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Annual Survey • WordPress Playground • Plugins/themes Categorization

Courtney Robertson

December 21, 2022

What are the four freedoms of open source and how do they impact us? Get a look in the Celebration of the Four Freedoms of Open Source. Try out the new WordPress Playground to run WordPress in the browser. Plugin and Theme developers note the new categorizations: Canonical, Community, and Commercial.

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Suggest Community Summit Topics • WordPress Playground (WASM)

Courtney Robertson

December 14, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Tune in Thursday for Matt's annual State of the Word address. Check out the WordPress Playground now. It brings key platform dependencies into the browser that you can embed in your own site today. Your feedback into the annual WordPress survey helps shape the project, so fill it out as soon as possible.

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • LearnWP Site Updates • Block Editor in Support Forums • Dev Guide to Block Theme Course Pt2

Courtney Robertson

December 7, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

It's time once again to share your feedback about all things WordPress in the 2022 survey. Tune in next week to hear Matt Mullenweg during is annual address: State of the Word. When submitting issues in the WordPress forums, you'll soon find several blocks to use in the editor. #LearnWP has site updates and a new block theme course for developers.

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Meetup Accessibility Overlays • Multi-line Code Comments • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

Courtney Robertson

November 30, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Should code comments switch to // ? Meetup.com stops using an accessibility overlay. Final releases for WordPress 3.7 - 4.0 are now available. Tune in soon for State of the Word 2023, happening December 15 via livestream from New York City.

State of the Word 2022 • Dev Blog Beta • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

Courtney Robertson

November 23, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

As 2022 comes to an end, State of the Word will happen in NYC again. Apply to attend or tune in to the livestream. Check out the beta version of the WordPress Developer Blog. Still have sites on WordPress 3.7 - 4.0? It's really time to upgrade as this will receive no further updates after December 1. It's team rep nomination time too.

WordPress 6.1.1 • Team Rep Nominations • Codespaces for Contributions

Courtney Robertson

November 16, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Time to update, WordPress 6.1.1 is out! GitHub has made Codespaces available for 60 hours/month, and WordPress is exploring Core contribution integrations with wordpress/wordpress-develop. It's team rep nomination time too.

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.

WordPress 6.1.1 • FSE → Site Editor • Twenty Twenty Three

Courtney Robertson

November 10, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Get a look at the latest default theme, Twenty Twenty-Three! 🎨 Full Site Editing has a new name: "Site Editor." 📝 And WordPress 6.1.1 will be released on November 15. 📅

InstaWP: A Conversation and Tour with Founder Vikas Singhal — Post Status Draft 128

Dan Knauss

November 3, 2022

DraftPlanet

InstaWP is about a year old now — let's take a tour of it and catch up with Vikas Singhal to see how he hopes it will evolve. Currently, it's a testing, demonstration, training, and marketing tool for WordPress product owners and agencies. Next, Vikas aims for InstaWP to support a marketplace for developers and agencies launching WordPress sites. Finally, he envisions it becoming a platform of platforms — WordPress-as-a-Service for people building their own WPaaS

Post Status Excerpt (No. 72) — Can We Get to “Yes” on Better UX?

Dan Knauss

October 27, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

This week in an article shared in Post Status Slack, Eric Karkovack suggested some ways to improve the WordPress user experience, especially for DIY users setting up a website for the first time. Some of the things Eric wants to see happen, like a standard interface for plugins and a curated view of the plugin ecosystem, are also commonly expressed by designers, developers, and people in other roles at WordPress agencies serving enterprise clients. Can we get everyone to "yes" on a better UX?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2022

BusinessDesign

This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the WordPress stories and topics that are on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections. There's a single throughline in this episode — what works, what doesn't, and what will take WordPress businesses forward in the product, agency, and hosting spaces.

WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 • Help Test • #WPTranslationDay • Video Courses #LearnWP

Courtney Robertson

September 21, 2022

DesignHosting

The 6.1 Beta 1 release was briefly delayed a day but is now available. You can get familiar with what's coming in 6.1 with the release by helping test the new features. Please give some consideration to Hugh Lashbrooke's proposal for faster course development on the Training Team with video-based courses.

New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1

Dan Knauss

September 21, 2022

DesignDevelopment

A reminder from Anne McCarthy about the importance of your help testing Gutenberg 14.1 in advance of the WordPress 6.1 release: If you have the current Gutenberg (plugin) release installed, you can use block template parts without adopting everything that…

Tech Roundup for the Week of September 12

Daniel Schutzsmith

September 15, 2022

DesignDevelopment

Fresh off the heels of WordCamp US, here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space. There were several fantastic talks about design, accessibility, WP-CLI, blocks, and FSE at the event. We’re looking forward to highlighting some videos once they’re online.

WP 6.1 walkthrough replay • WebP no go • Matt: Core needs to be more editorial • Survey: How do you learn WordPress?

Courtney Robertson

September 14, 2022

DesignHosting

WordPress 6.1 walkthrough replay • Matt: WebP no go • Matt: Core needs to be more editorial • Survey: How do you learn WordPress?

WordPress 6.1 Walkthrough, Dropping 3.7 – 4.0 Security Updates, WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook

Courtney Robertson

September 7, 2022

DesignHosting

Get ready for WordPress 6.1! There's a live walkthrough coming for it on September 13, and the feature freeze is September 20. Other important news: security updates will no longer be backported for WordPress 3.7-4.0, and there's a new Advanced WordPress Administration handbook.

Annual Survey • WordPress Playground • Plugins/themes Categorization

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Suggest Community Summit Topics • WordPress Playground (WASM)

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • LearnWP Site Updates • Block Editor in Support Forums • Dev Guide to Block Theme Course Pt2

Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Meetup Accessibility Overlays • Multi-line Code Comments • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

State of the Word 2022 • Dev Blog Beta • WP 3.7 – 4.0 Final Releases

WordPress 6.1.1 • Team Rep Nominations • Codespaces for Contributions

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

WordPress 6.1.1 • FSE → Site Editor • Twenty Twenty Three

InstaWP: A Conversation and Tour with Founder Vikas Singhal — Post Status Draft 128

Post Status Excerpt (No. 72) — Can We Get to “Yes” on Better UX?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org

WordPress 6.1 Beta 1 • Help Test • #WPTranslationDay • Video Courses #LearnWP

New Features to Test in Gutenberg 14.1

Tech Roundup for the Week of September 12

WP 6.1 walkthrough replay • WebP no go • Matt: Core needs to be more editorial • Survey: How do you learn WordPress?

WordPress 6.1 Walkthrough, Dropping 3.7 – 4.0 Security Updates, WordPress Advanced Administration Handbook

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