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Keeping Higher Education Website Managers’ Dream Alive While Sunsetting Edupack
Blake Bertuccelli
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
Blake Bertuccelli
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…
Five takes on helpful plugin stats and insights
Dan Knauss
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
Dan Knauss
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
Dan Knauss
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
Dan Knauss
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…
Atarim and Rocket.net Partnership
Dan Knauss
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?
Dan Knauss
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…
One-on-One: Better Professional Development Conversations
James Giroux
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…
