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Member Spotlight: Anne McCarthy

Michelle Frechette

August 1, 2022

Anne McCarthy is a minimalistic, optimistic, and athletic nomad who enjoys photography, deep conversations, and thought-provoking questions. They stumbled into WordPress as a freshman in college in 2011 and never looked back. What do you enjoy most about working in…

Woo Weekly #400: State of WooCommerce 2022

Dan Knauss

August 1, 2022

NotesWooCommerce

Congrats to Rodolfo Melogli of Business Bloomer and David Mainayar at PeachPay for reaching issue #400 of WooWeekly back in July. To celebrate this milestone, Rodolfo asked a lot of people (including me) to explain what one thing they'd change…

Announcing the Post Status Index

Cory Miller

July 29, 2022

BusinessPost Status Team Blog

Professionally, if I named one key element to my success it would be my relationships. I can trace every “big” or “successful” thing I’ve done to mutually generous healthy friendships. That’s also the key to Post Status being what it…

Transitioning an Agency to Gutenberg

Dan Knauss

July 29, 2022

BusinessDesign

Up this week on WP Tavern's Jukebox with Nathan Wrigley, it's Sean Blakely with the story of the transition to Gutenberg in a large agency, American Eagle. I've expected to see stories like this — for years. It seems they're…

Post Status Picks for the Week of July 25

Dan Knauss

July 29, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Syntax.fm has an interview with Syed Balkhi about Awesome Motive, how WordPress and PHP are viewed by developers, and his charity efforts. The WP Minute features Amber Hinds on Equalize Digital’s first exit. Sean Blakeley talks about transitioning a large agency over to Gutenberg at the WP Tavern's Jukebox.

Plugin Checker

Dan Knauss

July 29, 2022

Make WordPressNotes

On July 5, Felix Arntz proposed creating and adopting a plugin checking tool for the Plugin Review Team similar to the theme checker. The Performance Team would take the lead, but contributors from other teams would be needed as well.…

“We’re not a small village anymore.” A Conversation with Kim Lipari — Post Status Draft 121

Dan Knauss

July 28, 2022

DraftPlanet

WordPress as an economy or ecosystem is big, but the community and culture at its heart still feel small. Have we taken the time to really absorb the change that's come over the past decade? What questions should we be asking about what got us here and where we're going or want to go?

A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future

Dan Knauss

July 28, 2022

BusinessDevelopment

Here's an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic's mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack:…

EMEA and AMER Member Huddles

Dan Knauss

July 27, 2022

DesignHosting

We are hosting Two Weekly Post Status Member Huddles now. Huddles open time and space for our community of peers designed for camaraderie and connection for all WordPress Professionals, even if you're not a member yet.

WP Campus 2023

Dan Knauss

July 27, 2022

Notes

The WPCampus conference won't happen in 2022. The post-COVID reboot has been delayed until July 12-14, 2023, so save those dates. Until then, keep up with the leadership transition and consider pitching in. WPCampus is a community network and conference…

PHP 8.2 Compatibility, Renaming FSE, Custom Template Options, WP Feature Notifications Project

Courtney Robertson

July 27, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Getting Ready for PHP 8.2, Rebooting Feature Notifications, Additional Custom Template Options, and Renaming Full Site Editing.

Refocusing the WordPress Mobile App on the Core User Experience — without Jetpack

Dan Knauss

July 27, 2022

FeaturesMake WordPress

The boundaries between WordPress .com and .org have never been very clear. That may change as the WordPress mobile app sheds features the Jetpack app will gain.

Founders on What They’d Do Over Differently

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2022

BusinessNotes

Eric Karkovack got some nice brief reflections from WordPress product founders/owners Kathy Darling, Cameron Jones, Derek Ashauer, Jack Arturo, Gareth Harris, and Mark Westguard. You may be surprised at what they'd do differently if they were starting out now, knowing…

Winning the War on WordPress Notification Spam

Dan Knauss

July 26, 2022

Notes

Nice to see Brian Coords getting involved with the WP Notifications feature plugin project — otherwise known as WP-Notify (Github). He's calling for testing and feedback on the proof-of-concept at this point. You can click this link and immediately spin…

Faster and Faster

Dan Knauss

July 25, 2022

HostingNotes

Kevin Ohashi has released another annual report for WordPress (and WooCommerce) Hosting Benchmarks. My takeaways: https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551672904852484096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1551672904852484096%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fpost_status2Fstatus2F1551672904852484096widget%3DTweet https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551674571366940672 https://twitter.com/post_status/status/1551676428202102785

Joost’s 7th WordPress Market Share Report

Cory Miller

July 22, 2022

BusinessNotes

Joost de Valk, founder of Yoast SEO, posted his 7th CMS Market Share Analysis, based on data from W3Techs and BuiltWith. Here are some key points from Joost’s post: WordPress is the #1 CMS with a 43% market share, roughly…

Member Spotlight: Anne McCarthy

Woo Weekly #400: State of WooCommerce 2022

Announcing the Post Status Index

Transitioning an Agency to Gutenberg

Post Status Picks for the Week of July 25

Plugin Checker

“We’re not a small village anymore.” A Conversation with Kim Lipari — Post Status Draft 121

A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future

EMEA and AMER Member Huddles

WP Campus 2023

PHP 8.2 Compatibility, Renaming FSE, Custom Template Options, WP Feature Notifications Project

Refocusing the WordPress Mobile App on the Core User Experience — without Jetpack

Founders on What They’d Do Over Differently

Winning the War on WordPress Notification Spam

Faster and Faster

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