WCUS Releases Schedule & Speaker Lineup I'm very excited about the inclusive speaker slate for WordCamp US 2023. The roster includes incredibly qualified speakers who will present on an amazing and varied topic list. See the speaker page here. See…
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Community Roundup Week Ending July 28
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Post Status Reveals New Community Code of Conduct If "good fences make good neighbors" (Robert Frost), then a good code of conduct makes a good community. Knowing the boundaries allows a community to thrive. Drawing heavily from the WordPress/WordCamp Code…
Community Roundup Week Ending July 21
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
WCUS is One Month Away! WordCamp US is coming quickly. Will you be there? The mad dash of procuring tickets, sharing tickets, and buying tickets from one another is in full swing. In our WCUS-2023 Slack Channel, there's a bit…
Accessibility Expert Adrian Roselli Sued for Wanting Accessibility to be…Accessible
Michelle Frechette
WordPress News
If you're part of the Accessibility Community, then the name Adrian Roselli should sound familiar. Adrian is a tireless champion of accessibility who speaks globally about the importance of why accessibility matters, how to be more accessible, and why overlays…
Jobs Change, Membership Doesn’t
Dan Knauss
Post Status Team Blog
This is my last post as the editor at Post Status. I'm moving on to a new opportunity at StellarWP. Of course, this doesn't seem like moving much at all. One of the great things about the distributed work culture…
Learning and Pulling Together
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
Tom Willmot (Human Made) dropped a fine Twitter thread in response to Magne Ilsaas' (Dekode) featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. Tom emphasized Magne's main points but thinks the biggest challenge is how the lack of a…
Moving and Not Moving With the Crowd
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
To Heck with Black Friday, I’m Raising My Prices! This week in Post Status Slack, Lesley Sim, the founder of Newsletter Glue, dropped this announcement: “While everybody is offering discounts for Black Friday, we’re planning to significantly raise prices. We’ll…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 72) — Can We Get to “Yes” on Better UX?
Dan Knauss
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
WordPress User Experiences from DIY Builders to Enterprise Users Transcript ↓ Can We Get to "Yes" on Better UX? What does WordPress need to do to increase its appeal to do-it-yourself website builders and creators who are trying to take…
A Visit from the Good Idea Fairy
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
WordPress Business Roundup for the Week of October 17 Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to record an episode of The Excerpt to talk about the…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Skip to Transcript ↓ This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the three top WordPress stories on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections! It seems the temporary loss of…
127 Full Site Editing Block Themes
Dan Knauss
DesignNotes
It's not meteoric growth by any means, but it's good to see over 127 block themes listed in the WordPress.org theme directory. Highlighting block themes in the navigation was a good idea and an odd one to oppose, but I…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 67) — What Does Professionalism Mean in WordPress?
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
We're not afraid to let our human side show.Erik Karkovack In this episode of Post Status Draft, Eric Karkovack joins Dan Knauss to discuss their top picks for important topics and news stories in the WordPress world this week. Finally,…
SVG and WebP…finally
Dan Knauss
HostingNotes
I'm looking forward to lots of good things coming in the future on the new WordPress core Performance Team blog, and I'm glad SVG and WebP are finally going to be usable in WordPress by default. (This is already the…
Transitioning an Agency to Gutenberg
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Up this week on WP Tavern's Jukebox with Nathan Wrigley, it's Sean Blakely with the story of the transition to Gutenberg in a large agency, American Eagle. I've expected to see stories like this — for years. It seems they're…
Founders on What They’d Do Over Differently
Dan Knauss
BusinessNotes
Eric Karkovack got some nice brief reflections from WordPress product founders/owners Kathy Darling, Cameron Jones, Derek Ashauer, Jack Arturo, Gareth Harris, and Mark Westguard. You may be surprised at what they'd do differently if they were starting out now, knowing…
FSE Themes on the Rise
Dan Knauss
Notes
Hendrik Luehrsen shares stats and notes about 100 FSE themes in the WordPress repo by 53 different contributors. He notes that, excluding the Twenty Twenty-Two theme, “all remaining 99 FSE themes combined have about 30,000 active installs, rising fast!” Hendrik…