If You See Something, Say Something This week I posted an observation. I observed that with 20 speakers announced for WCEU (at that point) that there were only about 25% women and even fewer non-white people. I hoped for more…
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Community Roundup Week Ending May 5
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
AI and WordPress is AI and All of Us In a recently blog post, Kathy Zant wrote about using AI for new headshots, and how that caused her to think about how we perceive ourselves versus how we might perceive…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 28
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
A Community Gift Last week I launched a new website as a gift to event organizers, podcasters, bloggers, and speakers in the WordPress community. It's an online database of WordPress speakers including what topics they present on, what time zones…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 14
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Post Status and Atarim Summit Post Status is partnering with Atarim to bring you an amazing Web Agency Summit. Atarim is doing the heavy lifting (it's shaping up to be an amazing event with awesome speakers and virtual areas to…
Community Roundup Week Ending April 7
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Podcasting in WordPress I heard from Topher DeRosia today that WPPodcasts has amplified over 11,000 WordPress podcast episodes. That's a lot of hours worth of listening to content centered around WordPress. And that's not a bad thing. I've heard the…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 31
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
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
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
It's Not About Luck "If you’re going to tell me about all the good luck I’ve had to get to where I am, then are you also going to talk about the bad luck I had to overcome to get…
Community Roundup Week Ending March 17
Michelle Frechette
The Week in ReviewWordPress Community
Events are Back WordCamps, summits, and other conferences are back! In the last few years the roster of WordCamps on WordCamp.org have been sparse, to say the least. As of today there are eighteen upcoming WordCamps on the schedule, and…
Business Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022
Dan Knauss
BusinessThe Week in Review
Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership 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. Vito explains what Atarim's latest partnership with Rocket.net brings…
Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?
Dan Knauss
BusinessCareers
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
BusinessNotes
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
BusinessDevelopment
Rob Howard built the MasterWP merch store as quickly as possible with WooCommerce, and then he assessed the relative difficulty of building with Woo rather than Shopify. His conclusion? A high-end WP developer [i.e., Rob] needed half a day to…
Is there a self-employment gap in WordPress event attendance?
Dan Knauss
BusinessCareers
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
PlanetThe Week in Review
Post Status Podcast Picks 🎙️ Underrepresented In Tech: Piccia Neri on recruiting and how to hire or build a diverse team.Do The Woo: Bob Dunn comments on Five For The Future — on giving to the community and also making…
Building and Sustaining the WordPress Community Through Mentorship — Post Status Draft 123
Dan Knauss
DraftPlanet
Mentor someone. Today! Don't wait. Start today! Talk to people. Connect with them. Go on Twitter. Just 15 minutes a day. Tell them why this community is great. Make them want to join!Nyasha Green In this episode of Post Status…
An Operating System for the Web
Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Speaking at Pressnomics in 2015, Matt Mullenweg claimed that without Jetpack, WordPress' market share would be in decline. Why? Because "naked" WordPress wasn't competitive with SaaS site builders like Wix and Squarespace. On Twitter last month, Jeff Chandler reminded the…
