WordPress News

🎬 If you’ve been thinking about…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

🎬 If you've been thinking about live streaming, then read Joe Casabona thoughts on what he's learned after investing his time in some experiments: "Pick a theme... and a time that works for you and your audience. Interact with them."

💬 Charles Copley has a unique…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

💬 Charles Copley has a unique use for BBPress that I never considered: "Normally I would use Google Tasks for this (as I can access it from both my Pixel and laptop), but I did update my BBPress plugin to…

The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Design

The Designer Experience (DesignEx) team at Automattic is focused on hiring designers, onboarding new designers, and fostering the growth and development of the design team. Monika Burman wrote a great piece about their culture and community-building programs, which aren't often…

Are you ready for “WordPress: The College Years?”

David Bisset

May 27, 2021

PlanetSecurity

As WordPress turns 18, here are some of the lesser known historical milestones that have stuck with me.

The SavvyCal Story with Founder Derrick Reimer

Karen Johnson

May 25, 2021

BusinessPost Status Live

Cory Miller hosts Derrick Reimer, the founder of SavvyCal to discuss how Derrick got started and what it's been like taking on Calendly.

Making Online Summits Work with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux

Karen Johnson

May 24, 2021

BusinessDesign

Watch Cory Miller in a conversation with Nathan Wrigley and Anchen le Roux about effective online event hosting from planning to execution.

What we can learn from the ProfilePress debacle

David Bisset

May 21, 2021

BusinessPlanet

When a plugin is acquired and monetized, what's the best way to avoid the problems ProfilePress ran into this week?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 11) — A New Era for Post Status

David Bisset

May 21, 2021

DesignPlanet

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Cory Miller and David Bisset discuss the future of Post Status and Cory's full acquisition of it.

Our Future Together at Post Status

Cory Miller

May 21, 2021

BusinessPlanet

When Brian broached the subject of stepping aside from his ownership in Post Status about a month ago, a couple of thoughts instantly came to mind...

A New Era for Post Status

Brian Krogsgard

May 21, 2021

BusinessPlanet

I have sold my share of Post Status to Cory Miller as I step aside to explore new opportunities running a product business outside of the WordPress space.

This update from Anne McCarthy about…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

This update from Anne McCarthy about the block editor raised my interest: "...work is underway to suggest block patterns based on the block one is working with.... in the long run it will be easier to create content and get…

Eric Karkovack shows how you can…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

Eric Karkovack shows how you can conditionally control block visibility in the WordPress Gutenberg Editor with the Block Visibility plugin. 👻

WordPress 5.8 will allow developers to…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

WordPress 5.8 will allow developers to set their plugin hostname - 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.

Carolina Nymark has published her full…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

Carolina Nymark has published her full site editing (FSE) theme, Armando, in the WordPress theme directory. Armando is designed for blogs or sports teams and includes multiple block styles and block patterns including site headers, site footers and page layouts.…

In case there was any doubt,…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

In case there was any doubt, WordPress 5.8 will no longer support Internet Explorer 11. Not surprisingly the block editor will be the most heavily impacted by this change.

Very happy to see the release…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

Security

Very happy to see the release WP-CLI v2.5.0 knowing it was quite the effort. Kudos to the team. This version includes security patches, PHP 8 support, improved MySQL/MariaDB support, new commands for managing automatic updates and creating MO files, and…