Member Spotlight: Tom Greenwood
Michelle Frechette
Tom Greenwood is the co-founder and Managing Director of Wholegrain Digital, a sustainability-focused WordPress agency.
New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1
Dan Knauss
A reminder from Anne McCarthy about the importance of your help testing Gutenberg 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release: If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that…
Automated Newsletters with Newsletter Glue
Dan Knauss
Coming soon to Newsletter Glue: Automated newsletters you can set up, test, and schedule in WordPress as well as Global Styles and Template Styles for multiple individual newsletters. Custom CSS will be available with both global and template styles.
Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo
Dan Knauss
Delicious Brains has a new tutorial about Managing WordPress Dev Environments with WP-CLI and Robo that's worth a look. Robo is an open-source task runner like Gulp and Grunt using PHP instead of JavaScript. It's used by Drupal's Drush, that project's…
Making Events Accessible and Websites Under 1kB
Dan Knauss
From the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), Here's a checklist "for meetings, conferences, training, and presentations that are remote/virtual, in-person, or hybrid." And here's a website with pages under 1kB from Brad Taunt who is maintaining a list of sites…
1,122% 3-Year Growth
Dan Knauss
Multidots was ranked #560 on the 2022 Inc. 5000 Annual List this year. Noted at the end of the listing is a massive figure — they posted 1,122% growth over three years as a WordPress VIP Gold partner. They've also…
What’s in a Name? HPOS for WooCommerce
Dan Knauss
Custom Order Tables in WooCommerce are now High Performance Order Storage (HPOS). It's a technical kind of rebranding that's a really good idea to express not only what custom database tables for orders are but what they do. According to…
Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership
Dan Knauss
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. Vito explains what Atarim's latest partnership with Rocket.net brings to both companies and their customers — and he anticipates more deals like this in the year ahead.
Want WebP by Default Now? Get the Performance Lab Plugin
Dan Knauss
If your host doesn't already support WebP by default, you can get it with the Performance Lab plugin, thanks to the WordPress Performance Team.
A Beautiful Life is All About Maintenance
Dan Knauss
RescueTime, which I've used since they started up, often has pretty good articles on time management and such. This is one. Most good habits are about maintenance. https://blog.rescuetime.com/a-beautiful-life-is-all-about-maintenance/
WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?
Dan Knauss
How to make a user experience that doesn't suck has always remained a kind of trade secret among those who make it their trade. That's understandable, but it's Drupal behavior in a WordPress world.
The Cure for Burnout Is Not Self-Care
Dan Knauss
This is a good interview with burnout expert and author Amelia Nagoski on "quiet quitting." She concludes: Quiet quitting is a step toward rational and fair labor practices, but not everyone will have that choice. This is why we say…
Lessons in Maintenance
Dan Knauss
What's the best approach to maintenance — in software, sailing, or anything else? Hope for the best? Stewart Brand takes a famous solo, non-stop, round-the-world sailing race as a parable about maintenance styles that will win, go beyond winning, or drive you mad.
Agency Business Brief for the Week of September 12
Dan Knauss
WordPress Founders Invest in Atarim • Gridpane and Automattic Team Up to Serve Agencies • Salary Transparency — Why Not? • Learning Together in Post Status Slack: Adobe's Figma Acquisition and PayPal vs. Stripe
DEI = Salary Transparency
Dan Knauss
https://twitter.com/dimensionmedia/status/1568670894939344897 @Stratacomm again: Biggest applause line of @camikaos DEIB talk: “In order to have equity, we have to have salary transparency.” #WCUS @Piccia digs deep into that very subject this week at Post Status.
Salary Transparency: Why Not?
Piccia Neri
On the Post Status job board, like many others, most of the WordPress employers who use it don’t include salary ranges on their job listings. Should they? Piccia Neri asked them all why they do or don't practice salary transparency. She also put the question to agencies, freelancers, the WordPress community, developers, and designers on Twitter. Find out what Piccia learned and why she thinks salary transparency should be a universal practice where it hasn't yet become a legal obligation.
