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Use Your Words. The Inclusive Way.

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Michelle Frechette
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If you have known me for even a minute, then you know I’m passionate about inclusivity. You might have even seen me call out people on Twitter for treating people with much less than the respect they deserve. So this…
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Big Growth Isn’t for Everyone

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Tom Lach
BusinessFeatures
The difference between a 30 and a 150-person agency It’s always fascinating to hear from other owners about how they operate and what works (or not) for them on different stages, how was it with a team of 2, 10,…

The Future of GiveWP and the Block Editor

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Dan Knauss
DevelopmentFeatures
Designing a form instead of filling out a form to make a form Back in August, I started catching up with GiveWP when Jason Adams laid out a new roadmap toward their 3.0 release that is really ambitious — and…

Keeping Higher Education Website Managers’ Dream Alive While Sunsetting Edupack

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Blake Bertuccelli
BusinessFeatures
Every University IT department dreams of a self-service system in which they do not have to deal with outside vendors. The dream includes a simple form that its users can fill out to generate websites from a library of templates.…

Evolving Edupack: A One-Size Fits All Plugin Leads to an Accessibility Platform and Enhanced Agency Services

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Blake Bertuccelli
BusinessFeatures
A little over a year ago, I cofounded Edupack with Nathan Monk and Matt Lees. Edupack endeavored to simplify Higher Ed website publishing with a single WordPress plugin. In our interviews, Higher Ed admins said they were overwhelmed by accessibility…

The WordPress Enterprise Paradox

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Magne Ilsaas
BusinessCareers
As more and more enterprises move onto WordPress and digital becomes the backbone of modern business, we need to become more than developers and designers. We are now business advisors, thinking on behalf of the companies we work for. Agencies…

Five takes on helpful plugin stats and insights

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Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
In the renamed Trac ticket Mark Zahra opened for the WordPress.org Active Install Growth charts ("#6511: Provide helpful plugin stats and insights"), the helpful comments offering actionable suggestions comprise about 5% of the total. At least that makes it easy…

Why the WordPress.org growth charts might not matter

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Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
Why lament the loss of a declining statistic? Writing in the Ellipsis newsletter early this week, Alex Denning floated the idea that "WordPress.org growth charts might not matter." Why? Alex writes: Our experience is that freemium is an inefficient and…

Open Source Communities: You May Not Be Interested in CISA, But CISA is Very Interested in You

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Dan Knauss
FeaturesPlanet
Back in 2016, the White House officially promoted open source software in the federal government and beyond. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued memorandum M-16-21 then, which required that all federal agencies open all new custom code for…

Active Install Charts Removed from Plugin Repo

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Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
On September 29, changesets 12097 and 12098 were committed to the Meta Trac repository for wordpress.org by Scott Reilly (Audrey Capital). These changes remove the Active Install Growth chart from the plugin repository's "Advanced" section on individual plugins. The only…

What is WP Cloud?

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Dan Knauss
BusinessFeatures
WP Cloud has been flying under the radar for a while. At the WP Minute, Matt Medeiros spoke with Jesse Friedman, Director of Innovation at Automattic, to find out what it is. In brief, WP Cloud is a Platform as…

Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership

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Dan Knauss
BusinessDesign
It's great to see more great WordPress agencies and hosting companies teaming up, especially when they're both Post Status members! Atarim and Rocket.net is a killer partnership that's delivering the first WordPress hosting and visual collaboration platform for agencies. Giving…

WooCommerce vs. Shopify: Why Do We Make It So Hard?

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Dan Knauss
BusinessDevelopment
Rob Howard built the MasterWP merch store as quickly as possible with WooCommerce, and then he assessed the relative difficulty of building with Woo rather than Shopify. His conclusion? A high-end WP developer [i.e., Rob] needed half a day to…

Salary Transparency: Why Not?

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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…

One-on-One: Better Professional Development Conversations

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James Giroux
BusinessCareers
One of the most rewarding — and coincidentally, the most challenging — aspects of people leadership is creating space for professional development conversations with direct reports. I’m super tactical naturally, so the things that I gravitate toward are around what…

WCUS 2022

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Michelle Frechette
BusinessFeatures
It's almost here — WCUS 2022! To say it's taken awhile to get here is an understatement. Between all of the canceled plans of 2020, the "will we or won't we" of the following years, and the careful COVID planning…
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