ByDan Knauss
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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 Automattic has withdrawn its sponsorship of the project, which has provided 90% of the Pods team’s total funding.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.
Scott Kingsley Clark notified me this morning that a security update has been released for all versions of Pods 2.0 and later. Pods allows for the creation or extension of WordPress content types. Any website that uses the feature to extend WordPress’ default Users with Pods are vulnerable to this bug. Here’s how Scott describes…
WordPress.com has changed their policies a couple of times on theme submissions. It was closed, then it opened up, and now it’s closed again. Sarah Gooding did the hard work on this one: I contacted Automattic to find out why the submission form has been removed and when authors can expect for it to be…
Jeremey DuVall — a support team lead and Happiness Engineer at Automattic — shares how to manage negativity with your customers on the HelpScout blog.
Automattic launched data.blog to share internal data analysis, and as another marketing opportunity for the new TLD. Data for Breakfast will feature posts about our data stack, trends in WordPress.com usage, and whatever currently tickles our data fancy. We’re data scientists and engineers with a passion for our craft, and we’re starting this blog to share…
Here’s some insight from Patrick Rauland on how many projects at Automattic start. Insightful, and this line might explain a few reasons why some items might take longer to be addressed then others: “Since getting people on board your project is so important some of the smaller more tedious or less interesting tasks get left behind.”
Some Tumblr news this week: Ilya Kaminsky has been brought on board with Automattic to work on Tumblr as Director of Engineering, Ads. Automattic credits a new partnership with Hunt Club for the hire, no doubt one of several sources for talent in a competitive hiring market. In addition, Tumblr announced Post+ which allows creators…
