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Some important changes to the WordPress.org…

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Brian Krogsgard

Some important changes to the WordPress.org theme review process were recently announced. The review now focuses on four key areas: security, licensing, "malicious or egregious stuff," and content creation. Themes will be spot checked once they are live in the theme…

WordPress.org now has an accessibility page…

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WordPress.org now has an accessibility page with a statement about the community's dedication to "being as inclusive and accessible as possible." It links to the WordPress Accessibility Coding Standards, the accessibility team, and other relevant sources. It states boldly that…

First, some recent highlights from the…

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First, some recent highlights from the ongoing effort to get ready for Gutenberg. Dev4Press has a summary of the current state of Gutenberg (version 2.4). Antonio Villegas shows how you can create your first Gutenberg block. He briefly covers the edit…

The importance of automated updates for all the things

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Brian Krogsgard

I logged into my personal site today. It was the first time in a while. I realized while doing so that I haven't blogged much on that site this year. As soon as I logged in, I was confronted with…

Here’s a unique plugin: Better Plugin…

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Brian Krogsgard

Here's a unique plugin: Better Plugin Recommendations for WordPress. It removes the default featured and recommendations tab in the backend WordPress "Add Plugin" screen. It then replaces the recommendations tab with plugins that Nick Hamze hand selects. Joey Kudish assisted…

The WordPress Marketing group is looking…

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Brian Krogsgard

The WordPress Marketing group is looking at doing promotional videos for WordPress, including testimonials and event footage from WordCamps and meetups. The goal would be to make a marketing video for use on the WordCamp US site, other WordPress.org entities,…

The theme directory disconnect

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Brian Krogsgard
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In many ways, the WordPress theme directory is an invaluable resource -- for theme developers to have access to put their work out there in the wild for a huge audience, and for users to have a relatively safe way…

Scott Arciszewski wrote a post about…

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Scott Arciszewski wrote a post about how WordPress.org handles auto update signatures that had several good points, but it was written with ridiculously bad delivery. It was full of unnecessary assumptions, ridicule, and even an attempt to shame Matt Mullenweg…

Mika Epstein notifies developers of a…

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
Mika Epstein notifies developers of a recent plugin guideline change in the WordPress plugin repo. Guideline 12 (“Public facing pages on WordPress.org may not spam”) is now more clear in broadcasting the message “Do not use your readme to spam.”…

WordPress.com digital only ad campaign sign of things to come

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Brian Krogsgard
Business
Automattic created a digital only advertisement geared toward the Super Bowl. When it was discovered, some folks thought it may air nationally, either during or around the game. I confirmed with Mark Armstrong of Automattic that it's actually a digital…

Year In WordPress is a really…

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Brian Krogsgard

Year In WordPress is a really cool micro site by Jesper van Engelen. You get to see a personalized review of your work on WordPress.org, which includes plugin downloads, WordCamp talks, and other data snagged from various WordPress.org APIs attached…

WP CLI is now under the WordPress umbrella

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Brian Krogsgard
Security
WP CLI is moving under the umbrella of WordPress.org. Matt Mullenweg made the announcement, and in it says he's also, "bringing together a number of companies in the WordPress ecosystem to solidify their financial support of runcommand so that Daniel…

New WordPress.org homepage is “unstuck”

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Brian Krogsgard
Design
The new homepage for WordPress.org is live. It's a working prototype, and I like the way Matt put it on his blog: "What’s on the page today actually isn’t that important, even though it’s better in many ways, the key…

Brad Touesnard gives a more detailed…

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Brad Touesnard gives a more detailed peak at Mergebot, a tool that merges local and live databases together. The tool is in beta (with some openings available) and the screencasts Brad includes look impressive. No doubt this will become a…
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