WordPress News

Shiny New Things!

Dan Knauss

September 29, 2022

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

September 29, 2022

BusinessPlanet

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

September 29, 2022

BusinessFeatures

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

September 29, 2022

BusinessNotes

The percentage of sponsored contributors has steadily increased to almost 20% now.

Radiopaper

Dan Knauss

September 29, 2022

NotesTech

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

September 28, 2022

NotesPlanet

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

September 28, 2022

BusinessPlanet

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

September 28, 2022

BusinessPlanet

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

September 28, 2022

BusinessCareers

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

September 28, 2022

DesignDevelopment

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

September 28, 2022

DesignHosting

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.

What happens 3 minutes after you fail?

Dan Knauss

September 27, 2022

CareersNotes

For 90% of what we deal with on a regular basis, though, by the time the weekend comes around, nobody is going to care that you made a mistake.The Misanthropic Developer

When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress

Dan Knauss

September 27, 2022

DevelopmentHosting

Keanan Koppenhaver explains over at WP Mayor: When and When Not to Use Headless WordPress: If you have a strong frontend team that’s comfortable interfacing with APIs and is used to communicating changes and working with more distributed systems, then…

Patchstack Partners with Hostinger

Dan Knauss

September 27, 2022

BusinessNotes

Patchstack brings fast virtual patches and safe updates to any plugin or theme vulnerabilities potentially affecting Hostinger's customers.

First of the Independents

Dan Knauss

September 23, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Consolidation through mergers and acquisitions isn't the only big business story in WordPress. Partnerships are increasing too. Founders investing in founders. Product companies and agencies expanding their own ecosystems. Informal partnerships to protect common interests. There are a lot of ways to grow on your own terms in WordPress.

Business Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022

Dan Knauss

September 23, 2022

BusinessThe Week in Review

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. Alex Denning on the launch of Ellipsis' Weather Report: “We’ve never had this insight before, and it is exciting and terrifying to bring this kind of ‘live' view of the industry, to the industry.” The acquisition trend is still up, on average. Meet Post Status business member Penske Media Corporation — PMC.