Updates to the theme review and directory debate

Matt Mullenweg dropped in on the conversation surrounding the theme review debate last night, and dropped hammer. To try and summarize, he basically opened the door for all sorts of potential changes for both the theme review process and the WordPress.org theme directory / website. Some of the specifics, slightly adjusted for clarity and grammar:…

Free WordPress themes and the elephant in the room

There has been a big kerfuffle the last few days in the community of theme authors and theme reviewers on WordPress.org. The theme review team discovered that some themes are skirting (knowingly or not knowingly) some old-standing rules around content creation. What? It’s a long-standing rule that free WordPress.org themes should not create content (custom post…

New theme page has caused a large drop in referrals for commercial shops

New theme page has caused a large drop in referrals for commercial shops

The new WordPress.org commercial theme page — which was launched just a couple of weeks ago — seems to have greatly reduced the number of referrals to commercial theme shops. Many commercial theme providers featured on WordPress.org are noting 80%+ drops in referrals. Bill Robbins, of Organized Themes, noted in the WP Tavern comments, “WordPress.org…

Putting commercial plugin code on Github is not a change in “business model”

There has been a lot of talk lately around putting commercial plugin code on public Github repos. #thankspippin. Seriously, thanks. This is a good conversation to have. GravityView is the latest plugin to make this change. I’m pleased to see it. However, in the WP Tavern article about it, it’s cited as a “business model”…

Licensing matters

There’s a popular WordPress vulnerability scanner called WPScan. To validate its popularity: it has over 1,800 commits, 750 stars, and 165 forks on Github. The scanner is used by a lot of security folks, as well as other service and product vendors. The plugin has historically been split license, sort-of, between GPL and some kind…

HeroPress

HeroPress aims to help WordPress professionals around the world that have felt excluded by the western WordPress community. There are a large number of WordPress developers in the world that feel excluded from the Western WordPress community for a variety of reasons, including culture, language, location, time zone, and personal challenges. We’re finding people around…

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Week in review: Beta 2, refinement, transparency, Do Action, apps, and more

Welcome to the fourth “Week in Review” on Post Status, where I hope to offer up some of the things you may have missed in the last week or so. There are a lot of great reads to catch up on this week: WordPress Beta 2 is ready for testing Self explanatory but important — WordPress…

Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more
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Week in review: Evolving the customizer, WordPress philosophies, and more

I thought it’d be fun to try something new here. As you’ve probably noticed, I’ve been doing fewer link posts. That is the result of a good bit of thinking, strategic and otherwise. I’ll dive more into that later. I’ll still do some long-ish form link posts, but I won’t be able to link all the things…

WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser
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WPArmChair now has its own mobile app, powered by BuddyPress and AppPresser

WPArmchair is a pet project by David Bisset. An avid WordCamp fan, he’s regularly created microsites for WordCamps, so that attendees and folks at home can follow along, viewing tweets and pictures based on WordCamp hashtags. Now, WPArmchair is taking it to the next level. The folks behind AppPresser, which I’ve reviewed before, have created the…

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