Essential Skills in the Remote WordPress Workplace
Courtney Robertson
Where do you need to have accounts in the web tech community? What tools, knowledge, and skills will you need in any remote WordPress-related role?
Webinar: 5 Keys to Monetizing Your Plugin with Vova Feldman
Karen Johnson
What must you do — and not do — to monetize a plugin successfully? Find out in this interview with Vova Feldman of Freemius.
Post Status Excerpt (No. 18) — Is Active Plugin Install Growth Declining?
David Bisset
David and Cory discuss a blog post David published at Post Status showing the growth of active installs of WordPress plugins declining in 2021.
Footnotes #456
Dan Knauss
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 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.…
WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as planned this past Tuesday. Matt Mullenweg was the lead on this release. There were 530 volunteers along with 320+ tickets on Trac and over 1,500 pull requests on GitHub. Courtney Robertson has a good…
🤝 WordPress Jobs: The Post Status…
Dan Knauss
🤝 WordPress Jobs: The Post Status Job Board 💼 There are currently 22 Active Job Listings on the Board. We don't have space for them all here, so be sure to check online too. ☀️ Employers: Get your job opening…
LionSher Technologies has announced the acquisition…
Dan Knauss
LionSher Technologies has announced the acquisition of the following plugins from Lever Technology: PDF Embedder, Google Apps Login, Google Drive Embedder, Google Apps Directory, Google Profile Avatars, and All-In-One Intranet. 🔌 LionSher has flown under the radar for a while…
Elementor celebrated its fifth birthday last…
Dan Knauss
Elementor celebrated its fifth birthday last month and published a blog post of milestones they’ve reached. They claim that “5% Of All Websites Are Built With Elementor” with 8 million “active installs.” 🎂 If that’s accurate it would mean Elementor…
Nandini Diagarajan explores the things you…
Dan Knauss
Nandini Diagarajan explores the things you should know before taking over an online community. This advice could apply to communities formed around products, plugins, and even events in the WordPress space. This is recommended reading for anyone taking over as…
Video Picks 📺 Here are my…
Dan Knauss
Video Picks 📺 Here are my video picks: 5 Plugins to Make Your WordPress Site More Efficient 🔥: Scott Wyden Kivowitz from Imagely shows
Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?
David Bisset
Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in active install growth this year.
Can small, independent WordPress makers still make it?
David Bisset
Is it still possible to make a living as a small WordPress company, freelancer, or solopreneur? The community says yes!
Post Status Draft (No. 115) — Craig Hewitt on Castos’ Latest Funding and Expansion of Private Podcasting
David Bisset
Post Status publisher Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about their pre-seed funding and expansion into the private podcasting market.
🔌 Jean-Baptiste Audras notes that WordPress…
Dan Knauss
🔌 Jean-Baptiste Audras notes that WordPress 5.8 makes a new header available for plugin authors: “This allows third-party plugins to avoid accidentally being overwritten with an update of a plugin of a similar name from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.”
Starting in WordPress 5.8, Greg Ziółkowski…
Dan Knauss
Starting in WordPress 5.8, Greg Ziółkowski notes the block.json metadata file should be used as the canonical way to register block types. There are many benefits to this move, including (but not limited to) the WordPress Plugins Directory's ability to…
