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Post Status Excerpt (No. 71) — Building, Supporting, and Selling a Winning Product — With or Without WordPress.org

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Dan Knauss
This week I sat down again with Eric Karkovack to talk about the WordPress stories and topics that are on the top of our minds. Independently, we made nearly the same selections. There's a single throughline in this episode — what works, what doesn't, and what will take WordPress businesses forward in the product, agency, and hosting spaces.

Shiny New Things!

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Dan Knauss
From Abstract: WP Tests for Faster WordPress Projects.Independent Analytics – A Reliable Google Analytics Alternative for Your Website.Delicious Brains: WP Migrate 2.4 Released: Faster Migrations, Must-Use Plugins, WP Engine Compatibility, and More and The Developer's Guide to WP-CONFIG.PHP.WordPress 6.1: Global Styles…

It’s not the size that matters…

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Dan Knauss
Can WordPress’s heavy reliance on volunteerism be offset or better supported by those most able to subsidize the work of others and their access to events? Do the largest WordCamps serve well, in their current form, as signature industry events that developers, product owners, and investors outside WordPress can recognize as such? Can the upper, middle, and lower markets within the WordPress ecosystem find mutual benefit through the things they share in common?

Post Status Notes #501

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David Bisset
Elementor acquires StratticWP Engine acquires Delicious Brains' plugins 🧠 • When the Cathedrals own the Bazaars and Shopping Centers and you're in a strip mall with a fruit stand...Jetpack decouples • InstaWP gets seed funding from Automattic 🌱 • Automattic hire #2000 • World-class FSE, how? 🌐 • WCEU by the numbers • Weglot gives back • RoleUp rolls out • Tadlock exits WP Tavern 🍺 • Why 'why' matters most • The Big 2-0 next year • All there is to know about core WordPress email notifications, documented ✉️ • System font stack check • Do not follow by default • Museum of Block Art opens 🎨 • Meet Yvonne Doll • Mostly modest WordPress wishlists • WooCommerce Experts to go global • How to do well in a downturn 📉 • Some things we don't — but ought to — talk about. 🐘 Silent no longer about Sustainability.

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of May 15

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David Bisset
Good viewing and listening for you this weekend! Krogsgard on memberships and churn. Web 2.0 tech leaders reflect. Mike McAlister on the journey from Atomic Blocks and Array Themes to the Liftoff Creator Course. Paid services at Underrepresented in Tech. The Pattern Creator and Directory. WCEU. Inclusive Open Source Processes and Governance.

WordPress Podcast and Video Picks for the Week of May 1

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David Bisset
It's David Bisset's weekly WordPress podcast and video roundup! This week we have Ines van Dijk on Women in WP, An Event Apart on The ShopTalk Show, Heather Brunner on Content is for Closers, UX and design on WP Builds, Joe Casabona on the Tavern's Jukebox, Josepha Chomphosy and Channing Ritter the WordPress Briefing, Syed Balkhi on The Gamechangers, and Dave Smith on key block editor features coming to WordPress 6.0.

WP Engine, which took ownership of Local…

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Dan Knauss
WP Engine, which took ownership of Local upon the acquisition of Flywheel in June 2019, has discontinued its own local development tool, DevKit, and incorporated its features into Local. Additionally, all of Local’s tools and features are free now —…

This week WP Engine announced the…

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Dan Knauss
This week WP Engine announced the launch of Premier, their enterprise WordPress platform. Premier offers security features and other items that belong in enterprise-level hosting: staging sites, developer environments, and automatic plugin updates. They also include custom blocks for WordPress.…
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