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Footnotes #456

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Dan Knauss
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

Issue #456 “One of the marvelous…

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Dan Knauss
Issue #456 “One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.” — Jean Vanier, Community And Growth Howdy! Thinking about WordPress history lately in terms…

🎙️ Post Status Excerpt (No. 17)…

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Dan Knauss

🎙️ Post Status Excerpt (No. 17) — Acquisition Tracker, WordPress 5.8 and #ClickPublish In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller chat about how the new Post Status Acquisition Tracker is a window into significant moments…

WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as…

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Dan Knauss

WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as planned this past Tuesday. Matt Mullenweg was the lead on this release. There were 530 volunteers along with 320+ tickets on Trac and over 1,500 pull requests on GitHub. Courtney Robertson has a good…

LionSher Technologies has announced the acquisition…

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Dan Knauss
LionSher Technologies has announced the acquisition of the following plugins from Lever Technology: PDF Embedder, Google Apps Login, Google Drive Embedder, Google Apps Directory, Google Profile Avatars, and All-In-One Intranet. 🔌 LionSher has flown under the radar for a while…

Starting in WordPress 5.8, Greg Ziółkowski…

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Dan Knauss

Starting in WordPress 5.8, Greg Ziółkowski notes the block.json metadata file should be used as the canonical way to register block types. There are many benefits to this move, including (but not limited to) the WordPress Plugins Directory's ability to…

WebP support seems to be in…

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Dan Knauss

WebP support seems to be in the cards for WordPress. Jonny Harris shared this Trac ticket on Twitter and added the following comment: "Worked really hard on this one and I am proud of it. Massive props to @roundearth for…

Earlier this week there was a…

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Dan Knauss

Earlier this week there was a proposal submitted by Carike on WordPress.org to treat Google's cookie replacement — Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC) — as a "security concern" and add a method in WordPress core to block it. ⛔ Many…

WordPress Slack was down for a…

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Dan Knauss
WordPress Slack was down for a brief period of time on Tuesday morning. Here's the conversation that emerged about this in Post Status Slack, and a Trac ticket opened by Tor-Bjorn Fjellner. 🎫 What happened? Nothing too exciting — not…

🔌 A new plugin from Andy Fragen…

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Dan Knauss

🔌 A new plugin from Andy Fragen adds "Skip Updates" to the WordPress Settings menu.  With it, you can select plugins and themes to omit from taking updates if their source code is hosted at wp.org. Why you might want to…

WordPress 5.6 (“Simone”) was released this…

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Dan Knauss

WordPress 5.6 ("Simone") was released this week. Props to the all-female lead team and the 605 volunteer contributors. They collaborated on nearly 350 Trac tickets and over 1,000 pull requests on GitHub. 🙌 The 5.6 release has many enhancements, features,…

SkyVerge & GoDaddy

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Brian Krogsgard
The team at SkyVerge is joining GoDaddy in a full company acquisition. All SkyVerge extensions and Jilt will go under the GoDaddy umbrella. In the announcement from SkyVerge, they gave a hint as to what is next: "While we’ll be…
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