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Ryan Welcher announced in Post Status…

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Dan Knauss

Ryan Welcher announced in Post Status Slack the launch of the GoodFirstBugs Twitter bot that finds issues tagged as "Good First Issue" in Gutenberg as well as Core Trac tickets. It's a pretty great concept, and I would love to…

WordPress 5.5 Release WordPress 5.5 “Eckstine”…

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Dan Knauss

WordPress 5.5 Release WordPress 5.5 "Eckstine" was released this week, and so far it has been getting good reviews and feedback. The top three areas of focus were speed, search — with a new sitemap addition to core — and…

Ad Astra Per Aspera Last week,…

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Dan Knauss

Ad Astra Per Aspera Last week, the popular Astra theme was suspended from the theme directory for five weeks because it was "violating prohibitions on affiliate links.” Search Engine Journal talked to the theme review team and Brainstorm Force (the…

The rubber band recession

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Brian Krogsgard
I am not a professional analyst of the economy. But even for the professionals, there are significant uncertainties. I don’t mean to strike fear with this post. I mean to encourage preparedness — or at least as much as we…

The Power of Small Peer Groups

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Cory Miller
In the latest episode of Post Status Draft, I talk with Ken Wallace of Mastermind Jam about... Masterminds!  We cover what they are, how they work, and the benefits they have for entrepreneurs and other professionals. Check it out! Here…

Churn

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Brian Krogsgard
Most businesses deal with churn, even the ones that don't call it that. Businesses with recurring revenue deal with churn most directly. We want to keep the customers we have. We want them to renew over and over again —…

Chrome now has native lazy-loading for…

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Dan Knauss

Chrome now has native lazy-loading for images and IFrames. There are already several good explanations of how this works and how to adjust your markup. An initial Trac ticket for lazy loading in WordPress core exists, and it was mentioned…

Preserving the Wilderness

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Dan Knauss
The web is a sacred wilderness, and it deserves preservation. What role can open source communities play? And how does it contrast with the monopolistic tendencies of the "tech giants?"

That’s the Ticket 🎫 Jonathan Desrosiers…

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Dan Knauss

That's the Ticket 🎫 Jonathan Desrosiers posted a reflection on the WordPress triage team three months into its existence. There's a lot to take in here, but here's one KPI: they closed more than half of the Trac tickets opened…

Jetpack promotions in search, and fallout

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Brian Krogsgard
In the last newsletter, I mentioned Jetpack's search replacement for promotions as well as the discussion and fallout that followed. It escalated quite a bit, and then it got out of hand. Jetpack has now removed the feature in version…

The PHP minimum version bump is…

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Brian Krogsgard
The PHP minimum version bump is happening! As noted in this Trac ticket, WordPress's support for PHP 5.2 - 5.5 officially ends now, and the minimum required PHP version is 5.6. As Scott Arciszewski explains, the impending release of WordPress…

Jonathan Desrosiers provides some followup after…

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Brian Krogsgard

Jonathan Desrosiers provides some followup after a discussion about a recent Trac bulk edit. The bulk ticket edit affected approximately 2,300 tickets spanning all components that had not been modified in at least two years. The bulk action set all…

Alain Schlesser is currently working on…

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Brian Krogsgard

Alain Schlesser is currently working on a project that detects when the "white screen of death" (WSOD) is being triggered by a parse error in a plugin. When this happens, the offending plugin will not be loaded on the login…

WordPress 4.9.5 Beta is slated for…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordPress 4.9.5 Beta is slated for April 3rd. There are three things of note, two of which are verbiage related I find interesting: The recommended PHP version is now going to be 7.2, instead of 7.0. I wonder at what…
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