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Ryan McCue shared this paper about Let’s Encrypt SSL 🛡️ usage that has some interesting figures:
Jessica Frick is a huge WordPress advocate and has been a contributing community member since 2008. She is the Director of Operations at Pressable, one of our Post Status sponsors. Jess joins Cory Miller to share about the amazing WordPress hosting experience Pressable offers, in addition to her own experience and expertise as a long-time member of the WordPress community.
Scott Kingsley Clark is asking for donations to support the Pods Framework this year. Automattic has withdrawn its sponsorship of the project, which has provided 90% of the Pods team’s total funding. Understandably, Automattic “want[s] to focus their funding on Gutenberg-native projects” now.
The WordPress.org recommended host page is a valuable piece of real estate. Many rumors have been circulated over the years in regard to how the page is curated and what criteria are used. It was long neglected, then transitioned to two review periods for surveys and analyzing survey data. From my update in March: There was a…
Mike McAlister has shared an in-depth post recapping his first year as an independent theme shop, Array. Array sells themes on their website, but has also been on WordPress.com for a while. However, they also experimented with Creative Market. What they learned on each marketplace is valuable. Regarding Creative Market: Sales on Creative Market have…
This week Daniel shares some resources for creating React Apps using Gutenberg Data, static WordPress sites with Eleventy, and a Figma to FSE workflow. Also a reminder to test and give feedback on fluid typography — and one cool tool: Programming Fonts.
Automattic has won the rights to manage the gTLD .blog, one of the most sought after generic top level domain extensions to date. They paid “about $19M” for the privilege, according to Matt Mullenweg’s blog post (which he has since updated to link to a story that offers an indirect estimate, but his Facebook page…
