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 and look forward to his future posts.
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 Post Status Slack that it’s been under testing a for a few months and “100%…
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. Here’s the big pitch: Mergebot combines the benefits of scripting and the (fictional) magic merge…
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 plus.” It’s got quite a few little nuggets built in, like a simple way to…
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 to Postmatic, and Postmatic has written how the general experience was improved.
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 updated to link to a story that offers an indirect estimate, but his Facebook page…
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.
WPTavern has some excellent thoughts on communication, especially when it comes to developers informing their users about the status of their projects. Developers give little thought to how they would handle emergencies — such a security breach — until it happens. Plan ahead, because actions (or the lack thereof) can truly damage a business. Jeff…
WPTavern highlights the new Customize Snapshots plugin that lets you draft and preview customizer states and then be able to share those states via a private URL. I like the concept of making customizer customizations more collaborative and can’t wait to try this out for myself.
The economics of WordPress are tricky. There have been many free plugins that have gained popularity, with demanding users requesting free support, and the plugin author eventually just lets it all go. It’s completely understandable. We shouldn’t expect something for nothing, no matter how popular the plugin is. When it gets complicated is when the…
If you’re interested in connecting your WordPress site to Apple News Publisher, WPTavern has a good overview of how to do this with the Publish To Apple News plugin.
Also coming in 4.5, the new link modal is great. WP Tavern has the best showcase of this with a gif demo. It’s going to be nice to have auto-complete more inline.
I keep forgetting to include this in the newsletter, but as WP Tavern reported a couple of weeks ago, Nick Haskins did end up selling Aesop Story Engine and related properties, to a buyer named Hyun Supul. Nick says he got “close” to his asking price of $100,000. The purchase is yet another to go…
Welcome back from maternity leave to my WP Tavern frenemy, Sarah Gooding.
Chris Pearson and Matt Mullenweg have hardly communicated with one another in the last five years, but they are ideological enemies. They have very strong personalities and unshakable beliefs on business and software. This is a story of their dispute, their idealism, and the implications it will have on the WordPress project.
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