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Ebonie Butler, a developer at Yikes…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Ebonie Butler, a developer at Yikes Inc., was featured on HeroPress in an older post I found this week. It's appropriately titled "Believe in Yourself," as Ebonie has to face various challenges. If you need to get inspired this week,…

WordPress.org shines a well-deserved spotlight on…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

WordPress.org shines a well-deserved spotlight on Tijana Andrejic from Belgrade, Serbia. It covers her journey from fitness trainer to the WordPress world, as well as the freelance and corporate opportunities it introduced.

📆 Upcoming Events #webcreators2021: Elementor is…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

📆 Upcoming Events #webcreators2021: Elementor is holding a free online event (via Zoom) on June 16th that features Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Swan Sit. 🆓 WordCamp Japan 2021's schedule is available, and the event is happening June 20-27. 🗾…

DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Video Picks 📹…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Business

DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Video Picks 📹 Here is my video pick of the week: WordCamp Europe 2021 Gutenberg Demo: A

John Blackbourn released Query Monitor 3.7…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

John Blackbourn released Query Monitor 3.7 which includes features related to viewing information about debugging and the performance of REST API requests. ✨

Morgan Kay and Rian Rietveld gave…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

Morgan Kay and Rian Rietveld gave a presentation at WCEU about enhancing the accessibility of Gravity Forms. They shared the content of their presentation, including links to the resources they mentioned. ♿ Morgan and Rian had some lessons to share…

Jetpack receives a forced update

David Bisset

June 4, 2021

Make WordPressPlanet

A little force push can come in handy sometimes. But with great power comes great responsibility. How should forced updates in WordPress be used?

Delicious Brains acquires Advanced Custom Fields

David Bisset

June 4, 2021

BusinessHosting

Delicious Brains has acquired Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and Liquid Web inked a deal to acquire Iconic.

Delicious Brains has acquired Advanced Custom…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

Delicious Brains has acquired Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and Liquid Web has acquired Iconic. Read David's take on the story. Jetpack received a forced update. David thinks they're dangerous but needed, but so is more information about them in the…

An excellent business-related discussion in Post…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

BusinessHosting

An excellent business-related discussion in Post Status Slack: Patrick Garman (CEO of Mindsize) asks in our #business Slack channel, "How much cash do you keep on hand in the business?" 💵 The consensus was three months, although Cory Miller always…

What makes a typeface accessible? Gareth…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

What makes a typeface accessible? Gareth Ford Williams has an informative guide on that. 🦮

The Wall Street Journal reported that…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

The Wall Street Journal reported that Stack Overflow is being sold to Prosus for $1.8 Billion (USD). 😮 I haven't heard of Prosus before, but apparently, they have stakes in two educational tech companies: Udemy and Codecademy. I'll watch this…

Anne McCarthy has published a comprehensive…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

Anne McCarthy has published a comprehensive resource guide to help people talk about the upcoming WordPress full-site editing features. 👍

The A/B Testing For WordPress plugin…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

The A/B Testing For WordPress plugin apparently has a new owner — John James Jacoby. 🔌 The plugin's creator, Gaya Kessler, said that it "didn't feel right to not do something with this plugin since I was neglecting it... I…

Jonathan Wold makes a case for…

Dan Knauss

June 4, 2021

Jonathan Wold makes a case for an app store for WordPress, although I would direct anyone interested in this to our Post Status Comments conversation where this concept was discussed a bit. 💬 Carl Hancock chimed in with some incisive…