courtney Robertson
Time to update, WordPress 6.1.1 is out! GitHub has made Codespaces available for 60 hours/month, and WordPress is exploring Core contribution integrations with
wordpress/wordpress-develop. It's team rep nomination time too.
WordPress in Substack’s History
Dan Knauss
I wish this was a WordPress story. It should've been and could still be — a simple publishing platform built around freemium newsletters — and writers. In a way, it is a WordPress story. Ben Thompson's Stratechery was a Substack…
Security News Roundup
Dan Knauss
Critical OpenSSL vulnerability • Australia raises fines for data breaches • Apple only commits to patching the latest OS • EU may require secure code and timely patches.• NSA/CISA guidance for software developers and suppliers
