Post Status Excerpt (No. 28) — A WordPress Core Performance Team?
David Bisset
Cory and David talk about WordPress's reputation relative to its performance and a new proposal for a Performance Team for WordPress core.
When It’s Time to Sell: WordPress Business Owners on Their Acquisitions — Post Status Comments (No. 2)
David Bisset
Why are so many acquisitions happening in the WordPress space? Why now? What's the motivation to sell? How does it affect WordPress?
Post Status Excerpt (No. 21) — Dealing With Developer Overload: Focus
David Bisset
David and Cory discuss Developer Overload, which David defines as what happens when "when you receive too much information and are unable to process it, resulting in negative responses and unhealthy effects."
Post Status Excerpt (No. 19) — How Can New Developers Get Started In WordPress?
David Bisset
In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about how new developers might be able to get a footing with a career in WordPress. (The first step might be more social than technical in nature.)
Webinar: Interview with Brian Casel of ZipMessage
Karen Johnson
Brian Casel's startup, ZipMessage, is a platform for asynchronous video conversations where anyone (like your clients and colleagues) can respond with a video of their own.
Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?
David Bisset
Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in active install growth this year.
Joost de Valk shows how the…
Dan Knauss
Joost de Valk shows how the new Algolia implementation in Yoast SEO Premium can improve site search results. 🔎
Can small, independent WordPress makers still make it?
David Bisset
Is it still possible to make a living as a small WordPress company, freelancer, or solopreneur? The community says yes!
Post Status Draft (No. 115) — Craig Hewitt on Castos’ Latest Funding and Expansion of Private Podcasting
David Bisset
Post Status publisher Cory Miller sat down with Castos CEO Craig Hewitt to talk about their pre-seed funding and expansion into the private podcasting market.
Now that SEO is taking performance…
Dan Knauss
Now that SEO is taking performance optimization much more seriously thanks to Google‘s Core Web Vitals, some people think a web page’s Lighthouse performance scores correlate with their Core Web Vitals score. But is this really true? Rick Viscomi dives…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 13) — WordPress Economy Study, Trying Gutenberg Again
David Bisset
More acquisitions! Is the WordPress market worth $500-600 BILLION? Cory and David discuss these topics and Gutenberg's barriers to winning back users.
DAVID’S PICKS 📬 Video Picks 📹…
Dan Knauss
DAVID'S PICKS 📬 Video Picks 📹 Here is my video pick of the week: WordCamp Europe 2021 Gutenberg Demo: A
Post Status Excerpt (No. 12) — Takeaways from the ACF Acquisition
David Bisset
Cory and David discuss the recently announced acquisition of Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) plugin by Delicious Brains.
Peter Davis writes about the results…
Dan Knauss
Peter Davis writes about the results of an SEO experiment on the Kapwing site. He offers "seven different ways to identify articles that could benefit most from updates with minimal overlap and identifiable metrics for improvement." 📏 Nicole Kohler pointed…
Eric Wu open-sourced his SEO tool…
Dan Knauss
Eric Wu open-sourced his SEO tool that bulk checks IPs to validate Googlebot IPs. 🤖 Why is this important? "Often there are various requests by spoofed user-agents pretending to be official search engine crawlers like Googlebot. In order to have…
Upcoming Events 📆 New: WordFest Live 2021,…
Dan Knauss
Upcoming Events 📆 New: WordFest Live 2021, happening July 23, is looking for sponsors, media partners, and community partners. There's a call for speakers now too. 🧡 WordSesh 2021 was announced with sessions on May 25 – 27 and workshops from…
