Community Roundup Week Ending February 24
The BEST part of WordCamp Asia was finally being able to be in the same room with people I’ve counted as friends for years!
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Two Tools
Jetpack and WordPress.com can publish to Telegram. The ultimate gitignore for WordPress projects.
What is WP Cloud?
WP Cloud is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on the hosting infrastructure that’s behind WP.com, Pressable, and WordPress VIP with GridPane soon to follow. Agencies that want to white label their client hosting are ideal customers for WP Cloud via GridPane.
WordPress.com has changed a lot
This is managed WordPress hosting — and has been all along I’ve been delinquent with posting on my .blog blog on WordPress.com for about a year, so when I bought into the Pro plan after the first recent price change the new stuff really stood out. I’m also pleased I upgraded then, because after they…
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A short history of WordPress APIs — and their future
Here’s an older post about the history of WordPress APIs from Automattic’s mobile apps development team that you may not have seen before. (New to me.) It explains the technical background of the current entanglements of .org, .com, and Jetpack: Why don’t we support a single API in our apps? Wouldn’t that make our lives…
Refocusing the WordPress Mobile App on the Core User Experience — without Jetpack
The boundaries between WordPress .com and .org have never been very clear. That may change as the WordPress mobile app sheds features the Jetpack app will gain.
Jetpack’s Reputation and History
What’s your current take on Jetpack? It seems to me that complaints about bloat and too much going on in one plugin started to disappear several years ago. The idea it was a “Trojan Horse” designed to get users into WordPress.com seems entirely discredited now since there are so many ways to use it without…
It’s Hard to COPE Without a WordPress Lite
It’s still far from simple to do well — let alone do better — what was first possible in the Web 1.0 era, even before WordPress was born. Thoughts on “WordPress Lite” and “Create Once, Publish Everywhere.”
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An Operating System for the Web
What if WordPress, growing as an operating system for the web, spawns distributions and spins, like Linux? What do nine years of Jetpack teach us about Automattic and WordPress — the project and the dot-com? Rethinking how we think about SaaS, hosting, and the WordPress ecosystem…
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Post Status Notes #501
Elementor acquires Strattic • WP 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.
Who Uses WordPress Multisite?
WordPress Multisite isn’t for everyone. So who uses it? How do they use it? Here’s what we heard when David Bisset asked those questions.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 39) — WordPress 5.9: Delays, the Customizer, and Contributing
Anne McCarthy on the delay of WordPress 5.9, Automattic, COVID’s impact on contributors, Full Site Editing, and the future of the Customizer.
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Black Friday / Cyber Monday WordPress Deals 2021
Get these great Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals on WordPress products and services for 2021! The sale is on NOW!
Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?
Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in active install growth this year.
Jetpack receives a forced update
A little force push can come in handy sometimes. But with great power comes great responsibility. How should forced updates in WordPress be used?
Automattic has posted an example of…
Automattic has posted an example of a plugin that uses Jetpack Connection as a dependency to establish a connection to WordPress.com. 🔌
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