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Naming is Hard: Content Types on Learn WordPress

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Dan Knauss
Based on a public discussion led by Hugh Lashbrooke, Workshops (5-15 minute instructional videos) are going to be called Tutorials, moving forward while Social Learning Spaces (live and collaborative learning sessions) have become Online Workshops. No change to Courses (long-form…

Is this a WordPress Acquisition?

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Dan Knauss
DigitalOcean's acquisition of Cloudways is an investment in the WordPress ecosystem with an emphasis on "digital agencies, eCommerce sites, bloggers, freelance developers and builders hosting on WordPress."

The case against static site generators

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Dan Knauss
This is old but thorough — Florens Verschedle's case against Static Site Generators like Jekyll and Hugo and in favor of CMSes because the latter actually manage content. Hat tip: Kev Quirk.

Post Status Picks for the Week of August 15

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Dan Knauss
Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Shop Talk Show: Andrew Walpole and Alex Riviere from Traina talk about their WordPress experience but also how they want to go further with more tools.Matt Report: A nice chat with Yaw Owusu-Ansah with a…

Pentesting as Contributing

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Dan Knauss
Robert Rowley at Patchstack explains what I believe is the first-ever reported vulnerability in Gutenberg (the plugin, not in WordPress core) to make the National Vulnerability Database. Robert has opened an issue for discussion in the Gutenberg GitHub repo that…
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