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

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Dan Knauss
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?

Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org

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Dan Knauss
This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the WordPress stories and topics that are on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections. There's a single throughline in this episode — what works, what doesn't, and what will take WordPress businesses forward in the product, agency, and hosting spaces.

Shiny New Releases

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Dan Knauss
Gravity Forms 7.1 Beta 1 • the SpinupWP community • Dollie 2.0 • rtCamp's Easy Engine now with full custom Docker-Compose support • Metorik • Iconic • Do the Woo • Simple Ajax Chat Pro

Tech Roundup for the Week of August 15, 2022

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Daniel Schutzsmith
This week Daniel shares some resources for creating React Apps using Gutenberg Data, static WordPress sites with Eleventy, and a Figma to FSE workflow. Also a reminder to test and give feedback on fluid typography — and one cool tool: Programming Fonts.

How to Create a Basic Child Theme for Block Themes

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Dan Knauss
Here's a nice tutorial at learn.wordpress.org for learning how to get started with child block theme development and a good model for tutorials you can contribute! If you have any questions about being a tutorial presenter please join the #training…

The Decline of Speed Booster Pack

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Barış Ünver
WordPress success stories are great, but this time, you’re going to read about a failure. It’s about the Speed Booster Pack plugin and the depressing, constant decline of its active installs.

Post Status Notes #491

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David Bisset
US DOJ warns of looming web accessibility enforcement. Weglot scores funding. WP-Wallet and Image Source Control launch. Block dev tuts. The Block Protocol and WordPress. WCUS and WordSesh calls for speakers. Why the web is a miracle and Mozilla's vision for its evolution.

Taylor Arndt is a blind WordPress…

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Dan Knauss

Taylor Arndt is a blind WordPress developer who has launched a weekly podcast that takes on tech topics — and WordPress — from an accessibility perspective. Taylor also has some Udemy courses and tutorials on YouTube. Topics cover how to…

If you an experienced writer and…

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Dan Knauss

If you an experienced writer and want to contribute to writing documentation and tutorials for WordPress, M Asif Rahman wants you to take a look at the WordPress projects in Google’s Season Of Docs 2020. There are some details to…

David Ryan has written several tutorials…

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Dan Knauss

David Ryan has written several tutorials to help developers get comfortable with WP-CLI and custom WP-CLI commands even if they haven't worked much with the command line before. Pascal Birchler's Introduction to WP-CLI is a great place to start learning…

OSTraining has published a series of…

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Dan Knauss

OSTraining has published a series of tutorials and a new book on CSS Flexbox. Their latest title is about local development with DDEV. đź“š
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