WordPress News

The Ellipsis Weather Report is Live

Dan Knauss

September 23, 2022

Every week, Ellipsis' Weather Report will show how much WordPress and WooCommerce search and advertiser activity has increased or dropped relative to the previous week. By watching these two trendlines, you can gauge whether your own search and sales trends are performing in line with the industry at large.

WordPress Community News Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022

Michelle Frechette

September 23, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

The Post Status Member Spotlight turns onto Tom Greenwood this week. The WordPress community conversation about accessibility at WordCamps continues on Twitter, WP Builds, Post Status Draft, and Post Status Excerpt. Let's have WordPress Accessibility for All!

Post Status Excerpt (No. 69) — WCUS Afterthoughts, Accessibility, and Pay Transparency

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

BusinessDesign

WordCamp US, accessibility, disability, Ny's "blood feud" with Uber, and salary transparency are the topics Dan Knauss and Nyasha Green take on this week for The Excerpt.

WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022

Daniel Schutzsmith

September 22, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week: WP Tests from the Abstract Agency, ACF 6.0, and Simple Social Images. Cool Tool of the week Warp goes into plaid.

WordPress Careers Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

CareersPlanet

Why do designers quit? Matej Latin breaks down the results of his survey. Amelia Nagoski says self-care is not enough to prevent burnout — we have to care for each other. Alyssa Place explains how managers can do that. Maintenance failures can be lethal, but Stewart Brand finds the winning maintenance style in sailing history.

Is there a maximum length to WordPress user passwords?

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

Tech

Otto chimed in to answer this interesting question at Stack Exchange. Apparently WordPress will accept passwords up to 4096 bytes. Of course, there's more to it than that...

Kevin Ohashi: Deep History, Integrity, and Hosting Benchmarks

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

HostingTech

This is a great interview with Ryan MacDonald of Liquid Web and Kevin Ohashi from Review Signal if you value depth and breadth of experience and vision in experts. The history of the hosting industry is interesting on its own…

Business Spotlight: PMC

Michelle Frechette

September 22, 2022

Member SpotlightsPost Status Video

PMC is an agency with some BIG name clients, but for this agency, their team is just as important (if not more so) than those juicy clients.

Copyright, Selfie Monkeys, and the Hand of God

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

NotesTech

The Open Source Initiative has produced a podcast series on AI and its implications for open source out of the concern that "the traditional view of open source code implementing AI algorithms may not be sufficient to guarantee inspectability and…

Why do designers quit their jobs?

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

BusinessCareers

Matej Latin did a survey of designers who quit their jobs and discovered: No career progression opportunities and unhappiness with the work they do were about equal, at about 20% each.Problems with company culture came next.A lack of UX maturity…

Hauwa Abashiya Talks About Training

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

NotesPlanet

Josepha Haden Chomphosy talks with Hauwa Abashiya about the WordPress Training team and LearnWP on the latest WordPress Briefing. If you're interested in joining the training team, it's OK if you're not a trainer. You can help take notes, edit,…

Revisiting the Notifications Problem

Dan Knauss

September 22, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

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.