Community Roundup Week Ending March 17
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
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?
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 worth deeper analysis. Whatever the cause, a 2:1 male-to-female ratio in WCUS attendees (or people…
Fake Discount Pricing
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 this in the future after further monitoring “to compare the different pricing and sale behaviors…
Business | Development | Features | Hosting | WooCommerce | WordPress News
WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?
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?
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 worth deeper analysis. Whatever the cause, a 2:1 male-to-female ratio in WCUS attendees (or people…
Post Status Picks for the Week of August 22
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
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?
Business | Development | Features | Hosting | Planet
An Operating System for the Web
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…
How Do We Get There From Here?
Our WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of June 13 🎙️ JavaScript development journeys • Questions coming out of WCEU • The WordPress toolkit for podcasters • How newcomers and outsiders view WordPress • Are WordPress developers “real developers?” • Gutenber changes • Dave Martin on WP.com • A Gutenberg roadmap for WordPress 6.1.
Getting to ‘Yes’ on Plugin “License Hell”
Is there a win-win solution for plugin owners fighting churn and their professional WordPress customers, like agencies and freelancers?
What might WordPress.com’s pricing changes mean for the WordPress ecosystem?
Do the WordPress.com pricing changes represent an opportunity for the WordPress product ecosystem, a blow to democratized publishing, or the beginning of a slow pivot in the service’s identity away from blogging to managed WordPress hosting?
WordPress Podcast Picks for the Week of March 27
Here’s David’s weekly roundup of recent WP and web biz/tech podcasts worth listening to. Also: Ukrainian startup Lemon.io on work in wartime and Sherry Walling on grief.
Would WordPress benefit from public relations messaging around security issues?
Should we spin up the bright side of WordPress security issues? Would it make a difference that matters to market share, brand reputation, etc.?
Post Status Notes #488
Core releases. Static robots.txt for faster load time. Self-care. Health check. Which metric is lying to you? Dev notes and bottom lines.
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