Mentoring

Mentorship as Contribution: What does Five for the Future mean to you? (Part 2)

Dan Knauss

August 2, 2022

Have you been thinking about that question? I hope so. Everyone should, as long as we have a 5ftF program. Some low-hanging fruit — recognition of non-code contributors — has already been picked, according to Angela Jin's latest update. I…

Not Dead Yet! Just Mostly Dead?

Dan Knauss

June 17, 2022

DesignPlanet

Gutenberg 13.4 • Learning FSE sooner rather than later • Gutenberg in Tumblr and Day One • WordCamps and the vitality of the WordPress community • AUS WordPress community only mostly dead? • Get SEO Schema graphs • Web font loading geek out • PHP is 28! • PHP namespaces and autoloaders • You can work anywhere... why not Cleveland? • North Commerce — faster than the rest? • and more...

Post Status Excerpt (No. 53) — Support Tips for Plugin Developers

David Bisset

April 6, 2022

BusinessDesign

Dave Rodenbaugh talks about setting expectations for support in the WordPress repository where users can download plugins for free.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 51) — Comparing the Drupal and WordPress Communities with Amy June Hineline

David Bisset

March 21, 2022

HostingPlanet

Amy June Hineline shares the lessons she thinks WordPress can learn from Drupal’s relationship with its contributors and open source.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 48) — Running a WordPress Business

David Bisset

February 28, 2022

BusinessDesign

When — and what — should you outsource to SaaS and open source? Learn this an more from Dave Rodenbaugh, founder of Recapture.io.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 35) — Challenges and Wins for WordCamp Taiwan

David Bisset

December 2, 2021

BusinessPlanet

Eric Chuang 莊桓亦 and Hend Chen 陳瀚宇 have organized a hybrid WordCamp for the WordPress community in Taiwan and beyond.

Automattic has hired a renowned designer in newly created role

Brian Krogsgard

August 18, 2016

Design

John Maeda is a well-known designer, who most recently hails from the extremely reputable VC firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Wired has a pretty good summation on his background and qualifications. At Automattic, he's filling a role they advertised…

How a high school student became a professional WordPress developer

Brian Krogsgard

March 17, 2014

WordPress News

I've followed Sunny Ratilal since his earliest days contributing to Easy Digital Downloads. I remember Pippin Williamson raving about how good he was at contributing to EDD code and supporting EDD customers. Then I found out he was in high…