Back Compat & Experimental APIs, Safely Handling SVG via “Insert URL”, WordPress 6.1 Bug Scrub Schedule, Database Performance Health Checks
Is it safe to insert an SVG via URL? How healthy is your database? Performance Team Rep Nominations.
The Decline of Speed Booster Pack
WordPress success stories are great, but this time, you’re going to read about a failure. It’s about the Speed Booster Pack plugin and the depressing, constant decline of its active installs.
Maddy Osman on Writing for Humans and Robots — Post Status Draft 119
In this episode of Post Draft, Post Status Editor Dan Knauss is joined by Maddy Osman. Maddy is the founder of The Blogsmith, a well-known brand in the WordPress space for quality writing that appeals to your target audience and search engines. Maddy has a new book out that can teach you some of her finely-honed skills. It’s called Writing for Humans and Robots: The New Rules of Content Style.
It’s Hard to COPE Without a WordPress Lite
It’s still far from simple to do well — let alone do better — what was first possible in the Web 1.0 era, even before WordPress was born. Thoughts on “WordPress Lite” and “Create Once, Publish Everywhere.”
Change Means Growth and Serving Our Community Better
Deeper, thoughtful insight and analysis make slower work and harder to come by. I hope to model it once in a while, and we’ve got more in the bin. We want to invite especially our business members to submit story ideas, questions, sources, and articles for publication at Post Status.
The Right Way, the Wrong Way, and the Elusive WordPress Way
There are significant differences in the ways plugin owners think about and operate their businesses. This is an opportunity to learn and grow together.
WordPress 5.9 “Joséphine” Introduces Full Site Editing and Themes Created Entirely with Blocks
“Ever since the block editor was introduced our eyes were placed on a future where a theme could be created entirely with blocks. That future is here now…” — Matías Ventura, Lead Architect of WordPress’ Gutenberg project.
The Text Renaissance and the Eighth Death of Blogging
Is there a return to text-focused publishing on the web underway? If so, what does that mean for WordPress?
My mistakes with product-founder fit
I received Matt Medeiros’ second email for Business 5000 this morning and the topic was Product-Founder Fit, and it inspired me. So thanks, Matt. He talks about “new ideas fever” that we all get. In my own fever, I’ve made the misstep of chasing ideas too many times to count. Mistakes and missteps Here are…
Introducing a new chapter, with Cory Miller as Post Status partner
Cory Miller is now a co-owner and Partner of Post Status. He’s purchased half of the business and will help run and grow it moving forward.
Remembering Dean Allen
Dean Allen’s vision for Textpattern and his code influenced WordPress at a critical time in its development.
A review of Bylines for multi-author and guest-author posts
Meet the successor to Co-Authors Plus. It’s for multiple authors and guest authors in WordPress without creating additional user accounts.
WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, released
WordPress 4.3, “Billie”, has been released. Billie includes four major user-facing features that most website owners will experience on a semi-regular basis, and many other enhancements, bug fixes, and developer features.
GoomWay
Code should Get Out Of My Way. GoomWay!
New journalism
Bloggers and journalists are experimenting with new models of monetization and independent publishing. One of the pioneers of subscription-based independent blog-based journalism just called it quits, but we should still laud his pioneering effort, not call blogging dead (again).
Let’s Grow: Introducing the Post Status Membership Club
Today marks two years since I launched Post Status. It’s been an incredible two years. Today, I’m thrilled to announce that the Post Status Membership Club is open.
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