Introducing Team Membership
Brian Krogsgard
Team Memberships are a new way to support Post Status and provide continuous education and excellent community insights for your entire organization.
WordPress 5.2 was released as scheduled…
Dan Knauss
WordPress 5.2 was released as scheduled on Tuesday. Thanks to Site Health, PHP Error Protection, and the minimum PHP version bump (to 5.6.20), this has been one of the best-received updates that I can remember. 🤗 There were over 327…
Ronald Huereca has announced he has…
Brian Krogsgard
Ronald Huereca has announced he has taken over the development of the WP Plugin Info Card plugin. Meanwhile, the Dark Mode plugin has been put up for adoption by Daniel James. 🌃
Gutenberg 4.0 is out, and this…
Brian Krogsgard
Gutenberg 4.0 is out, and this release covers a number of items from a long "pending items" list. Other than bug fixes, some new additions include colors for cover image overlays, a new font size picker, better pullquote features, post locking, a…
The Plugin Economy interviewed Nathan Singh,…
Dan Knauss
The Plugin Economy interviewed Nathan Singh, who at the start of 2018 acquired Envira Gallery and Soliloquy Slider from Thomas Griffin and Syed Balkhi. Nathan, a relative newcomer to the WordPress space and community, goes on to relate his thoughts…
An Interview with the MLA’s Humanities Commons Team
Dan Knauss
The MLA's Humanities Commons team maintains several WordPress projects to support Digital Humanities at colleges and universities.
Here’s an interesting tool from Peter…
Brian Krogsgard
Here's an interesting tool from Peter Booker: wpdirectory.net allows you to regex search "all code in the WordPress Plugins directory," and he hopes to add the themes directory at some point in the future. Peter is looking for public testers.
Gutenberg 2.9 has been released with…
Dan Knauss
Gutenberg 2.9 has been released with more fixes and tweaks. Some noteworthy updates include the introduction of a Plugin API, shortcut tooltips, and a large list of bug fixes. The update post also notes it includes "significant improvements around API…
WordPress Security Plugins Compared (wpsecuritycompared.com) is…
Dan Knauss
WordPress Security Plugins Compared (wpsecuritycompared.com) is a useful comparison table of WordPress security plugin costs and features by David Hayes.
The meta episode — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss meta data in WordPress, including the challenge of implementing data into new tools, such as the REST API and the Gutenberg editor.
Gutenberg 2.7 was released last week.…
Brian Krogsgard
Gutenberg 2.7 was released last week. Among the bug fixes, it also added an official pagination block, updates to the link insertion interface, and (according to the update) it "pushes much of the Plugin API out of its experimental stage."…
First, some recent highlights from the…
Brian Krogsgard
First, some recent highlights from the ongoing effort to get ready for Gutenberg. Dev4Press has a summary of the current state of Gutenberg (version 2.4). Antonio Villegas shows how you can create your first Gutenberg block. He briefly covers the edit…
A review of HappyForms for simple, custom lead management
Dan Knauss
HappyForms is a custom form builder that makes secure forms that get you leads, not spam.
An interview with PublishPress founder Steve Burge
Dan Knauss
PublishPress recently announced the acquisition of Daniel Bachhuber's Bylines plugin for PublishPress. I got in touch with Steve to catch up with him and his unique take on the WordPress economy.
Hosted versus self-hosted eCommerce — Draft podcast
Katie Richards
In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss self-hosted vs managed ecommerce and whether or not conferences have outlived their usefulness.
Interview with Matt Mullenweg on the WordPress ecosystem — Draft Podcast
Brian Krogsgard
In this episode, I talk to Matt Mullenweg -- co-founder of WordPress and the CEO of Automattic -- about what's happening in the world of WordPress, and his role in it all.
