Member Spotlight: Jonathan Bossenger
Michelle Frechette
As a WordPress Code Instructor Jonathan Bossenger gets to work with the Training team and the WordPress community in creating technical educational content for Learn WordPress.
WP.org outage notice gets written into plugin user’s salt keys
Dan Knauss
On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of a password security plugin reported it replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to a WSOD on a customer's site.
Two Tools: Better Presentations from iA and Super Fast Collaborative Code Editing with Zed
Dan Knauss
iA is developing a Markdown-based, radically simplified presentation app (called Presenter) that helps you tell stories effectively. Zed is the spiritual successor to Atom — and focused on fast, collaborative editing. You can get it at GitHub.
The fastest (headless) WooCommerce on earth…
Dan Knauss
So they say. Specifically, David Mainayar said in Woo Weekly #399 that it's the fastest he's seen, and I imagine he's seen a lot.
Blueprint This: A WooCommerce Private Store
Dan Knauss
This is a great explainer from Cozmos Labs for setting up WooCommerce as a private/walled garden store. Why do that? I'll tell you why! It should be a 1-click install blueprint too.
Advanced Phone Fields for Gravity Forms
Dan Knauss
Phone number fields in Gravity Forms can be tough. You may have resorted to building your own custom fields and doing some coding to accommodate numbers outside the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) — or even within it. You may…
James Koster shares some designs to help full site editing feel “more like a design tool”
Dan Knauss
James Koster has been posting some really nice design experiments for the full site editor interface. A key goal is to make the user experience less jarring: instead of dropping [users] directly in edit mode, we might instead present their…
Shiny New Releases
Dan Knauss
Gravity Forms 7.1 Beta 1 • the SpinupWP community • Dollie 2.0 • rtCamp's Easy Engine now with full custom Docker-Compose support • Metorik • Iconic • Do the Woo • Simple Ajax Chat Pro
Tech Roundup for the Week of August 22
Daniel Schutzsmith
DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways • Stop saying "Gutenberg!" • Build Mode Live with Brian Gardner and Sam Munoz • One week left to submit a style variation for TT3 • Cool Tool of the Week: Munir Kamal's Editor Plus
Post Status Picks for the Week of August 22
Dan Knauss
How to hire or build a diverse team with @Piccia and @UnderRepdInTech • @BobWP on FftF • @heyadamsilver reviews @ForumWP on @kitchensinkwp • @MasterWP on burnout and breaks w/ @Ny_the_Creator • The All Star FSE Outreach Team has a Hallway Hangout on block theming • @TheWPMinute with all the news in 3 minutes and 46 seconds.
A Taxonomy of Access Control
Dan Knauss
Once you know these states, you can assign probabilities of transitioning from one state to another (someone hacks your account and locks you out, you forgot your own password, etc.) and then build optimal security and reliability to deal with it. It’s a truly elegant way of conceptualizing the problem.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 66) — What Does It Mean To Contribute To WordPress?
Dan Knauss
How do we give back? We all want a community of creativity, cooperation, and contribution — how do we get there?
Two Big Tweets on Ways to Give Back
Dan Knauss
1) We're really looking forward to seeing this WordPress mentorship program launch — and maybe some of the planning? In a recent episode of The Excerpt, Nyasha Green talks about the importance of mentorship to her growth as a developer…
Is this a WordPress Acquisition?
Dan Knauss
DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways is an investment in the WordPress ecosystem with an emphasis on "digital agencies, eCommerce sites, bloggers, freelance developers and builders hosting on WordPress."
Remote work lashback — it’s not all wrong
Dan Knauss
Leo Postovoit at XWP has shared a pretty thorough defense of remote work. I didn't realize remote work was under such attack, or that Malcolm Gladwell had weighed in on the subject. (Big eyeroll and groan.) Many people seem tired…
