Community Summit Recaps, Multilingual Documentation, Performant Translations
Courtney Robertson
Make WordPressPlanet
This Week at WordPress.org (September 4, 2023) News WP Briefing: Episode 61: Community, Summit, all at Washington D.C. WordPress 6.3.1 Maintenance Release The Future of WordPress & What’s Next for Gutenberg WP20 – A Heartfelt Thanks Community Summit Notes Community…
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Translations Across the Project • Admin Design • New Blocks Page • Working Group on Organizations Supporting WordPress • Contributor Mentorship
Courtney Robertson
Make WordPressPlanet
This Week at WordPress.org (August 7, 2023) Translations, Dashboard Redesign, Blocks page, Supporting Orgs, Mentorship Discussion for a proposal for WP.org content translation and localization Admin Design Kickoff Introducing WordPress.org/blocks Organizations Supporting WordPress.org ‍ The Inaugural Cohort of the WordPress…
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Courtney Robertson
Make WordPressPlanet
This Week at WordPress.org (August 7, 2023) WP 6.3, 1st LearnWP Cohort, EU CRA WordPress 6.3 “Lionel” ‍ Announcing the first Learn WordPress Course Cohort ⤴️Proposal: improve the editor tech workflow for major releases Concerns over the European Union’s Cyber…
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Make WordPressPlanet
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Interview with Product Lead Robert Jacobi at Cloudways Managed WordPress Hosting— Post Status Draft 131
Cory Miller
BusinessDraft
Transcript ↓ Robert Jacobi shares his work as the Director of WordPress at Cloudways, or to put it simply-strategy, partnerships, and product marketing. After working for years as an agency owner, Robert joined the WordPress community. His experience enables him…
The Enterprise
Dan Knauss
WordPress News
From the mid-2000s to 2010s I was doing a lot of freelancing. Some of it was purely consultative, like writing RFPs and evaluating proposals for a few startups and corporate clients that wanted to use open-source web platforms. WordPress was…
Member Spotlight: Parvez Akther
Michelle Frechette
BlogsMember Spotlights
Parvez Akther is a serial entrepreneur and open source enthusiastic. Prior to WordPress, his company built the first full featured page builder for Joomla. He's now building ThriveDesk, an all-in-one customer support solution for SaaS and e-commerce. ThriveDesk is the…
Blueprint This: A WooCommerce Private Store
Dan Knauss
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This is a great explainer from Cozmos Labs for setting up WooCommerce as a private/walled garden store. Why do that? Because you're a manufacturer/wholesaler who sells directly to retailers — and at the same time you want to expand, educate,…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 54) —What WordPress Can Learn from Joomla
David Bisset
HostingPlanet
David: “What do you think the WordPress community takes for granted?” Robert: “The support of Automattic.”Excerpt #54 — "What WordPress Can Learn from Joomla" In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David and Dan team up to talk with Robert…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 41) — WordPress Community Versions: Past, Present, Future
David Bisset
BusinessDesign
"The Hippie times are going to end at some point." —Bob Dunn In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David has an honest and deep dive with Bob Dunn into the "versions" of the WordPress community — something Bob covered…
Post Status Comments (No. 4) — State of the Word 2021 Analysis
David Bisset
BusinessComments
Members of the WordPress Community on Their Takeaways from SOTW This episode of Post Status Comments features a live conversation in Twitter Spaces that was recorded right after Matt Mullenweg's State of the Word 2021 broadcast on December 14th. Bet…
WordPress Market Grow Continues to Surge…
Dan Knauss
WordPress Market Grow Continues to Surge Joost de Valk has updated his CMS market share analysis for June 2021 based on numbers provided by W3Techs. Joost notes that “a lot has changed again this year, in large part attributable to…
More bad news for Google’s FLoC:…
Dan Knauss
More bad news for Google's FLoC: Joomla will be blocking it by default and Drupal is going to be blocking it in an upcoming release. đźš«
🤝 Recently Joomla developers from JoomUnited…
Dan Knauss
🤝 Recently Joomla developers from JoomUnited handed off the Advanced Gutenberg plugin to Steve Burge and PublishPress. Looking ahead, Steve says: "PublishPress has focused on the admin area of WordPress... With the addition of Advanced Gutenberg, we're also going to…
DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Podcast Picks 🎙️…
Dan Knauss
Business
DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Podcast Picks 🎙️ Here are some podcasts I've listened to recently that I enjoyed: Women in WP: I really enjoy this podcast, and the latest episode features Sheree Chambers on her transition from building sites with Joomla…
Joost de Valk took another look…
Dan Knauss
Joost de Valk took another look at CMS market share via W3Techs. He notes that WordPress and WooCommerce are growing, but Joomla and Drupal are losing market share. Currently, "Shopify is set to overtake Joomla as the #2 CMS in…
