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Twitter has acquired Revue, a small…

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Dan Knauss

Twitter has acquired Revue, a small company whose service lets you build newsletters from your social media, RSS feeds, and other sources. Matt Mullenweg noted that Automattic was the largest investor in Revue. 🗞️

Built by WordPress — .com that is

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David Bisset
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Automattic enters the low-end website market Automattic this week announced that its "premium website building service" (which was in beta in fall 2020) is now officially accepting customer applications for "websites starting at $4,900 USD." The announcement describes a turnkey…

Upcoming Events 📆 State of the…

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Dan Knauss

Upcoming Events 📆 State of the Word 2020: Matt Mullenweg announced that he will be streaming on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter on Thursday, Dec 17th, 2020 at 1600 UTC. Note: Post Status will have a live chat in our Slack…

Ohad Eder-Pressman recently wrote an “open…

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Dan Knauss

Ohad Eder-Pressman recently wrote an "open letter" to Matt Mullenweg on the subject of JamStack. This seems to come in response to Matt's comments in an email exchange with Richard MacManus in which Matt didn't find favor with the technology…

Appropos of Nothing Matt Mullenweg posted…

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Dan Knauss

Appropos of Nothing Matt Mullenweg posted on Twitter on August 21st that updates to the WordPress mobile app have "been absent" because "we were locked by App Store." The reason: Apple wanted in-app purchases to be available, although the app…

Matt Mullenweg closed a ticket opened…

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Dan Knauss

Matt Mullenweg closed a ticket opened by Juliette Reinders Folmer about four days ago. The ticket had to do with ending support for PHP 5.6, which was a milestone within the original release scope and is currently the minimum required…

Trouble at Longreads

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Brian Krogsgard
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We don't often talk about employment issues at Post Status. Good and bad stories about WordPress workplaces abound. Why single out this one? It is a very public issue, and it has to do with one of the largest employers in our space — one often cited as a great place to work: Automattic. That's why I believe it merits deeper consideration.

Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by The…

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Dan Knauss

Matt Mullenweg was interviewed by The New York Times on the subject of remote work and the story of how Automattic started down that path. There's nothing very new in this interview if you've heard Matt speak on this subject…

🎙️📹 More and more posts are…

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Dan Knauss

🎙️📹 More and more posts are being written about good audio and/or video setups for working and broadcasting from home. We mentioned a guide for CEOs from Matt Mullenweg in our last issue. Here's two more that have been making…

Automattic Invests in New Vector “One…

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Dan Knauss

Automattic Invests in New Vector "One thing WordPress and Matrix.org have in common is a strong, abiding belief in the open web, a rare thing in a world that is dangerously moving towards walled gardens" — and that's why Automattic…

Matt Mullenweg says there are five…

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Dan Knauss

Matt Mullenweg says there are five levels of autonomy that define how distributed companies evolve: 0 - a job that cannot be done unless you’re physically there. 1 - no deliberate effort to make things remote-friendly. 2 - they’ve accepted…

My Default The second release candidate…

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Dan Knauss

My Default The second release candidate for WordPress 5.4 is available now. The release is still targeted for March 31st. Riad Benguella announced that fullscreen mode will be activated by default in the visual editor starting with this release: "Note…

The biggest news this week was…

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Dan Knauss

The biggest news this week was the cancellation of WordCamp Asia due to recent COVID-19 concerns. An official post on the conference site provides guidance for registration and travel refunds. 😷 Naoko Takano, one of the organizers, notes that the…
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