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This Week at WordPress.org (January 24, 2022)

Courtney Robertson

January 26, 2022

Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don't want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we've got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this…

WordPress as a Commons

Lesley Sim

January 21, 2022

BusinessHosting

Fences can protect or inhibit care of a commons. "Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place," is a classic piece of wisdom. What are the questions we need to ask about our fences and WordPress as a commons?

Can Five for the Future Fund WordPress Research?

Jordi Cabot

January 20, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

How can WordPress attract and retain more contributors? How can we assess and improve contributors, leaders, governance, transparency, discourse, and diversity in this dynamic community? Jordi Cabot proposes making research into these areas as a part of WordPress.org's Five for the Future program.

This Week at WordPress.org (January 17, 2022)

Courtney Robertson

January 19, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Post Status Comments (No. 6) — The State of the WordPress News European Edition

David Bisset

January 13, 2022

BusinessComments

Get new perspectives on last years' biggest news stories — which ones mattered most, to whom, and why? This is the European edition of the first Annual Post Status News Draft.

This Week at WordPress.org (January 10, 2022)

Courtney Robertson

January 12, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

This Week at WordPress.org (January 3, 2022)

Courtney Robertson

January 5, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Stump the Chumps: How can I display an annual cycle of daily posts individually in a widget or block — and a full calendar view?

Dan Knauss

December 16, 2021

WordPress News

What's the best way to build an annually recurring cycle of 365 posts for a "post of the day" feature on a WordPress site?

Post Status Comments (No. 4) — State of the Word 2021 Analysis

David Bisset

December 16, 2021

BusinessComments

Bet Hannon, Eric Karkovack, Maciek Palmowski, and Rae Morey join David to share their reactions to the State of the Word 2021.

This Week at WordPress.org (October 11, 2021)

Courtney Robertson

October 13, 2021

Make WordPressPlanet

Stay updated and engaged with the fast-paced and ever-evolving WordPress project. Product and project managers take note! Get the feed here.

This Week at WordPress.org (October 4, 2021)

Courtney Robertson

October 7, 2021

Make WordPressPlanet

Each week we'll highlight news from WordPress.org that you don't want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we've got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with…

This Week at WordPress.org (September 27, 2021)

Courtney Robertson

September 29, 2021

DesignMake WordPress

News from WP.org for the week of September 27, 2021.

Code in PHP long enough and…

Dan Knauss

June 25, 2021

Code in PHP long enough and you’ll want to keep credentials and configuration values accessible to your code. It’s bad to have these "secret values" actually embedded in your code, so Chris Cornutt explores some ways to cope — with…

John James Jacoby explains the addon…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

John James Jacoby explains the addon “took almost an entire year to invent, test, and deploy… We ported the RRULE spec directly to PHP from the iCalendar RFC, because nothing existed to do what we needed.”

PHP turned 26! 🎂 On June…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

PHP turned 26! 🎂 On June 8, 1995, Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf introduced the PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor 1.0 scripting language on Usenet's comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi. Rasmus’s announcement (now in Google Groups) is still online.

Very happy to see the release…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

Security

Very happy to see the release WP-CLI v2.5.0 knowing it was quite the effort. Kudos to the team. This version includes security patches, PHP 8 support, improved MySQL/MariaDB support, new commands for managing automatic updates and creating MO files, and…