Tom Willmot (Human Made) dropped a fine Twitter thread in response to Magne Ilsaas' (Dekode) featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. Tom emphasized Magne's main points but thinks the biggest challenge is how the lack of a…
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Post Status Excerpt (No. 72) — Can We Get to “Yes” on Better UX?
Dan Knauss
PlanetPost Status Podcasts
WordPress User Experiences from DIY Builders to Enterprise Users Transcript ↓ Can We Get to "Yes" on Better UX? What does WordPress need to do to increase its appeal to do-it-yourself website builders and creators who are trying to take…
Why the WordPress.org growth charts might not matter
Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
Why lament the loss of a declining statistic? Writing in the Ellipsis newsletter early this week, Alex Denning floated the idea that "WordPress.org growth charts might not matter." Why? Alex writes: Our experience is that freemium is an inefficient and…
Two Key Questions We Need To Answer
Cory Miller
PlanetPost Status Team Blog
The recent discussions around the Active Installs data being removed from the WordPress Repo prompted two questions I think we need to answer as a bigger WP community and particularly our members at Post Status. As someone who lived in…
What Can We All Do to Better Support Our Plugin Developers?
Cory Miller
PlanetPost Status Team Blog
The recent discussions around the Active Installs data being removed from the WordPress Repo prompted a couple of questions I think we need to answer as a bigger WP community and particularly our members at Post Status. As someone who…
WP.org outage notice gets written into plugin user’s salt keys
Dan Knauss
DevelopmentNotes
Talk about edge cases! On August 8, wordpress.org was down for a few hours after a Chicago data center outage. During the outage, a user of Salt Shaker reported the plugin replaced salt keys with an outage notice, leading to…
Plugin Checker
Dan Knauss
Make WordPressNotes
On July 5, Felix Arntz proposed creating and adopting a plugin checking tool for the Plugin Review Team similar to the theme checker. The Performance Team would take the lead, but contributors from other teams would be needed as well.…
The Decline of Speed Booster Pack
Barış Ünver
BusinessFeatures
We all enjoy reading success stories, right? A website reached a million visitors in just 10 days, a SaaS tool valued at $1 billion in less than a year, an author and her book translated into 100 languages worldwide. But…
Fall of the Zamir: A Hate Symbol Enters and Exits WordPress.org
David Bisset
PlanetSecurity
How did a hate symbol get into WordPress.org's plugin repository? What can we learn from the community response? Will more transparent governance help us navigate the age of weaponized open source? Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the letter…
📉 Is Growth in Active Installs…
Dan Knauss
📉 Is Growth in Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining? Along with some other people, I have been intensely watching the active install growth charts on the WordPress.org plugin repository for a variety of plugins for the past few months.…
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…
Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?
David Bisset
BusinessPlanet
Along with some other people, I have been intensely watching the active install growth charts on the WordPress.org plugin repository for a variety of plugins for the past few months. Since I’m involved with several different plugins to various degrees…
An Interview with the MLA’s Humanities Commons Team
Dan Knauss
WordPress CommunityWordPress News
If you've come across Commons in a Box (CBOX) in the BuddyPress ecosystem, CommentPress at the Institute for the Future of the Book, or either in the WordPress.org plugin repository, you may have wondered about their origins. While they may not be well known in…
Crate wants to help you escape license key hell
Brian Krogsgard
Business
Crate turns your WordPress site into a plugin repository to improve release management between environments and automate Composer support for commercial plugins. That's the promise of Brady Vercher's idea that he's calling Crate. This is something that I would really,…
Aesop, a Medium-esque “story engine” for WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
BusinessDesign
Aesop is a self-described "story engine" for WordPress. The plugin boasts "components designed for rich storytelling experiences." Basically, it creates an admin interface that allows a site owner to create interactive stories, similar to those popularized by projects like Medium…
All plugins are (not) created equal
Sarah Pressler
DesignSecurity
Plugins are the new black in WordPress site development, and picking out the perfect plugins for your site can quickly become overwhelming. The WordPress.org plugin repository hosts over 26,000 plugins and the plugin forum contains over 1.3 million posts. Check…
