Post Status Comments (No. 3) — The State of the WordPress News
David Bisset
Matt Medeiros, Joe Howard, Birgit Pauli-Haack, and Sarah Gooding discuss the WordPress news space with David Bisset and Dan Knauss.
This Week at WordPress.org (October 4, 2021)
Courtney Robertson
Each week we'll highlight news from WordPress.org that you don't want to miss. If you or your company create products or services that use WordPress, we've got the news you need to know. Be sure to share this resource with…
This Week at WordPress.org (September 27, 2021)
Courtney Robertson
News from WP.org for the week of September 27, 2021.
Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Centroamérica is…
Dan Knauss
Upcoming Events 📆 WordCamp Centroamérica is happening now for the first time between April 15-17. 🌎 WordCamp Greece is happening online today, April 16. 🇬🇷 EXPAND 2021 is a free virtual event for web designers and developers being hosted by…
I’ve received a lot of pings…
Dan Knauss
I've received a lot of pings on Post Status Slack about the Biden-Harris Transition Website. It uses WordPress and is hosted by Automattic. WPTavern noticed as well. 🙌
Decisions have consequences
David Bisset
Sarah Gooding has reported at WPTavern that the W3C and the agency it selected to redesign its website, Studio 24, dropped WordPress from consideration in a selection process that has ended with Craft CMS as the winner. First off, kudos…
WCUS 2020 Cancelled
David Bisset
WordCamp US 2020 Online has been officially cancelled. In addition to this announcement, the lead trio of WCUS organizers — Angela Jin, Kim Lipari, and Kathy Drewien — answered some of the questions many people will have about their decision.
Trouble at Longreads
Brian Krogsgard
We don't often talk about employment issues at Post Status. Good and bad stories about WordPress workplaces abound. Why single out this one? It is a very public issue, and it has to do with one of the largest employers in our space — one often cited as a great place to work: Automattic. That's why I believe it merits deeper consideration.
Congrats to Justin Tadlock for joining…
Dan Knauss
Congrats to Justin Tadlock for joining WP Tavern as a full-time writer. I am glad he's found this great new opportunity to return to his journalistic roots. 📰 I owe much of my success in this space to Jason's teaching…
WooCommerce ending renewal discounts is a good thing
Brian Krogsgard
WooCommerce has — at least for now — decided to end renewal discounts for extension sales. This is a smart business move and the right thing to do, even if it could've been rolled out better. Matt Mullenweg said in…
Delicious Brains promises to solve one of WordPress’s most difficult problems, with Mergebot
Brian Krogsgard
Mergebot is finally out of the bag. Brad Touesnard has been talking about it for quite some time on his Apply Filters podcast, but they've now posted on the Delicious Brains blog more about the why and how of MergeBot.…
Ulysses: A Mac writing app that doesn’t suck, and integrates with WordPress
Brian Krogsgard
I learned about Ulysses from a TechCrunch article, and decided to test it out for myself. I’m about thirty minutes into the process, and so far I’m pretty impressed. It’s sort of a Markdown editor, but they call it “plain text…
WP-CLI GUI is a GUI for…
Brian Krogsgard
WP-CLI GUI is a GUI for WP-CLI, created by Tim Brugman. WPTavern has a brief interview and a few additional details.
WPTavern switched their commenting system from Jetpack…
Brian Krogsgard
WPTavern switched their commenting system from Jetpack to Postmatic, and Postmatic has written how the general experience was improved.
Automattic has won the rights to manage .blog
Brian Krogsgard
Automattic has won the rights to manage the gTLD .blog, one of the most sought after generic top level domain extensions to date. They paid "about $19M" for the privilege, according to Matt Mullenweg's blog post (which he has since…
Let’s Encrypt is out of beta…
Let's Encrypt is out of beta and WPTavern points out that (according to Mozilla) more than 90% of the certificates are protecting websites that never had encryption before. Let's Encrypt is a major game changer.
