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Community Roundup Week Ending May 12
Michelle Frechette
What's happened and what's coming up in the WordPress community - week ending May 12, 2023.
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Community Roundup Week Ending May 5
Michelle Frechette
What's happened and what's coming up in the WordPress community - week ending May 5, 2023.
Community Roundup Week Ending April 28
Michelle Frechette
What's happened and what's coming up in the WordPress community - week ending April 28, 2023.
Community Roundup Week Ending April 14
Michelle Frechette
All the news that’s fit to digitally print about what’s happening in the WordPress Community for the week ending April 14, 2023.
Community Roundup Week Ending April 7
Michelle Frechette
All the news that's fit to digitally print about what's happening in the WordPress Community for the week ending April 7, 2023.
Community Roundup Week Ending March 31
Michelle Frechette
The Wayback Machine Do you ever use any of the mechanisms in place for looking back over time? Whether it's the Wayback Machine, Facebook Memories, or simply scrolling back through the photos in your phone, our histories make us who…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 24
Michelle Frechette
Today I'm acknowledging all of your hard work and efforts to be where you are and have achieved what you have achieved.
Community Roundup Week Ending March 17
Michelle Frechette
Events are back! As of today there are eighteen upcoming WordCamps on the schedule, and more are in the beginning planning stages.
Business Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Dan Knauss
Vito Peleg, Atarim‘s cofounder and CEO, explains how he “cracked” the partnership problem to find alignment with other companies that can help them all accelerate their growth. Alex Denning on the launch of Ellipsis' Weather Report: “We’ve never had this insight before, and it is exciting and terrifying to bring this kind of ‘live' view of the industry, to the industry.” The acquisition trend is still up, on average. Meet Post Status business member Penske Media Corporation — PMC.
Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?
Dan Knauss
Drawing on a gender gap at WCUS noticed by Women in WP, Rob Howard thinks there might be a "self-employment penalty" on conference attendance that disproportionately affects women. There's a lot of speculation in this article, but it's a subject…
Fake Discount Pricing
Dan Knauss
Rob Howard took a look at the prevalence of fictitious "discount" pricing on WordPress plugins in light of US federal and some state laws that may regard this as a deceptive trade practice. Rob will have more to say about…
WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?
Dan Knauss
How to make a user experience that doesn't suck has always remained a kind of trade secret among those who make it their trade. That's understandable, but it's Drupal behavior in a WordPress world.
Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?
Dan Knauss
Drawing on a gender gap at WCUS noticed by Women in WP, Rob Howard thinks there might be a "self-employment penalty" on conference attendance that disproportionately affects women. There's a lot of speculation in this article, but it's a subject…
Post Status Picks for the Week of August 22
Dan Knauss
How to hire or build a diverse team with @Piccia and @UnderRepdInTech • @BobWP on FftF • @heyadamsilver reviews @ForumWP on @kitchensinkwp • @MasterWP on burnout and breaks w/ @Ny_the_Creator • The All Star FSE Outreach Team has a Hallway Hangout on block theming • @TheWPMinute with all the news in 3 minutes and 46 seconds.
Building and Sustaining the WordPress Community Through Mentorship — Post Status Draft 123
Dan Knauss
For Nyasha Green, a healthy tech community prioritizes mentoring. She credits her mentors with helping her find her place in WordPress. How well does your part of the WordPress ecosystem support mentorship? Can we make mentoring a key way people contribute to WordPress's future?
An Operating System for the Web
Dan Knauss
What if WordPress, growing as an operating system for the web, spawns distributions and spins, like Linux? What do nine years of Jetpack teach us about Automattic and WordPress — the project and the dot-com? Rethinking how we think about SaaS, hosting, and the WordPress ecosystem...
