WCUS

To no one’s surprise, several Gutenberg…

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Brian Krogsgard

To no one's surprise, several Gutenberg talks appeared throughout the WCUS conference schedule, especially on Friday. Miina Sikk from XWP spoke that afternoon about extending Gutenberg core blocks in the context of the AMP for WordPress plugin. (The official release…

During his WCUS talk on Saturday…

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Brian Krogsgard

During his WCUS talk on Saturday morning, "Moving The Web Forward With Wordpress," Morten Rand-Hendriksen stressed that we must truly represent the people affected by WordPress — and because of its 32.5% market share, practically everyone using the web is affected. To…

Joost de Valk has written an “After…

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Brian Krogsgard

Joost de Valk has written an "After WCUS WordPress & Gutenberg FAQ" addressing some questions posed to him and the Yoast team at WordCamp US. In short, he is on board with Gutenberg but "annoyed with the communication failure around the…

WordCamp US will be happening next…

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Brian Krogsgard

WordCamp US will be happening next week — officially December 7th, 8th, and 9th — for the second year in Nashville. If you are not attending, free livestream tickets are available. There's a certain feeling in the air that this year's…

Mark Uraine shared about work that’s…

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Brian Krogsgard

Mark Uraine shared about work that's begun to redesign the WordPress.org homepage. Sketches and prototypes have already begun, all of which spawned from WCUS contributor day. The lack of a menu is interesting, and I can't decide yet whether or…

Pantheon removed from WCUS sponsorship: what you should know

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Brian Krogsgard

Pantheon was removed from WordCamp US sponsorship the night before the event started. It was the result of a series of disagreements and discussions that led to a fairly drastic result. The price to sponsor WCUS was $100,000 for Pantheon. Additionally,…

Regional WordCamps, WCUS 2017, and design kits

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Brian Krogsgard
There's a good bit of WordCamp news worth covering right now. WordCamp US in Nashville First off, WordCamp US 2017 and 2018 will be held in Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville is less than a three hour drive from me, because I…

HTTP/2 hits 25% Chrome adoption, SPDY support is ending

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Brian Krogsgard

This is a really impressive achievement in relatively short time for HTTP/2. From the Chromium blog: Over 25% of resources in Chrome are currently served over HTTP/2, compared to less than 5% over SPDY. Based on such strong adoption, starting…

One year of the Post Status Club

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Brian Krogsgard
I'd like to share some details with you about the first full year of the Post Status Club. I like transparency, so I figured I'd lay out exactly what happened over the year, what went well, what didn't, and how…
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