Matt Chowning opened some issues in the Gutenberg repo to help begin the process of obtaining consent from contributors to relicense their work under the GPLv2 and MPLv2 licenses. Two days later Matt apologized in the wake of contributor reaction…
In this episode of Post Status Draft, Danielle Joseph talks about her work with clients as a designer and how that has shaped her agency and Willowspace.
PushEngage, the maker of push notification software with "over 10,000+ customers in 150+ countries," has joined Awesome Motive. 🙌 Awesome Motive founder and CEO Syed Balkhi notes in the press release: "I first started using push notifications over 3 years…
Here's an interesting tutorial from Nico Martin on how to create scheduled push notifications in the browser with the Notifications API — in combination with the Push API and the HTTP Web Push Protocol. I don't care for push notifications…
The initial meeting for the "WP Notify" project will take place on Monday, August 26th. WP Notify aims to create "a fundamental mechanism" in WordPress core for "sending notifications to users to give them feedback about state changes in the system."
Several proposals that appeared on Make WordPress over the past week have started some good discussions: Ian Dunn proposed a policy of support for the last six versions of WordPress with auto-updates that bring unsupported sites to the oldest supported…
In the last newsletter, I mentioned Jetpack's search replacement for promotions as well as the discussion and fallout that followed. It escalated quite a bit, and then it got out of hand. Jetpack has now removed the feature in version…
As Catalin Cimpanu points out, the PHP 5.x branch will stop receiving official security updates at the end of this year. As many WordPress developers already know, this branch is still widely used on many servers. While WordPress recommends 7.2…
Scott Rollo heads The Theme Foundry, which may be best known today for its builder theme, Make. They recently rolled out HappyForms, a custom form builder plugin.
I logged into my personal site today. It was the first time in a while. I realized while doing so that I haven't blogged much on that site this year. As soon as I logged in, I was confronted with…
Scott Bolinger's latest new plugin release is Holler Box, a flexible notifications system to announce things and call attention to all sorts of content. It looks like a really nice product, and it's free.
AppPresser 3 has launched with significantly improved speed, free push notifications, and a dashboard for building your app within the AppPresser website. Starting at only $199 for the year, AppPresser is a really great way to get an app up…