A new way to keep up with that fast-moving project we all rely on, PHP. • Making wordpress/wordpress-develop usable in GitHub Codespaces. • Help count WordPress contributors and sponsors • Directory Serve is our cool tool of the week — a way to serve files to and from your phone.
This week was all about revisiting and continuing conversations that have special value and maybe for that reason tend to continue on with a life of their own. Tom Willmot dropped a fine Twitter thread about the challenge all enterprise WordPress agencies face. This came in response to Magne Ilsas‘ featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. In a similar theme of industry peer cooperation, Eric Karkovack asks if WordPress product owners and developers can see a common interest in “voluntary standards.” Could this clean up the plugin market? James Farmer thinks the WordPress business community can do more for itself too — by sharing data. In Post Status Slack we’re learning the tricks and trials of ranking in the WordPress.org plugin repository. How about plugin telemetry? Learn from the voices of experience.
WordPress 6.1 is here, and it’s awesome! It takes more than a village — really a small city — to keep us moving forward. Thank a contributor — there are thousands of them. • Thanks especially to Mika Epstein! It’s beyond brave of Mika to share what she has gone through for the Plugins Team and the whole community. No one should ever have to go through what she has. You should know her story if you don’t.
In the spotlight: XWP is a team of web experts genuinely invested in making the web – and web experience – a better place.
Big Changes in WP_Query and the Nav Block • Accessibility-Ready Themes • Design Systems and Agency-Client Co-Creation • W3.CSS • WP Plugin Compare • Is Self-Hosted Email Impossible? • Cool Tool: WordPress WebAssembly • Also: Remix Icons, PDFgrep, The only 58 bytes of CSS you need to go to parties, plus an amazing Block Editor trick.
On the Post Status job board, like many others, most of the WordPress employers who use it don’t include salary ranges on their job listings. Should they? Piccia Neri asked them all why they do or don’t practice salary transparency. She also put the question to agencies, freelancers, the WordPress community, developers, and designers on Twitter. Find out what Piccia learned and why she thinks salary transparency should be a universal practice where it hasn’t yet become a legal obligation.
Leo Postovoit at XWP has shared a pretty thorough defense of remote work. I didn’t realize remote work was under such attack, or that Malcolm Gladwell had weighed in on the subject. (Big eyeroll and groan.) Many people seem tired of Gladwell’s explanations of so many things these days. Some of his better known work…
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On the morning of April 19th (Monday) Automattic released a new plugin called Jetpack Boost on the WordPress.org repo. The plugin is focused on performance and SEO issues users might have with their sites. 🚀 Boost has three “performance modules:” Optimize CSS Loading generates critical CSS for your homepage, posts, and pages. This can make…
WP-dev-lib (WordPress Development Library) from XWP has reached its v1.0.0 release. These are tools used “to facilitate the development and testing of WordPress themes and plugins,” which XWP has made available to the public.
To no one’s surprise, several Gutenberg talks appeared throughout the WCUS conference schedule, especially on Friday. Miina Sikk from XWP spoke that afternoon about extending Gutenberg core blocks in the context of the AMP for WordPress plugin. (The official release of the 1.0 version — with Gutenberg support — coincided with WCUS.) Anyone deeply involved…
The Make WordPress Marketing Team published a case study of the redesign of Rolling Stone magazine’s website and its migration to WordPress. Handled by WordPress-focused engineering firm XWP and hosted by WordPress VIP, it’s interesting to read about the unique challenges of this project, such as dealing with 250,000+ articles and millions of image and…
Egyptian developer Shady Sharaf has an incredible story on HeroPress on how he created his own path from being stuck in an education system that didn’t suit him, to teaching himself web development and WordPress. Today he works for XWP doing VIP work. It’s a heck of a story and his second footnote just puts all…
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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