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Yash Rana lays a finger on…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Yash Rana lays a finger on common mistakes and mixed messages that many product makers are unknowingly making on their pricing pages. The list includes: not creating urgency (or overdoing it), not reducing exit points, keeping design and copy simple,…

Bill Erickson shows how to use…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Bill Erickson shows how to use an SVG for a site favicon. This allows you to modify the favicon styling based on a dynamic color scheme, including a dark mode.

Chris Lema offers some suggestions on…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Chris Lema offers some suggestions on how you can get people to send you action-oriented emails — which eliminate the need for meetings and extended email discussions. ✉️ Chris defines an action-oriented email as one “that lets me reply quickly…

Video Picks 📺 Here is my…

Dan Knauss

July 16, 2021

Video Picks 📺 Here is my video pick this week: Gio Lodi, Mobile Software Engineer, on Life at Automattic: I recently stumbled upon a video playlist from early 2020 (before the pandemic truly hit the US) of short videos "introducing"…

Can small, independent WordPress makers still make it?

David Bisset

July 16, 2021

BusinessDesign

Is it still possible to make a living as a small WordPress company, freelancer, or solopreneur? The community says yes!

Post Status Excerpt (No. 16) — Syed Balkhi on Acquiring SearchWP

David Bisset

July 9, 2021

HostingPlanet

Syed Balkhi talks with David about his acquisition of SearchWP, his vision for the plugin, and he calls for developers to stay mission-focused.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 15) — Jon Christopher on Finding A New Home For SearchWP

David Bisset

July 9, 2021

BusinessPlanet

Jon Christopher recently sold SearchWP to Awesome Motive. Learn what motivated Jon to make the sale, and get his view of search in WordPress core.

Post Status Draft (No. 115) — Craig Hewitt on Castos’ Latest Funding and Expansion of Private Podcasting

David Bisset

July 7, 2021

DraftHosting

Post Status publisher Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about their pre-seed funding and expansion into the private podcasting market.

Look in the mirror, and don’t…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

Look in the mirror, and don’t be tempted to equate transient domination with either intrinsic superiority or prospects for extended survival. —Stephen Jay Gould

Post Status Excerpt (No. 14) —…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

Post Status Excerpt (No. 14) — Starting Your "Next Chapter" Project In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about how to build a “career raft” for yourself — something Cory wishes he did…

Shopify has updated its developer revenue…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

Shopify has updated its developer revenue share percentage There have been several announcements from Shopify lately, including a new Online Store 2.0. However, what has caught the eye of many people in the eCommerce space is the update to their…

📆 Upcoming Events WordFest Live: WordFest…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

📆 Upcoming Events WordFest Live: WordFest Live is back on July 23 — a 24-hour celebration of all that is WordPress! 🧡 It's free to register.

Timothy Jacobs offers a “snapshot” of…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

Timothy Jacobs offers a “snapshot” of some of the changes to the REST API in WordPress 5.8. This includes the creation of several REST API endpoints dedicated to widget management. Milana Cap also gathers some of the smaller changes that…

🔌 Jean-Baptiste Audras notes that WordPress…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

🔌 Jean-Baptiste Audras notes that WordPress 5.8 makes a new header available for plugin authors: “This allows third-party plugins to avoid accidentally being overwritten with an update of a plugin of a similar name from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.”

Ella van Durpe notes that the…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

Ella van Durpe notes that the new template editor in WordPress 5.8 is loaded in an iframe to isolate it from the rest of the admin screen. This has a few advantages: admin styles no longer affect the editor content…