Standards

Learning and Pulling Together

Dan Knauss

November 11, 2022

This week was all about revisiting and continuing conversations that have special value and maybe for that reason tend to continue on with a life of their own. Tom Willmot dropped a fine Twitter thread about the challenge all enterprise WordPress agencies face. This came in response to Magne Ilsas' featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. In a similar theme of industry peer cooperation, Eric Karkovack asks if WordPress product owners and developers can see a common interest in "voluntary standards." Could this clean up the plugin market? James Farmer thinks the WordPress business community can do more for itself too — by sharing data. In Post Status Slack we're learning the tricks and trials of ranking in the WordPress.org plugin repository. How about plugin telemetry? Learn from the voices of experience.

Moving and Not Moving With the Crowd

Dan Knauss

October 28, 2022

BusinessPlanet

This week's WordPress business highlights for Post Status: Lesley Sim is pivoting Newsletter Glue to an upmarket clientele. A discussion starter about WordPress UX. Do we need a curated plugin ecosystem, more open standards, and easy access to current expert consensus points in key knowledge areas? Time to bail out of Twitter? PayPal? Katie Keith tells her HeroPress story.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 72) — Can We Get to “Yes” on Better UX?

Dan Knauss

October 27, 2022

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

This week in an article shared in Post Status Slack, Eric Karkovack suggested some ways to improve the WordPress user experience, especially for DIY users setting up a website for the first time. Some of the things Eric wants to see happen, like a standard interface for plugins and a curated view of the plugin ecosystem, are also commonly expressed by designers, developers, and people in other roles at WordPress agencies serving enterprise clients. Can we get everyone to "yes" on a better UX?

A Visit from the Good Idea Fairy

Dan Knauss

October 21, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org • Are Active Install Counts Relevant to Your Business's Success? (Even if they are accurate? And they haven't been.) • Let's Fix What's Broken (The Plugin Repo) Not What Isn't (The Freemium Model) • Follow Leaders, Adopt Standards • Tools and expertise from rtCamp • Some great and "doable" ideas for the future of plugin business metrics on the .org repo. Could some of them help put an end to intrusive and manipulative dark patterns in the WordPress Admin dashboard and notifications?

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?

Naming is Hard: Social and Schema Images

Dan Knauss

August 30, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

This was a neat post from Joost de Valk back in July where he did some thinking out loud about the challenges of naming in Schema.org image standards to distinguish between featured and poster images on social networks: I’ve been…

We don’t need no stinkin’ standards!

Dan Knauss

August 24, 2022

DevelopmentNotes

I wonder how much WordPress is an outlier in even the PHP universe for tolerating the idea that it's "punishment" and "unfair" to be held to a standard with mandatory testing for code that's admitted to the WordPress.org repo for…

Join the Incident Response Team

Dan Knauss

July 8, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

The now-forming Incident Response Team (IRT) is a community-led effort to help us all build and sustain a culture around WordPress that is healthy, inclusive, and safe. Angela Jin is calling for your nominations for a diverse group of people who can contribute by serving on the IRT.

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of May 22

David Bisset

May 27, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Catch up on the gold at WordSesh! Mark Ashton on the success of UiPress. Hanna Smith on web sustainability. Michelle and Allie on sponsored events. Mark Root-Wiley on CSS Standards for WordPress. Takis and Taeke on organizing WCEU.

The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Elusive WordPress Way

Dan Knauss

April 29, 2022

BusinessDesign

There are significant differences in the ways plugin owners think about and operate their businesses. This is an opportunity to learn and grow together.

What Agencies are Looking for in Your Code

Robert Windisch

April 7, 2022

CareersDevelopment

I want to show you what mature WordPress agencies should be looking for in your code as a developer and how to get hired by them.

Help the Helpers

Dan Knauss

March 9, 2022

PlanetWordPress Community

Do you want to help but aren’t sure how — or who to trust? Here are some non-profit organizations and charitable foundations with a history of success and transparent reporting, according to Ukrainian sources.

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.

How Can We Increase Qualified Applicants for WordPress Jobs?

Courtney Robertson

February 17, 2022

BusinessCareers

Despite having such a vast market share, we lack a common set of competencies for the people working and hiring in the WordPress space.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 43) — Accessibility Roundup with Amber Hinds

David Bisset

January 27, 2022

BusinessDesign

US digital accessibility-related lawsuits reached a rate of over 10 per day in 2021 with over 4,000 in total, up 15% from the previous year.

This Week at WordPress.org (January 24, 2022)

Courtney Robertson

January 26, 2022

Make WordPressPlanet

Each week we are highlighting the news from WordPress.org that you don't want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we've got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this…