Laura Nelson on WordPress and Email Marketing — Post Status Draft 122
Cory Miller
Laura Nelson and Cory Miller talk about creating content for email marketing.
Shiny New Thing: OrganizeWP
Dan Knauss
Check out Jon Christopher's OrganizeWP which is still in Beta but won't be for long. Clean out your Admin interface and make it work for you! The Admin Menu has become a battleground for attention, especially with content types. OrganizeWP…
Legal Stuff: What All Online Course Creators Need to Know
Dan Knauss
I haven't seen anything from Richard Best in a while, but he recently shared "17 practical legal steps to help you create great course content, protect yourself, and keep your money." One of the 17 is "Know how to find…
Omnichannel or Multichannel?
Dan Knauss
Here's a detailed post from Bradley Taylor for GoDaddy's WooCommerce Wednesdays — all about multichannel selling. I was curious to see why that's being billed as the future of e-commerce. I've read more about "omnichannel" as the buzzword of the…
Partnerships in WordPress and WooCommerce
Dan Knauss
Bob Dunn breaks down the main types of partnerships he sees working (in different contexts) in the Woo/WP space: Affiliates and income-generating partnershipsThe Real Business PartnershipThe Sponsorship PartnershipThe Soft Partnership Read/listen to the whole thing for good insights and advice…
Roll Your Own Fonts
Dan Knauss
I'm not sorry to see Google Fonts and other sources of fine typography being dropped as remote sources for WordPress themes. Given the relative ease of modifying existing open source typefaces and creating new ones, I wonder why we don't…
New Home and Download Pages for WP.org
Dan Knauss
WordPress.org is getting new Home and Download pages. The current mockups look very nice! Leave your feedback in the comments.
How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes
Dan Knauss
Here's a nice tutorial at learn.wordpress.org for learning how to get started with child block theme development and a good model for tutorials you can contribute! If you have any questions about being a tutorial presenter please join the #training…
Does “Full-Site Editing” Need a New, “User-Friendly” Name?
Dan Knauss
I've been thinking about this question and the others related to it that Josepha Haden Chomphosy posted last week. There's been a strong comment discussion so far, and I discovered what my view on it is now by noticing what…
Nulled Themes and Plugins
Dan Knauss
My first experiences with "nulled" (or back in the day "cracked") software date back to the golden days of the Atari 8-bit and Commodore Amiga. Blank floppy disks were cheap, and like most kids, I did not have a lot…
Member Spotlight: Anne McCarthy
Michelle Frechette
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
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
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
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
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
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.…
