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Pandemic experiences, “Are you disabled?” and the history of screen readers

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Dan Knauss
CareersNotes
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…

Patchstack enriches open vulnerability data with signals showing attack volume, method, and source

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Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
Back in August, Oliver Sild announced in Post Status Slack that Patchstack was opening up "additional data" to "enrich the vulnerability data" their service discloses, now "with [a] real-time IP feed of attackers who hit [Patchstack's] virtual patches." Virtual patches…

Catching up with Do the Woo

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Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
Bob puts out so much writing and audio at Do the Woo and has so many different people featured, it's hard to keep up! These are some recent ones I've taken note of but didn't get into a post or…

Naming is hard—but important

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Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
This is an important topic that came out of a Post Status Slack #security discussion involving Robert Rowley and John James Jacoby: WordPress Terminology Meta. It continued over at the WPwatercooler.

WordPress in Substack’s History

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Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
I wish this was a WordPress story. It should've been and could still be — a simple publishing platform built around freemium newsletters — and writers. In a way, it is a WordPress story. Ben Thompson's Stratechery was a Substack…

Security News Roundup

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Dan Knauss
NotesSecurity
There's a Slashdot discussion of ZDnet's reporting on a critical security vulnerability in OpenSSL: OpenSSL Warns of Critical Security Vulnerability With Upcoming Patch. Australia is increasing fines for massive data breaches. Apple has admitted they will only commit to patching…

Connect freemium plugins to premium extension sales?

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Dan Knauss
BusinessNotes
Justin Labadie from SlickRemix left a helpful comment that adds an interesting idea to the mix of possible futures for the wordpress.org plugin repository. Search results should show peer products, not totally unrelated ones Confirming some problems Matt Cromwell has…

Best Practices and Tools from rtCamp

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Dan Knauss
DesignDevelopment
I've been collecting rtCamp news for a while — they have a great monthly newsletter — and here are some of the highlights worth sharing broadly. rtLearn = rtGrowth First of all, is rtLearn — not new but not as…

A Makeover for HelpHub — and you can help the Docs Team on Contributor Day

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Dan Knauss
Make WordPressNotes
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.

November: Register to speak at WordFest Live — and come to WordPress Accessibility Day

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Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
Coming up on November 18, WordFest Live will once again “support and promote positive well-being and mental health within remote working communities.” REGISTER →And don't forget WordPress Accessibility Day on November 2-3! REGISTER →Then on November 21, it's Alicia St.…

The New WooCommerce Agency Partner Program

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Dan Knauss
NotesPlanet
Here's everything you should know about the WooCommerce Agency Partner Program with their program manager, Mary Voelker. Key takeaways: The WooExpert program started in 2015, and participants had to be invited and pay for a membership in it. Agency partners…

Does WordPress.org Data Belong to the WordPress Community? Should It?

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Dan Knauss
BusinessNotes
Today WP Watercooler sought Solutions to the Active Growth Problem. In a pointed but respectful conversation moderated but Sé Reed, the Watercooler crew got one new detail from Otto about the decision to remove the active install charts: it was…

Till KrĂĽss on WordPress, Performance, the Plugin Business, and Life

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Dan Knauss
BusinessHosting
Nexcess is the latest host to adopt Till Krüss's Object Cache Pro, which offers a really interesting model for partnerships between a WordPress plugin product business and a valuable niche market: hosting companies and anyone running WordPress sites at scale.…

Active Install Data Story Update: Not a breach but abuse of an endpoint

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Dan Knauss
NotesSecurity
At the WPwatercooler, JJJ cleared up some of the mystery... A quick summary of what we learned, starting at the

Shiny New Things!

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From Abstract: WP Tests for Faster WordPress Projects.Independent Analytics – A Reliable Google Analytics Alternative for Your Website.Delicious Brains: WP Migrate 2.4 Released: Faster Migrations, Must-Use Plugins, WP Engine Compatibility, and More and The Developer's Guide to WP-CONFIG.PHP.WordPress 6.1: Global Styles…
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