Delicious Brains

Post Status Notes #501

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David Bisset
Elementor acquires StratticWP Engine acquires Delicious Brains' plugins 🧠 • When the Cathedrals own the Bazaars and Shopping Centers and you're in a strip mall with a fruit stand...Jetpack decouples • InstaWP gets seed funding from Automattic 🌱 • Automattic hire #2000 • World-class FSE, how? 🌐 • WCEU by the numbers • Weglot gives back • RoleUp rolls out • Tadlock exits WP Tavern 🍺 • Why 'why' matters most • The Big 2-0 next year • All there is to know about core WordPress email notifications, documented ✉️ • System font stack check • Do not follow by default • Museum of Block Art opens 🎨 • Meet Yvonne Doll • Mostly modest WordPress wishlists • WooCommerce Experts to go global • How to do well in a downturn 📉 • Some things we don't — but ought to — talk about. 🐘 Silent no longer about Sustainability.

If you run a site that…

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Dan Knauss

If you run a site that sends a lot of emails and is considered a third-party service, then you might want to pay some attention to Amazon SES. Matt Shaw over at Delicious Brains digs into SES as an option…

Delicious Brains has acquired Advanced Custom…

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Dan Knauss

Delicious Brains has acquired Advanced Custom Fields (ACF), and Liquid Web has acquired Iconic. Read David's take on the story. Jetpack received a forced update. David thinks they're dangerous but needed, but so is more information about them in the…

For those who have heard of…

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Dan Knauss

For those who have heard of Gatsby and are looking to get started with it, you might want to add Tori Pugh's five-minute Getting Started Using Gatsby guide to your reading list. If you're still wondering why you should care…

Matt Shaw summarizes for Delicious Brains…

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Dan Knauss

Matt Shaw summarizes for Delicious Brains why most WordPress email plugins suck: "they simply don’t do enough to alert you of potential issues and don’t give you a way to rectify them." 📧

Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains…

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Brian Krogsgard
Brad Touesnard, founder of Delicious Brains Inc., recaps 2018 with an eye to his company's goals, business practices, and products. It was a busy year apparently and, in Brad's assessment, their most productive.

While working on the Delicious Brains…

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Brian Krogsgard

While working on the Delicious Brains website, Iain Poulson created a custom table to be managed via the Advanced Custom Fields' "repeater" field. He goes into detail about configuring the field and populating the data, along with the pros and cons of this approach.…
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