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Should WordCamp and Meetup volunteers and…

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Dan Knauss

Should WordCamp and Meetup volunteers and attendees be acknowledged with badges that appear in the Contribution History section of WordPress.org user profiles? Currently, only event organizers and WordCamp speakers are recognized in this way. 🏕️ Timi Wahalahti started this discussion…

Gutenberg 8.4 was released yesterday with…

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Dan Knauss

Gutenberg 8.4 was released yesterday with some impressive enhancements included image editing, multi-block controls, and the enabling of the Block Directory. The Block Directory has been a big-ticket item in the WordPress Roadmap and is powered by the WordPress.org Plugin…

If you like using Markdown editors…

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Dan Knauss

If you like using Markdown editors and posting to your WordPress sites remotely, check out iA Writer 5.5 for Mac and iOS. I like the copy that promotes its focus on WordPress integration: "If you run a self-hosted WordPress.org site,…

Brandon Ernst at Freemius looks at…

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Dan Knauss
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Brandon Ernst at Freemius looks at trends and data to get an idea of how the Coronavirus might be affecting WordPress plugin and theme shops. Brandon notes "there was a 19.84% growth in plugin downloads on the WordPress.org repository from…

Carolina Nymark noted only 11 themes…

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Brian Krogsgard

Carolina Nymark noted only 11 themes in the WordPress.org theme directory add custom block styles. No themes use the server-side rendering for block styles added in 5.3. Carolina is right: "theme authors need to adopt this faster."

Video and podcast picks

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Brian Krogsgard
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📹 Here's my video pick of the week: There's an interesting discussion at the Gutenberg Times between Enrique Piqueras and Birgit Pauli-Haack about the highlights of a full-site editing experience and how block-based themes could work. Francesca Marano has two…

Matteo Duò has some good thoughts…

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Dan Knauss

Matteo Duò has some good thoughts on advertising and cross-selling on WordPress.org and the wp-admin dashboard. Yoast and JetPack are mentioned of course, along with Matteo's view of the guidelines in place now and how they affect new developers.

For Black Friday, Yoast released an…

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Dan Knauss

For Black Friday, Yoast released an update that placed an animated banner on the dashboards of all WordPress admin pages where it was installed. This resulted in some negative feedback and discussions about ad policies from plugin companies. Yoast was…

Danny Cooper talks about some common…

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Dan Knauss

Danny Cooper talks about some common mistakes in submissions to the WordPress.org theme directory. Danny, who has reviewed over 100 themes, discusses naming issues, unescaped output, untranslatable text, prefixing, licensing, and other potential pitfalls.

The 4th WordPress Translation Day will…

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Dan Knauss

The 4th WordPress Translation Day will take place on May 10th-11th, depending on your time zone. The event will be live-streamed, and a schedule has been posted. There is also a great deal more information and background on the event…

Weston Ruter notes there is now a…

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Brian Krogsgard

Weston Ruter notes there is now a progressive web app feature plugin in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Its purpose is to "to curate Progressive Web App capabilities for proposed merging into WordPress core: service workers, the web app manifest, and improved…

Syed Balkhi and Awesome Motive have…

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Brian Krogsgard
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Syed Balkhi and Awesome Motive have acquired Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress, which according to Syed is the second most popular analytics plugin in the WordPress.org repository. Its new name is ExactMetrics. The move fits within the goals of Awesome…

Making WordPress and WordSesh — Draft podcast

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Katie Richards
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In this episode, Brian and Brian discuss the upcoming WordSesh schedule and go spelunking through make.wordpress.org to surface some recent gems making their way to WordPress.org – both the project and the website.
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