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Improving 5ftF Contributor Journey • Building Interactive Blocks • Layout Classes • WP20

Courtney Robertson

January 11, 2023

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?

Use Your Words. The Inclusive Way.

Michelle Frechette

January 10, 2023

FeaturesWordPress News

Michelle set out to learn more about the new Yoast Inclusive Language feature. TL;DR, it's amazing and you should implement it!

Support Inclusion in Tech with Winstina Hughes — Post Status Draft 136

Cory Miller

January 9, 2023

BusinessDraft

In this episode, Winstina Hughes joins Cory Miller to talk about the Support Inclusion in Tech project created to champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in the WordPress community by providing assistance to WordCamp speakers for travel and hotels.

20 Years of WordPress

Michelle Frechette

January 6, 2023

The Week in ReviewWordPress News

This year WordPress will celebrate it's 20th anniversary. Post Status will be celebrating all year long. Come along and celebrate with us!

WordPress 6.2 Schedule • 2022 in Core • Block Developer Year in Review • New Incident Response Team

Courtney Robertson

January 4, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

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.

Member Spotlight: Alex Stine

Michelle Frechette

January 3, 2023

BlogsMember Spotlights

Member Spotlight: Alex Stine has many years of working in WordPress, and although his current job takes him outside of the open source project, he still gives back through sharing about A11y.

New Year, Same Me

Michelle Frechette

December 30, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

As I reflect on 2022, I’m so grateful for the WordPress Community who supported me through all the ups & downs both personal & professional.

Member Spotlight: Seth Goldstein

Michelle Frechette

December 28, 2022

BlogsMember Spotlights

In the spotlight: Seth Goldstein has been in the digital marketing and WordPress space for more that 15 years.

On The Fediverse, WordPress, And Activity Pub With Matthias Pfefferle — Post Status Draft 135

Cory Miller

December 27, 2022

BusinessDraft

Matthias Pfefferle is head of WordPress development at a hosting company in Europe and the creator of Activity Pub, a WordPress plugin. He joins Cory Miller to discuss the rising need for decentralization in social networking, the current movement, and the future potential available within WordPress.

Community Wrap-up Week Ending December 23

Michelle Frechette

December 23, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Community Wrap-up Week Ending December 23: The WordPress Community is a Wonderful Place to Be (links and more for this week)

The WP Agency Journey with Krissie VandeNoord of North UX — Post Status Draft 134

Cory Miller

December 15, 2022

BusinessDraft

Krissie VandeNoord, founder of North UX, talks with Cory Miller about their work in creating people-first solutions for the nuanced needs of ecommerce and membership site owners. Krissie shares her story from her early days as a designer and blogger to launching her own agency. Her work and energy will encourage you to think beyond what is to build the possibilities that make things work better.

Interview With Product Lead Jessica Frick At Pressable— Post Status Draft 133

Cory Miller

December 14, 2022

BusinessDraft

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.

The WP Agency Journey with D’nelle Dowis of Berry Interesting Productions— Post Status Draft 132

Cory Miller

December 9, 2022

BusinessDraft

D'nelle Dowis has been a part of WordPress for more than a decade. Her passion for genuine, sustained relationships informs how she leads her agency, Berry Interesting Productions. D'nelle talks about her experiences meeting clients where they are and helping them leverage technology to solve the challenges of today while making room for future opportunities. She shares why she values support, her thoughts on DIY, and how she makes room for her clients to ask the weird questions.

Interview with Product Lead Robert Jacobi at Cloudways Managed WordPress Hosting— Post Status Draft 131

Cory Miller

December 8, 2022

BusinessDraft

Director of WordPress at Cloudways, Robert Jacobi, talks about WordPress and their WordPress hosting products in this interview with Post Status Publisher Cory Miller.

WordPress In The Long View With James Farmer— Post Status Draft 129

Cory Miller

November 11, 2022

DraftPlanet

James Farmer’s WordPress story goes all the way back to his launch of the first hosted WordPress multisite blogging platform — just a few days ahead of WordPress.com. Edublogs currently hosts millions of students’ and educators’ blogs. James talks about successes and failures, his views on Gutenberg, how he stays competitive with Squarespace, and how he thinks the WordPress business community should respond to the loss of active install growth data at WordPress.org.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

Dan Knauss

October 7, 2022

BusinessDesign

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust and healthy communication are: 1) racism and microaggressions, 2) the sudden removal and uncertain fate of the active install growth chart in the WordPress.org plugin repository, and 3) open source and security. Briefly discussed: emerging US federal policy that aims to secure open-source software. Zero-trust architecture might work well for networked machines, but human relationships and communities need trust.

Improving 5ftF Contributor Journey • Building Interactive Blocks • Layout Classes • WP20

Use Your Words. The Inclusive Way.

Support Inclusion in Tech with Winstina Hughes — Post Status Draft 136

20 Years of WordPress

WordPress 6.2 Schedule • 2022 in Core • Block Developer Year in Review • New Incident Response Team

Member Spotlight: Alex Stine

New Year, Same Me

Member Spotlight: Seth Goldstein

On The Fediverse, WordPress, And Activity Pub With Matthias Pfefferle — Post Status Draft 135

Community Wrap-up Week Ending December 23

The WP Agency Journey with Krissie VandeNoord of North UX — Post Status Draft 134

Interview With Product Lead Jessica Frick At Pressable— Post Status Draft 133

The WP Agency Journey with D’nelle Dowis of Berry Interesting Productions— Post Status Draft 132

Interview with Product Lead Robert Jacobi at Cloudways Managed WordPress Hosting— Post Status Draft 131

WordPress In The Long View With James Farmer— Post Status Draft 129

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

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