Design and Development News for the Week of October 31
Daniel Schutzsmith
DesignDevelopment
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web Hereās a glimpse of whatās going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week. Where The Heck Is That Thingy?!@$ For the second week in aā¦
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Post Status Excerpt (No. 67) ā What Does Professionalism Mean in WordPress?
Dan Knauss
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We're not afraid to let our human side show.Erik Karkovack In this episode of Post Status Draft, Eric Karkovack joins Dan Knauss to discuss their top picks for important topics and news stories in the WordPress world this week. Finally,ā¦
Expression Engine’s first major release as an open source CMS
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Winning Together in a Decentralizing Plugin Ecosystem
Dan Knauss
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Cory mentioned Jon Christopher's debut of OrganizeWP last week, calling attention to its unique and unusual pricing model: no subscriptions, you just buy all releases within one major release and then renew for the next release. The idea is toā¦
Local Development Tools and the Open Web
Dan Knauss
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DesktopServer: The end of an era and the beginning of a new one Once upon a time, I used XAMP. Then I used DesktopServer. I liked it and soon bought a subscription for updates and support. It was host-agnostic andā¦
Open Secrets: Forced Updates in WordPress
Dan Knauss
FeaturesMake WordPress
Two weeks ago, Robert Rowley did a detailed post-mortem analysis for Patchstack of a severe vulnerability in Ninja Forms. Chloe Chamberland at Wordfence had identified and also described it in detail the day before. Both Robert, Chloe, and Sarah Goodingā¦
Post Status Notes #488
David Bisset
PlanetThe Week in Review
No Content Core Concerns A WordPress 5.9.1 Maintenance Release is out, so make sure your sites are updated. There are quite a lot of bug fixes in this release ā over 80! Gutenberg 12.7 has been released. Patternmaking is easierā¦
Post Status Notes #487
David Bisset
BusinessDesign
WordPress 5.9.1 released. REST or AJAX? Plugin dependency feature plugin. Testing, security, new themes and CSS standards. PHP benchmarks and more. Core News A WordPress 5.9.1 Maintenance Release is out, so make sure your sites are updated. There are quiteā¦
Post Status Comments (No. 5) ā The First Annual WordPress News Draft
Olivia Bisset
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"This story reminded me that big company, big money doesn't mean just more profit but can also mean big contributions." āAurooba Ahmed It's the first-ever Post Status WordPress News Draft! The initial group of news "avengers" in this episode areā¦
Post Status Comments (No. 3) ā The State of the WordPress News
David Bisset
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WordPress journalists and news commentators on the nature of their work, their views on the community, and the future of the project. In this episode of Post Status Comments, David and Dan host a conversation with several members of theā¦
Sarah Gooding reported on accessibility consultant…
Dan Knauss
Sarah Gooding reported on accessibility consultant Joe Dolson and how he detected suspicious review activity for the AccessiBe plugin at WordPress.org. Joe's discovery led to the removal of at least 33 reviews. Accessibility plugins that offer "quick fix" solutions areā¦
Elementor in the room š POST…
Dan Knauss
Elementor in the room š POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE šØļø A recent conversation in Post Status Slack centers on Elementor. The company targeted "full-site editing" in some of its Google ads. Community member Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenbergā¦
Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has…
Dan Knauss
Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has passed $1 billion in community earnings after 14 years of being in business. š° Sarah also gets into the controversy over Envato Elements, its subscription service which isn't sitting well with developers and authorsā¦
Decisions have consequences
David Bisset
Design
Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudosā¦
A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has…
Dan Knauss
A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has launched an updated new beta version of P2. In the past, P2 was a WordPress theme that has been used for "blogging at the speed of thought." It was adopted for internal communications betweenā¦
WCUS 2020 Cancelled
David Bisset
HostingWordPress Community
The WCUS team took questions from WP Tavern and Post Status. The below Q&A is what they sent us directly. Sarah Gooding at WP Tavern did an article based on the responses that we were both sent. Be sure toā¦
