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📉 Is Growth in Active Installs…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

📉 Is Growth in Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining? Along with some other people, I have been intensely watching the active install growth charts on the WordPress.org plugin repository for a variety of plugins for the past few months.…

WordPress 5.8 “Tatum” was released as…

Dan Knauss

July 23, 2021

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…

Is The Growth Of Active Installs of WordPress Plugins Declining in 2021?

David Bisset

July 22, 2021

BusinessPlanet

Many plugins in the WordPress.org repository have shown a significant drop in active install growth this year.

🔌 Jean-Baptiste Audras notes that WordPress…

Dan Knauss

July 2, 2021

🔌 Jean-Baptiste Audras notes that WordPress 5.8 makes a new header available for plugin authors: “This allows third-party plugins to avoid accidentally being overwritten with an update of a plugin of a similar name from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.”

If you want a sneak peek…

Dan Knauss

June 18, 2021

Design

If you want a sneak peek into the design overhaul of the WordPress.org blog, check out the public Figma design board. Looking good! 🎨

WordPress.org shines a well-deserved spotlight on…

Dan Knauss

June 8, 2021

WordPress.org shines a well-deserved spotlight on Tijana Andrejic from Belgrade, Serbia. It covers her journey from fitness trainer to the WordPress world, as well as the freelance and corporate opportunities it introduced.

Jetpack receives a forced update

David Bisset

June 4, 2021

Make WordPressPlanet

A little force push can come in handy sometimes. But with great power comes great responsibility. How should forced updates in WordPress be used?

Newly released Gutenberg 10.7 includes the…

Dan Knauss

May 28, 2021

Design

Newly released Gutenberg 10.7 includes the first iteration of responsive menus in the navigation block and new design tools to support the existing ones in blocks. Now you can insert block patterns from the WordPress.org Pattern Directory too. ✨

What we can learn from the ProfilePress debacle

David Bisset

May 21, 2021

BusinessPlanet

When a plugin is acquired and monetized, what's the best way to avoid the problems ProfilePress ran into this week?

WordPress 5.8 will allow developers to…

Dan Knauss

May 19, 2021

WordPress 5.8 will allow developers to set their plugin hostname - this allows third-party plugins to avoid accidentally being overwritten with an update of a plugin of a similar name from the WordPress.org Plugin Directory.

Post Status Excerpt (No. 8) — Gravity Forms 2.5, CC Coming to WP

David Bisset

April 29, 2021

BusinessPlanet

One of the oldest commercial WordPress Plugins gets a facelift. In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about the recent 2.5 update to Gravity Forms. Cory reflects on the early days of the WordPress…

Post Status Excerpt (No. 7) — Frustrations With Admin Notices

David Bisset

April 23, 2021

PlanetPost Status Podcasts

In Post Status Excerpt #7, David Bisset and Cory Miller talk about Cory's recent negative experiences with admin notices in the dashboard.

On the morning of April 19th…

Dan Knauss

April 20, 2021

On the morning of April 19th (Monday) Automattic released a new plugin called Jetpack Boost on the WordPress.org repo. The plugin is focused on performance and SEO issues users might have with their sites. 🚀 Boost has three "performance modules:"…

Earlier this week there was a…

Dan Knauss

April 20, 2021

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…

🔌 Iain Poulson noted in a…

Dan Knauss

April 20, 2021

🔌 Iain Poulson noted in a recent WP Trends newsletter that he has started working on a new acquisition analytics feature for Plugin Rank: "Find a free plugin on the WordPress.org repository that has a good user base but hasn’t…