WCUS

Sustainability Team • Supporting Organizations • Commercial & Community Themes & Plugins • Pattern Curation

Courtney Robertson

June 15, 2023

The WordPress Sustainability Team has launched. What's that?
The main objective of the team is to embed sustainable practices into the WordPress community and its processes. We focus on ensuring longevity; socially, economically, and environmentally.

Several organizations exist to support the work of WordPress, such as The WP Community Collective and HeroPress. Matt is proposing a way of displaying such supporting organizations.

Filters arrive for Themes and Plugins around what are Commercial efforts and what are Community efforts, while the Patterns Directory ponders using filters for displaying all patterns associated with a theme.

Improving Visa Support • Event Tooling • WP-CLI Updates • Block Inspector Sub-groups

Courtney Robertson

June 7, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

Community team is considering tooling around the building and using the WordCamp websites, in addition to the naming of events. To help speakers attend WordCamps, additional lead time for visas is requested as well. Share your thoughts now.

WP-CLI has released 2 updates. Get a look at what new features are available.

See the dev blog for more ways to use the block inspector.

WP 6.3 Planning • WP20 • AI Forum Replies • LearnWP Survey Results

Courtney Robertson

May 31, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

How did you celebrate WordPress's 20th birthday? Read Building Blocks: The Evolution of WordPress, now available on GitHub and e-reader formats.

WordPress 6.3 is underway. Core has shared the planning roundup, and the Design team is starting to prepare now.

Support forums recently discussed considerations on using AI to respond to forum issues. Human intervention is still necessary for the foreseeable future.

Training team surveyed attendees at the last 3 flagship WordCamps and any additional respondents. The data is in with feedback on the content and site functionality of Learn.WordPress.org.

Drama, Accountability, and a Way Forward

Michelle Frechette

May 27, 2023

WordPress CommunityWordPress News

WordPress is now 20. We need to value inclusion if we are to remain relevant to the next generations. We need to be an open source community.

WP 6.2.2 • WP Playground • Client-side Filtering • Future WordCamp Brainstorms • Plugin Review Update

Courtney Robertson

May 24, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 6.2.2 is available now for update. This reintroduces shortcodes in Block Theme Templates in a more secure way.

Rich Tabor and WordPress Playground innovator Adam Zielinski discuss the capabilities and promise of WP Playground.

What do you want to see for future WordCamps? Share your ideas on the post.

Do you want to disable border settings for everyone but Administrators, and only for posts? See the Dev Blog.

What's the fate of the plugin review team with the primary maintainer soon to retire? It appears to have a bright future with additional contributors and tooling.

WP 6.2.1 • PHP8 Compatibility • Translation Playground • Contributor Mentorship Program

Courtney Robertson

May 18, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

It's time to update your WordPress websites now. This week's release breaks shortcodes used in Block Themes on Templates, but is related to a security issue.

Is WordPress, and the plugin and theme ecosystem around it, ready for PHP 8? Earlier versions of PHP, such as 7.4, are now considered End of Life, and hosts are eager to deploy supported versions. But first, Core compatibility needs additional testing to come out of beta compatibility.

Translating WordPress just got a little bit easier for contributors with the WP Translation Playground.

A Community team working group announces a pilot proposal for a Contributor Mentorship Program, helping all contributors onboard.

WP 6.2.1 RC1 • Annual Survey Results • WCUS Scholarship Fund

Courtney Robertson

May 11, 2023

Make WordPressPlanet

WordPress 6.2.1 RC1 is now available for testing, and planning is underway for the 6.3 AND 6.4 release squad members. Head over to the Core team website for more information.

Each year the WordPress community has an opportunity to participate in the annual survey. The results from 2022 are now available.

Contributors that are a self-identifying female, have a financial need and have never attended WordCamp US are encouraged to apply by June 12, 2023, 11:00 pm Eastern time

Member Spotlight: Robby McCullough

Michelle Frechette

March 31, 2023

BlogsMember Spotlights

Robby McCullough is one of the founders of Beaver Builder, currently leading marketing efforts along with marketing director Anthony Tran.

WordPress Historical Timeline

Michelle Frechette

January 18, 2023

WordPress News

Post Status is building a WordPress community event timeline. The last 20 years have included some amazing events in WordPress history.

New Year, Same Me

Michelle Frechette

December 30, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

As I reflect on 2022, I’m so grateful for the WordPress Community who supported me through all the ups & downs both personal & professional.

New Venue Accessibility Checklist in the WordCamp Organizer Handbook

Michelle Frechette

October 21, 2022

PlanetThe Week in Review

Big steps for accessibility at WordCamps. Miriam Schwab is in our Member Spotlight! Some upcoming events. Don't miss being listed in our BF/CM deals!

Two Key Questions We Need To Answer

Cory Miller

October 14, 2022

PlanetPost Status Team Blog

What are the best things the WordPress community can do to better support plugin developers and founders? Recent discussions around the Active Install data being removed from WordPress.org forces us to respond to this question if we believe a healthy third-party plugin market is essential to WordPress, as I do.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 70) — Trust and Distrust: Microaggressions, Active Install Growth Data for Plugins, and Open Source Security

Dan Knauss

October 7, 2022

BusinessDesign

In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Dan and Ny take on three issues in the WordPress community that can threaten or impair trust while also revealing how foundational trust and healthy communication are: 1) racism and microaggressions, 2) the sudden removal and uncertain fate of the active install growth chart in the WordPress.org plugin repository, and 3) open source and security. Briefly discussed: emerging US federal policy that aims to secure open-source software. Zero-trust architecture might work well for networked machines, but human relationships and communities need trust.

Member Spotlight: Ben Gabler

Michelle Frechette

October 3, 2022

Member SpotlightsWordPress News

Meet Ben Gabler, the CEO/Founder at Rocket.net, where they're on a mission to Accelerate & Protect WordPress at the edge of the cloud.

First of the Independents

Dan Knauss

September 23, 2022

BusinessPlanet

Consolidation through mergers and acquisitions isn't the only big business story in WordPress. Partnerships are increasing too. Founders investing in founders. Product companies and agencies expanding their own ecosystems. Informal partnerships to protect common interests. There are a lot of ways to grow on your own terms in WordPress.

Business Roundup for the Week of September 19, 2022

Dan Knauss

September 23, 2022

BusinessThe Week in Review

Vito Peleg, Atarim‘s cofounder and CEO, explains how he “cracked” the partnership problem to find alignment with other companies that can help them all accelerate their growth. Alex Denning on the launch of Ellipsis' Weather Report: “We’ve never had this insight before, and it is exciting and terrifying to bring this kind of ‘live' view of the industry, to the industry.” The acquisition trend is still up, on average. Meet Post Status business member Penske Media Corporation — PMC.