I had a thought after seeing Brian’s tweet about his #WCATL presentation: “I wish that I could get all these cool WP peeps together & do some kind of WordCamp where we could all meet each other in person.” Seeing as how most of Automattic (and the WP community at large) is distributed it led to using the internet as a vehicle & medium. Thoughts?
Matt shares why WordPress releases are named after jazz musicians. The FSE block theme explores functionality gaps and gathers feedback on the Site Editor experience. WordPress 6.2 improves load times and server-side performance for block and classic themes. The Interactivity API proposal standardizes frontend interactivity for Gutenberg blocks.
These past two years have made successful leaders realize more than ever that treating their employees’ experiences—and their own—with stoic indifference is no longer an effective leadership strategy.
Here’s a really interesting slide deck from Flippa’s operations manager analyzing how websites are making money. He used 8,000 Flippa sold sites as examples. Toward the end, he notes an 8% growth for WordPress’ marketshare of the CMS driven sites sold in the past year. h/t Hacker News
Bill Erickson has a nice list of recommended plugins for forms, galleries, sliders, and libraries that have Gutenberg blocks. It’s impressive to see more of these come to light after the ones Matt mentioned his State of the Word at WordCamp US.
Joe Buffs posted a year in review for WP Buffs covering “biggest screw-ups of the past year” as well as the “biggest successes.” The company had total revenue of $1,031,928, up almost 300% from around $376,000 in 2018. It’s great to see such growth in a WordPress business like this one! 📈 Looking ahead, Joe…
Matej Latin did a survey of designers who quit their jobs and discovered: No career progression opportunities and unhappiness with the work they do were about equal, at about 20% each. Problems with company culture came next. A lack of UX maturity was third followed by salary, poor relationships with management, and misalignment with company…
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I’m pretty excited about WordSesh for just this purpose: http://wordsesh.org/
Yeah, I hadn’t actually heard about WordSesh until after my tweet. It would be cool to have something more “official” or to have (more) WordCamps that are livestreamed like WCSF has been.