Sarah Gooding

Design and Development News for the Week of October 31

Daniel Schutzsmith

November 4, 2022

Missing Menu Items • Farewell PHP 7.4 • I Didn’t Know You Could Do That in the Block Editor • Why is Your Computer Cosplaying as a PDP-11? • Effective Writing for Devs • The State of CSS • The Swiss Army Knife of Website Tools: Website Toolkit

Post Status Excerpt (No. 67) — What Does Professionalism Mean in WordPress?

Dan Knauss

September 2, 2022

BusinessDesign

Dan and Eric discuss their top picks for WordPress news stories of the week and the topic of professionalism. What is it — what does it mean for us in the WordPress community, and how does it relate to a healthy open source project and business ecosystem?

Expression Engine’s first major release as an open source CMS

Dan Knauss

August 25, 2022

Notes

Winning Together in a Decentralizing Plugin Ecosystem

Dan Knauss

August 17, 2022

BusinessFeatures

Are OrganizeWP (and Newsletter Glue) leading indicators for trends and opportunities in the plugin space?

Local Development Tools and the Open Web

Dan Knauss

August 9, 2022

BusinessDesign

Who is not using Local? Is it an Open Web tool? Let's review some "Local history" and consider where WP Engine's popular developer tools could be headed.

Open Secrets: Forced Updates in WordPress

Dan Knauss

July 1, 2022

FeaturesMake WordPress

We've seen forced updates become increasingly common and less controversial over time. But who decides, and how is that decision made? Are there unofficial channels and processes, like a decision tree, for escalating to a forced update?

Post Status Notes #488

David Bisset

March 4, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Core releases. Static robots.txt for faster load time. Self-care. Health check. Which metric is lying to you? Dev notes and bottom lines.

Post Status Notes #487

David Bisset

February 24, 2022

BusinessDesign

WordPress 5.9.1 released. REST or AJAX? Plugin dependency feature plugin. Testing, security, new themes and CSS standards. PHP benchmarks and more.

Post Status Comments (No. 5) — The First Annual WordPress News Draft

Olivia Bisset

December 30, 2021

BusinessComments

Aurooba Ahmed, Jason Cosper, Daniel Schutzsmith, Robert Jacobi, and Lesley Sim join David Bisset for three rounds of draft picks for the top WordPress stories of 2021.

Post Status Comments (No. 3) — The State of the WordPress News

David Bisset

December 2, 2021

BusinessComments

Matt Medeiros, Joe Howard, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Sarah Gooding discuss the WordPress news space with David Bisset and Dan Knauss.

Sarah Gooding reported on accessibility consultant…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

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 are…

Elementor in the room 🐘 POST…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

Elementor in the room 🐘 POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ 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 Gutenberg…

Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has…

Dan Knauss

November 20, 2020

Sarah Gooding observes that Envato has passed $1 billion in community earnings after 14 years of being in business. 💰 Sarah also gets into the controversy over Envato Elements, its subscription service which isn't sitting well with developers and authors…

Decisions have consequences

David Bisset

October 2, 2020

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, kudos…

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

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 between…

WCUS 2020 Cancelled

David Bisset

July 31, 2020

HostingWordPress Community

WordCamp US 2020 Online has been officially cancelled. In addition to this announcement, the lead trio of WCUS organizers — Angela Jin, Kim Lipari, and Kathy Drewien — answered some of the questions many people will have about their decision.