This Week at WordPress.org (December 19, 2022) Annual Survey, WordPress Playground, Plugins/themes Categorization, Four Freedoms📝 Share Your Experience: The 2022 WordPress Survey is Open🛝 WordPress Playground⚠️ Plugins/themes categorization🎙️ State of the Word 2022: A Celebration of the Four Freedoms of…
Annual Survey • State of the Word 2022 • Suggest Community Summit Topics • WordPress Playground (WASM)
Courtney Robertson
Make WordPressPlanet
This Week at WordPress.org (December 12, 2022) 2022 Survey, SotW, Community Summit, and the WordPress Playground📝 Share Your Experience: The 2022 WordPress Survey is Open🎙 State of the Word 2022👥 Suggest Topics for the 2023 WordPress Community Summit🛝 WordPress Playground…
The Four-Day WordPress Work Week
Dan Knauss
CareersThe Week in Review
A four-day work week in the UK In June, 70 companies and their 3,300 employees started a four-day work week pilot program. The early responses make an interesting read. Halfway through, in September, the New York Times and Forbes reported…
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…
Carl Alexander is building a serverless…
Dan Knauss
Carl Alexander is building a serverless DevOps platform for WordPress, which he is calling Ymir — you can watch a video explaining it further. Carl compares his project to Laravel Vapor because "Ymir isn’t a WordPress host. You will have…
Mark Jaquith wrote a WordPress/Jetpack Driver…
Dan Knauss
Mark Jaquith wrote a WordPress/Jetpack Driver for Laravel Valet.
Gilbert Pellegrom takes a look behind…
Dan Knauss
Gilbert Pellegrom takes a look behind the scenes to see how Laravel Valet works and what is going on in the background when you run Valet commands.
Laravel Vapor, a full-featured serverless management…
Dan Knauss
Laravel Vapor, a full-featured serverless management and deployment dashboard for PHP/Laravel powered by AWS, was recently announced. Features include on-demand auto-scaling with "zero server maintenance."
Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
In Peter’s words, “the most basic way to think of WP Pusher is that it replaces FTP with a flow where updates come directly from GitHub/Bitbucket” through the WordPress core auto-updater. You may not know Peter built the first version…
ValetPress uses Laravel Valet and WP-CLI…
Dan Knauss
ValetPress uses Laravel Valet and WP-CLI to quickly install and configure WordPress sites for local development and testing.
It’s funny to me seeing how…
Brian Krogsgard
It's funny to me seeing how WordPress often wants to mirror functionality of other platforms, and sometimes you see other platforms wanting to mirror WordPress. Gabor Javorsky started an interesting discussion in Slack around a Laravel project to add filter…
Eventy is a Laravel package by…
Brian Krogsgard
Eventy is a Laravel package by Tor Morten Jensen that brings WordPress-style actions and filters to your Laravel app.
The creator of Laravel, Taylor Otwell,…
Brian Krogsgard
The creator of Laravel, Taylor Otwell, announced new ways to support Laravel using Patreon. Companies are now able to opt in to perks (assuming they pay at the right sponsorship levels) such as a priority Slack channel, "individual monthly video…
I’m going to have a much…
Brian Krogsgard
I'm going to have a much more complete review soon, but I've been testing Metorik -- a new and in beta WooCommerce analytics SaaS from Bryce Adams -- and it is absolutely amazing. It's the most promising WordPress tool I've…
Jo Murgel shows how you can…
Brian Krogsgard
Jo Murgel shows how you can setup Laravel Homestead for the purpose of local WordPress development.
Eric Barnes — creator of Laravel News…
Brian Krogsgard
Eric Barnes -- creator of Laravel News -- posts how he uses WordPress as a backend for his Laravel application. He rebuilt the Laravel News site using WordPress as his publishing interface. This is precisely the kind of thing that I'd love to…