(No comment or statement within this post is directed at any individual within the WCEU organizing team or any particular community member within the greater community. I have purposely not named names. This is about our community, not individuals.) In…
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Community Roundup Week Ending March 31
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
The Wayback Machine Do you ever use any of the mechanisms in place for looking back over time? Whether it's the Wayback Machine, Facebook Memories, or simply scrolling back through the photos in your phone, our histories make us who…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 24
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
It's Not About Luck "If you’re going to tell me about all the good luck I’ve had to get to where I am, then are you also going to talk about the bad luck I had to overcome to get…
How Open Source is WordPress?
Michelle Frechette
PlanetThe Week in Review
And how much weight does the community carry? This week we’ve seen a lot of discussion around the Active Install Growth Chart in the WordPress Repository. Mark Zahra has rallied the community to push back and find answers. He has an open meta…
Post Status Picks for the Week of August 8
Dan Knauss
PlanetThe Week in Review
Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Lemonhead: Should you build or capture an audience? JR Farr notes the pros and cons for each.Matt Report: Marc Benzakein shares a retrospective on running ServerPress for a decade in the WordPress space.Press The Issue:…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 63) — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need
Dan Knauss
BusinessCareers
People don't realize how long ago "long ago" wasn't. We're not talking about two, three, four hundred years ago. My family always stressed working somewhere your employer respects you, because it wasn't that long ago they didn't have a choice.…
Building and Sustaining the WordPress Community Through Mentorship — Post Status Draft 123
Dan Knauss
DraftPlanet
Mentor someone. Today! Don't wait. Start today! Talk to people. Connect with them. Go on Twitter. Just 15 minutes a day. Tell them why this community is great. Make them want to join!Nyasha Green In this episode of Post Status…
Winning the War on WordPress Notification Spam
Dan Knauss
Notes
Nice to see Brian Coords getting involved with the WP Notifications feature plugin project — otherwise known as WP-Notify (Github). He's calling for testing and feedback on the proof-of-concept at this point. You can click this link and immediately spin…
Counting Shadow Work: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 1)
Dan Knauss
Notes
Allie Nimmons wrote a really good take on this question in last week's issue of The Repository newsletter (scroll down), suggesting we should extend our idea of "what counts" as a 5FTF contribution, particularly for WordPress community-active people and volunteers…
Exiting — and Reentry, Block Themes, GitHub Actions, and Assessing the Pandemic’s Impact on WordPress
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
WordPress Podcast & Video Picks for the Week of June 26 Our Podcast Picks 🎙️ WP Tavern Jukebox: Daisy Olson, Developer Relations contributor at Automattic, talks about block themes and what everyone from regular users to developers should know about…
How Do We Get There From Here?
Dan Knauss
PlanetThe Week in Review
WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of June 13 My Podcast Picks 🎙️ Delicious Brainwaves: Ross Wintle and Ahmed Hussein discuss their own journeys with JavaScript development.WP Briefing: Josepha Haden Chomphosy covers some important questions from WordCamp Europe.WP…
Post Status Notes #501
David Bisset
BusinessDesign
Elementor acquires Strattic The latest addition to our acquisition tracker was a bit of a surprise to many people — a plugin company acquiring a host for a change. Elementor is a hosted solution and booming platform ecosystem, however, since…
WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of May 15
David Bisset
BusinessPlanet
My Podcast Picks 🎙️ How I Built It: Post Status founder Brian Krogsgard on determining membership benefits and preventing churn.Techmeme Ride Home: Not WordPress-related, but this reunion of some key web 2.0 tech leaders is a fascinating retrospective.Make Lemonade: Mike…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 56) — BlackPress: Bringing More Creators into the WordPress Community
David Bisset
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
“Organizers running meetups wherever they may be — your first thought should be how I can make this inclusive for everyone?”— Destiny Fox Kanno In this conversation for Post Status Excerpt, David is joined by Destiny Fox, Niesha Sweet, and…
Post Status Team Responses to the State of the Word 2021
Dan Knauss
PlanetWordPress News
Our Thoughts After SOTW Michelle Frechette: I was shocked and thrilled to receive an invitation to State of the Word in New York, and even happier when my travel was approved at StellarWP. Arriving at the venue (Tumblr’s old digs)…
Allie Nimmons has written a guide…
Dan Knauss
Allie Nimmons has written a guide to good project proposals, starting with the discovery call and ending with cost estimates and additional services. 📝 Allie notes that “your proposal is not a contract” so you should establish terms unique to…
