Tom Willmot on the Challenges and Opportunities Facing Enterprise WordPress • Tom Lach on the costs of rapid growth — It's not for everyone • The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor • Evolving Edupack — and Sunsetting It • and more...
The journey to GiveWP 3.0 is well underway — an open, iterative development process that fully embraces WordPress's Gutenberg block editor. Give cofounder Matt Cromwell and development director Jason Adams share what they've learned so far.
This week was all about revisiting and continuing conversations that have special value and maybe for that reason tend to continue on with a life of their own. Tom Willmot dropped a fine Twitter thread about the challenge all enterprise WordPress agencies face. This came in response to Magne Ilsas' featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. In a similar theme of industry peer cooperation, Eric Karkovack asks if WordPress product owners and developers can see a common interest in "voluntary standards." Could this clean up the plugin market? James Farmer thinks the WordPress business community can do more for itself too — by sharing data. In Post Status Slack we're learning the tricks and trials of ranking in the WordPress.org plugin repository. How about plugin telemetry? Learn from the voices of experience.
WordPress Founders Invest in Atarim • Gridpane and Automattic Team Up to Serve Agencies • Salary Transparency — Why Not? • Learning Together in Post Status Slack: Adobe's Figma Acquisition and PayPal vs. Stripe
Upcoming Events 📆 WordSesh 2021 was announced with sessions on May 25 – 27 and workshops from May 28 – June 1. Registration is free. 🆓 WPCampus 2021 Online is a free online conference for web accessibility and WordPress in…
Allie Nimmons of WP Buffs and Michelle Ames from GiveWP have built Underrepresented in Tech, a tool intended to highlight underrepresented people's skills and specialties first and foremost as a hiring or recruiting factor. Explaining how this project got started,…
GiveWP has a useful infographic that breaks down the differences between many online fundraising solutions. This comparison will be a huge time saver if you need to select one for your fundraising campaign or a client's.
GiveWP recently open sourced their support manual, which is a document that defines "the standard by which we can hold ourselves accountable as support technicians." It covers topics ranging from the duties of support techs to documentation and the principles of…
There are a few items from the last few days I'd like to follow up on, so figured I'd just lump them in here together. First off, Jetpack had a bit of a rocky update to 3.4. Version 3.4.1 came…
GiveWP is a project that's pending an initial beta release by the WordImpress team which aims to create a simple method to accept donations inside WordPress. I look forward to seeing what they come up with. I agree with them…
