The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Elusive WordPress Way
Dan Knauss
There are significant differences in the ways plugin owners think about and operate their businesses. This is an opportunity to learn and grow together.
Post Status Notes #496
David Bisset
Lots of WordPress core, Gutenberg, and WordCamp news this week. Are off-forum .org support requests OK? Matt: Tumblr will be open sourced. What's the WP Way?
The Week in WooCommerce (April 25-29)
Bob Dunn
WooCommerce 6.5 RC available for testing. Blockified product pages. Custom tables and premature optimization. Where are all the WooCommerce alternatives?
How should you explain gaps in your résumé and work history?
Dan Knauss
I spent the better part of 10-15 years as the at-home parent for 4 girls. LinkedIn allows gaps in your career to be noted now. Good idea?
WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of April 11
David Bisset
Talk about #MentalHealth! 🧡 @DanMaby on Destigmatization and @aBigOrangeHeart 5️0️ Freelancing after Fifty 🔌 @aurooba on building plugins.
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?
Post Status Notes #493
David Bisset
It's your weekly roundup of news briefs for busy WordPress professionals! @dimensionmedia, can you believe we've done almost 500 of these? -Ed.
WordPress Podcast Picks for the Week of April 4
David Bisset
Lemon Squeezy always be sellin' 🍋 Patchstack's Oliver Sild at the Tavern 🍺 Chris Ford on being an advocate for the underrepresented 🙋♂️
Fall of the Zamir: A Hate Symbol Enters and Exits WordPress.org
David Bisset
How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source projects?
On Cloud Nine at CloudFest
Lindsey Miller
This week Cory, Jonathan and I have been in Rust, Germany for CloudFest — a cloud computing conference that started with a weekend-long hackathon focusing on open source projects.
Finding the Upside in WordPress Security
David Bisset
What if the way we talk about WordPress security focused on public acknowledgement of the security team members' work, goals, and successes?
WordPress Podcast Picks for the Week of March 20
David Bisset
David's podcast (and video) picks of the week.
Post Status Notes #491
David Bisset
US DOJ warns of looming web accessibility enforcement. Weglot scores funding. WP-Wallet and Image Source Control launch. Block dev tuts. The Block Protocol and WordPress. WCUS and WordSesh calls for speakers. Why the web is a miracle and Mozilla's vision for its evolution.
Post Status Notes #489
David Bisset
An App Store for WordPress.com? Performance Team Gathers Steam. WP Notify. FSE Beta. Block is Beautiful. Security, Plugin, Dev, Acquisitions.
Post Status Notes #487
David Bisset
WordPress 5.9.1 released. REST or AJAX? Plugin dependency feature plugin. Testing, security, new themes and CSS standards. PHP benchmarks and more.
Post Status Comments: The State of WordPress Admin Notifications — February 25 — Save the Date!
David Bisset
What’s the best intervention for the admin notification nightmare? Is there a win for both end-users and WordPress businesses?
