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wJosepha Haden shared her “early thoughts”…

Dan Knauss

March 16, 2021

wJosepha Haden shared her "early thoughts" 💭 on WordPress 5.8 planning, including this intention: "For the release that includes full site editing, I would like to pause our cohort mentorship processes and replace it with a public coordination channel for…

Dumitru Brinzan writes about the “WordPress…

Dan Knauss

March 16, 2021

Hosting

Dumitru Brinzan writes about the “WordPress Web Hosting” page on the WordPress.org website. He has some disagreements with Matt Mullenweg's recent description of the hosting page as "editorially-driven" and at high risk of "bribery or conflict" if it was placed…

WP Lookout has added a new…

Dan Knauss

March 1, 2021

WP Lookout has added a new feature that will try to detect and notify you when a WordPress.org plugin has been marked as “closed” in the plugin directory. 🔌 Founder Chris Hardie says they're also noting plugins that have been…

How Am I Bluehost to Live…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Hosting

How Am I Bluehost to Live Without You? POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ Morten Rand-Hendriksen noticed Bluehost appeared to be violating the WordPress Foundation's Trademark Policy by using the WordPress logo in an ad. A day later, Josepha Haden acknowledged…

POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ How…

Dan Knauss

February 25, 2021

Hosting

POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ How Am I Bluehost to Live Without You? Morten Rand-Hendriksen noticed Bluehost appeared to be violating the WordPress Foundation's Trademark Policy by using the WordPress logo in an ad. A day later, Josepha Haden acknowledged…

Here are some tips on best…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

Here are some tips on best practices from WPML for translating your plugin or theme and reaching a much wider audience through the WordPress.org repository. 💯

Congrats to Envira Gallery Lite (a…

Dan Knauss

February 4, 2021

Congrats to Envira Gallery Lite (a photo gallery plugin for WordPress with a pro version) for crossing 3 million downloads in the WordPress.org repo. 🙌

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin…

Dan Knauss

January 22, 2021

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin emails sent to developers (who have plugins in the WordPress.org repo) are anonymous. The bottom line: plugin reviewers were finding themselves targeted in rather terrifying ways, including death threats and credible threats against their…

A good, free theme is hard…

Dan Knauss

January 14, 2021

Hosting

A good, free theme is hard to find Post Status' Slack space sprouted some conversations this past week worth noting in our #club channel. One, in particular, started about the WordPress.org recommended hosting page and led into this observation about…

In a guest post with Mathieu…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

In a guest post with Mathieu Viet, Varun Dubey explains how his exceptional BuddyX BuddyPress theme made its way into the official WordPress.org theme directory. 🎨

WooCommerce released version 3.0.0. of its…

Dan Knauss

December 23, 2020

WooCommerce released version 3.0.0. of its popular Storefront theme. The highlight of this release appears to be the removal of the big admin notice presented to the user after installing the theme. 🙈 The new version can be downloaded from…

Helen Hou-Sandi explains the thought process…

Dan Knauss

November 20, 2020

Helen Hou-Sandi explains the thought process behind recent advances in the way starter content is displayed in themes on the WordPress.org theme previewer site. Currently, these changes only affect three of the themes bundled with WordPress core. Opening the discussion…

Jill Binder — who (among other…

Dan Knauss

August 12, 2020

Jill Binder — who (among other things) leads the Diverse Speaker Training group in the WordPress.org Community Team — has been selected as a finalist for a major technology prize, the BraveIT Award. This comes as a well-earned accolade for…

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has launched an updated new beta version of P2. In the past, P2 was a WordPress theme that has been used for "blogging at the speed of thought." It was adopted for internal communications between…

We are WordPress As recently reported…

Dan Knauss

August 7, 2020

We are WordPress As recently reported by The Tavern, Automattic’s marketing team has updated the company’s press page with a notice to journalists who are writing about Automattic: Automattic owns and operates WordPress.com, which is a hosted version of the…

The debut of Jetpack CRM was…

Brian Krogsgard

July 22, 2020

The debut of Jetpack CRM was announced at the Jetpack blog. It's a "new customer relationship management tool built specifically for WordPress sites." Jetpack CRM is a standalone plugin -- not bundled with Jetpack -- and has separate pricing starting…

wJosepha Haden shared her “early thoughts”…

Dumitru Brinzan writes about the “WordPress…

WP Lookout has added a new…

How Am I Bluehost to Live…

POST STATUS SLACK EXCLUSIVE 🗨️ How…

Here are some tips on best…

Congrats to Envira Gallery Lite (a…

Mika Epstein explains why the plugin…

A good, free theme is hard…

In a guest post with Mathieu…

WooCommerce released version 3.0.0. of its…

Helen Hou-Sandi explains the thought process…

Jill Binder — who (among other…

A New P2 Debut WordPress.com has…

We are WordPress As recently reported…

The debut of Jetpack CRM was…

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