Fall of the Zamir: A Hate Symbol Enters and Exits WordPress.org
David Bisset
How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source projects?
How Can We Increase Qualified Applicants for WordPress Jobs?
Courtney Robertson
Despite having such a vast market share, we lack a common set of competencies for the people working and hiring in the WordPress space.
Get Involved
Courtney Robertson
In episode #5 of the Get Hired Podcast you'll learn about networking opportunities like WordCamps, meetups, and WordPress.org teams.
Start a Project
Courtney Robertson
In this episode of Get Hired, you'll learn how to enter the world of WordPress by starting a project to share with hiring managers.
Essential Skills in the Remote WordPress Workplace
Courtney Robertson
Where do you need to have accounts in the web tech community? What tools, knowledge, and skills will you need in any remote WordPress-related role?
Figuring Out What You Want to Do in the World of WordPress
Courtney Robertson
Discover what you really want to do in your career. Identify and acquire the minimum skills and tools you need to master.
How to Get a Job in WordPress
Courtney Robertson
In their debut conversation for Get Hired, Cory and Courtney discuss the kinds of jobs that are available in WordPress and where to find them.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 9) — Recommended Reading for WordPress Professionals and How We Update
David Bisset
Cory and David discuss three books WordPress professionals should read as well as the way they make updates to WordPress.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 7) — Frustrations With Admin Notices
David Bisset
In Post Status Excerpt #7, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about Cory's recent negative experiences with admin notices in the dashboard.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 6) — Scope Creep, Full Site Editing
David Bisset
This week David and Cory talk about an upcoming Post Status webinar on scope creep with Natasha Golinsky, and Full-Site Editing in WordPress.
WordPress publishes nearly 80 packages to…
Dan Knauss
WordPress publishes nearly 80 packages to npm now. Greg Ziółkowski explains the latest changes to the process: when trunk is closed or in feature-freeze, you can use package distribution tags to get the future development version of a package you…
At Make WordPress Core there is…
Dan Knauss
At Make WordPress Core there is a discussion taking place about dropping support for Internet Explorer 11 in core. IE 11's usage is very low by several measures. It would be a great benefit to developers to let it go.…
A proposal has been published on…
Dan Knauss
A proposal has been published on the Make WordPress blog that asks for feedback on the idea of licensing Gutenberg under the GNU General Public License, v2 (GPL v2) and the Mozilla Public License v2.0 (MPL v2.0). Matt Mullenweg notes…
WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out.…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.5 Beta 2 is out. The final release is expected to drop on August 11th, 2020 as planned. 📅 👉 Several tooling additions and improvements have gone into the WordPress 5.5 cycle. Developers should take note of the build…
There is a discussion unfolding at…
Dan Knauss
There is a discussion unfolding at Make WordPress about the future design of the WordPress "About" page. Initial discussion points posted by Tammie Lister ask some good focusing, "what if" questions: What if the CSS system was rebuilt from the…
Jean-Baptiste Audras started another discussion at…
Dan Knauss
Jean-Baptiste Audras started another discussion at Make WordPress about a possible frontend forms feature, possibly as a feature plugin. This would be a mechanism for handling the Privacy Data Requests introduced in WordPress 4.9.6. The next step will be to…
