WCEU Was Amazing I know it's been a few weeks, but having come back with covid, I haven't had a chance to share my final thoughts on WCEU, so I'll do so briefly here. The event was incredibly well organized…
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Community Roundup Week Ending May 12
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
If You See Something, Say Something This week I posted an observation. I observed that with 20 speakers announced for WCEU (at that point) that there were only about 25% women and even fewer non-white people. I hoped for more…
Community Roundup Week Ending May 5
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
AI and WordPress is AI and All of Us In a recently blog post, Kathy Zant wrote about using AI for new headshots, and how that caused her to think about how we perceive ourselves versus how we might perceive…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 28
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
A Community Gift Last week I launched a new website as a gift to event organizers, podcasters, bloggers, and speakers in the WordPress community. It's an online database of WordPress speakers including what topics they present on, what time zones…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 14
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Post Status and Atarim Summit Post Status is partnering with Atarim to bring you an amazing Web Agency Summit. Atarim is doing the heavy lifting (it's shaping up to be an amazing event with awesome speakers and virtual areas to…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 7
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Podcasting in WordPress I heard from Topher DeRosia today that WPPodcasts has amplified over 11,000 WordPress podcast episodes. That's a lot of hours worth of listening to content centered around WordPress. And that's not a bad thing. I've heard the…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 31
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
The Wayback Machine Do you ever use any of the mechanisms in place for looking back over time? Whether it's the Wayback Machine, Facebook Memories, or simply scrolling back through the photos in your phone, our histories make us who…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 24
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
It's Not About Luck "If you’re going to tell me about all the good luck I’ve had to get to where I am, then are you also going to talk about the bad luck I had to overcome to get…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 17
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Events are Back WordCamps, summits, and other conferences are back! In the last few years the roster of WordCamps on WordCamp.org have been sparse, to say the least. As of today there are eighteen upcoming WordCamps on the schedule, and…
WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?
Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Rob Howard built the MasterWP merch store as quickly as possible with WooCommerce, and then he assessed the relative difficulty of building with Woo rather than Shopify. His conclusion? A high-end WP developer [i.e., Rob] needed half a day to…
Post Status Picks for the Week of August 22
Dan Knauss
PlanetThe Week in Review
Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Underrepresented In Tech: Piccia Neri on recruiting and how to hire or build a diverse team.Do The Woo: Bob Dunn comments on Five For The Future — on giving to the community and also making…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 66) — What Does It Mean To Contribute To WordPress?
Dan Knauss
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
In this episode, Dan and Ny talk about WordPress and giving back. Giving, making, creating... Looking at the search results for "Make WordPress" and "the firehose" of Make WordPress Slack where the #docs channel was having their weekly meeting, Dan…
We don’t need no stinkin’ standards!
Dan Knauss
DevelopmentNotes
I wonder how much WordPress is an outlier in even the PHP universe for tolerating the idea that it's "punishment" and "unfair" to be held to a standard with mandatory testing for code that's admitted to the WordPress.org repo for…
Growing as a leader and setting your team up for wins
Dan Knauss
BusinessCareers
James Giroux writes so much good stuff on his own blog, I can't keep up. I am accumulating a list of things he's tackled that are unusual to see written about in any depth in the WordPress community, especially by…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 65) — How We Talk When We Talk About WordPress
Dan Knauss
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
My friend and dialogue partner, Nyasha Green, is six months into her role as Editorial Director at MasterWP, so today we're talking about what that's been like for Ny, what she's learned, and how we look at the WordPress media…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 63) — Pay Transparency, Mutual Respect, and the Community We Need
Dan Knauss
BusinessCareers
People don't realize how long ago "long ago" wasn't. We're not talking about two, three, four hundred years ago. My family always stressed working somewhere your employer respects you, because it wasn't that long ago they didn't have a choice.…
