What is the WordPress Foundation, and who is in charge? These are the questions asked in this article – questions we should all be asking as the foundation wields its power without transparency.
It seems that some people don’t feel the community gets enough input in to what ‘s happening in WordPress. Is that a valid point, or are they just not stepping up to the plate in Trac, IRC, and on the Make blogs?
Here’s an eye-opening study from Princeton University that analyzed over 53,000 product pages from 11,000 shopping websites. What they found was 1,818 instances of dark patterns, which are user interface design choices that benefit an online service by coercing, steering, or deceiving users. 💩
A new hosted platform has arrived called, ChurchPr.es. WP Daily goes into more detail of their setup, but I’m a bit surprised they are calling it hosting. I’d think they’d market themselves as website providers. Either way, surely just one of many to come this year.
Scott Taylor goes into great detail describing the use of MySQL in WordPress. Put your focus hat on to read this one.
Get the scoop on planning for the WordPress 6.1 release, and help test its proposed plugin Rollback feature. There are also many calls for feedback from the Performance team and Five for the Future.
The State of California is banning companies from using “dark patterns.” This might be the start of a larger movement to prevent sneaky and just plain bad design or UI decisions — like trying to cancel a subscription online only to find it’s nearly impossible. 👏 About one out of every ten eCommerce websites uses…
