Design and Development News for the Week of November 7
Jonathan Bossenger
DevelopmentPlanet
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web Here’s a glimpse of what’s going on in the world of design and development in the WordPress space this past week. Keeping up with PHP JetBrains, the company behind a suite of developers…
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Learning and Pulling Together
Dan Knauss
BusinessPlanet
Tom Willmot (Human Made) dropped a fine Twitter thread in response to Magne Ilsaas' (Dekode) featured post here last week, The WordPress Enterprise Paradox. Tom emphasized Magne's main points but thinks the biggest challenge is how the lack of a…
What is the WordPress community capable of? A lot of good. And a few bad apples.
Michelle Frechette
PlanetThe Week in Review
The Good: This week a team of people from around the world released WordPress 6.1, Misha. The number of people who contributed to this release is HUGE. Folks, WordPress takes more than a village, it takes a small city to…
Business Spotlight: XWP
Michelle Frechette
Member SpotlightsWordPress News
XWP is a team of web experts genuinely invested in making the web - and web experience - a better place. Talking to Michelle Keefer, you feel the excitement that being part of the WXP team must mean. From recruiting to…
WordPress Tech Roundup for the Week of September 26, 2022
Dan Knauss
DesignDevelopment
WordPress Design & Development Around the Web WP_Query Changes in 6.1 Jonathan Harris emphasized in Post Status Slack #development and on Twitter this week that WordPress 6.1 is bringing big changes to WP_Query — changes he's been working on for…
Salary Transparency: Why Not?
Piccia Neri
BusinessCareers
Why WordPress employers do and don't advertise salary ranges — and why they all should. Your digital agency gets invited to pitch for a project. You get all the information, the requirements, the objective, and the deliverables. You know you…
Remote work lashback — it’s not all wrong
Dan Knauss
Notes
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…
Post Status Excerpt (No. 50) — The Future of Hiring is Marketing with Lance Robbins
David Bisset
DesignHosting
"Culture is King. Content is the town crier." —Lance Robbins In this episode of Post Status Excerpt, Lance Robbins (Global Recruitment Lead at XWP) talks to David Bisset about WordPress companies struggling to find talent in the current job market.…
Front-End Performance in WordPress
Olivia Bisset
BusinessPlanet
Front-end performance in WordPress is all about first impressions and using those first impressions to create a positive experience for your website visitors. In this webinar, Mike Crantea and Sabrina Zeidan from XWP unpack how to think about front-end performance…
On the morning of April 19th…
Dan Knauss
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:"…
WP-dev-lib (WordPress Development Library) from XWP…
Dan Knauss
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…
Brian Krogsgard
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…
The Make WordPress Marketing Team published…
Brian Krogsgard
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…
Egyptian developer Shady Sharaf has an…
Brian Krogsgard
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…
HeroPress
Brian Krogsgard
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…
