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Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has passed $1 billion in community earnings after 14 years of being in business. 💰
Sarah also gets into the controversy over Envato Elements, its subscription service which isn’t sitting well with developers and authors who mainly sell their work on Envato Marketplace.
Sarah Gooding reported on accessibility consultant Joe Dolson and how he detected suspicious review activity for the AccessiBe plugin at WordPress.org. Joe’s discovery led to the removal of at least 33 reviews. Accessibility plugins that offer “quick fix” solutions are usually frowned on in the accessibility community. Paying for reviews certainly isn’t helping AccessiBe’s image…
Sarah Gooding did a nice job summarizing the changes Jetpack is testing for paid block upgrades. It is controversial in the community as it fits within the gray zone of what should or should not be allowed. I appreciated Jeremy Herve’s comments to the post. I think it’s fair to say I support good user…
Sarah Gooding has written for WPMU for years. I was able to track her archive page back to October 2009. She announced this morning she’s joined Audrey, Matt Mullenweg’s research and investment arm, and is going to write about WordPress on WP Tavern full time. Sarah is a great writer, and WP Tavern will be…
Missing Menu Items • Farewell PHP 7.4 • I Didn’t Know You Could Do That in the Block Editor • Why is Your Computer Cosplaying as a PDP-11? • Effective Writing for Devs • The State of CSS • The Swiss Army Knife of Website Tools: Website Toolkit
Dan and Eric discuss their top picks for WordPress news stories of the week and the topic of professionalism. What is it — what does it mean for us in the WordPress community, and how does it relate to a healthy open source project and business ecosystem?
Elementor in the room 🐘 POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ A recent conversation in Post Status Slack centers on Elementor. The company targeted “full-site editing” in some of its Google ads. Community member Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg Times and a contributor to Gutenberg. She noted on February 25: Elementor is targeting “WordPress…
