On the Web Publishing Tool Race
Cory Miller
What if it's not between open and closed but centralized and decentralized?
Rethinking WordPress Products Pricing Models
Cory Miller
Jon Christopher wrote about how he’s rethinking the pricing model for his OrganizeWP product, and he got some good conversation going in Slack about it. Here's what he's doing: "licenses for updates and support will be sold for each major…
New Voices
Dan Knauss
WordPress needs more and better conversations. Respect, cooperation, and appreciation for each others’ roles even across differences and real disagreements — is it possible?
Post Status Picks for the Week of August 8
Dan Knauss
Should you build or capture an audience? JR Farr notes the pros and cons for each. On the Matt Report, Marc Benzakein shares a retrospective on ServerPress. Allie Nimmons and Teron Bullock discuss how to deal with negative criticism online in Press The Issue. Do we need a WordPress debate club? Bob Dunn has tips for first-time WordCampers, and Working Code looks at reducing the complexity of shipping code.
Design, Development, and One Cool Tool
Daniel Schutzsmith
Daniel Schutzsmith shares the latest WordPress design and development news, tools, and techniques along with one special pick — this week's shiny, new, and coolest tool.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 63) — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need
Dan Knauss
This week, Ny relates some personal experiences where pay transparency was lacking and the impact it can have on workplace cultures. This leads into a discussion of pay transparency in the hiring process — how it matters to everyone but especially job seekers who are black, indigenous, and other people of color.
Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks
Courtney Robertson
Is it safe to insert an SVG via URL? How healthy is your database? Performance Team Rep Nominations.
Local Development Tools and the Open Web
Dan Knauss
Who is not using Local? Is it an Open Web tool? Let's review some "Local history" and consider where WP Engine's popular developer tools could be headed.
Gutenberg 13.8 Drops / What’s Ahead in WordPress 6.1
Dan Knauss
George Mamadashvili has a nice update and overview of the latest Gutenberg release: https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/08/04/whats-new-in-gutenberg-13-8-3-august/ The new monthly summaries for WordPress.org news are really nice — here's July from Reyes Martinez: https://wordpress.org/news/2022/08/the-month-in-wordpress-july-2022/
Pentesting as Contributing
Dan Knauss
Robert Rowley at Patchstack explains what I believe is the first-ever reported vulnerability in Gutenberg (the plugin, not in WordPress core) to make the National Vulnerability Database. Robert has opened an issue for discussion in the Gutenberg GitHub repo that…
Networking Done Right
Cory Miller
Extendify’s Chris Lubkert and Artur Grabowski unpack how WordPress founders can build a network of potential buyers early on to enhance the sellability of their product for a future exit. I’ve had many conversations with Chris and Artur over the…
Digital Marketing as the “Edge” in Recession
Cory Miller
I asked How Is “Recession” Talk Affecting Your Clients? in our Agency Owners channel because I was curious what those on the frontlines working with clients are hearing and seeing. Hendrik Luehrsen said “clients are actively pushing the envelope to…
CSS Tricks Sale Price: $4M
Cory Miller
Acquired in January, CSS-Tricks founder Chris Coyier, who was also a member here, ran that publication for 15 years before capitalizing on search traffic to sell to Digital Ocean — for $4 million (USD). They Got Acquired got that number…
DesktopServer Shutting Down After 12 Years
Cory Miller
It's sad to hear that ServerPress is closing its doors and DesktopServer has reached its end. Marc Benzakein and Gregg Franklin were active WordPress community members for years and I appreciated their work. Shared in an email to their customers:…
Gluing Things Together
Cory Miller
This week Dan and I talked with Post Status member Lesley Sim of Newsletter Glue about refining our tedious and time-consuming newsletter workflow here. (I’ve been doing it for the last couple of weeks and it’s a bear!)
The Importance of Space
Michelle Frechette
In order to be productive, happy, and healthy, we often define our lives in terms of space: physical space, emotional space, and time.
