WordPress Origin Stories, Week 2
Cory Miller
Read WordPress stories from PostStatus members as we take time to reflect and celebrate 20 years of WordPress.
Big Picture Goals 2023 • WP 6.2 Planning • LearnWP Needs Analysis • Wrong Plugins
Courtney Robertson
Where is WordPress going in 2023? Read Josepha's Big Picture Goals for the year. WordPress certifications are in the planning phases, and the foundation will include LearnWP. The Training Team is conducting a Needs Analysis. Help gather the community's input. Plugins Team is seeking intentionally wrong plugins, and Core has the 6.2 Planning Roundup.
Improving 5ftF Contributor Journey • Building Interactive Blocks • Layout Classes • WP20
Courtney Robertson
Share your feedback about how to improve the Five for the Future contributor journey. Check out work underway on how to make interactive blocks easier to build, and take a walkthrough of layout classes in WordPress 6.1. It's time to start planning; how will you celebrate WordPress' 20th birthday?
WordPress 6.2 Schedule • 2022 in Core • Block Developer Year in Review • New Incident Response Team
Courtney Robertson
WordPress 6.2 is set to reach feature freeze on February 7 and final release on March 28. Take a look back at Core contribution stats from 2022. Read the recap of everything that happened last year that developers need to know. Meet the members of the Incident Response Team.
Annual Survey • WordPress Playground • Plugins/themes Categorization
Courtney Robertson
What are the four freedoms of open source and how do they impact us? Get a look in the Celebration of the Four Freedoms of Open Source. Try out the new WordPress Playground to run WordPress in the browser. Plugin and Theme developers note the new categorizations: Canonical, Community, and Commercial.
Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Suggest Community Summit Topics • WordPress Playground (WASM)
Courtney Robertson
Tune in Thursday for Matt's annual State of the Word address. Check out the WordPress Playground now. It brings key platform dependencies into the browser that you can embed in your own site today. Your feedback into the annual WordPress survey helps shape the project, so fill it out as soon as possible.
Learning and Pulling Together
Dan Knauss
This week was all about revisiting and continuing conversations that have special value and maybe for that reason tend to continue on with a life of their own. Tom Willmot dropped a fine Twitter thread about the challenge all enterprise WordPress agencies face. This came in response to Magne Ilsas' featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. In a similar theme of industry peer cooperation, Eric Karkovack asks if WordPress product owners and developers can see a common interest in "voluntary standards." Could this clean up the plugin market? James Farmer thinks the WordPress business community can do more for itself too — by sharing data. In Post Status Slack we're learning the tricks and trials of ranking in the WordPress.org plugin repository. How about plugin telemetry? Learn from the voices of experience.
Blogging with a Newsletter
Dan Knauss
It shouldn't be this complicated... Nice end result though, by using "a potent combination of MDX and MJML." Josh Comeau explains his workflow from Markdown to static site publishing and an email newsletter. It's a complex arrangement, but doing it…
WordPress Certifications, SVG Uploads, FSE Category Testing, Fortnightly NPM updates, Persistent Object Cache and Full Page Cache
Courtney Robertson
What are your thoughts about WordPress certification? Join the call for testing FSE Category Customization.
It’s Hard to COPE Without a WordPress Lite
Dan Knauss
It's still far from simple to do well — let alone do better — what was first possible in the Web 1.0 era, even before WordPress was born. Thoughts on "WordPress Lite" and "Create Once, Publish Everywhere."
Post Status Excerpt (No. 62) — The Open Web Universe with Matt Mullenweg
Olivia Bisset
David and Olivia Bisset sat down for a chat with Matt Mullenweg about open source, Tumblr, and how Matt deals with negativity. Matt has three roles today: CEO of Tumblr, CEO of Automattic, and project lead for the next release of WordPress. He shares what went wrong with post formats and what he would love to acquire next if he could. The answer may (or may not) surprise you! Recorded shortly before WordCamp Europe 2022.
What might WordPress.com’s pricing changes mean for the WordPress ecosystem?
David Bisset
Do the WordPress.com pricing changes represent an opportunity for the WordPress product ecosystem, a blow to democratized publishing, or the beginning of a slow pivot in the service's identity away from blogging to managed WordPress hosting?
The Text Renaissance and the Eighth Death of Blogging
Dan Knauss
Is there a return to text-focused publishing on the web underway? If so, what does that mean for WordPress?
Is Tumblr a social network?
Brian Krogsgard
Sharing without a strategy. Blogging without a plan. Connecting without an angle. Maybe that's how Tumblr shines?
Remembering Dean Allen
Dan Knauss
Dean Allen's vision for Textpattern and his code influenced WordPress at a critical time in its development.
An Interview with the MLA’s Humanities Commons Team
Dan Knauss
The MLA's Humanities Commons team maintains several WordPress projects to support Digital Humanities at colleges and universities.
