Community Wrap-up Week Ending December 23
Michelle Frechette
The WordPress Community is a Wonderful Place to Be The WP Community Collective The WP Community Collective aims to address some of these ongoing challenges by creating community-funded Fellowships to financially support individual contributions to the WordPress project and community.…
More WordPress People Doing Good Things
Michelle Frechette
WordPress Gives a Hand For the third year in a row, a bunch of WordPress community members will join together at the holiday time for the charity campaign “WordPress Gives A Hand” #wpgivesahand. During the holiday season, instead of giving…
WordPress is People (Weekly Community Update)
Michelle Frechette
Yes, of course WordPress is software. It’s code. It’s several different programming languages. It’s blocks. It’s the editor. Yes, it's all of the technology. But it’s people. It’s created by people. It’s used by people. It relies on people to…
Pandemic experiences, “Are you disabled?” and the history of screen readers
Dan Knauss
Back in July, Sabina Ionescu published a lot of different responses from people in the WordPress community to questions about the impact of the pandemic on them. I missed it then, but it's still relevant and worth reading. Some other…
What is the WordPress community capable of? A lot of good. And a few bad apples.
Michelle Frechette
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…
WordPress 6.1 RC5 • WP-CLI 2.7.1 • Help Test Plugin Dependencies Feature Plugin
Courtney Robertson
This Week at WordPress.org (October 24, 2022) WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 5⏳ WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 5 (RC5) Now Available for Testing🧪 Help Test WordPress 6.1🔎 WordPress 6.1 DevNotes, Field Guides, and Team Updates⏪ Call For Action – Testing Rollback…
New Venue Accessibility Checklist in the WordCamp Organizer Handbook
Michelle Frechette
WordPress Community News Roundup for the Week of October 17 You may recall my prior post, 5 Days Without a Shower, in which I wrote about my disability experiences at WCUS 2022. Writing things from a place of vulnerability isn’t…
A Makeover for HelpHub — and you can help the Docs Team on Contributor Day
Dan Knauss
Pretty snazzy new looks coming the the WordPress documentation site! https://make.wordpress.org/docs/2022/10/19/new-design-for-helphub-in-wordpress-org/ You can help the Docs Team! Come to the first ever Documentation team Contributor Day on October 25th.
WordPress 6.1 RC2 • 6.1 Sneak Peek with Nick Diego • WP-CLI 2.7.1 • Help Test Plugin Dependencies Feature Plugin
Courtney Robertson
This Week at WordPress.org (October 17, 2022) WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 2⏳ WordPress 6.1 Release Candidate 2 (RC) Now Available🧪 Help Test WordPress 6.1🔎 WordPress 6.1 DevNotes, Field Guides, and Team Updates> WP-CLI v2.7.1 Release Notes News WordPress 6.1 Release…
